The Islamic State is going to keep advancing until it is stopped, while our learned, tenured analysts assure us that it is a purely “nationalist” movement. “ISIS preparing to declare Islamic emirate in Lebanon: sources,” by Antoine Ghattas Saab, The Daily Star, February 23, 2015 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): ISIS is preparing military plans to […]
Lebanon: Top Sunni authority files judicial complaint against satirist for defaming Islam
Apparently mocking the Islamic State is, for these Lebanese Sunni clerics, defaming Islam — a telling admission in itself. In any case, the increasingly frequent calls for self-censorship from Barack Obama and the Leftist elites are in service of this: the enforcement of Sharia blasphemy laws. If the current regime gets its way, those laws […]
Lebanon: University students protest appointment of Christian director
Tripoli, Feb. 3 – A number of students closed off the entrance of the College of Business Administration in Tripoli, Lebanon, calling for the immediate resignation of the newly appointed director of the school, Antoine Tanus. His crime? He’s a Christian. In the words of the National News Agency, the students are protesting “over the […]
Miss Lebanon is like, totally going jihad because Miss Israel got in her selfie
“I was having a photo with Miss Japan, Miss Slovenia and myself, suddenly Miss Israel jumped in, took a selfie, and put it on her social media.” So says Miss Lebanon now. But AFP says, “It shows Miss Israel with a beaming Miss Slovenia and Miss Japan, and Miss Lebanon, who appears to be gritting […]
Lebanon: Muslim sheikh urges Muslims not to celebrate Christmas
“Some Muslims make a mistake by erecting a Christmas tree in their homes and dressing up their children in ‘Santa Claus’ outfits. They even take it further by visiting the toy store and buying gifts and asking the shop’s owner to send ‘Santa Claus’ to their homes to give the gifts to their children.” Some […]
Lebanese Foreign Minister: Islamic State is “the best Israeli tool to create divisions in the region”
Gebran Bassil is expressing a reflexive Arab nationalist antisemitism that has been far outstripped by actual events — but apparently Bassil wasn’t paying attention. In chapter nine of Bat Ye’or’s seminal Islam and Dhimmitude, she discusses at length the ambiguities of Arab nationalism, showing how as a movement it destroyed Middle Eastern Christian communities, dividing […]
Lebanese Christians forming defense forces against Islamic State
“‘We are a minority and we are under threat by the jihadists,’ Rifaat Nasrallah, a commander of the volunteer guards in the Greek Catholic town of Ras Baalbek, said.” These guys should lay down their arms — don’t they realize they might harm the Muslim/Christian dialogue? Don’t they know that the Islamic State fighters aren’t […]
Lebanon: Sunni jihad suicide bomber commits mass murder at Hizballah checkpoint
“Hezbollah’s fighters have been supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a war against mostly Sunni Muslim rebels.” And so the Sunnis have struck back, and the Shi’ites will strike them again to repay them for that strike, and so on and on in an endless cycle of revenge. “Suicide bomber hits Hezbollah […]
Thousands flee as Lebanon battles Syrian jihadists
All around the world, jihadists are more assertive and aggressive than they have been for centuries, and they continue to explain and justify what they’re doing, and to make new recruits, by pointing to the texts and teachings of Islam. And the mainstream response is still to say that they have nothing to do with […]
Sharia Lebanon: Muslima from Australia facing jail for adultery
“Her husband’s family in Sydney has welcomed her being charged and wants the mother of two children, aged six and nine, to be jailed. Ms Issa, 29, travelled to Tripoli on June 20 to see her new boyfriend after recently separating from her husband. She was about to return home on the weekend when she […]