The strictures of Sharia and the penalties for violating its rules are once again on display: two Christian men in Indonesia’s Aceh province were publicly flogged, receiving 40 lashes each from a “masked Sharia officer who beat their backs with a stick.” Their crimes were drinking alcohol and gambling. “The caning comes less than two […]
Indonesia detains Muslim woman from UK on terror suspect list, plans to deport her back to Britain
Indonesia has detained a British convert to Islam for terrorism and plans to deport her back to the UK. So now Britain has become an exporter of jihad terror. This is a strange move by Indonesia, a country that, among a long list, recently released an influential Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, who was involved […]
Indonesia: Public high schools force non-Muslim girls to wear hijab
Islamic apologists in the West continually insist that Sharia rules apply only to Muslims, and that non-Muslims will not be inconvenienced by them in the slightest as they come to Europe and North America. There is, however, an abundance of evidence to the contrary. “Mandatory hijab rule in Padang public schools under scrutiny following non-Muslim […]
Indonesia: Gay couple whipped for Sharia-banned sex
A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462) Will gay rights […]
Indonesia: Popular Muslim cleric’s Instagram site publishes poster blaming Christmas for natural disasters
“As for those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a heavy punishment in this world and the hereafter, and they will have no helpers.” (Qur’an 3:56) “Posters Circulating from Imam Syuhada’s Da’wah Call Christmas the Source of Natural Disasters,” translated from “Beredar Poster Pendakwah Imam Syuhada Sebut Natal Sumber Bencana Alam,” by Fachri Djaman, […]
Islamic scholar says ‘doctrine of extremists can be traced to specific tenets of Islam as historically practiced’
Nowadays the truth of what someone says is not based on its correspondence with reality, but upon the identity of the speaker. A small group of non-Muslims in the West have been saying what Yahya Cholil Staquf says here, but instead of being invited to speak at the United Nations and write in the Wall […]
Indonesia: Grandfather gets five years in prison for insulting Islam
We are well on the way to this happening here, as can be seen by the social media lynching and banning of Trump: opinions that don’t coincide with those of the political and media elites are being silenced wholesale. Also, Biden has promised to convene an Internet censorship task force to combat “disinformation and hate […]
Indonesia: Jihad terror group behind Bali bombing that killed 200 raises money with supermarket charity boxes
Jemaah Islamiah members probably don’t think of this as being as odd as it may appear to non-Muslims in the West. One of the causes that zakat, obligatory Islamic almsgiving, funds is jihad. So there is really no problem here, as far as JI is concerned. “Feared terrorist leader who is believed to have orchestrated […]
Indonesia: Muslim leader arrested, suspected of masterminding 2002 Bali jihad bombings that killed over 200 people
Aris Sumarsono, aka Zulkarnaen, is a senior member of the al-Qaeda group Jemaah Islamiah. Possible fallouts from his arrest could be a weakening of Jemaah Islamiah and/or an impetus for revenge, according to security analyst Stanislaus Riyanta. It is not known why this arrest was made now, considering that Zulkarnaen has long been known to […]
Indonesia: Muslim cleric recruits thousands for jihad group, ‘main target remains the US’
Meanwhile, in the U.S., most Americans believe that Islam is a religion of peace, and that jihadis got lucky on 9/11, but it won’t happen again. Efforts to stop jihad activity and migration of large numbers of Sharia-adherent Muslims are just “racism” and “Islamophobia.” The “experts” will soon be back in the saddle. What could […]