Here is his full statement. Note yet again the many, many quotes from the Qur’an and the grounding of his whole appeal in Islamic teaching. Will any Western Muslim spokesman explain how he is getting Islam all wrong? None need do so, of course, because the mainstream media will just assume it has been done […]
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“More than 140 million girls over the next decade will be married before they turn 18”
And what is to stop this from happening? It has broad sanction in Islam, as few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the […]
Haroon Moghul tries and fails to invest the concept of “Islamophobia” with some genuine substance
Haroon Moghul, “a Fellow at the New America Foundation and the Center on National Security at Fordham Law,” as well as “a doctoral candidate at Columbia University,” is more intelligent than the usual crude character assassins and victimhood mongers who fill the ranks of those who spread the myth of “Islamophobia,” and in this piece […]
Nearly 1000 Pakistani women victims of honor killings in 2011
These numbers are from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. So, are they “racists,” or are they “Islamophobes” for pointing out that unpleasant fact? The elephant in the room continues to be Qur’an 4:34, which despite the best efforts of the HuffPo Tafsir Bureau and other apologists to assure us otherwise, approves in letter and […]
Pakistan: 675 “honor killings” in the first nine months of 2011
They’re working hard in Pakistan to ensure the Muslim world doesn’t slip from being responsible 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. As this report notes, there is no law against domestic violence. Such legislation stalled out in the assembly in 2009 with resistance on Islamic grounds. It would run the risk of prohibiting something Allah […]
Australia: Proposed laws requiring women in niqab to show face to law enforcement decried as “culturally insensitive”
Here’s a thought: perhaps the niqab is “culturally insensitive” to Australians. In the West, the female face is not a private part. Carnita Matthews‘ case in Australia was an unfortunate demonstration of how the niqab can be used to game the system: her conviction and prison term were overturned because she could not be positively […]
Malaysian MP blames bad Muslim wives for husbands that cheat: “In Islam, wives are supposed to stop everything to fulfill their husband’s demands”
Their demands, mind you. Islamic tradition leaves little room for a wife to refuse sex for any reason, leading to an epidemic of marital rape that continues to keep hospitals busy (where women can get to them) in places like Pakistan, and the Shi’ite “family law” in Karzai’s Afghanistan that allows husbands to withhold food […]
Fitzgerald: Laurie Goodstein and the Times: Weighed, and found wanting
Laurie Goodstein, who reports for The New York Times on Islam in America without, apparently, ever thinking she has a responsibility to study the texts and tenets of Islam, and to learn about, and be keenly aware of, the arts of Taqiyya and Tu-Quoque in which Muslim spokesmen are so well-versed so that she, too, […]
Iran’s supreme leader tells Muslims to fight American and British “terrorism”
A prime example of the uselessness of the term “terrorism.” First, it is a method, and not an ideology, and thus lends itself to broad applications without describing the reason for the supposed “terrorism.” And allegations of terrorism are quite easy to come by — one will recall the charges of “religious terrorism” and “moral […]
Do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton know what’s going on in the Chittagong Hills? If they did, would they care?
If you visit this site every day, you know that there are three kinds of news stories related to or about Islam. There are the stories that, within a day or a week, will make it to the New York Times, and NPR, albeit in less intelligible and often tendentious form. Then there are the […]