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
Savage fights back, sues CAIR
The truth-challenged unindicted co-conspirators of the Council on American Islamic Relations have been targeting radio host Michael Savage, as they have targeted so many others before him. They’ve been pressuring advertisers to stop advertising on his show, and they’ve been succeeding. Background here. But Savage, unlike Fox, unlike National Review, unlike so many others, is […]
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 […]
Shoot UK teddy bear teacher, say Sudanese protesters
Another proportionate response. Muhammad Teddy Bear Madness Update: “Shoot UK teacher, say protesters,” from the BBC (thanks to M.): Thousands of people have marched in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to call for UK teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot. Mrs Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was jailed by a court on Thursday after children in her […]
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 […]
Iran: Use of the word women ‘banned from state TV’
“In programmes broadcast throughout the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women last Sunday, Iranian state TV used the world family instead.” International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Family? From AKI (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair): Tehran, 29 Nov. (AKI) – The word ‘women’ must now be replaced on Iranian state television […]
Muhammad bear on Ebay
School surplus stock Three cheers for capitalism. (Thanks to Timothy.)
Bahrain: Move to close seven churches ‘without permits’
Legal jihad. From AKI (thanks to Sr. Soph): Manama, 29 Nov. (AKI ) – Seven of the ten Christian churches in the Bahraini capital of Manama may be closed because they have no legal permits. According to the Arab newspaper, al-Sharg al-Awsat, the authorities are considering the move after protests in recent days by residents […]
Teddy Bear Teacher Sentenced to 15 Days in Jail, Deportation
I think it is likely that they have been shamed away from lashing her by all the international attention. From AP (thanks to Davida): KHARTOUM, Sudan “” British teacher Gillian Gibbons has been convicted of inciting religious hatred for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced to 15 days in prison and […]
Rice compares Israelis and Palestinians to blacks in segregated South
Witless Moral Equivalence Update: the Secretary of State feels their pain. Let’s tease out her analogy: the Israelis are at once white segregationists and the victims of racist bombers, and the Palestinians are simultaneously white racist bombers and poor black victims of segregation. All right. Does she realize that the checkpoints from which the Palestinians […]
Fitzgerald: A problem that cannot be solved, only managed
Abbas — Abu Mazen — has no power to commit anyone to anything. That is, he has no power to commit anyone on the Arab side. But Bush and Rice have set things up, in this ill-thought out attempt to come up with something, anything, that might be considered a “diplomatic victory in the Middle […]
Fitzgerald: Ed Husain, Zionists and “Islamists”
Here are the last few paragraphs of Ed Husain’s attempt to equate “Zionism” and “Islamism”: “Just as Israel is an expansionist state which remains in occupation of the Golan Heights, Islamists plan for a state that would have an occupying army to support ever-expanding borders (see Hizb ut-Tahrir’s draft constitution). Just as Zionists claim territory […]
Dutch lawmaker planning film criticizing Qur’an — Dutch Justice Minister quails: “Think about the what the repercussions could be”
Why can’t Wilders discuss the Qur’an? Why can’t he attack it if he wants? Does anyone in the Netherlands think twice when someone attacks the teachings of the Bible? Why should the Qur’an be different? Obviously, the Justice Minister’s response makes clear why: because Muslims will kill over this, and Christians won’t. “Dutch Lawmaker Planning […]