Oslo police banned a demonstration that included a Qur’an burning “due to security concerns.” Although one can see their reasoning, there are wider implications. The cancellation is a surrender to the tenets of violent foreign entities. The Islamic world has already been in upheaval over a Qur’an burning in Sweden. Offending someone else’s feelings is […]
Chechnya’s Kadyrov: Those who burn Qur’an ‘are real terrorists from whom a healthy society needs to be freed’
The West is eventually going to have to make a conscious choice whether to kowtow to thuggery from the likes of Kadyrov and curtail the freedom of expression, or to defend it even for those it demonizes as “far right.” The choice is, in fact, already being made in many ways. “Kadyrov reacts to new […]
OIC demands ‘severe counter-measures’ against burning of the Qur’an
The OIC has been trying for years to intimidate the West into discarding the freedom of speech and adopting Sharia blasphemy laws. All too many in the West, meanwhile, would be only too happy to do so. “OIC Muslim bloc demands ‘severe counter-measures’ against Quran burnings,” by İbrahim Khazen and Ali Semerci, Anadolu Agency, February […]
World Hijab Day Celebrates Islamic Rape Culture
“If she was in her room, in her home, in her Hijab, no problem would have occurred.” Yesterday, February 1, was World Hijab Day. The annual Islamic event commemorates the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the beginning of the mandatory ‘Hijabization’ of women in Iran. While women in Iran are risking their lives to […]
Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day: The Government of Pakistan Has Charged Me With Blasphemy
New in PJ Media: The email came in Monday from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the Pakistani government’s agency for regulating online communications. In thick legalese, it charged that my website Jihad Watch (the “Platform”) “is involved in dissemination of content against religion of Islam/Muslims, caricatures of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH),” as well as in “circulating false rumors/reports […]
Government of Pakistan charges Jihad Watch with blasphemy over Muhammad cartoon post
The post in question is here. It’s an announcement that that the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest that Pamela Geller and I organized in Garland Texas in May 2015 was sold out, and an excerpt from a Breitbart article about the event. Why has Pakistan been so slow on the uptake here? The post […]
Russia condemns Qur’an-burning in Sweden as ‘another provocative act of Islamophobia’
Russia has characterized its invasion of Ukraine as a defense of traditional values against the decadence of the West. Many who deplore that decadence, including many in the West, believe that Muslims will be their allies in their struggle against it. While that is true to some extent, it will never override the Islamic imperative […]
India: Muslim takes minor girl hostage, assaults her and sets her on fire for not accepting Islam
These “love jihad” incidents stem from supremacist assumptions. Muslim women are forbidden to marry non-Muslim men: “Do not marry idolatresses until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave woman is better than an idolatress, even though she pleases you. And do not give your daughters in marriage to idolaters until they believe, for indeed, a […]
The Qur’an-Burning in Sweden and Turkey’s Rage and Threats
In Sweden, Rasmus Paludan, who holds both Swedish and Danish citizenship, burned a Qur’an as a symbolic sign of opposition to the enormous disruptive influx of Muslim migrants into formerly placid Sweden. He is, of course, entitled to do this, as an exercise of free speech guaranteed by Swedish law. In Turkey, however, Western ideas […]
Minnesota: Faculty at university that fired prof for showing Muhammad image asks president to resign
The subtitle of this article in the Pioneer Press is “Hamline’s full-time faculty say the dismissal of an adjunct professor has harmed the university’s reputation.” No kidding. Before this happened, no one had even heard of Hamline University. Now it is known as a quintessential example of academic fascism and Islamic supremacism, of cowardice and […]