France recently passed a ban on wearing abayas — the full-length, baggy robe that, like the hijab, is considered to be an outward and visible sign of religion, and thus violates the state’s principle of laicité. A Muslim girl has now called her abaya a “kimono” — a sleight of word designed to make it […]
At UN, Pakistan’s prime minister claims that ‘Islamophobia’ is ‘latent threat that undermines millennia of progress’
The term “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary. The objective of this conflation is to silence that analysis by falsely claiming that it leads to or causes those attacks. […]
Malaysia: Court denies woman’s bid to leave Islam after relationship with Muslim man ended
“There is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256), but that statement is all too often honored in the breach. “Woman fails bid to leave Islam after relationship with Muslim man ended,” by Hidir Reduan Abdul Rashid, Malaysiakini, September 20, 2023: The civil court denied a legal bid by a Sarawakian woman to return to Christianity […]
Mozambique: Muslims separate Christians from Muslims, murder at least eleven Christians
This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when a Muslim in Minnesota in 2016 asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. And also in Mozambique in August 2023, Muslims abducted two fishermen, beheaded the Christian, and freed the Muslim. In Uganda in June 2023, Muslims murdered 42 people at a school after asking […]
Erdogan in New York decries ‘vicious attacks’ on Qur’an ‘under the guise of freedom of thought’
Erdogan spoke at a dinner event organized by the Turkish American National Steering Committee in New York. “Vicious attacks” on actual people are routine in Islam, but to Erdogan and his Islamic supremacist ilk, the only “vicious attacks” worthy of note are criticism of Islam and desecration of the Qur’an. Inherent in Erdogan’s message is […]
At UN, Qatar’s emir says burning Qur’an ‘should not be seen as an example of the freedom of expression’
Freedom of expression means freedom to express one’s views even if they offend another. By ruling desecration of the Qur’an out of the bounds of the freedom of expression, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani demonstrates that he doesn’t understand what the freedom of expression is, or wants to destroy it, or both. “Qatar at the […]
Pakistan: Six-year-old child brutally beaten for tearing a page containing Qur’anic text from his schoolbook
The book is more important than the human being, as the human being is an unbeliever, “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). “Two Blasphemy Incidents Shake Lahore and Khanewal on a Single Day: Innocence and Accusations,” British Asian Christian Association, September 20, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): In a nation where […]
Professor Fired For Showing Drawing of Muhammad Can Sue For ‘Religious Discrimination’
Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor teaching a course last year on world art at Hamline University, unsurprisingly wanted to show her class a 14th-century depiction of Muhammad. She explained in advance she would be showing the painting, and that any student who might be offended could simply skip the class. She repeated that offer […]
Afghanistan: Taliban detains 18 people for ‘propagating and promoting Christianity’
Not that the Taliban has anything to do with Islam, as all the learned experts in the West assure us… “Taliban detains American and 17 others in Afghanistan for ‘propagating and promoting Christianity,’” by Alyssa Guzman, New York Post, September 16, 2023: The Taliban raided the offices of a Swiss nonprofit group based in Afghanistan, […]
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Police tell Christian churches to ‘hire private guards, we cannot protect you’
Many of the police share the faith and outlook of the attackers, and are more sympathetic to them than they are to the victims of these attacks. “Pakistan, Police to Christian Churches: ‘Hire Private Guards, We Cannot Protect You,’” by Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter, September 15, 2023: August was one of the worst months in […]