From the New Duranty Times, with thanks to Jerry Gordon: SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S new blockbuster, “Kingdom of Heaven,” could hardly be more topical. It shows Muslims resisting Christian invaders, battles raging in wind-whipped deserts, ancient cities under siege and civilians cowering. It even shows prisoners decapitated for their beliefs. O.K., so all this screen mayhem […]
Australian Lawyer: Muslims de-humanized like Jews before WWII
from the Australian The Age, “Muslims ‘vilified and dehumanised’” with thanks to Nicolei: Muslims in Australia suffer vilification comparable to that directed towards Jews under the Nazis, according to the former lawyer for released Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib. Stephen Hopper, who was sacked by Habib earlier this month, told a seminar at RMIT yesterday […]
The worst-ever article on Islam?
Daniel Pipes opines that this could be the very worst article on Islam, and with good reason: “It has every platitude, inaccuracy, and banality in the book, from mistranslating the word Islam to getting the number of Muslims in the United States wrong to that hoary business about “A Muslim can’t be a terrorist, and […]
The Fallacy of Extremism In Any Religion Or Culture Watch?
On March 11, I posted an email exchange with a Muslim gentleman who asked me if I “seek to promote understanding of Islam as a universal message for mankind, or perpetuate the current climate of fear and potential backlash among non-Muslims particularly in the U.S. whose perception of Islam and Muslims is molded by media, […]
LeVine/Kahn, Round II
Tzvi Kahn takes on our old pal Mark LeVine once again in “The Marxist Strikes Back” in FrontPage (thanks to Rebecca Bynum). Kahn rightly denies plagiarizing me, a charge that LeVine irresponsibly made in his response to Kahn’s first piece. And he scores a few direct hits: In his long and rambling response to my […]
Northeastern University Prof likens 9/11 hijackers to American Founding Fathers
In this fiendishly obscene essay, Professor Shahid Alam of Northeastern University portrays the mass-murdering thugs of 9/11 as heroes on the order of the American patriots of Lexington and Concord. Check out also (at LGF) the sneeringly anti-Semitic reply he made to an email reproaching him for his hateful views. From Dissident Voice, with thanks […]
Pakistani pol: West must stop equating Jihad with terrorism
Memo to Osama bin Laden: stop equating jihad with terrorism, will you? It is astonishing that anyone after 9/11 would dare to suggest that the equation of jihad with terrorism comes from the West (I know, I know, there are a thousand academics suggesting just that every day in classes all across this fair land), […]
Stoned to death… why Europe is starting to lose its faith in Islam
A reflection on the death of multiculturalism and the stoning in Marseilles from the Times Online, with thanks to Nicolei: DAYS before she was due to be married, Ghofrane Haddaoui, 23, refused the advances of a teenage boy and paid with her life. Lured to waste ground near her home in Marseilles, the Tunisian-born Frenchwoman […]
Australia: Meddlesome priest unwise
But because Janet Albrechtsen is not a supporter of terrorism, she didn’t ask, “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest”? But she does ask all the right questions of the dhimmi cleric Peter Carnley, a practioner par excellence of moral equivalence. From The Australian, with thanks to Kevin: SHOWING a distinct distrust in God […]
Human Rights group: Anti-Muslim acts ‘rampant across Europe’
A story about discrimination against Muslims which takes no notice of the many documented acts of violence by Muslims against others, or of the possibility that Muslim groups’ stated intention to replace the existing order with Sharia states may give rise to “distrustful attitudes toward Muslims.” From AP, with thanks to Ali Dashti: VIENNA (Austria) […]