Priorities. "Indonesia Islamists threaten to stop Lady Gaga show," by Presi Mandari for AFP, May 9 (thanks to EH): A hardline Islamic group warned Wednesday it would not let Lady Gaga set foot in Indonesia, challenging an army of fans awaiting a concert in the nation with the world’s largest…
There is little to be said in favor of the Assad regime, but like its fallen Arab nationalist counterparts in Egypt and Iraq, it is better for the Christians of Syria than an Islamic state would be. "Christians in Syria live in uneasy alliance with Assad, Alawites," by Stephen Starr…
Over at FrontPage Mag (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I examine the significance of last week’s blatant jihad against the Egyptian military.Considering Egypt’s presidential elections take place later this month, last weekend’s Islamist clash with th…
He has been released, but the kidnapping is "part of an escalating pattern of violence against local Catholics" in Baalbek, the stronghold of Hizballah. More information on this story. "Lebanese priest who baptized Muslim is abducted, then released," from CWN, May 10 (thanks to Twostellas): A Lebanese priest who baptized…
"It has been decades that Hindu girls have been abducted and forcibly converted. We hear little or no voice at all against this oppression." Indeed, this is a human rights abuse that the world ignores. Mustn’t be "Islamophobic," after all. No Compulsion In Religion Update: "Opinion: Rinkle Kumari – the…
As more and more news emerges every day of Muslim rape and prostitution gangs targeting non-Muslim girls in Britain, in accord with the Islamic sanction of the taking of non-Muslim women as sex slaves, this email that I received this morning f…
The "Palestinian" quest to destroy all evidence of an ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem, and in Israel in general, is obviously politically motivated: they want to destroy the Jewish state, and are trying to delegitimize it to that end. But this is also of a piece with the larger Islamic…
Now wait a minute. Muslim spokesmen in the West constantly insist that Islam respects women; some even claim that Islam grants them equality of rights with men (see, for example, here). And yet Muslims in Indonesia are opposing the gender equa…
Who is he trying to kid? As noted below, Mueller meets with Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front groups. And just coincidentally, he is toeing their line regarding Islam and jihad, which involves ignoring all evidence of Muslims using the tex…
Muslim spokesmen such as Harris Zafar, Mustafa Akyol, Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz (among many others) have assured us that Islam doesn’t punish apostasy. I expect that Zafar, Akyol, al-Marayati, Bassiouni, and Eteraz…
