Pamela Geller has the details here of how Hamas-linked Islamic supremacist hate group CAIR is trying to get her dropped from hearings in Alaska tomorrow about anti-Sharia legislation. (CAIR doesn’t know who else is testifying, or they’d be sending out another flurry of lie-filled press releases.) This is a group that consistently opposes anti-terror measures, […]
Canada: Muslim student makes jihad threats about conservatives, university yawns
Today’s universities are hopeless: ideological agreement is prized far more than academic integrity, which is sorely lacking. And this story shows that academic integrity is by no means the most important thing that is lacking. “University Downplays Student’s Jihad Threat,” from Fox News Radio, March 21 (thanks to all who sent this in): Montreal police […]
New York: Muslims protest against jihad terror — no, wait…
They weren’t protesting against acts of violence and terror committed in the name of Islam. They weren’t protesting against stonings, amputations, or the brutalization of women. They weren’t protesting against attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the U.S. and Europe. They weren’t protesting against the death penalty for apostasy. No, they were protesting against […]
“We will give exemplary punishment to the killer Davis”: Taliban warns Pakistan not to release U.S. prisoner accused of murder
He says he was acting in self-defense during an armed robbery. But the jihadists appear to be focusing on his case as the latest occasion for their outrage. The outrage is constant; the pretexts for it change with the times. “Taliban warns Pakistan against releasing U.S. prisoner,” by Zeeshan Haider and Rebecca Conway for Reuters, […]
Florida: Jihadist hackers attack North Miami, Hillsboro Beach city websites
“They’ve been doing it for the last 10 or so years, but they’re really starting to flood the zone in recent years.” “Political `hacktivists’ attack city websites in North Miami, Hillsboro Beach,” by Adam H. Beasley in the Miami Herald, January 19: North Miami and Hillsboro Beach have had their official websites hacked into and […]
UK: Muslim threatened to kill his cousin and harm her family because she stopped wearing hijab
Here is yet more indication of why we don’t see more secular Muslims and sincere Islamic reformers. In this case, note how Mohamed Al-Hakim spoke of the “shame” Alya Al-Safar had brought to her family by removing her hijab: an honor killing was brewing. “‘Wear the hijab or I’ll kill you, cousin told girl’: Muslim […]
Canadian National Archives cancels Iran documentary after threats
Why do we keep seeing threats and incidents of terrorism? Because they work. And until we grow enough spine to resist them in all their manifestations, we will keep seeing more. “National Archives cancels screening of documentary on Iran after threats,” by Sarah Boesveld for the National Post, January 18 (thanks to C.): After receiving […]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “Submission II is too risky”
Violent intimidation works. And until non-Muslims start standing up to it, it will keep on working, and the truth will be silenced. “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘Submission II is too risky,’” from Radio Netherlands, January 6 (thanks to all who sent this in): Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she will not make sequels to her controversial 2004 […]
“All Americans Must Die” written on wall of Tyson Chicken plant that adopted Muslim holiday in 2008
“They’ve complained for years, as to why these people are being hired in our food department when we are worried about our safety as Americans, you know, and that’s something we all need to think about.” Indeed. Tyson Chicken in Shelbyville went out of its way to be accommodating to its Muslim employees in 2008, […]
Egypt: Ex-Muslim hounded by State Security Intelligence agency, charged with “defaming” Islam
Note how persecution becomes a labor-saving device in this story, as it is in the broader treatment of apostasy in Islam, where punishments can include the death penalty by Muhammad’s own decree. When clerics could not convince Thabet to recant, they called in state security. It is much easier to dispose of such cases in […]