Reacting to the recent poll which revealed some “disturbing” things about the UK’s Muslim youth, and instead of having the guts to simply lay the blame where it belongs, Ms. Marrin thinks the only remedy is to ban all religous groups, including Christian schools. “To beat extremism we must dissolve religious groups,” by Minette Marrin […]
Archives for July 2008
Ethiopia: Muslim mobs stone Christians
Guess this is the “thanks” the descendants of the great “Negus” — the king of Ethiopia during Muhammad’s time who provided shelter and refuge to the first Muslim community — get in return. “Muslim Mob Stones Christians in Eastern Ethiopia,” by Michael Ireland, for Worthy News, July 30: ETHIOPIA (ANS) — A mob of Islamic […]
Fitzgerald: A tribute to James K. Glassman
“This is an effort that requires credible Muslim voices to work effectively “” especially voices of those, like Fadl, born Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, and known as Dr. Fadil, whose story was told recently by Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker. Fadl helped build the Al Qaeda ideology and now repudiates it for its wanton violence.” […]
Fitzgerald: “Islamism” and Islam
“Islamism” is not a helpful invention. Apostates from Islam, Wafa Sultan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ibn Warraq, treat it dismissively. It represents an attempt to somehow appeal to Muslims — that is, to those who are thought of as “moderate” possibly because they remain largely ignorant of the texts of Islam, or because they […]
India: Almost 2 dozen bombs found, defused in Gujarat
India Bombings Update. “Gujarat on the edge as more bombs found,” from Indo-Asian News Service, July 30: SURAT/AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI: Just when Gujarat was returning to normalcy after 50 people were killed in Saturday”s serial bombings in Ahmedabad, 23 low-intensity bombs were recovered from Surat by yesterday evening as cities across India remained on the edge. […]
Marriage, blackmail, rape: Al-Qaeda’s methods for recruiting female suicide bombers in Iraq
Here, al-Qaeda is exploiting the injustices of Sharia law — including the subjugation of women, and the danger of reporting a rape without four witnesses — and the culture it creates to trap women into doing their bidding to advance the cause of imposing Sharia in Iraq. More on this story. “Love, blackmail and rape […]
Call for whitewashing Islam to be taught as a compulsory subject in universities
The call comes from Malaysia, but it is in response to the “Western media’s misrepresentation of Islam.” Only in the eighth paragraph do we get any hint of the possibility that Muslims, and not just the Western media, might be responsible for some of the negative perceptions non-Muslims have of them. But the key element […]
CIA confronts Pakistan over top-level ties to jihadists
Direct links between the Pakistani spy service and an Al-Qaeda group. Surprise, surprise. “C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants,” by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt for the New York Times, July 30 (thanks to all who sent this in): WASHINGTON “” A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront […]
Indonesian Christian leader: “We are praying for Obama because we feel he can help reduce the widespread stigma and misperception that Muslims in Indonesia are fundamentalists”
The Rev. Ishak Pule, chairperson of the Christian Church of Central Sulawesi synod, is praying for an Obama victory “because we feel he can help reduce the widespread stigma and misperception that Muslims in Indonesia are fundamentalists.” Now how can Barack Obama correct any “misperceptions” about Muslims in Indonesia, when “Senator Obama has never been […]
Hirsi Ali seeks police protection in US
She’s seeking it from the Dutch government. But if the American government had any sense of what it is really up against in this conflict against jihadists worldwide, and who the real warriors are against those jihadists, Hirsi Ali would get protection from the U.S. “Netherlands: Former MP Hirsi Ali seeks police protection in US,” […]