This is not the first time that the issue of handshakes has drawn attention and controversy in Sweden. In 2016, a Muslim member of the Green Party withdrew his candidacy for a seat in the party’s leadership after he was publicly criticized for refusing to shake hands with women, including a television journalist who was […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Uppsala, No Handshake (Part One)
Here’s the story, from last summer, but with enduring implications: A Muslim woman in Sweden who said she was discriminated against in a job interview for refusing to shake hands on religious grounds has been awarded financial compensation by a labor court. The woman, Farah Alhajeh, 24, was interviewing for a job as an interpreter […]
Instagram deletes gay Muslim comic strip after Indonesian government complains
No surprise here. The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds? Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.’…And We rained upon them a […]
In Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district, “Taliban” and other gangs run wild, Somali Muslims don’t talk to police
They don’t talk to the police because they don’t trust them, because the police are not Muslims. The Qur’an teaches that Muslims are “the best of people” (3:110) and non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). But no one will admit that is the cause, and so the police keep trying “outreach” programs […]
Austria: Non-Muslim girls forced to wear hijabs to avoid harassment from Muslim migrants
A glimpse into the future of the whole of Europe. When I spoke in Germany in 2010, a teenage girl told me that she was harassed every day on her way to school by Muslim migrants, because she was not, in their view, properly covered. “Austrian Girls Forced to Wear Hijabs to Avoid Harassment, Ex-MP […]
India: Large crowd of Muslims clap and cheer at court for Muslims who brutally murdered Hindu
“A video clip, that has gone viral on social media, shows Ramalingam resisting the proselytizing efforts of a Muslim man at Bhagyanathan Thoppu….Ramalingam was seen politely debating with the Muslims and trying to tell them that they were causing religious chaos in an otherwise harmonious area….At one point, he takes out the cap of a […]
Philippines: Muslims murder man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, release six others who could recite them
Al Fatihah is the first chapter and most common prayer of the Qur’an. This is reminiscent of other incidents, including when the Muslim in Minnesota who asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In Mali, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” took hostages, freeing those who could recite the Qur’an. In September 2013 […]
Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for defunding of the Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security includes the TSA (which does need a drastic overhaul), the Secret Service, the Coast Guard and FEMA. Anyone who would have dared to question Ilhan Omar’s loyalty to the United States while she was running for Congress would have been denounced as an “Islamophobe.” But what about now? She wants […]
Muslim cleric says non-Muslims must convert, submit, or be killed, and those who leave Islam must be killed
For years, Leftists, Islamic spokesmen, dhimmi Christians and others have called me a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe” because I have pointed out that Islam teaches these things. Will they go after Othman Al-Khamis and charge him with misunderstanding his own religion, which he has dedicated his life to understanding and explaining properly? Not on your life. […]
Pakistan: Muslim cleric defends blasphemy laws, says they have saved thousands of people from vigilante violence
“Because of the blasphemy laws, thousands of people have been saved. If the law weren’t there, I tell you, it’s possible that I speak blasphemy you’ll kill me, or if you do it I’ll kill you.” The concept of the freedom of speech, or tolerating peacefully people with differing views and values, doesn’t even come […]