This is the kind of incident that has one potential victim, but many potential repercussions. That victim in this case is a 54-year-old schoolteacher who, newly arrived in Sudan and naive as so many are about Islam, meets with the primitive nature of Islam. For we can all recognize and instantly grasp, the teacher’s innocence, […]
Archives for November 2007
Muslim Math
Sudanese Muslims burn a photo of the Muhammad teddy bear teacher Mohammed + Teddy Bear = Riot Mohammed + Atta = No Riots Have I got that right?
Detroit man pleads guilty in bid to aid Hizballah
Aiding the jihad from Detroit. “Detroit man pleads guilty in bid to aid Hezbollah,” from Reuters (thanks to Sr. Soph): DETROIT (Reuters) – A Detroit-area man on Thursday pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges after a failed 1998 attempt to deliver global positioning systems and night-vision goggles to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Fawzi Assi, 47, pleaded guilty […]
Washington Post reporter slouches towards journalism
As predicted here last week, Perry Bacon, Jr., a reporter for the Washington Post, has demonstrated what passes for journalistic integrity these days by taking an eight-month-old column of mine in which I discuss the implications of Barack Obama’s not being a Muslim as evidence that I’m involved in spreading rumors that he is a […]
Amsterdam officials commissioning study to determine why Moroccans target city’s gays
Denial: “researchers believe they felt stigmatized by society and responded by attacking people they felt were lower on the social ladder. Another working theory is that the attackers may be struggling with their own sexual identity.” Hmm. Good theories, fellows! But I do wonder if perhaps you considered that the Moroccan hostility toward homosexuals had […]
43 held after bombs found at Christian fundamentalist leader’s office — no, wait…
Seriously, since — as most assume — all religions are equally capable of inciting their adherents to violence, why don’t we see real headlines like the one above? Baptists targeting Methodists, Presbyterians bloodily retaliating for the last Episcopalian attack — you get the idea. “43 Held after Bombs Found at Sunni Leader’s Office,” from AFP […]
Sudanese Muslim groups call teddy bear teacher “infidel,” plan protests
Muhammad Teddy Bear Madness is not over, and it won’t be until Gillian Gibbons is safely out of Sudan. “Sudan groups say teacher ‘infidel,’” from CNN (thanks to Martin): KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) — Muslim groups in Sudan, angry at a female British teacher for allowing her students to call a teddy bear “Mohammed,” are planning […]
Thrilla in Londonistan: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Ed Husain
I don’t believe that Richard Dawkins actually exists, but whoever runs the richarddawkins.net website has posted audio of a bout for the ages — not quite Ali vs. Frazier, but there is an Ali involved: Ayaan Hirsi Ali debating Ed Husain at the Centre for Social Cohesion. Listen and judge for yourself who got the […]
Purported bin Laden message to Europe: Quit Afghan war
An update on this story, from CNN: (CNN) — An audio recording attributed to Osama bin Laden called on Europeans to abandon Afghanistan and accused NATO troops of killing women and children there. Projection. After all, jihadists — al-Qaeda and otherwise — never, ever, ever targeted women and children. The message surfaced on Al Jazeera […]
Take this dough and use it to get married
This reminds me of an old Edward G. Robinson movie I saw once — the name escapes me — in which the horrified good guys discover that “putting out a contract” on someone meant “arranging for them to be killed.” The argot is clumsy and not hard to decipher, although I suppose those using it […]