Absent as ever, of course, is any recognition of these punishments’ origins in the Qur’an and in Muhammad’s own example, though in this case that is as much the fault of the reporting as the apparent omissions in the statement from Human Right’s Watch. “New Indonesia stoning law is ‘torture’: rights group,” from Agence France-Presse, […]
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Somalia: More amputations for theft, this time in Mogadishu
When will some Islamic apologist send these misunderstanders of Islam the decoder ring that magically renders Qur’an 5:38’s call for amputation as the penalty for theft as a call for group therapy and a visit from Dr. Phil? “Somali Islamists chop off hands of Mogadishu ‘thieves’,” from Agence France-Presse, September 9: MOGADISHU — Somali Islamists […]
Calling a spade a spade: jihad, genocide, slavery and sharia law
Any mention of “˜sharia” is now outlawed at the UNHRC. More reflections by David G. Littman: “Here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” – Lady Macbeth [nor oil from Arabia and the Persian Gulf] A day after our July 7 report on the UNCHR, “Sharia: […]
Iranian parliament considers death penalty for encouraging apostasy from Islam and other means of “harming mental security in society” over the Internet
Now there’s a cringe-worthy turn of phrase. “Iran mulls death penalty for Internet crimes,” from Agence France-Presse, July 2: TEHERAN – Iran’s parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet, reports said on Wednesday. MPs on […]
Attempts to stem trafficking of teenage girls in northern Nigeria hampered by… Sharia law
“The [Child Rights Act] has been endorsed by the Nigerian federal government but not as yet by the predominantly Muslim northern state legislatures because it contains clauses which many northerners see as going against their religious and cultural values.” But wait… Islamic law is supposed to elevate women, and bring law and order to the […]
New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot
Altered Face? Really? The New York Times, true to the New Duranty Times moniker Hugh Fitzgerald has given it, has run a gushing profile of Ali Ardekani, the young Muslim filmmaker who made “Who Hijacked Islam?,” (linked in the picture above) among other shorts designed to stir up righteous indignation against the venomous Islamophobes who […]
Fitzgerald: Separation of mosque and state
“TIZA claims to be non-sectarian, as Minnesota law requires charters to be. But “after-school Islamic learning” takes place on weekdays in the same building under MAS-MN’s auspices, according to the program for MAS-MN’s 2007 convention. At that convention, a TIZA representative at the school’s booth told me that students go directly to “Islamic studies” classes […]
Sexual harassment on the rise in Egypt
“One sociologist, Dalal Al Bizri, sees a strong link between growing religious conservatism and sexual harassment.” This sociologist also blames Saudi influence, which is not untrue, but, of course, if this Agence France-Presse article properly discussed the Islamic underpinnings of those attitudes, and why Muslims in Egypt have been receptive to them, it certainly wouldn’t […]
Islam 101 – Part 2
d. Jihad Through History In 622 AD (year one in the Islamic calendar, AH 1), Muhammad abandoned Mecca for the city of Medina (Yathrib) some 200 farther north in the Arabian peninsula. In Medina, Muhammad established a paramilitary organization that would spread his influence and that of his religion throughout Arabia. Because there has never […]
Forced Islamisation
Background to recent attempts to stamp out Christianity in Indonesia from Paul Stenhouse, PhD: THE person speaking had lived through it all. He was from the Moluccas – the Spice Islands of legend – and had been there most of his adult life. He was a Catholic and spoke from experience of people and events […]