About the violence against Christians and others by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood the White House was silent. CAIR’s demand for this is here. “White House condemns Egypt’s crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood,” from Reuters, July 29 (thanks to Kenneth): The White House condemned the Egyptian military’s bloody weekend crackdown on demonstrators on Monday but took […]
Archives for July 2013
Robert Spencer confronts Reza Aslan on Reddit, Aslan runs
UPDATE: I see that Reddit is a waste of time: most of my comments have now disappeared because they received so many negative votes. There’s the Left’s idea of a debate again. I won’t be going back. —- Reza Aslan was dropping in at Reddit today, and Jihad Watch reader Russ alerted me to that […]
The problem with Reza Aslan’s book about Jesus is not that he is a Muslim. The problem with it is that he is dishonest.
The Leftist media is in an uproar over Reza Aslan’s recent interview on Fox News — see the Huffington Post’s account here. Many people have sent me tweets and emails skewering Fox’s supposed inconsistency for giving Aslan trouble for writing about Jesus as a Muslim but welcoming me writing about Muhammad as a Christian. This […]
Sharia in action in Saudi Arabia: rights activist gets 7 years jail, 600 lashes for insulting Islam
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” said Barack Obama. America, behold your future. “7 years jail, 600 lashes for Saudi rights activist, lawyer says,” from AFP, July 29 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A Saudi court sentenced on Monday a rights activist to seven years in jail […]
Robert Spencer at PJ Lifestyle: Why It May Be Easy for Huma Abedin to Stand by Her Man
In PJ Lifestyle I discuss the strange marriage of Carlos Danger and his Muslim Brotherhood wife: One thing the mainstream media knows about Huma Abedin is that she is elegant. Time reported on how Weiner’s “elegant and accomplished wife”¦ declared her love and support for him, visibly pained at having to speak in public as […]
Qaradawi Summons Foreign Jihadis to Martyrdom in Egypt
Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi””one of the most influential Islamic clerics in the world, author of over 100 books on Muslim doctrine, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood””has just posted a new video where he calls on all the Muslims of the world to come and wage jihad […]
Raymond Ibrahim on Plight of Egypt’s Christians with Pat Robertson
Last week I was on CBN”s The 700 Club with Pat Robertson to discuss how Christians are caught in the crosshairs of the turmoil engulfing Egypt and more:
A Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World
“We are living through one of the largest persecutions of a religious group in history” — a persecution you probably never heard of if you’ve been exclusively following the “popular” media. In “Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World,” Professor Bruce Thornton reviews Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians for the Hoover Institution: Few […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Brotherhood Kills Its Own to Demonize Egyptian Military
Over at Gatestone Institute, via RaymondIbrahim.com, I discuss how the Brotherhood killed their own followers to implicate the Egyptian military. Since this article, more proofs have come out, which I hope to document soon. New evidence indicates that some of the pro-Morsi protesters reportedly killed by the Egyptian military, after the Muslim Brotherhood president’s ouster, […]
Interfaith outreach in Italy: Muslims loot church, urinate and defecate on altar
How’s that “dialogue” working for you, Bishop? “Moroccans defecate on an altar in Italy,” from GalliaWatch, July 27 (thanks to Daniel): Here’s a bit of news from the city of Serravalle a Po, in the province of Mantua in Lombardy, Italy. Novopress reports: It’s another tough blow for the parish. The district of Libiola belongs […]
Colorado: Self-proclaimed “Islamist jihadist” threatens to murder Mormons and Catholics
This man’s apparent references to the Book of Revelation (“REV 14-7”) and the Hebrew name for God suggest that he is not a real Islamic jihadist, but someone who is impressed by them. As Osama bin Laden said, people will back the strong horse. This could be a manifestation of that: a violent-minded psychotic attracted […]
Bruce Bawer on anti-Communists and counter-jihadists
Bruce Bawer has a terrific piece in FrontPage today, “Notes on ‘Counter-Jihad,’” that succinctly sums up the insanity of our Orwellian age. Here’s an excerpt: Back in the day, anti-Communists had a similar problem. I”m old enough to recall the obloquy heaped upon them by bien pensant types — professors and high-toned journalists who considered […]
India: Muslim mob kills two Hindus, injures many more for playing music in Hindu temple during Ramadan
Here again we see the assumption that non-Muslims must change their behavior to conform to Muslim practices. We see this increasingly in the U.S. as well. “Hindu Women Dead & Many Hindus Injured by Muslim Mobs in Meerut for Playing Music in Temple During Ramadan,” from The Chakra, July 28 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur): […]
India’s Grand Mufti under fire for enjoying concert after issuing fatwa declaring music un-Islamic
The real issue here is not his hypocrisy. There are hypocrites and people who fail to live up to their religious ideals in all religions, all over the world. The real issue here is that the Sharia prohibition against music, which the Grand Mufti endorsed and applied in his fatwa, is contrary to the human […]
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood supporters throw molotov cocktails at churches
They blame the Christians for the fall of Morsi. “Attack on Minya churches repelled by residents, security forces,” by Kanzy Mahmoud for Daily News Egypt, July 28: Muslim youth and security forces protected Al-Azraa and Anba Ebram churches from attacks by alleged Morsi supporters in Minya on Saturday, spokesperson of the archbishop of Mawas monastery […]
Lebanese Muslim pop singer renounces music, joins the jihad
And everyone in this New York Times story is scratching his head over why he did it, but the answer is plain: for whatever reason, whether it be the jihad in Syria or something else, he became more fervent in his commitment to Islam, and thus began to take seriously texts like these: Hadith Qudsi […]
Ramadan observance in Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder over 20 fishermen and traders
For them, it was an exercise of piety to slay the infidels wherever they were found (cf. Qur’an 9:5) during the holy month. “Islamists kill 20 in Nigeria’s north,” from AAP, July 29 (thanks to Kenneth): Suspected members of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram have shot dead more than 20 civilians when a vigilante group […]
Ramadan observance in Iraq: Jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber murders eight security personnel
A jihadi decides to renew his commitment to Allah, which is the goal of Ramadan, in a big way by laying hold of Allah’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for him (Qur’an 9:111). “Suicide bomber kills eight Kurdish security personnel in Iraq,” from Reuters, July 28 (thanks to Kenneth): TIKRIT: […]
Hamas-linked CAIR calls on Obama to condemn attacks on Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
The Investigative Project reported in 2007 that the FBI had identified CAIR as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee: Dallas–In testimony Tuesday, FBI Agent Lara Burns reported before the jury in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine […]
Canada: Jihad plotter says Allah will punish nations that “spread secularism,” rejects Canadian law as not coming from Allah
Presumably he thought that Allah was going to use him as an instrument of the divine wrath by derailing the Toronto-bound Via passenger train. So does he think that the foiling of the plot and his arrest are Allah punishing him? “God will send natural disasters to “˜punish” nations that “˜spread secularism,” VIA Rail terror […]