Israeli judoka Tal Flicker scaled the top of the podium and received his gold medal on Thursday, but the Israel national anthem was not played and the blue-and-white flag was not raised in Abu Dhabi. Another case of the racism and Islamic anti-Semitism that is ubiquitous; only this one is high profile, on the global […]
Dubai man jailed for insulting Islam on Facebook loses appeal
In the enlightened West, people aren’t arrested or jailed for criticizing Muhammad. They’re just excoriated as racist, bigoted Islamophobes, and shunned by all decent people, and concerted efforts are made to deny them access to all means of communication. Everyone the world over agrees that Muhammad, alone of all human beings, must never be criticized. […]
Dubai: Man on trial for insulting Islam on Facebook
Dubai has a reputation of being modern and moderate, but it still enforces Sharia when it comes to matters such as women being raped (per Sharia, it’s their fault) and insulting Islam on Facebook. What is odd is that people were able to see this man’s Facebook posts at all, given the fact that Facebook […]
Dubai’s Head of Security: “We completely support Trump in ban on entry to those who may cause breach in America’s security”
Who would have thought that Dubai’s Head of Security could be such a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe”? “Dubai’s Head of Security supports Trump’s ‘Muslim ban,’” AlBawaba, January 29, 2017 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): America’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries may be stirring anger across the West, but in the Arab world the move has […]
Dubai: Tourist from UK gang-raped, now faces jail for extramarital sex
“Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah.” — Qur’an 24:13 Because of the Qur’an-derived stipulation that sexual crimes can only be established by the testimony of four male Muslim witnesses, along with the Sharia provision that women’s testimony is not admissible […]
Dubai law firm offers job to Obama so he can learn more about tolerance of Islam
Eisa Bin Haidar clearly doesn’t know his man. He says: “A faction of the American and western media has constantly profiled Islam as a religion of terror and categorised Muslims as terrorists. Well that is absolutely not true. Islam is a religion of tolerance, understanding, forgiveness and acceptance … it is not a religion of […]
Dubai: Muslim let daughter drown rather than have strange men touch her
The death of his daughter was preferable to violating Sharia restrictions. He assumed that Allah, “the compassionate, the merciful,” would be happier with him if he let his daughter die rather than bring dishonor on his family. This is an assumption deeply ingrained by the intransigence and preoccupation with hellfire and judgment that permeate the […]
Moderate Dubai court jails man for insulting Islam on Facebook
They must be moderates, for if they were “extremists,” they would have sentenced him to beheading. In any case, this same “moderation” is coming to the U.S., as authorities of all sorts counsel submission to those who proclaim that they will kill us for what they perceive as insults to Islam. Those authorities mask their […]
UAE: Indian man charged with insulting Islam on Facebook
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” — Barack Obama, September 25, 2012 “Indian charged in UAE with ‘insulting Islam,’” IANS, April 14, 2015: Dubai, April 14 (IANS): An Indian man has been charged in a UAE court for allegedly posting on a social networking site comments that insult […]
Dubai: British visitor jailed for drinking during Ramadan
This British man sounds like a drunk, obnoxious creep, but in any case his obnoxiousness doesn’t justify his arrest and jailing for violating Sharia prohibitions. If he had been arrested for damaging the cab, that would have been fine. But instead, the arrestable offense seems to have been that he was drinking during Ramadan, a […]