Where are all the learned mainstream analysts who confidently told us that secular Turkey was the wave of the future in the Islamic world, and that other Muslim countries would emulate it? “Turkish Government Music Video Presents Turkish Military, Erdoğan As Heir To Ottoman, Seljuk Dynasties, Portrays Turkish Conquerors Praying In Hagia Sophia Mosque,” […]
Iran’s Judiciary Chief: ‘Insulting the holy prophet of Islam is soft violence against freedom of expression’
Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi would have you believe that saying something that he considers to be insulting to Muhammad is an act against the freedom of expression. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. “Judiciary Chief: Sacrilege of Islam Prophet Means Violation of Freedom of Expression,” Fars News Agency, September 9, 2020: TEHRAN (FNA)- […]
Sharia Twitter sends notice to Robert Spencer saying that his tweet violated laws of Pakistan
I sent this comment to OpIndia: “In sending out these notices, Twitter is behaving as if Islamic blasphemy law applied to people outside of Sharia domains. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has been working for years at the UN to compel Western countries to criminalize criticism of Islam (under the guise of prohibiting ‘incitement to […]
Pakistanis Mete Out Sharia ‘Justice’ to ‘Blasphemers’
We are all familiar with the blasphemy charges that, in Pakistan as in some other Muslim states, can lead to a death sentence. Such charges are often brought by those who have a private score to settle, or for some other reason want to punish the entirely innocent person they’ve accused. Or sometimes, just because […]
Muslims migrate to Australia, file complaint with Human Rights Commission because food they’re given isn’t halal
The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. “‘Mental torture’: Muslim immigration detainees say they haven’t been given halal food for more than a year,” by Stefan Armbruster, SBS News, September 9, […]
Muslim leader says ‘Islam is the second religion in France. Those who do not like us have only to leave France.’
The duty to assimilate and accept the values of the other culture belongs to French non-Muslims, not to Muslims. It is always this way: in any conflict between Sharia values and Western values, it is taken for granted by many Muslim leaders, and many non-Muslims as well, that it is Western values that must give […]
Pakistan: Christian sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’ after refusing employer’s request to convert to Islam
Asif Pervaiz was detained along with two others in 2013. Like many other Christians, he’s been suffering for years under inhumane conditions…. Most of the prisoners on death row, who gradually develop ‘death row phenomenon’ or ‘death row syndrome’, are mostly so worn out mentally and physically that they don’t even understand the situation they […]
Khamenei: Republication of Muhammad cartoons ‘unforgiveable sin,’ shows ‘enmity’ of ‘Western world toward Islam’
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned the republication of Muhammad cartoons by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, “saying the move once again exposed the enmity of the political, cultural centers of the Western world toward Islam. The unforgivable sin of a French magazine in insulting the Holy Prophet once against exposed the enmity and the […]
Erdogan: ‘We are not a society that has an army – we are a nation that is itself an army’
Where is that army going? Erdogan gives a hint: “Do the people of Greece accept what will happen to them because of their greedy and incompetent leaders? Do the people of France accept the price they will pay because of their greedy and incompetent leaders? Are the brotherly peoples of some North African and countries […]
Turkey: Nine Churches Named Hagia Sophia Have Now Been Converted to Mosques
Much of the international community has been shocked by the news concerning Turkey’s conversion of two historic Hagia Sophia churches into mosques in Istanbul and Trabzon. The famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul was originally founded as a Greek Orthodox cathedral in the sixth century CE. It was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman […]