Not exactly what James Hetfield and Co. were going for with Master of Puppets. "FPI sets its eyes on underground music," by Irawaty Wardani for the Jakarta Post, March 21: Hot on the heels of its campaign against the dissolution of Ahmadiyah, the hard-line Muslim group Islam Defenders Front…
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One will recall that the recent wave of moves to ban Ahmadis from the public practice of their religion and even identifying themselves as Ahmadis began with the savage murder of three members of the sect. Authorities, who regard them as a heretical Islamic sect, essentially blamed the victim for…
This story mentions the Boko Haram ("Western education is sin") sect, but does not tie this attack to them directly. Perhaps this one was the work of "Reading the Manual is Sin." In all seriousness, though, this story demonstrates that jihadist attacks on churches are continuing in Nigeria, and they…
"It was reported by a professor that he wrote some blasphemous remarks in the answer sheets of Physics and Islamic Studies papers." And so authorities threw the book at Syed Samiullah, complete with recourse to a handwriting expert and psychiatric evaluations. The latter may save him from the blasphemy laws’…
The amendments in Egypt’s referendum were "meant to amend the current Constitution just enough to allow fair elections before a new document is written." What they did not begin to touch, not surprisingly, was Article 2 of the current Egyptian constitution, which reads: "Islam is the religion of the state….
The message: Thanks for all your help. Now, get out of our way. "Hundreds of Islamists stone Egypt’s ElBaradei," by Mona Salem for Agence France-Presse, March 19 (thanks to all who sent this in): CAIRO — Islamists hurled stones and shoes at Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace laureate and a secular…
“Go sell crazy somewhere else—we’re all stocked up here!” That is one of the great lines in 1990s American cinema. It was spoken by the misanthropic recluse played by Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, and it pretty well describes the business we’re in, resisting jihad. Every day,…
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