“It is good because everyone should understand how to behave towards the Muslim community,” said Muhammad Fuad, head of the local branch of the Islamic Community Forum. The principle is always the same: non-Muslims must always change their behavior to conform to Muslim sensibilities. The West is rapidly learning that. These Christians in Indonesia should […]
Indonesia: Muslim cleric gets 4 years for funding jihad terror training camp
How did he miss all of the Qur’an’s peaceful teachings — teachings that are so blazingly obvious to John Kerry, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Tony Abbott and the rest? How could a Muslim cleric, someone who has dedicated his life to understanding and imparting Islam properly, misunderstand Islam so spectacularly? Will Cameron or Johnson or […]
Indonesia: US Embassy celebrates 4th of July earlier out of respect for Ramadan
This is a grand gesture, to be sure, but just one question: when has any Muslim group ever changed its activities, or moved their date, or done anything differently at all, out of respect for the United States? Obama has spoken many, many times of “mutual respect” between the U.S. and Muslim countries. But where […]
Female genital mutilation persists in Indonesia
Female genital mutilation “is a Central African problem. Eritrea has almost 90 percent female genital mutilation. It’s a Christian country. Ethiopia has 75 percent female genital mutilation. It’s a Christian country. Nowhere else in the Muslim, Muslim-majority states is female genital mutilation an issue.” — Reza Aslan Oops. Wrong again, and not just about Eritrea […]
“People who worship anything other than Allah are infidels and it is permitted to kill them.”
Teach your children well. Rather amazing, is it not, that statements like these are made anywhere in the world, and people take them for granted and consider those who make them to be the victims of “Islamophobia.” “Authorities seize schoolbook that praises Islamic radicalism,” Asia News, March 24, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
Indonesia: Top Muslim clerics issue fatwa calling for death for gays
Woe to you — from the gay community — if you dare to point out Sharia persecution of gays. When Pamela Geller and I ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law, the San Francisco City Council issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but our ads. Gay advocates such as Theresa Sparks […]
Iran’s President: Iran and Indonesia can present “true and moderate Islam”
On November 20, 2013, Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, said: “The Zionist regime is a regime whose pillars are extremely shaky and is doomed to collapse.” Israelis, he declared, “should not be called humans.” Rouhani himself has said: “The Imam [the Ayatollah Khomeini] set long-term goals for the day the occupying Zionist regime is […]
Indonesia: Convicted jihadi funding jihadis’ trips to join the Islamic State
Bagus Maskuron was convicted, but apparently free and well-heeled. The Islamic State attracts Muslims’ loyalty from as far away as Indonesia because of the appeal of the concept of the caliphate. But mainstream Western analysts scratch their heads and wonder why the Islamic State has this appeal, because they are bound as a matter of […]
Indonesia: Muslim group warns President not to say “Merry Christmas”
If he does, they say he will become an apostate from Islam, since Islam forbids Muslims to give good wishes to Christians on the occasion of their feasts. And if he is an apostate from Islam, then according to Muhammad’s command and Islamic law, he can lawfully be killed. “FPI Calls on President Not to […]
Indonesian province to expand Sharia law
What could possibly go wrong? “In the latest of public whippings in Aceh, a prosecutor on December 5 took a cane to six family members who each received five to eight lashes for playing poker for money at a coffee shop. Such floggings have significantly increased recently in Aceh province, not only for gambling, but […]