And why do they battle it? Because in Nigeria word spread that the polio vaccine was an anti-Muslim plot. And now polio has spread from Nigeria to Yemen. Isn’t this a cue for the Vast Majority of Moderate Muslims to endorse the polio vaccine and condemn anti-American conspiracy paranoia? Ibrahim? Nihad? Anyone? Anyone? From AP, […]
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Fitzgerald: It’s not all about Israel
Many learned analysts continue to insist that if the U.S. would only modify its policies regarding Israel, the global jihad would end. Here, Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald places the ongoing jihad against Israel in its larger context: The Arab war against Israel is a classic Jihad. It can be called the Lesser […]
Family of convert from Islam to Christianity threatened to murder him
After all, the Muslim Prophet Muhammad said, “Baddala deenahu, faqtuluhu” — if anyone changes his religion, kill him (cf. Bukhari vol. 9, bk. 84, no. 57). As far as many Muslims are concerned, this command is not a dead historical relic, but a live mandate. “From Muslim leader to evangelist for Christ,” from Compass Direct: […]
Fitzgerald: This is not your father’s United Nations
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald holds up a magnifying glass to that most grandiose of dhimmi institutions, the United Nations: The UN now certainly bears no resemblance to the organization that Eleanor Roosevelt, Rene Cassin, and others thought they were founding after World War II. The major impetus for its founding was the […]
Fitzgerald: Appeasement and the fast and slow jihads
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald surveys the prospects for Peace In Our Time in the Middle East: Condoleeza Rice cannot possibly allow herself to believe that Arab Muslims do not wish to make peace, that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are not a rump group, and that Abbas himself is just one more in […]
“Afghans will never agree on any secular or liberal system. Islam is the modern system and Afghanistan’s future is tied with Islam”
I told you so update. “Afghan Vote: No Future Without Islam, Says Qanooni,” from AKI, with thanks to Kemaste: Kabul, 20 Sept. (AKI) – (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) – As vote counting continues after landmark parliamentary elections, Afghani power broker, Younus Qanooni, has warned that the country’s future cannot be modelled on a Western liberal […]
Iraq: About 650 die in stampede spurred by rumors of bomber
Terrorism creates more terror. Now, here’s an assignment for all you moral equivalence advocates. Please compile a list similar to the one below of similar bombings and other attacks taking place in and around churches since 1980. The shootings by Muslims in Pakistani churches, as well as the destruction of churches by Muslims in Indonesia […]
Niger’s women and children starve as men hoard food
While this behavior is not sanctioned by anything in Islam, it is a consequence of the dehumanization of women in Islamic law and custom. From The Independent, with thanks to Paolo: Noura Abdurrahi’s four children were crying from hunger, and she knew there was food in the house. But her husband, Musa, had locked it […]
Jihad in Sub-Saharan Africa
How is it that these “radical Islamists” are able to displace the Sufis? Could it be by appealing to the Qur’an and Sunnah? If so, what are the implications for the continuing ability of those Sufis to resist this radicalization? “Radical Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa,” from VOANews, with thanks to Uajeg: Traditionally home to the […]
Canada: A “green light for sharia”
Sharia gains a foothold in Canada in advance of the Bryant report, despite the best efforts of Muslim women. Bravo, Homa Arjomand. “Islamic law course hears opening arguments,” from the Globe and Mail: Islamic law is coming to the University of Toronto. Not in the form of sharia tribunals for cheaters or strict dress codes […]