“The senior member of the world’s biggest Muslim organisation has insisted that Islamophobia is not rooted in racism and that the distrust of Muslims in many countries is a result of Islamist extremism and terrorism throughout the world…..He called for a rejection of Islamic orthodoxy, condemning it as ‘obsolete and problematic’ and ‘fuelling violence on […]
Indonesia: Bare-breasted mermaids get covered up with golden tube tops
Ludicrous? Of course. But don’t laugh. Mocking Islamic values can get you killed in modern, “moderate” Indonesia. “Bare-breasted mermaids get covered up in Indonesia,” Channel News Asia, March 26, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): JAKARTA: A pair of bare-breasted mermaid statues have been given the family values treatment at an Indonesian amusement park […]
Sharia in Indonesia: Women unable to walk after brutal public whippings
“At least two women were left unable to walk after a brutal public whipping in Indonesia as punishment for alleged ‘intimate relations’ outside marriage, with a total of six couples subjected to the brutal ordeal, carried out in accordance with Sharia law.” Where are feminists who call themselves defenders of women’s rights, and other defenders […]
Instagram deletes gay Muslim comic strip after Indonesian government complains
No surprise here. The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a […]
Indonesia: Teen girl and her boyfriend are caned for hugging in public
Sharia morality doesn’t strive to inculcate virtue, that is, the desire to do what is good because it is good. Rather, it seeks to make believers so afraid of harsh punishments that they fear to transgress the law. Sharia establishes an empire of fear. “Teenagers are thrashed for having a cuddle: Woman, 18, and her […]
Indonesia: Muslim lawmakers reject anti-rape bill over concerns that it’s “pro-adultery” and “pro-LGBT”
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460). Another hadith attributes this to Muhammad: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can […]
Indonesia: Muslim leader says women have honored position in Islam
They have to keep telling us, because only by constant repetition can propagandists compel people to discard the truth and embrace the lie. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the […]
Indonesia: Muslim cleric linked to Bali jihad massacre to be released despite not renouncing “radicalism”
He can’t renounce “radicalism,” because he believes it to be simply Islam. Despite many claims to the contrary, “moderate” Muslim spokesmen in the West have never shown the beliefs of “radicals” such as Abu Bakar Bashir to be un-Islamic. “Cleric linked to Bali bombings ‘won’t renounce radicalism,’” Associated Press, January 19, 2019 (thanks to The […]
Indonesia: President whom foes say is insufficiently Islamic to release Muslim cleric behind Bali jihad massacre
Joko Widodo is proving his Islamic bona fides. “Indonesia leader to free radical cleric behind Bali bombings,” by Niniek Karmini, Pattaya Mail, January 19, 2019: Jakarta, Indonesia (AP) — The ailing 80-year-old radical cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists in Indonesia will be released from prison, Indonesia’s president said Friday, slashing […]
Indonesia: Muslims plot jihad massacres during Christmas and New Year celebrations
Targeting people who are in the midst of joyful celebrations is a superb way to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). “Indonesian police foil terrorist plot,” Bangkok Post, December 13, 2018: JAKARTA: Indonesian counterterrorism police have foiled a plot by two suspects who were planning to carry out terrorist attacks during Christmas […]