Here’s a solution: give them a nuke deal! “Pakistan: Violent attacks rise against Christians,” by Syed Saleem Shahzad for AKI, March 25 (thanks to Twostellas): Islamabad, 25 March (AKI) – There was an increase in violent attacks on religious minorities in Pakistan in 2009 and the government failed to take…
And remember: this is the kind of law that the Organization of the Islamic Conference is agitating at the UN to get Western governments to adopt. “Christian Woman Jailed under Pakistan’s ‘Blasphemy’ Laws,” from Compass Direct News, March 24: GUJRANWALA, Pakistan, March 24 (CDN) — Police in Alipur have arrested…
We are now ready to continue with our discussion of The Michael Coren show, Part 2. Please take the time, once again, to watch both segments. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is above. And my discussion of Part 1 is here. Returning from the station break, this segment…
Life behind bars, for allegedly damaging a Qur’an. An update on this story. “Christian sentenced to life in prison for blaspheming Islam,” from Spero News, February 7: A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to life imprisonment Imran Masih, a young Christian, for having insulted and desecrated the Koran, according to…
Indonesia’s blasphemy law is a case study in why such laws against insulting or defaming religions, as championed by the likes of the OIC, should be flatly rejected in the West. On the surface, they may sound well-intended and even-handed: indeed, wouldn’t the world be a swell place if everybody…
One cannot hope to have a stable society — or a prosperous one — where such lethal explosions of rage are so easily sparked, or seen as justified. We’re often told, despite innumerable counter-examples, that poverty causes jihadist terrorism. But stories like this demonstrate that jihad, along with the attitudes…
Cooper wrote:
Two big stories on religion in Denmark came out within a few days of each other this week. The stories show very different outcomes of journalistic criticism when it comes to Christianity and Islam. Three days after Christmas the second largest Danish newspaper, Politiken, argued that “Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus.” A [...]
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The Byzantine icon above is the work of the 16th-century iconographer Theophanes the Cretan. There are many things that are un-Islamic about it: 1. It is an image of human beings, which violates the traditional Islamic prohibition of images; 2. It depicts Jesus not as a Muslim prophet but…
The Byzantine icon that has just so many un-Islamic things about it.
