All India Faizan-e-Madina Council top dog Moin Siddique Noori said: “Our group will award Rs 11,786 to anyone who stones Nida Khan and shaves their heads and scares them away from India.” That’s about $170. Nida Khan’s crime? She opposes the Islamic triple talaq, that is, the Qur’an-sanctioned practice of allowing a man to divorce […]
India: Muslims lynch Hindu man for having affair with Muslim girl
The Qur’an forbids Muslim women to marry “polytheistic men” unless they convert to Islam: “And do not marry polytheistic men until they believe. And a believing slave is better than a polytheist, even though he might please you. Those invite to the Fire, but Allah invites to Paradise and to forgiveness, by His permission. And […]
UK: Home of convicted rapist used as Islamic school, council can’t shut it down
If the convicted rapist were a non-Muslim and this were not an Islamic school, would the council consider itself so powerless to shut it down? Of course not. In shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, Islamic identity confers upon one all manner of immunity. “The Islamic school run from the home of a rapist: Owner attacked girl, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Thin-Skinned Muslims In Malaysia
Here is the story in all its preposterousness: Malaysian police said a popular ethnic Chinese rapper was detained Thursday [Feb.15] over complaints that his latest music video featuring dancers wearing dog masks and performing “obscene” moves insulted Islam and could hurt racial harmony. It was the second time in two years that Wee Meng Chee, […]
UK: Franklin Graham Festival of Hope ads banned over Graham’s “islamophobic” comments
Church leaders in Blackpool have criticised what they describe as an “astonishing” decision to ban bus adverts promoting an evangelistic event which will see Franklin Graham preach a gospel message……In an open letter, the church leaders said: “Because the Christian community is also a customer, we hope Blackpool Transport will listen to our public feedback […]
Sweden: Muslim preacher teaches Muslims to hate non-Muslims, children wash in mosque after being with Christians
Imagine the surprise of Swedish authorities when they discover that this isn’t happening just among a tiny minority of extremists, but is mainstream Islamic practice. But by then it is likely to be far too late. “‘After day with Christians, Muslim teens wash in mosque’: Study charts rise of Salafism in Sweden,” RT, July 16, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 3)
The Guardian report continues: How did a small-town property dispute turn into a religious war, with legal and symbolic implications for all of America? Part of the answer has to do with the country’s labyrinthine land-use laws, which leave most control to state and local governments, which are in turn vulnerable to the furies of […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 2)
The Guardian again: Basking Ridge is governed by a five-person elected committee, which meets in a repurposed Tudor-style mansion. (It previously belonged to John Jacob Astor VI, an American aristocrat whose father perished on the Titanic.) One evening last year, I attended a meeting – the first of many – at the town hall, where […]
Indonesia: Gay couple flogged over 80 times, woman caned for selling alcohol, crowd screams “Hit them harder”
The Qur’an contains numerous condemnations of homosexual activity: “And [We had sent] 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 […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mosque At Basking Ridge: A Morality Tale? (Part 1)
Here’s a story that earlier this year was being presented as a morality tale, where a good-hearted Muslim, Mr. Mohammad Ali Chaudry, wanted nothing more than to play by the rules in applying for permission to build a mosque, and was opposed by a town full of anti-Muslim bigots. But Good triumphed in the end, […]