More Islamic supremacism in rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey. “Morning prayer held before Hagia Sophia to demand re-conversion into mosque,” Hürriyet Daily News, May 31, 2015 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur): A group of devout Muslims from across Turkey prayed before the city’s historic Hagia Sophia on the 562nd anniversary of the Turkish conquest of Istanbul, demanding […]
These People Are Speaking a Strange Language
“These people are speaking a strange language. It is strange to me And strange, I think, even to themselves.” -Louis Simpson I am a lover of words. I have a collection of dictionaries. I love the way words can articulate meaning in just a certain way. In my Penguin Dictionary I found the word pronoid, […]
Islamic Jizya: Fact and Fiction
The Return of Jizya Muslim demands for non-Muslim “infidels” to pay jizya on pain of death are growing, even as the West fluctuates between having no clue what jizya is and thinking that jizya is an example of “tolerance” in Islam. In the video where the Islamic State slaughters some 30 Christian Ethiopians in Libya […]
Islamic State destroys famous lion god statue in Palmyra
Still pursuing al-Lat after all these years. “The statue was dedicated to the pre-Islamic Arabian goddess Al-Lat, who was one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca along with Manat and al-Uzza.” The Qur’an says: “So have you considered al-Lat and al-Uzza? And Manat, the third, the other one? Is the male for you and […]
Canada: Muslim arrested for statue defacing, hate graffiti at Catholic church
Clearly the Catholic Church needs to ramp up the “dialogue” in Mississauga. That will fix this problem right up. Yes, that “dialogue” will make young Muslims like Iqbal Hessan forget all about the hadith in which Muhammad is depicted as saying, “Do not leave any image without defacing it or any built-up grave without leveling […]
Islamic State releases ominous video hinting at imminent destruction of Palmyra
Besides removing supposed temptations to idolatry, Islamic jihadists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: […]
The Islamic prerequisite of Kuwaiti citizenship
On May 11, the Kuwaiti Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by MP Nabil al-Fadl to adjust citizenship laws in order to allow Christians to become citizens. The current law, according to Article 4.5 of the Citizenship Act of Kuwait, holds that he [a potential citizen] be an original Muslim by birth, or that he has […]
Typical Egyptian mosque sermons identical to “non-Islamic” Islamic State
On Friday, May 15, the prayer leader of Safa Mosque in the city of Mersa Matruh, west of Alexandria, Egypt, repeatedly declared that “the Islamic caliphate will return and that Jerusalem, though stolen at the hands of the Jews, will return to Muslims once again.” The mosque’s imam further spoke in tones reminiscent of the Islamic State, […]
Belgium: Jihadis threaten to kill Antwerp mayor if he doesn’t convert to Islam
Well, you see, he provoked them. If he had just kept his mouth shut, all would be well…wouldn’t it? (Yes, folks, that is sarcasm. The idea of tiptoing around so as not to offend Islamic jihadists is a recipe for surrender and subjugation.) “Convert to Islam or Die! Mayor of Antwerp Given Ultimatum by Extremists,” […]
Egypt’s Salafi party bans Christmas, Easter greetings
During a recent interview on Egyptian television, the schizophrenic face of the Islamist parties was on full display. Dr. Yunis Makioun, head of the Al-Nour Party, the political wing of the Salafis, insisted that Islam commands Muslims to “protect”—a reference to their “dhimmi” status—and treat Coptic Christian minorities properly. Even so, according to Islam, said the Salafi […]