Time and again, we find that just doesn’t take a whole lot. Asia News reports that the defendant is a Christian, which adds an important dimension to the story: namely, the use of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to terrorize and repress religious minorities. “Life term for blasphemy accused,” by Ishaq Tanoli for Dawn, February 25: KARACHI, […]
Archives for February 2010
Now we have our anti-jihad theme song
Wilders stands up against a symbol of Islamic supremacism and subjugation of women. Read the comments at the Dutch News site, comparing him to Hitler — and then remember that it is the coreligionists of the headscarf wearers who are breathing threats and murder against others, boasting about how they are going to take over, […]
Iran’s opposition leader says mullahs are misunderstanders of Islam
To be precise, at least according to this AP report, he said that “a dictatorial cult is ruling Iran in the name of Islam.” So presumably he thinks that Islam actually teaches something other than what the mullahs represent and teach. It would be interesting if he were to spell this out, since everywhere in […]
Geller: “A girl flees from her home in fear for her life — and law enforcement goes after the people who helped her”
In “Prosecuted for Saving A Girl’s Life” in the American Thinker, February 27, Pamela Geller discusses the plight of Brian Williams, a Christian pastor who is being targeted by Ohio authorities for helping ex-Muslim teenager Rifqa Bary when she ran away from home in fear that her father would kill her for leaving Islam. […] […]
Islamophobia in Pakistan? Suicide bomber “topples” mosque
Nope, no “Islamophobia” here, oddly enough! Actually the perpetrator was a jihad/martyrdom bomber, hoping to reap the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise for those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). “Pakistan suicide attack kills 3, wounds dozens,” from AP, February 27 (thanks to Twostellas): Islamabad: A suicide car bomber attacked a police station on […]
“You are Christian and it is a good deed to kill you. My Allah will be very happy if I kill you.”
Here are translations of two letters that Misunderstanders of Islam sent to the family of the imprisoned Pakistani Christian human rights activist Hector Aleem. Background of the case here. LETTER 1 “Kausar Parveen, wife of Hector Aleem, “We know where you and your children live. This blasphemer [Hector] has been arrested because of us, now […]
Pakistan: Muslim mob attacks Christians, authorities arrest…Christians
An attempt by Pakistani officials to harass the Christian community. “Unnamed Christians Accused after Muslim Attack in Pakistan,” from Compass Direct News, February 26 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): KARACHI, Pakistan, February 26 (CDN) — In the wake of an attack this week by 150 armed Muslims on a Christian colony in this city […]
Liberia: Muslim mob burns down two churches, a clinic, shops, and the mayor’s house
Maybe they’re enraged about those Christians getting in the way of Muslim torches over in Nigeria. “Liberia town hit by sectarian unrest,” from the Associated Press, February 27 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The United Nations has deployed peacekeepers to a northern Liberian town where sectarian violence has left at least three people dead […]
Iran, Syria mock U.S. policy, pledge Middle East “without Zionists”
Obama’s open-handed policy of engagement is bearing wonderful fruit now, eh? “Iran, Syria mock U.S. policy; Ahmadinejad speaks of Israel’s ‘annihilation,’” by Howard Schneider for the Washington Post, February 26 (thanks to Sr. Soph): JERUSALEM — The presidents of Iran and Syria on Thursday ridiculed U.S. policy in the region and pledged to create a […]
Canada: “Muslim convert thirsty for knowledge” pleads guilty to role in terror group
He was a “Muslim convert thirsty for knowledge,” and yet he ended up with the wrong crowd — you know, the violent jihad crowd. It’s amazing, isn’t it, how many Muslim converts thirsty for knowledge end up being Misunderstanders of Islam, despite their earnestness in trying to get it right. “Accused in Toronto 18 plot […]