“All that it is, you have these private and independent institutions arise from different minority communities, Sharia councils and Beit Din in the Jewish community, which are basically people who want to enact their right to religious life without interference from secularists.” In saying this, al-Andalusi ignores the problem with Sharia courts entirely: Sharia councils […]
UK counter-terror police official was defender of the Islamic State who “despised Britain”
The story of Abdullah al Andalusi, aka Mouloud Farid, aka Wazir Leton Rahman, epitomizes the confusion and willful ignorance of the British political class. The British government wouldn’t be able to distinguish a “moderate” from an “extremist” if its life depended on it, and it does. The British intelligentsia will never, even to the point of […]
Robert Spencer in PJM: Watch What Happens When 3 Muslim Spokesmen Are Asked About Islam’s Death Penalty for Apostasy
You guessed it: lots of deception, lots of whining. My latest at PJM: A recent episode of the BBC program The Big Questions was anomalous: instead of pumping out more of the usual fog of obfuscation and denial regarding the aspects of Islamic law incompatible with Western standards of human rights and human dignity — as […]
Video: UK Muslim spokesmen explain Islam’s death penalty for apostasy, hilarity ensues
This BBC program features ex-Muslim Amal Farah of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) and several Muslim spokesmen discussing Islamic law’s death penalty for apostasy. Farah, despite her affiliation with CEMB, which is often more concerned with smearing and demonizing genuine critics of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism than with actually defending apostates from […]