“Violence works.” There it is. For the West, it’s going to be freedom or submission. Either Western societies will say “violence works” and give up their freedoms, or fight to preserve them. Right now, it looks as if surrender is the more likely option that most Western countries will choose. “‘Violence Works’: Danish Newspaper Refuses […]
Iranian MPs: ‘French statesmen should openly repent and appease and apologize to Muslim nations in the world’
These MPs want to reinforce the principle that so many people in the West have taken for granted up to now: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities. The French government, by not backing down and condemning the Muhammad […]
AP blames France’s ‘brutal colonial past, staunch secular policies and tough-talking president’ for jihad violence
There have been reports that AP deleted its tweet of this article, but the article itself is still available. AP here reflects the common Western assumption that whenever Muslims behave violently, it is the fault of non-Muslims. In an odd manifestation of unconscious ethnocentrism and paternalism, “journalists” such as Angela Charlton assume that Muslims are […]
Canada: Imam says beheaded teacher was ‘filthy excuse for a human being,’ prays ‘O Allah, destroy enemies of Islam’
A prayer to Allah to “destroy the enemies of Islam, and annihilate the heretics and the atheists” is not just a request directed to the deity. The Qur’an explicitly says that Allah will punish people by the hands of the believers: “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and […]
India: On live TV, Muslim university student leader calls for beheading of those who insult Islam
This is not an “extremist” view. This is Islamic law. Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad […]
Texas: Islamic scholar rails against France’s ‘Islamophobic campaign against our prophet under guise of free speech’
The notorious Yasir Qadhi, who has called for the murder of homosexuals and blasphemers, raised money for a charity linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and said that Muslims can seize the property of “filthy” non-Muslims in jihad, says: “We are seeing this campaign, this brutal xenophobic, Islamophobic campaign. Against our nebi [prophet] and […]
Canada: Trudeau answers question about Muhammad cartoons by saying ‘freedom of expression is not without limits’
Trudeau said: “We do not have the right for example to shout fire in a movie theatre crowded with people, there are always limits.” Yes. There is no right to incitement to violence or criminal activity. Deliberately causing a panic when there is nothing to panic about, however, is markedly different from doing something entirely […]
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia: ‘Muslims Have a Right to Kill Millions of French People’
My latest in PJ Media: After two knife attacks in France this morning by Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar,” the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, took to Twitter to declare that “Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims’ religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right […]
UK: Councillor threatened with beheading for ‘Islamophobic’ comments about Muslim rape gangs and mosques
A Conservative member of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, Beverly Dunlop, on Facebook “suggested banning mosques and, in another, claimed fundamentalists were ‘hiding in plain sight in the Muslim community.’” And according to Breitbart, “In another post from 2019, she criticised calls for an inquiry into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party by saying: ‘How about […]
Erdogan says West is ‘once again headed to a period of barbarity’: ‘They literally want to relaunch the Crusades’
Erdogan likely knows what an absurd claim this is, but he is apparently calculating that such charges will intimidate Macron and other French authorities to back down from challenging Islamization and Sharia in France, and doing anything significant to stop jihad violence. “Turkey hits at ‘Crusades’ against Islam in cartoons row with France,” by Tuvan […]
Pakistan’s Khan calls on Muslim countries to ‘act together against Islamophobia’
As Al Jazeera declares that the Muslim world is falling out with France, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is capitalizing on the fallout. Khan “wrote to the leaders of Muslim countries calling on them to act together against Islamophobia, as anger grows over France’s defence of the right to mock religion.” From the moment Imran […]
Saudi Arabia condemns ‘offensive’ cartoons in wake of murder of French schoolteacher, but not his beheading
Saudi Arabia has joined the chorus of Islamic states condemning “cartoons offending the Prophet Mohammed.” Conspicuously absent from its statement was any condemnation of the beheading of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty for showing a Muhammad cartoon. To mock or insult or offend Muhammad is a grave offense, worthy of death under the Sharia. This makes […]
France issues warning to citizens in Muslim countries ‘as anger seethes’ over Muhammad cartoons
The outrage in the Muslim world over cartoons of Muhammad should be an eye-opener to those who have been denial about normative Islam. Muslim countries are coming out one by one to condemn the cartoons, including Saudi Arabia, and many are not condemning the beheading of French school teacher Samuel Paty; many are also insisting […]
Grand Imam of al-Azhar calls for international legislation criminalizing ‘acts of hate’ against Muslims
Europe, the U.S., and the world at large are eventually going to have to choose: freedom of speech, or submission to Sharia blasphemy laws? Which one they will choose is in doubt at the moment. Submission was galloping forward until Samuel Paty was beheaded. That seems to have galvanized the French government into acting to […]
Macron Sticks Up For Free Speech, Jaffa Muslims Riot In Response
After the murder of Samuel Paty, the French middle-school teacher murdered by a Muslim Chechen for including cartoons of Muhammad in a lesson on free speech, President Macron refused to condemn those cartoons, angering many Muslims around the world, for whom the Prophet is “the most sacred thing in Islam.” At a ceremony in Paty’s […]
Muslim world condemns Macron over cartoons, Iran’s Zarif says ‘Muslims are primary victims of cult of hatred’
France is experiencing backlash from across the Muslim world, including Pakistan, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iran, for standing up for the freedom of speech. And once again, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is discussing the pain Muslims feel when Muhammad is insulted, just as he did when he was first elected in […]
France: Jihadi told students he wanted to ‘humiliate and strike’ teacher, they wait two hours to point teacher out
Either these students are Muslims who believe in the death penalty for blasphemy, or were enticed by Anzorov’s money to help him commit murder. Either way, France has a great deal of work to do to restore a general understanding of the importance of the freedom of speech. And so does the West in general. […]
Jordan condemns Muhammad cartoons and ‘misleading attempts to link Islam with terrorism’
What is Jordan doing to ensure that no Muslim in the future will decide that the proper response to those offensive cartoons is to behead the person who shows them? Why, nothing at all, of course. But if it genuinely wanted to delink Islam and terrorism, it would be working on that, rather than on […]
Pakistan’s Khan denounces Macron for ‘encouragement of Islamophobia’ and trying to ‘deliberately provoke’ Muslims
Khan says that “by attacking Islam, clearly without having any understanding of it, President Macron has attacked and hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims in Europe and across the world, The last thing the world wants or needs is further polarisation. Public statements based on ignorance will create more hate, Islamophobia and space for […]
France: Muslim who beheaded teacher over Muhammad cartoon told jihad contact in Syria he had ‘avenged the Prophet’
Abdullakh Anzorov moved to France when he was six. He is unlikely to have brought with him the idea that murder is an appropriate response to a cartoon of Muhammad. He was almost certainly taught that in France. Who taught him this? Have his parents been investigated? Has his mosque been investigated? Why not? “French […]