By Philip Sherwell and Ben Leapman in the Telegraph: Fears have been growing in the Maldives that Islamic radicals would bring violence to the Muslim island state. There were concerns that yesterday’s bombers had deliberately targeted foreign tourists — as Islamic terrorists did on the holiday island of Bali in 2002. Despite its reputation as […]
Archives for September 2007
Muzzling in the Name of Islam
Latest from the Washington [bleep]. Here is a good example of the not-completely-wrong sort of writing that does so much to cloud the issue over Islam’s fundamentally hostile and intolerant nature. Here Paul Marshall appears critical of practices in Islamic countries such as repressing speech on the grounds of blasphemy. OK. But the article gives […]
Misunderstanders of Islam kill police captain in Thailand
Ah, if only the West understood Islam better, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen. “Police captain killed in southern ambush,” from the Bangkok Post (thanks to all who sent this in): (BangkokPost.com) – A police captain was killed in Yala province by a group of insurgents on Saturday morning. Pol Cap Toranit Srisuk, 28, was […]
Fitzgerald: Frederick Kagan’s severe mental confusion
Here is an excerpt from Fred Kagan’s recent My Weekly Standard article: The takfiris insist that anyone who obeys a human government is a polytheist and therefore violates the first premise of Islam, the shahada (the assertion that “There is no god but God”), even though Muslims have lived in states with temporal rulers for […]
Misunderstander of Islam kills 30 on Kabul bus
Karzai says this attack was “against humanity, definitely against Islam.” It’s funny how so many Muslims have gotten the opposite impression. Why aren’t there demonstrations against these misunderstanders? Schools teaching against them? “Kabul bus bomber kills 30 troops,” by Bronwen Roberts for AP (thanks to all who sent this in): KABUL (AFP) – A suicide […]
Fitzgerald: How politicians can avoid missteps
RICHMOND, Va. – A member of the state’s Commission of Immigration resigned Thursday, a few hours after Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was told about online videos showing the appointee condemning Israel and advocating “the jihad way.” Kaine learned of the videos from a caller to his live monthly radio program and accepted the resignation of […]
Iran’s Parliament Signs Resolution to Label CIA, Army as ‘Terrorist Organizations’
An update on this story, from the Associated Press: TEHRAN, Iran “” Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution to label the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations.” The move is seen as diplomatic a tit-for-tat after the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s […]
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad Sharia world: Saudi wife divorced for watching male TV host
Sharia Alert from the country of the Two Holy Places: “Wife divorced for watching male TV host,” from the Times of India (thanks to Hot Air): RIYADH: A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday. […]
Dhimmitude and its compensations: Jihadists invite Rosie O’Donnell to Mideast
She would probably accept this invitation sooner than she would accept one from, say, Pat Robertson. “Oh, Rosie! Terrorists invite her to Mideast,” from WorldNetDaily (thanks to Tammy Bruce): Muslim jihadist leaders interviewed for a new book were ecstatic about statements from television talk host Rosie O’Donnell about the war in Iraq and the global […]
New sitcom: Muslims pious and polite, non-Muslims bigoted and stupid
Predictable. “The sitcom ‘Aliens in America’ plays anti-Muslim hostility for laughs,” by Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn for The Associated Press (thanks to Twostellas): A group of Muslim worshippers were gathered for evening prayer inside the Islamic Center of Southern California when Moses Port and David Guarascio arrived. “The fact that we’re here is bigger than anything […]