This convert to and Misunderstander of Islam said of her attempt to murder Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks: "I will make this my goal till I achieve it or die trying." Murder for a cartoon. For Allah. "Pennsylvania woman known as ‘Jihad Jane’ to plead guilty to terror conspiracy," from Newscore,…
The Muslim Brotherhood supports ElBaradei. "Egypt: Intifada Until Regime Steps Down, El Baradei Says," from ANSAmed, January 29 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – CAIRO, JANUARY 29 – ”If the regime does not step down, the people’s Intifada will continue”. So said leading Egyptian activist Mohamed El Baradei in an interview…
Slaves choosing slavery Pakistan "will soon become a true Islamic nation," which for the Misunderstander of Islam Ghafoor Ahmed means that more innocent non-Muslims like Asia Bibi will be victimized. "Karachi, women on streets in support of the blasphemy law," by Jibran Khan for AsiaNews, January 29 (thanks to C….
A direct challenge to the secular character of the Tunisian state. "Tunisia security forces chase Islamist protesters: ‘We want freedom for the hijab … and the beard,’" from Reuters, January 29: TUNIS — Tunisian security forces chased groups of protesters through central Tunis on Friday and fired tear gas,…
The imam Abdullah Stepanenko "was convicted of holding a man captive in 2006, and police found Wahhabist literature, audio and video materials, as well as a manual on explosives, in his home." Nonetheless, he "received a suspended sentence after the Muslim community, including the head of the Council of Muftis…
Yet another convert to Islam misunderstands his new, peaceful religion. Yet there is not a single program in any mosque or Islamic school anywhere in the world dedicated to teaching new converts to reject jihad violence and Islamic supremacism. Now, why is that? "Moscow bomber ‘was Islamist militant from…
At very least, a magnificent turban Reality is always inconvenient for them. Remember, "slander" in Islamic law refers not to telling untruths about someone, but to saying something about someone else that he doesn’t want known, even if it’s true. That sums up the whole Islamic apologetic enterprise in the…
The calls for withdrawal from Afghanistan get louder by the day; and even supporters of the war are nearly universal in their condemnation of Afghan president Hamid Karzai as a hopelessly corrupt thug– with some justification, to be sure. But I wonder if any of the commentators have a clue that in 2001 Hamid Karzai [...]
He says it’s in retaliation for an earlier Shi’ite attack, which is par for the course: jihadis today always frame their attacks as defensive. This is most likely because in the absence of a caliph, there is no Sunni authority authorized to declare offensive jihad. Note also that Iran’s Ahlul…
If you thought the days of mindnumbingly obtuse linguistic parsing were gone — boy, were you wrong!
