All that said, the data does suggest that today’s backward Muslim countries tend to be more violent. But I submit that the reason is that they are backward, not that they are Muslim. When Christian Europe was a backward society in the Middle Ages conducting pogroms against the Jews, the Muslims in the Middle East […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In An Age of Terror, What Is The Responsibility of Glenn K. Beaton? (Part Two)
Another point made by some is that Islam as a religion advocates violence against non-believers whom it calls “infidels.” That’s also true. The Quran does urge violence against infidels. But so does the Old Testament, which urges violence by Hebrews against non-Hebrews. The Old Testament is descriptive. The violence of the ancient Hebrews against non-Hebrews […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In An Age of Terror, What Is The Responsibility of Glenn K. Beaton? (Part One)
Glenn K. Beaton delivers himself of some thoughts on terror and Islam in his article “In An Age of Terror, What Is The Responsibility of Islam,” to be found here. I remember September 11, 2001. Terrorists hijacked civilian airlines and flew them into the two World Trade towers and the Pentagon. A fourth plane […]
Sri Lanka: Cardinal believes Muslim envoys who assure him that the jihad bombings had “no connection to Islam”
The Catholic archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Ranjith, “met with ambassadors of Islamic countries who expressed condolences over the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings and assured him, he said, that there was ‘no connection to Islam.’” No one who thinks could possibly take this seriously. To understand the 1,400-year link between bloody jihad conquest and normative […]
Muslims who claimed to be above Australian law fined by non-Muslim judge who assures them he follows Qur’an
“The Holy Koran considers justice a supreme virtue, and I assure the defendants that this court pursues that virtue in every case it deals with, just as the Holy Koran requires of its adherents,” Justice Terence Sheahan told Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali. He could have just said, “In Australia, Australian law applies to everyone.” Instead, […]
Canada: Muslim who detonated incendiary devices at college faces new charges of assault and robbery
But no terror charges. Jihad terrorism? What’s that? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe? In any case, it appears that Nasradin Abdusamad Ali was striking terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah (cf. Qur’an 8:60) for quite some time. Apparently it would have been “Islamophobic” to have charged him with the earlier […]
Germany: Taxpayer-funded report claims Islamic anti-Semitism is a result of “Islamophobia”
It’s much more likely to be a result of what the Qur’an and Sunnah teach about Jews, but today’s “experts” are at war with reality, and so they will never take notice of the fact that the Qur’an demonizes the Jews in numerous ways. It depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying […]
Pope: “Let’s not accuse Muslims. Let’s accuse ourselves also.”
“But something else is concerning to me: the regression of us Christians when we take away freedom of conscience. Think of the Christian doctors and hospital institutions that do not have the right of conscientious objection, for example, for euthanasia. How? The Church has moved on and you Christian countries go backwards? Think of this […]
Islamophobia at the UN: Rights chief condemns Brunei’s stoning for gays and amputation for theft as “inhuman”
Brunei is simply implementing Sharia. Doesn’t Michelle Bachelet know that Saudi Arabia and Iran and other Sharia states put homosexuals to death and amputate hands for theft? Will the OIC condemn her “Islamophobia,” or bide its time, preferring to continue to fool Western leaders, who are so very eager to be fooled, into thinking that […]
Pope: Coexistence between Christians and Muslims “is a beautiful flower that promises to bear fruit”
When? Where? When has it ever borne fruit? Where and when, in the 1,400-year history of jihad, have Christian lands near Muslim lands ever been left alone by the Muslims? When, in that 1,400-year history, have Christians living in Muslim lands ever been granted equality of rights and been treated as full citizens? The Pope […]