Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), whose recent Hajj was paid for by a Muslim Brotherhood front group, is unhappy that Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) sponsored a showing of Geert Wilders’s film Fitna at The Capitol yesterday. Yet he does not, of course, explain how anything in the film is inaccurate. And he cannot, because the film […]
Archives for February 2009
Why is the U.S. still entertaining Durban II?
This hatefest will only abet the global jihad. Yet Obama still has not come out against it, and probably will not do so at all. “Why is the U.S. still entertaining Durban II? Obama should have nixed UN’s hatefest by now,” by Anne Bayefsky for the New York Daily News, February 26 (thanks to Paul): […]
Malaysia: Christian publication allowed to use the word “Allah” for God as long as it states it’s “For Christians Only”
Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Malaysia: the Catholic Herald magazine had been forbidden to use the word “Allah” for God, despite centuries of use of the word by Arabic-speaking Christians and others Christians in the Muslim world as a synonym for “God.” But now the Herald has been granted permission to resume this hallowed […]
Egypt: Over 20 lawyers attend court hearing for ex-Muslim to endorse his conviction and execution for apostasy
Muhammad commanded: “If anyone changes his religion, kill him (Bukhari vol. 9, bk. 84, no. 57).” But they’re keeping their grievances current, too: “Memos submitted by opposing lawyers asserted that cases such as El-Gohary”s form part of a U.S. Zionist attack on Islam in Egypt, that Christianity is an inferior religion to Islam and that […]
Yemen: Fatwa condemns new law setting minimum age for marriage
A predictable response, in an update on this story. “A ‘ fatwa’ against Yemeni law setting minimum age for marriage,” from Asia News, February 26: Sana”a (AsiaNews) – Some Yemeni religious figures have launched a “fatwa” against the law recently approved by Parliament that sets the minimum age for marriage at 17. The statement, signed […]
Raymond Ibrahim: A Response to the Critics: Taqiyya Revisited (Part I)
Having written at length on various aspects of Islam, it is always my writings concerning doctrinal deceit that elicit (sometimes irate) responses. As such, the purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of deceit and taqiyya in Islam, and address the many ostensibly plausible rebuttals made by both Muslims and non-Muslims. The earliest […]
Al-Qaeda top dog: “Islam is the only way to escape from the economic crisis”
This is not a new theme. In Milestones, written in the 1960s, the renowned jihad theorist and popularizer Sayyid Qutb recommended Islamic law as the viable alternative to what he termed the failed ideologies of capitalism and Communism. Here, then, is yet another aspect of the jihadists’ ideological appeal that is going unanswered by the […]
Thailand: Jihadists behead three people this week, bringing their total to 47
“Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks…” Qur’an 47:4 They just want Sharia — as always. “Thailand: More beheadings in troubled Muslim south,” from AKI, February 26 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Narathiwat, 26 Feb. (AKI) – Suspected Islamist rebels have decapitated three people in Thailand’s Muslim dominated south in the […]
New Jersey public school accommodates Muslim prayer
There is no problem with this as long as non-Muslim students are accorded the same privileges. However, the involvement of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case and an organization that has had several of its officials convicted of terrorism-related offenses, is a red flag, and suggests that this […]
Spencer: Beheading Moderate Islam
Aasiya Hassan In my column in Human Events today I discuss the Buffalo beheading: Muzzammil Hassan allegedly beheaded his wife Aasiya on February 12 in the offices of Bridges TV, the Muslim-oriented cable channel that he founded in 2004 to combat the negative perceptions of Muslims that he claimed were dominating mainstream media coverage. He […]
British Army fights British jihadists in Afghanistan
They should have been prepared for this. This should surprise no one — except, of course, those who have actually believed that the mosques in Britain have departed from Islam’s traditional teaching and are not preaching jihad and Islamic supremacism. “Exclusive: Army is fighting British jihadists in Afghanistan: Top Army officers reveal surge in attacks […]
U.K.: Thousands of Muslim men using welfare system to support multiple wives
“… the Taxpayers’ Alliance, a lobby group, has complained: ‘Polygamy is not officially condoned here, so why should British taxpayers have to pay for extra benefits for men to have two, three or four wives?’” For that matter, how many traditional, monogamous couples and their children in Britain are suffering because of the recession while […]
International poll: Muslims support strict Sharia, Islamic supremacism
They differ with Al-Qaeda on the means, not on the goals. Here is a pdf of the full report. See especially pages 27 through 30: “Islamist Groups and Shari’a.” On page 27, the report says: “The Islamist goal of giving Shari’a a larger role in Islamic society is viewed positively.” And on page 29: “In […]
Wilders: “Our enemies should know: we will never apologize for being free men, we will never bow for the combined forces of Mecca and the left”
Here is Geert Wilders’ speech at the Four Seasons in New York on February 23: Thank you. Thank you very much for inviting me. And — to the immigration authorities — thank you for letting me into this country. It is always a pleasure to cross a border without being sent back on the first […]
New York Times notices how jihadists echo Nazi Jew-hatred
While hate bloggers continue to defame anti-jihadists with false and libelous charges of connections with or allegiance to white supremacism, neofascism, and neo-Nazism, back in the real world even the New York Times has begun to notice that the ones who are really echoing the Nazis are jihadists and Islamic supremacists. “Nazis” “˜Terrible Weapon,” Aimed […]
Jihad gaining ground in Bosnia
The genuine atrocities committed by the Milosevic regime have become an all-purpose excuse for many to ignore the growing influence of the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism in the Balkans, and to defame those who oppose the jihad in Bosnia, Kosovo, and the surrounding regions as supporters of fascism and genocide. This includes people who […]
Ahmadinejad urges Muslims to unite against “the enemy”
Muslims! Unite! This report vaguely refers to “the enemy.” But what “enemy” would Muslims in general — from Morocco to Indonesia — have if not their famous nemesis and natural counterpart, the infidel? Had Ahmadinejad urged national or regional unity, the enemy could be more particularized, more “temporalized.” But no, Ahmadinejad’s is simply a call […]
One of the men who created Al Qaeda rips into bin Laden and Zawahiri
Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, AKA, the Pragmatist Much has been made of former al-Qaeda leader Sayyid Imam al-Sharif’s criticism of al-Qaeda. As is evident to anyone who closely examines his words, however, the man is not disavowing jihad or Islam’s imperative to subjugate the world, but rather assessing al-Qaeda’s tactics vis-a-vis infidels, and finding them wanting. […]
FBI Director: “Mumbai attacks could happen in the US”
And, of course, they already have — at a much grander scale via the devastating strikes of 9/11. It is good that Mueller is pointing out the obvious, but also troubling that this even needs to be pointed out in the first place. “Mumbai attacks could happen in the US: FBI,” from AFP, February 24: […]
U.K: Analysts find new culprit for “radicalization”: Old people
Don’t trust any imam over 30. That’ll fix it, right? Once again, a theory that attempts to explain away the obvious nexus between Islamic teachings and violence in the name of Islam simply puts a spotlight on the elephant in the room: The matter of where all these “extremists” keep coming from, and how resilient […]