The New Duranty Times reports on the escalating Sunni-Shia violence in Baghdad: BAGHDAD, Iraq “” Mohannad al-Azawi had just finished sprinkling food in his bird cages at his pet shop in south Baghdad, when three carloads of gunmen pulled up. In front of a crowd, he was grabbed by his shirt and driven off. Mr. […]
Archives for March 2006
Australia links fate of convert to troop presence in Afghanistan
Now we’re talking turkey, even if Howard did “stop short.” Why hasn’t George W. Bush even gone this far? From AFP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: MELBOURNE – Australian Prime Minister John Howard expressed “disgust” on Sunday at the possible execution by Afghan authorities of a convert to Christianity and linked the man’s fate to […]
Ahmadinejad: Iran will obtain fuel cycle by end of year
1938 Alert from Iran Focus, with thanks to JE: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 25 — Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Saturday that the Islamic Republic will obtain nuclear capabilities by the end of the new Persian year (ending: March 21, 2007), the official state news agency reported. “Our enemies want to prevent us from […]
Taheri-azar reads Qur’an through court appearance
And no doubt misunderstood every word he read of the book of peace. “Pit driver reads Quran to self in latest appearance,” from the Daily Tar Heel, with thanks to JS: Probable cause was found to pursue 18 felony charges against Mohammad Reza Taheri-Azar, the UNC alumnus who drove an SUV through the Pit on […]
Mohammed Taheri-Azar’s letter to police
“In the Qur’an, Allah states that the believing men and women have permission to murder anyone responsible for the killing of other believing men and women.” I trust Ibrahim Hooper and others are readying refutations of this as we speak. As for the “19” miracle, Taheri-azar is referring to an extrapolation of Qur’an 74:30, which […]
Jack is a man of straw when Muslims talk of killing converts
Charles Moore skewers the dhimmi Jack Straw, whose misadventures have often shown up on this site, at the Telegraph (thanks to DFS): When the row about the Danish cartoons of Mohammed broke, no one was quicker out of the traps than our Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. He roundly condemned what he saw as the irresponsibility […]
Algeria: jihadists kill five civilians after amnesty for jihadists begins
Never grant concessions to the mujahedin. They will only see them as a sign of weakness. “Rebel militants kill five,” from AFP, with thanks to DFS: ALGERIAN militants killed five civilians, including a mayor, stepping up attacks days after the start of an amnesty for rebels aimed at ending more than a decade of strife, […]
Fitzgerald: Condoleeza Rice On the Phone With Hamid Karzai
Here is Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald’s uproarious take on Condoleeza Rice’s phone conversation with Hamid Karzai: Robert’s imagined conversation between Condoleeza Rice and Hamid Karzai puts one in mind of a certain famous movie conversation. I have changed only a few words, and added words of my own, but much of the […]
Afghan Convert Says Ready to Die for Christianity
And he may have to, since the West appears to lack the will to compel the Afghans to forsake Sharia in favor of a recognition of the dignity of the human person that is taken for granted outside the Islamic world. From Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph: ROME (Reuters) – An Afghan man who […]
Pope makes Afghan convert appeal
Why aren’t we hearing a huge number of similar calls from the Vast Majority of Moderate Muslim Clerics around the world? From the BBC, with thanks to all who sent this in: Pope Benedict XVI has asked the Afghan president to show clemency towards a man facing possible execution for converting to Christianity. Abdul Rahman […]
Afghan cleric: Jews behind Abdul Rahman’s conversion to Christianity
Jews for Jesus Update: from “Pressure Grows to Free Afghan Convert, from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Another cleric, Ayatullah Asife Muhseni, told a gathering of preachers and intellectuals at a Kabul hotel that the Afghan president had no right to overturn the punishment of an apostate. He also demanded that clerics be […]
CAIR Settles A Libel Suit Against Critic
And it looks as if the courageous Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR has not had to back down one inch. His site says: “The policies and procedures of Anti-CAIR (ACAIR) have not changed in any way as a result of the CAIR lawsuit settlement.” From the New York Sun, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: An […]
“If he is allowed to live in the West, then others will claim to be Christian so they can, too. We must set an example…He must be hanged”
So says Said Mirhossain Nasri, senior cleric at Hossainia Mosque, one of the largest Shiite mosques in Kabul, in this AP story (thanks to Ray), which also contains many of the clerics’ reactions we posted here. In the first place, this illustrates the Berlin Wall aspect of all this: they know there is no escape, […]
UK: jihadist sold poisoned burgers from streetcorner stand
For those who don’t speak the Queen’s English, a “supergrass” is an informer. The Old Bailey is the renowned criminal court in London. “Bomb plot suspect sold poisoned burgers, says supergrass,” from the Times Online, with thanks to Sr. Soph: AN ISLAMIST terrorist sold poisoned burgers from a street-corner van and planned to contaminate beer […]
Afghanistan: Many Convert to Christianity In Secret, Says Author
Islamic Tolerance Alert from AKI, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Rome, 22 March (AKI) – Abdul Rahman, the man condemned to death for having abandoned Islam, is just one of many Afghanis who decide to convert to Christianity, but most are forced to do so secretly, argues Arab Christian author Camille Eid. In an interview […]
St. Paul City Office Boots Easter Bunny
It’s funny how symbols of the secularization of Christian holidays — Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny — that some Christians have regarded with a certain distaste for many years, are now regarded as patently and overtly Christian in a way that simply cannot accord with modern sensibilities. From AP, with thanks to Hutchrun: ST. PAUL, […]
Abdul Rahman and the ‘New’ Afghanistan
Allan Wall at NewsMax.com skewers the Administration’s weak response to the Abdul Rahman case: “Before September 11th, 2001, Afghanistan was ruled by a cruel regime that oppressed its people … The Afghan people are building a vibrant young democracy … America will stand with the Afghan people as they build a free society …” – […]
Blair – The Qur’an “is practical and way ahead of its time”
From the Muslim Weekly, with thanks to RB who advises it might be best to “have a lie down before you read this.” The Prime Minister during his speech “Not a clash between civilisations, but a clash about civilisation” spoke forcefully about the problems of terrorism. The talk given to the Foreign Policy Centre and […]
“Who is America to tell us what to do? If Karzai listens to them there will be jihad”
Kabul Bloodlust Update: “Mood hardens against Afghan convert,” from BBC News, with thanks to Null: …Under the interpretation of Islamic Sharia law on which Afghanistan’s constitution is based, Mr Rahman faces the death penalty unless he reconverts to Islam. Please, BBC, give us another interpretation. All the schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree on this issue. […]
Pressure on Afghans mounts over Christian convert
Clash of civilizations update from Kabul: “Afghanistan faced growing international pressure to resolve the case of a man who could face the death penalty for converting to Christianity, but many Afghans said he should be put on trial and punished.” From Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan faced […]