Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been praised by Saudi-funded dhimmi pseudo-academic John Esposito as a champion of a “reformist interpretation of Islam and its relationship to democracy, pluralism and human rights.” But numerous statements of Qaradawi demonstrate that he anything but a “reformist” or a genuine champion of “democracy, pluralism and human rights” — and is, […]
Archives for December 2011
Raymond Ibrahim: New York Times Minimizes Anti-Christian Aspect of Nigeria’s Christmas Day Jihad
Here on Jihad Watch, it seems that not a few days pass without a new story of Boko Haram jihadi attacks on Nigeria’s Christians. Despite all this documentation, a New York Times report appearing soon after the Christmas Day church attacks absurdly informs us that “Boko Haram, until now mostly targeted the police, government and […]
“I have spent 35 years in an evil cult and it is so difficult to get over it or put it behind me”
Here is the latest from Shakila, the Liberated One, over at her blog. She is very concerned, as you’ll see, that some Islamic supremacists are saying that she is a fictional character of my creation. While I appreciate her concern, it is not necessary: as we have seen here again and again and again, Islamic […]
Egypt: Organization headed by sheikh of al-Azhar demands shutdown of Christian TV station, says it offends Muslims
This case demonstrates one of the many problems with curtailing “offensive” free speech and criminalizing hurt feelings. Simply expressing a belief at variance with Islam can be seized upon as “blasphemy,” or as “offending religious sentiments,” and simply being visible in daily life as an adherent of a non-Islamic faith can be seized upon as […]
Abu Dhabi man misunderstands Islam, says he’s entitled to kill non-Muslims
Funny how that keeps happening. “I’m allowed to kill infidels, man tells judge,” by Haneen Dajani for The National, December 29: ABU DHABI // A mentally disturbed man who stabbed a witness to death in court told an appeals court judge yesterday that as a Muslim he was entitled to kill “infidels”. Insanity defenses sure […]
Disaster: Israeli pencils make it to market in Saudi Arabia!
Priorities: this is “under investigation.” If you do your Sharia amputation homework with one of these, can you still get credit? “How did Israeli pencils reach Saudi chain?” by Ofer Petersburg for YNet News, December 29: Saudi authorities are investigating how Israeli pencils reached one of the kingdom’s biggest retail chains. The Kravitz chain, which […]
“I live in some demon’s castle…I am scared to practice my new religion openly”
I recently received this heartfelt email from a Pakistani who has converted from Islam to Christianity. It is like many others that I have received, and vividly illustrates the plight of apostates from Islam in Muslim countries — a group whose human rights no one cares about, as the world continues to devote attention to […]
Taliban jihadi in Afghan army murders two French soldiers
As I have said many times in the context of many similar incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no reliable way to distinguish a peaceful Muslim from a jihadist. This is yet more fruit of the unwillingness to make even a cursory attempt to take that fact into account. And every few weeks (the […]
Nearly 200,000 books in Egypt reduced to ashes at the hands of Islamic supremacists
Yet another nail in the coffin of the dangerously delusional idea that the ‘Arab Spring’ is a step forward for freedom, democracy, human rights, et cetera. Earlier this month, in a development nearly two weeks old (as of this writing), approximately 192,000 rare books and manuscripts belonging to the Institute of Egypt in Cairo went […]
Please help us fight for freedom
Dear freedom lover: Sinister Islamic supremacist groups like Hamas-linked CAIR and the group behind the Ground Zero Mosque, the American Society of Muslim Advancement (ASMA), are making huge end-of-the-year fundraising pushes. CAIR just sent out a call for a December fundraising goal of $240,000 to fight “Islamophobia.” Daisy Khan of ASMA is asking for money […]
Indonesia: Islamophobes torch Shi’ite boarding school — no, wait…
Actually it looks as if the perps were Sunni Wahhabis. Odd. We hear so much more about “Islamophobes,” and yet those who are accused of that particular trumped-up malady never seem to do any acts of violence to rival those committed by Islamic jihadists. “Shia Islamic Boarding School Torched, Police Do Nothing: Allegation,” from the […]
Muslim comics and documentary pushing Muslim Brotherhood-invented concept of “Islamophobia”
No comedy show, no matter how clever or winning, is going to eradicate the suspicion that many Americans have of Muslims. This is because Americans are concerned about Islam not because of the work of greasy Islamophobes, but because of Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; and Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be […]
Somalia: “Alarming increase” in women and girls who have been raped as spoils of war
The Qur’an sanctions sex with captive and slave women: “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you” (4:24). Al-Shabaab is acting barbarically, but as far as they are concerned, they are acting within their rights and not forbidding what […]
Turkish imam says Santa Claus “dishonest” for going down chimneys: “If he was an honest person he would come through the door as we do”
A more "honest" Santa? If it weren’t for the stonings, beheadings, amputations, declarations of imminent conquest, suicide bombings, and all the rest of it, these guys would be great comedians. “Turkish imam says Santa Claus ‘dishonest,’” from RIA Novosti, December 28 (thanks to Twostellas): The imam of the Turkish town of Kuzan has issued a […]
Moderation! Iran may hang, not stone woman convicted of adultery
After all, the only thing the label of “moderate” guarantees is that one is somehow less “extreme” than the next guy. Still, according to this report, even this decision is a logistical one. The prison lacks the facilities to carry out the stoning, they say, though perhaps that claim aims to mollify those who would […]
Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab
The above caricature, which first appeared on CagleCartoons.com, has been making the rounds on the Arabic blogosphere, and points to how democratic elections are serving to Islamize Egypt: average women enter the ballot box”””overseen” by the Muslim Brotherhood””only to emerge thoroughly veiled, thoroughly Islamized. Speaking of veils and the Brotherhood, here’s an interesting video of […]
Staten Island jihadist rats out big roster of jihad-plotting Misunderstanders of Islam
Including, he says, some who preached jihad violence at mosques. This should be investigated, and the mosques in question shut down if it proves to be true. “S.I. jihadi Abdel Hameed Shehadeh rats out a big roster of plotters,” by John Marzulli for the New York Daily News, December 27: A TERRORIST wanna-be from Staten […]
Michigan car dealership investigated in multi-million dollar scheme to fund Hizballah
Would you buy a used car from these jihadis? They’re doing this in Tennessee and Tulsa, too. “Lansing used car dealership investigated in terror scheme,” by Niraj Warikoo for the Detroit Free Press, December 28 (thanks to Kenneth): A Lansing car dealership is named among 30 around the country in a federal investigation into an […]
Turkish court accepts “blasphemy” lawsuit citing Euro court precedent and “the right to respect for one’s religious feelings”
It is ironic, but perhaps not unforseeable, that societies which are increasingly obsessed with “feelings,” both as an inviolable matter of respect and as a motivation to act or believe, have at the same time become increasingly brutish and crass. Perhaps it is because everything is a bigger deal and in need of a reaction. […]
Maldives considering complete ban of pork and alcohol under Sharia, following protesters’ demands
The practice of any faith other than Sunni Islam is already illegal there, which only supports the drive to legislate accordingly. Indeed, the gradual implementation of stricter and stricter Sharia reaches a tipping point as one rule leads to another: if we are enforcing this rule, why not that? And that, and that? Hence the […]