It is a reach for the board member to claim the symbol has nothing to do with Christianity, but he is quite right that, at least on paper, Indonesia still functions on certain principles of pluralism enshrined in the Pancasila doctrine. Of course, even that has its revisionist movement. The objections to the symbol have […]
Archives for February 2012
Pakistan: “Armed men from the local Sunni community” open fire on bus full of Shi’ites, killing 18
“There’s still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that.” – Condoleezza Rice, January 2007 But the mutual Islamophobia continues, and transcends geography. “Gunmen open fire on bus in Pakistan, 18 killed,” by Jibran Ahmad for Reuters, February 28: PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – […]
Somalia: Jihad against soccer matches
Al-Shabaab is suspected to be doing what it does best here: asymmetrical warfare and the deliberate targeting of civilians. As demonstrated by the advance of Kenyan and Ethiopian troops, the jihadists don’t seem to do as well when they have to fight like men. “Blast kills three at Mogadishu football match,” from Agence France-Presse, February […]
Nigeria: Boko Haram targets police station, bank
Boko Haram consistently targets people, practices, and institutions that would stand in the way of their imposition of Sharia. In doing so, they are destroying the physical and social infrastructure of the land they would then rule in pious squalor. Jihad causes poverty. “Gunmen attack police station, bank in nothern Nigeria,” from Agence France-Presse, February […]
Iran says no execution order for apostate from Islam; attorneys say order remains in effect
And — surprise! — the tacked-on charges of being a Zionist, traitor, rapist, and brothel owner, which had fallen out of the discussion as the pressure on the Iranian government lessened and the case simmered on a back burner, have reappeared. Even CNN noted that, in a 2010 Iranian Supreme Court brief, the only charge […]
Pakistan: Pepsi banned by Islamic supremacist group at Punjab University
It is unclear how directly the salesman is quoting Jamat-e-Islami’s reasons for banning it, but could this involve the old conspiracy theory that “Pepsi” stands for “Pay Each Penny to Save Israel?” In any case, you can love death, but not Pepsi Cola. Nor are you off the hook if you would love death and […]
Robert Spencer and Michael Coren on jolly old dhimmi England
I appeared on Michael Coren’s Sun TV show tonight discussing some recent examples of English dhimmitude. Video courtesy Blazing Cat Fur.
Maldives: Pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist party topples govt with pamphlet accusing it of teaching “good things about the Jews”
Note here again the appeals to Islamic authenticity and frequent quotes from the Qur’an and invocations of Islam. Yet these are the people whom their coreligionists in the West would claim are misunderstanding their peaceful, non-political, non-supremacist religion. No explanation of this obvious contradiction has ever been forthcoming. “Pamphlet By Maldivian Islamist Party That Triggered […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Obama – “Son of Islam”?
Today at Stonegate Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I discuss what got the MSM so upset, and what many Muslims — not to mention Americans — believe: the idea that Obama is a Muslim: Many in the media are indignant with Reverend Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Invited on “Morning Joe” last Tuesday […]
Karzai: “Our people’s emotion in this regard is legitimate and respectable”
Sure, uh, it’s just the ensuing reaction that has been utterly irrational, murderous, self-destructive, and downright psychotic. “One US soldier killed; Karzai calls for calm in Qur’an protests,” by Subel Bhandari for Deutsche Presse-Agentur, February 27 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): KABUL (dpa): One US soldier and an Afghan protester were killed in the […]
France: “Muslim fundamentalist” father pours gasoline on, tries to set fire to daughter who was “too emancipated”
These things keep happening, but you’re not supposed to notice that. “Father tries to set 23-year-old daughter alight,” from The Local, February 27 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A man was being held by police on Monday after allegedly trying to set fire to his grown-up daughter in central Paris. Le Parisien newspaper reported […]
Syria: Armed mob attacks monastery for first time in anti-Assad revolt
We are all too likely to see more of this, despite the sheer absence of logic in it. Not that logic has ever stopped a really convenient excuse for jihad: just look at the Qur’an-rage histrionics in Afghanistan. “Syria: Armed Attack On Catholic Monastery,” from the Voice of Russia, February 26 (thanks to The Religion […]
Pakistan’s latest recipient of blasphemy charges: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
“A case was registered under Section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PCC) which deals with blasphemy.” The charges against Zuckerburg and Fleming Rose are a publicity stunt at best, but now is as good a time as any to remind that while this case is silly, Asia Bibi is languishing in prison under the […]
Pamela Geller: Hundreds of threats for assault victim in case dismissed by Quran-minded judge
Pamela Geller interview Ernest Perce, the man who dressed as “Zombie Muhammad” for a Halloween parade, was attacked by a Muslim during the parade, and then lectured on Islam by a dhimmi judge who dismissed the charges against the Muslim and told Perce that what he had done would get him killed in a Muslim […]
Leftist and Islamic supremacist thugs disrupt Nonie Darwish talk at University of New Mexico
Once again, the Islamic supremacists and their Useful Idiots on the Left demonstrate that they cannot refute what freedom fighters say, and so have to shout us down and shut us out, as their intellectual and moral forbears, the brownshirts and blackshirts, did before them. Not only that, but these neanderthal, knuckle-dragging, thoroughly propagandized fascist […]
Santorum: We should not have apologized for Qur’an-burning
Real leadership — although it would have been even better if Santorum, or anyone else, had not just said that the burning of the Qur’an was inadvertent, but that to react violently is demonic, demented madness, and must not be tolerated or appeased. And that even if this “mistake” had not been made, that the […]
Islamic supremacists win 80% of Egypt’s parliament vote
I tried to tell you. I told you a year ago and longer ago than that — that the “Arab Spring” would not be a flowering of Western-style democracy and pluralism, but the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood and other pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists. And here we are. “Islamists win 80% of Egypt’s upper […]
Jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber murders nine people who didn’t burn the Qur’an
Not that murdering those who did burn the Qur’an would be justified. But to murder people who had nothing to do with it throws into sharp relief how insane this all is — and yet no Western leader dares stand up and say so. “U.S. cites ‘heightened threat’; 9 killed in Afghan airport bomb,” by […]
Santorum: For Religious Minorities in the Middle East ““ With Friends Like Obama, Who Needs Enemies?!
In “For Religious Minorities in the Middle East — With Friends Like Obama, Who Needs Enemies?!” at RedState, February 24 (thanks to John), Rick Santorum says what Barack Obama should be saying about the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East: President Obama has an amazing ability to make Jimmy Carter’s foreign policies look […]
Ex-Muslim in Muslim country discusses Islamic supremacism
I’ve often remarked on the consistent and repellent arrogance of Islamic supremacists, and now at the Liberated blog the ex-Muslim who writes from a Muslim country discusses some of its wellsprings: Even when I was a Muslim, I often used to wonder why the hell these Muslims are so proud of themselves and their legacy. […]