This would be consistent with Obama’s refusal to support the Iranian demonstrators, who were opposing an Islamic Republic, and his enthusiasm in supporting the “Arab Spring” demonstrators, who were paving the way for Islamic rule. Which side is he on, anyway? “Ousted Maldives President Claims Obama Approved Islamist Coup,” from Breitbart, April 20 (thanks to […]
Maldives: Pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist party topples govt with pamphlet accusing it of teaching “good things about the Jews”
Note here again the appeals to Islamic authenticity and frequent quotes from the Qur’an and invocations of Islam. Yet these are the people whom their coreligionists in the West would claim are misunderstanding their peaceful, non-political, non-supremacist religion. No explanation of this obvious contradiction has ever been forthcoming. “Pamphlet By Maldivian Islamist Party That Triggered […]
It begins: Muslims in Maldives smash Buddhist statues in National Museum
It’s not so much an Arab “Spring” as a Sharia Slinky, and down it goes, step by step. An update on this story. “Trouble in paradise: Maldives and Islamic extremism,” by Amal Jayasinghe for Agence France-Presse, February 12: MALE “” At the Maldives’ National Museum, smashed Buddhist statues are testament to the rise of Islamic […]
Islamic coup in Maldives: members of new president’s cabinet have demanded Sharia law
An alternate headline, with reference to the country’s capital: “Muslim males mull making Male more Muslim.” “New Maldives leader names conservatives to Cabinet,” from the Associated Press, February 12: MALE, Maldives (AP) “” The Maldives’ new president expanded his Cabinet on Sunday to include religious conservatives who have been demanding the introduction of strict Islamic […]
Maldives: Fears of resurgence of female genital mutilation
The common factor in the persistence of female genital mutilation outside of Africa is the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence, which holds the practice to be obligatory. The Maldives has been on a fast track here of late toward intensified observance of Sharia, and the government has already ruled with respect to Sharia’s criminal punishments […]
Maldives: Government expresses concern about the rise in “extremist rhetoric”
There is nothing “moderate” about the Maldives, where religions other than Sunni Islam are forbidden. The government appeared willing to consider a variety of measures toward further Islamization of the nation when protesters demanded concessions ranging from a complete ban on alcohol and pork to a ban on direct flights to Israel. That appears only […]
Maldives: Tourism businesses alarmed as Islamic groups see a brothel behind every blade of grass
As noted in the previous posting on developments in the Maldives, “the way Sharia’s proponents tend to talk about brothels and prostitution as a scare tactic, you’d think every other house on the block was a whorehouse.” Searching our archives on the term “prostitutes” or “whores” turns up these stories, Malaysia’s “Obedient Wives Club,” and […]
Maldives considering complete ban of pork and alcohol under Sharia, following protesters’ demands
The practice of any faith other than Sunni Islam is already illegal there, which only supports the drive to legislate accordingly. Indeed, the gradual implementation of stricter and stricter Sharia reaches a tipping point as one rule leads to another: if we are enforcing this rule, why not that? And that, and that? Hence the […]
Maldives: Thousands demonstrate against “un-Islamic” activities like allowing direct flights to Israel
But “Islamic Shariah is equal to peace,” they insist, despite the fact that wherever Sharia experiences a resurgence, harassment increases and tolerance decreases. Extrajudicial punishments, vandalism, attempts to silence criticism, and calls for Sharia’s most brutal penalties tend to follow. This situation is also unfolding in the already decidedly non-“moderate” Maldives. More on this story. […]
President of non-moderate Maldives pushes back against even less moderate Maldivian Muslims
As this report notes, “the country of 300,000 people forbids practice of religions other than Sunni Islam,” and our archives chronicle numerous other abuses. While the president lodges his protest here against stonings and amputations, the country’s foreign minister has said that Sharia’s punishments such as flogging for adultery are basic Islamic principles not up […]
Maldives: Silent protest for religious tolerance attacked with stones, bricks, participants threatened with death
This was another protest in need of a “Thank You for Proving Our Point” sign. Indeed, just last weekend, a rally against “extremism” in Tunisia was attacked by “Islamist” stone throwers. “Protesters calling for religious tolerance attacked with stones, threatened with death,” by JJ Robinson for Minivan News, December 10 (thanks to The Religion of […]
Maldives: UN Human Rights Commisioner’s criticism of flogging under Sharia results in Facebook group to see her “slain and driven out of the country”
More fallout and general conspiracy paranoia in connection with this story. “Islamic Minister, MPs, PPM and religious groups condemn UN Human Rights Commissioner,” by Ahmad Naish for Minivan News, November 27 (thanks to Ron): Statements by visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay calling for a moratorium on flogging as a punishment for […]
Maldives: No debate on Sharia punishments, because “there is nothing to debate about in a matter clearly stated in the religion of Islam”
Protesters called for the arrest of the UN human rights chief for criticizing and calling for debate on flogging for extra-marital sex, as is called for in Qur’an 24:2: “The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, […]
Maldives: Islamic supremacists vandalize “irreligious” monuments
As the Maldives adopts more and more of Sharia, it becomes more and more intolerant. Here again we see that for some strange reason, those who — according to Western Islamic apologists — misunderstand their own religion of tolerance and peace seem to have the upper hand in a Muslim country. The Vast Majority of […]
Maldives: Catholic arrested for having a Bible and rosary in his home
One will recall the massive economic boycott and sanctions leveled against South Africa for the institution of apartheid there. The countries that practice Sharia’s own, centuries-older version of apartheid, denying freedom of conscience, religion, worship, and equal status and rights, should not get a pass. “Indian Catholic jailed in the Maldives over a Bible and […]
Maldives criminalizes preaching of any religion other than Islam
This is the other side of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s ongoing efforts to compel the West to criminalize “defamation of religion” — that is, realistic and truthful portrayals of Islam. Once the foolish kuffar has done that, then this other shoe will eventually drop. Islamic Tolerance Alert: “Religious Unity Regulation prohibits preaching a religion […]
Islamic Foundation of the Maldives: “Shun all medical aid from the Zionist regime” because they’re coming to harvest organs and they did it in Haiti, too
“President of Islamic Foundation Ibrahim Fauzy told Minivan News last week that the Foundation does not recognise Israel as a state, asserting that ‘it is also against our religion to have relationships with Jews’.” Just one example of such interfaith harmony can be found in Qur’an 5:51: “O ye who believe! take not the Jews […]
Maldives: Police arrest Muslim marriage celebrant who mocked foreign couple as “swine” and “infidels”
Here is the video about which Marisol wrote here. The marriage celebrant has now been arrested. One does wonder, however, how many other marriages he has celebrated. Mocking the kuffar is good fun until it could start having a negative impact upon the tourism industry. “Maldives arrest marriage celebrant after ‘hate’ ceremony,” from AFP, October […]
Maldives: Man suggests publicly that he left Islam, is attacked by crowd and arrested
No law contrary to the tenets of Islam can be enacted in the Maldives, and while this report doesn’t mention it (and in the full version tries to establish otherwise), Islamic law mandates that apostates from Islam be killed. Islamic Tolerance Alert: “First prisoner of conscience in Nasheed’s Maldives,” from Maldives Dissent, May 30 (thanks […]
Maldives misunderstands Islam, bans non-Muslim houses of worship
The bill is full of tolerance, however: it allows non-Muslims to worship in private homes. This is one of those stories where it becomes bitterly ironic — those who report on this will be called “Islamophobic,” but no one will particularly mind that the Maldives is systematically stamping out the freedom of religion in the […]