“The motive behind the attack was personal enmity. It is not an act of terrorism,” claimed Station House Officer (SHO) Sadar police station Malik Muhammad Jahangir Khan. Faisalabad’s Mohallah Noorpur Chak cleric Dilawar Masih, however, disagreed, saying: “Though no human loss was reported in this incident, attackers gave a clear-cut message that Christians and their […]
Archives for May 2015
Malaysia: For seeking answers on Islam, Muslim gets charged with blasphemy
“O you who have believed, do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you….A people asked such before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.” (Qur’an 5:101-102) Such a passage hardly inculcates a spirit of free inquiry and intellectual curiosity. And this is the wave of the future: since the […]
These People Are Speaking a Strange Language
“These people are speaking a strange language. It is strange to me And strange, I think, even to themselves.” -Louis Simpson I am a lover of words. I have a collection of dictionaries. I love the way words can articulate meaning in just a certain way. In my Penguin Dictionary I found the word pronoid, […]
Islamic State demolishes Christian church in Syria
The Assyrian Network for Human Rights recently published the following photograph saying they are the demolished remains of the Church of Saint Mar Beesho‘a in Tel Shamiran, an Assyrian Christian village located in the countryside of the northern city of Hasakah—which was earlier occupied and ransacked by the Islamic State.
Egypt: Explosive goes off next to church
A homemade explosive planted next to a Coptic Christian church was detonated around sunset on May 16. Although there were no human casualties at the St. George Church in Tamiya (Fayum governorate), as the church was mostly empty except for clergy, the church’s administrative offices and second floor glass was shattered, creating chaos and panic in the […]
Freedom, Provocation and Targets
The Muslim predisposition towards jihad means “no cartoons required.” The recent Muslim jihad attack at a Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland Texas has generated strong reactions across the political spectrum. Four of us in my church recently had a fairly rigorous discussion of some of the issues involved, with two believing the cartoon […]
Video: Minneapolis Muslims prefer Sharia, want blasphemy laws in US
Note the unanimous opposition to the freedom of speech and support for criminalizing criticism of Islam — and even for murdering those who insult Muhammad (note the casual references to how my colleague Pamela Geller, not mentioned by name but the reference is unmistakable, should be killed). All freely and openly expressed on a sunny […]
Islamic State has 30,000 foreign jihadis from over 100 countries
30,000: that’s an awful lot of Muslims who fell for this Nothing-To-Do-With-Islam form of Islam. How to explain so many misunderstanders? After all, none of them existed in a vacuum before they joined the Islamic State. They learned their Islam somewhere. Are we to believe that the slickness of the Islamic State’s video presentations alone […]
Graphic: The carnage committed in the name of Allah
The picture below is one of many appearing on Arabic social media concerning the Islamic State’s barbarism and sadism, where those deemed “infidels” are treated as pieces of meat to be carved up for “fun.” The Arabic writing behind the masked savage reads, “One umma, one state.” Similarly, in a new report based on eyewitness […]
Ethiopia: Muslims forcibly building mosque on Christian land despite court ruling
A Muslim mob in Deder, Ethiopia, attacked a Christian man and forced him out of his home on pain of death in an effort to appropriate his land and build a mosque on it—despite recent court rulings confirming the Christian man’s property rights. “Their first plan was to kill my husband,” said Fikere Mengistu’s wife. […]