Ahmed Adheeb is on the defensive about bringing in foreign musicians to perform in the Maldives because Islamic law forbids most forms of music. In the West, publishing this information brings one swift charges of “Islamophobia” and “bigotry,” but apparently many people in the Maldives have been reading “Islamophobic” literature, as they now believe that […]
Maldives: Muslims kidnap atheists, force them to accept Islam
They also forced them to turn over their passwords to their online group calling for tolerance, and filled the page with warnings about their “blasphemy.” The Qur’an says that “there is no compulsion in religion,” (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its […]
Maldives president vetoes marital rape bill as “un-Islamic”
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen with his long-suffering wife “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘If a husband calls his wife to his bed (i.e. to have sexual relation) and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.” (Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460) Muhammad also said: “By him in Whose Hand lies my […]
Maldives: Rape victim spared 100 lashes after global outcry
Note that Alaphia Zoyab, who has led the campaign on behalf of Avaaz, lays the blame squarely on Sharia — while courts in the U.S. strike down anti-Sharia laws, since Islamic supremacist groups have assured them that Sharia is benign and completely compatible with Western principles of human rights. Zoyab is right: the idea of […]
Sharia in action in the Maldives: Amputation for theft added to the penal code
“There’s really no such thing as just Sharia, it’s not one monolithic Continuum – Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, […]
Maldives: Customs officials seize men for carrying books about Christianity
They had to seize them because Mona Eltahawy wasn’t around to spray them and their books with pink spray paint. “Custom seize two men carrying books about Christianity,” by Ahmed Nazeer for Minivan News, September 30 (thanks to Lachlan): Customs officials at the Male” Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA) on Thursday seized 11 books about […]
Maldives: Blogger stabbed after posting “anti-Islamic material” flees country
“I was attacked because I advocate secularism. The Islamists want Maldives to remain a 100-per cent Islamic country.” But remember: the real problem is “Islamophobia.” An update on this story. “Attacked Maldives blogger flees ‘Islamist’ threat,” from AFP, July 9 (thanks to David): NEW DELHI – The Maldives’ best-known blogger, who nearly died in an […]
Maldives: Blogger accused of posting “anti-Islamic material” stabbed
Ismail Rasheed is here described as a “liberal,” which in this case means that he opposes Islamic supremacists and jihadists. When opponents of Islamic supremacism are victims, the mainstream media calls them “liberals.” When opponents of Islamic supremacism are trying to preserve freedom and limit Sharia encroachment in the West, an effort of which the […]
Ousted Maldives President claims Obama approved Islamic supremacist pro-Sharia coup
This would be consistent with Obama’s refusal to support the Iranian demonstrators, who were opposing an Islamic Republic, and his enthusiasm in supporting the “Arab Spring” demonstrators, who were paving the way for Islamic rule. Which side is he on, anyway? “Ousted Maldives President Claims Obama Approved Islamist Coup,” from Breitbart, April 20 (thanks to […]
Maldives: Pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist party topples govt with pamphlet accusing it of teaching “good things about the Jews”
Note here again the appeals to Islamic authenticity and frequent quotes from the Qur’an and invocations of Islam. Yet these are the people whom their coreligionists in the West would claim are misunderstanding their peaceful, non-political, non-supremacist religion. No explanation of this obvious contradiction has ever been forthcoming. “Pamphlet By Maldivian Islamist Party That Triggered […]