We are much more enlightened in the West. We don’t jail people for insulting Islam. We simply excoriate them as “racists” and “Islamophobes,” and ostracize them from polite society. We are much more advanced in the West. “Indonesian man jailed for Facebook post allegedly insulting Islam,” Ary News, April 30, 2018: JAKARTA: An Indonesian was […]
Muslim preacher says Muslims will go to hell for buying from Starbucks because it supports LGBT community
But…but…Pat Robertson! What will the “Queers Against Islamophobia” crowd make of this? Nothing, of course. They’ll just ignore it. “Muslims buying from Starbucks will go to hell, says popular preacher,” Jakarta Post, April 28, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A popular preacher is under fire on Twitter for saying Muslims who buy from Starbucks will go to […]
Indonesia: “Amorous couples” and alleged sex workers whipped for breaking Islamic law
A group of amorous couples and accused sex workers were publicly whipped for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia’s Aceh Friday… This barbaric spectacle was perfectly normal for a society that enforces Islamic law: More than a thousand people, including dozens of tourists from neighbouring Malaysia jeered and screamed abuse at the group of three men […]
Indonesia’s Aceh province takes Sharia caning indoors to hide its abuses after backlash
The Indonesian province of Aceh has become increasingly brutal in its application of Sharia. Several weeks ago, a group of Muslims dumped sewage on the heads of couple for violating the Sharia. Their “crime” was being alone together in a room. From the raid of university campuses in search of gays to floggings for playing […]
Indonesia: Lecturer faces “hate speech” charges for calling holy books “fiction”
“Hate speech” is not an objectively identifiable entity. Notice that Rocky Gerung didn’t tell anyone that any person or even any idea should be hated. He just expressed an opinion that is unpopular with Indonesian authorities. Hate speech laws, as I have often pointed out, are tools of the powerful that they use to silence […]
Indonesia: Police arrest gay couple in Sharia province Aceh
Will gay rights advocates say a word about this? Of course not. It has long been established that in the hierarchy of politically correct causes, Islam trumps gay rights. When AFDI ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but […]
“What you did is against Islam!”: Muslims dump sewage on heads of couple for violating Sharia
Imagine if a group of Christians, or any group other than Muslims, did this. The outcry would be immediate, immense, and international. There would be commissions and studies about how Christianity inspires people to be brutally and intransigently self-righteous, and warnings to people to leave Christianity for their own sake. But no one will take […]
Indonesia: Two Christians flogged for playing children’s game that violates Islamic law
Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. constantly assure the public, in enunciating their opposition to anti-Sharia initiatives, that Sharia only applies to Muslims. This shows the reality. “Two Christians are flogged in Indonesia for playing a children’s game that violates Islamic law,” by Sara Malm, MailOnline, February 27, 2018 (thanks to Robert): Two Indonesian Christians were […]
Indonesia: Muslim cleric ordered jihad massacre that left four dead in Jakarta
A Muslim cleric? But hasn’t Oman Rohman, popularly known as Aman Abdurrahman, devoted his entire life to studying Islam and communicating it properly? How did he get the idea that Islam called upon him to order jihad suicide attacks and murder people he regarded as infidels or apostates? We can only hope that learned imams […]
Indonesia: Muslim groups called for knife attacks on non-Muslims a week before sword attack at church
Life grows less precarious for Christians in Indonesia in exact proportion to how much more observant in its Islam that nation becomes. “Calls for knife attacks preceded Sunday’s sword rampage in Yogyakarta church: Counter-terror official,” by Amy Chew, Channel News Asia, February 12, 2018: KUALA LUMPUR: Radical groups were calling for knife attacks in Indonesia […]