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 […]
Archives for December 2011
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 […]