Nike won’t suffer much from the loss of business in Libya, but Nike top dogs better hope this idea doesn’t spread to other majority-Muslim countries. As absurd as it is, it could get innocent people killed. “Nike slapped with Islamic fatwa for ‘promoting polytheism’ via Greek goddess symbol,” by Taylor Herzlich, New York Post, November […]
Ramadan: Sharia police in Kano, Nigeria and elsewhere to arrest anyone found eating in public
“Police in Kano, Nabahani Usman has said that adults seen eating in public during Ramadan would be arrested.” But this is not a practice unique to the mostly unknown Kano, Nigeria. Across sharia adherent countries, eating in public during Ramadan is prohibited and thus punishable. Many of these countries give infidel visitors a warning first. […]
Egypt’s most prominent Islamic authority issues a fatwa against AFDI’s bus ads
As Pamela Geller notes, think about all the things that Egypt’s most prominent Islamic authority is not issuing fatwas against: Islamic anti-semitism, the jihad imperative to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers under the hegemony of Islamic law, the institutionalized oppression of women in Islamic law, including even their Qur’an-sanctioned beating (4:34), the sexual slavery […]