New Year’s greetings to the Zionist footballers cause a brouhaha among the Misunderstanders of the Religion of Tolerance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Iran soccer chief apologizes for Israel greeting,” from CNN, January 3 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): (CNN) — The head of Iran’s soccer federation issued a public…
The War on Terror turns towards two insurgencies on the Arabian Peninsula.
Yazid was the killer of Hussein, the son of Ali, whose death the Shi’ites lament on Ashura. That the Iranian crowds would be chanting this suggests that this is a Shi’ite vs. Shi’ite affair — Sharia adherents battling other Sharia adherents and jockeying for the mantle of Islamic purity. Given…
Huge crowds of Iranians turned out for the funeral of leading dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in the holy Shi’ite city of Qom on Monday and some chanted anti-government slogans, websites reported.Montazeri, who died late on Saturday aged 87, was viewed as the spiritual patron of a pro-reform opposition movement that blossomed after [...]
This is three weeks old, but I just saw it, and it is worth examining. With Ali Eteraz I have had many exchanges in the past; you can judge for yourself about what they may or may not have revealed. In one of them, he stated feebly that peaceful Muslims…
In the United States, television psychics are merely mocked. In Saudi Arabia, they are executed. The Saudi Arabian government is planning to execute Lebanese television psychic Ali Sibat. Sibat was found guilty of witchcraft by a Saudi court in November, a crime which carries the death sentence. It appears that Sibat was targeted for arrest [...]
Egypt’s Mufti Ali Gomaa on the Swiss minaret ban: “This proposal…is not considered just an attack on freedom of beliefs, but also an attempt to insult the feelings of the Muslim community in and outside Switzerland.” — From a story at JihadWatch here Ali Gomaa is an example, or more…
Last year’s Awards Banquet Well, it’s that time of the year again, my friends: nominations are hereby open for the notorious and hotly coveted Jihad Watch annual awards! There will be, as always, four awards. First, the ones few people want but all too many people deserve: 1. American…
