Yesterday Jihad Watch reported that Muslim hardliners had attacked Women’s Day marchers in Pakistan. It is not surprising that this has happened in other Muslim countries as well: “While the world…celebrated International Women’s Day with joyful events and colourful initiatives, women’s marches were attacked in Muslim-majority Asian countries, namely Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Turkey. In some […]
Putin: “Islam and Orthodox Christianity are based on fundamental humanistic values — respect for human beings”
Interesting! Respect for human beings, eh? Like these passages? “Indeed, they who disbelieved among the People of the Book and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the most vile of created beings.” (Qur’an 98:6) “Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those […]
Kyrgyzstan: Muslims beat ex-Muslim almost to death for converting to Christianity
The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them […]
Kyrgyzstan: Muslim officials order church made up of converts from Islam to Christianity to close
It could have been worse. They could have killed everyone involved. They must be “moderates.” Islamic apologists in the West routinely insist that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy, but as always, reality is otherwise. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would […]
St. Petersburg jihad murderer is Muslim from Kyrgyzstan, Akbarzhon Jalilov
The Telegraph says: “No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack and the suspect’s motives remain unclear.” The Telegraph, like other establishment media outlets, is a wretched propaganda sheet determined to mislead the public into thinking that Islamic jihad terror is not as much of a problem as it actually is. “Who is St […]
Kazakh Islamic State jihadi posts photos of Central Asian “Caliphate Cubs”
Raising up the next generation of bloodthirsty killers dedicated to destroying the free world. But relax! They’re a tiny minority of extremists who have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam! Note the raised index finger gesture that has become the hallmark of adherents of the Islamic State. We saw it from other adherents of the […]
Kyrgyzstan: Imam arrested for urging Muslims to fight for Islamic State
But Obama just told us again: the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam! How is it, then, that a Muslim cleric, someone who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam correctly, would get it so drastically wrong? His supporters here claim that his arrest is politically motivated, and it may be indeed, but […]
Kyrgyztsan: 1,000 Muslims rally: “I am not Charlie, I love my Prophet.”
Now we have seen rallies against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in Chechnya (800,000 people), Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Ingushetia, Niger (45 churches torched), Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Nary a single Muslim rally anywhere in support of the freedom of speech and denouncing the killing of the cartoonists. “About 1,000 Attend ‘I Am Not Charlie’ Rally In Kyrgyzstan,” […]
Kyrgyzstan: Supreme Court outlaws Ahmadis
Many times I’ve noted that while Sunni Muslims viciously persecute Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan, Indonesia, and now Kygyzstan, Ahmadi Muslim spokesmen in the West such as the clownishly arrogant Qasim Rashid and the ostentatiously self-righteous Haris Zafar eagerly carry water for their persecutors, whitewashing the very Islamic doctrines that get their brethren persecuted, and smearing […]
Kyrgyzstan: Muslim clerics ban New Year’s celebrations
“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. […]
#MyJihad in Kygyzstan: Muslim parents beat, torture, confine girl and burn her face for converting to Christianity
After Western Islamic apologists who assure us that Islam has no penalty for apostasy have finished their work in Khartoum, they can make their way to Bishkek. “Kygyzstan Girl ‘Burned’ For Faith In Christ,” from BosNewsLife, December 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): BISHKEK/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)– A young Kyrgyz girl is forced to work in […]
Kyrgyzstan: Muslim arrested for declaring jihad against the country’s president
What’s the big deal? It’s an interior spiritual struggle! “Kyrgyzstan intelligence agencies detain a citizen declared jihad against the country”s President,” from the 24.kg News Agency, August 28: Kyrgyzstan intelligence agencies detained a citizen who had declared jihad against the country”s President. The State National Security Committee (GKNB) reports. Recall, the information that was published […]
Islamic Movement of Kyrgyzstan misunderstands Islam, seeks “to undermine social, political, and economic stability in the country”
We are constantly lectured in the West about how genuine Islam fosters peace, harmony, and societal stability. Then there are stories like this one, for which the learned analysts simply have no explanation. Why does a group that seeks to undermine society call itself Islamic? The true answer, of course, is that Islam is political, […]
Kyrgyzstan: Mosques come under scrutiny after playing role in jihad plotting
Kyrgyz authorities are being more realistic about this than their American counterparts. “Kyrgyz Mosques Under Greater Scrutiny As Ties Between Islam, Extremism Emerge,” by Daisy Sindelar for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 23: […] In Kyrgyzstan, where 85 percent of the population is Muslim, many looked to mosques as a place for reconciliation after the […]
Kyrgyzstan: “A war has been declared on all of us” — jihadists murder three policemen
“A war has been declared on all of us.” Yes, indeed. In this story the warriors are identified as “religious extremists.” Militant Methodists, no doubt. “Suspected Islamist rebels kill 3 Kyrgyz policemen,” from Reuters, January 5 (thanks to Twostellas): BISHKEK (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants shot dead three policemen in the Kyrgyz capital late on […]
Misunderstanders of Islam rampaging in Kyrgyzstan
Including a suicide attack, laying hold of the guarantee of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (Qur’an 9:111). “Gunbattle breaks out in Kyrgyz south,” from AP, November 29 (thanks to Maxwell): BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – At least four Islamic militants were killed Monday in a clash with security forces in Kyrgyzstan’s restive […]
Kyrgyzstan: Islamic jihadists provoked violence
Big surprise here. “Kyrgyzstan: violence provoked by Islamic militants,” from AP, June 24: BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan’s security agency claims relatives of the country’s toppled president have colluded with Taliban and other Islamic militant movements to provoke ethnic violence in the ex-Soviet nation. It’s statement Thursday says former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s relatives met in Afghanistan […]
Ukraine’s orange revolution inspiring jihadists
“Islamists See Opening in C. Asia Chaos,” from Newsday, with thanks to JS: BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The only splash of color in the drab bluish gray office of Kyrgyzstan’s Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society was a wool orange scarf thrown over the back of its president’s chair. It was Edil Baisalov’s souvenir from Ukraine’s […]
The growth of radical Islam in Central Asia
Background on the jihad in Uzbekistan, from Asia Times. Note that the jihadis were from middle-class families: Recent reports Prior to the recent terror attacks in Uzbekistan which claimed at least 19 lives, a spate of reports from the region shows ongoing Islamist activity and law-enforcement efforts to contain it. One report details the state […]
No dhimmis in Kyrgyzstan
There’s a new report on religious freedom in Kyrgyzstan. It is instructive because there is a substantial Muslim population in the country formerly a part of the Soviet Union. “As in other Central Asian republics, authorities in Kyrgyzstan have banned Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international Islamic organization advocating the creation of a region-wide Islamic caliphate and […]