“From Sweden ‘he is still trying to set up his jihad group.’” Ain’t multiculturalism grand? Eurabia Alert: “Sweden sheltering terrorist cleric: Uzbek TV,” from The Local, May 29 (thanks to C. Cantoni): A cleric based in Sweden has been accused by Uzbek state television of instigating a suicide attack on…
Honestly: Pain? If a cartoon is that much of a source of emotional suffering — especially compared to the crimes committed daily by what we’re told are “hijackers” and “misunderstanders” of Islam — your priorities are seriously out of order, to say the least. And that again proves the…
An interesting development in connection with this story. Border security should be starting to look like less of an academic exercise within the Beltway. “U.S. issues border alert about Somali with possible militant ties,” from CNN, May 28: (CNN) — Local police along the southern U.S. border have been given…
Good news — on a subject that should not have been up for any form of compromise in the first place — but good news, nonetheless, in an update on this story. “Pediatricians now reject all female genital cutting,” by Stephanie Chen for CNN (thanks to JG): (CNN) — The…
They sure don’t make em’ like they used to:
“I have found a certain type calls himself a liberal…now I always thought I was a liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a right-wing, conservative extremist, when I listened to everybody’s point of view that I ever met, [...]
Yet most such people in the West would consider resistance to Sharia to be “bigoted” and “racist.” Sharia Alert from Indonesia: “Islamic scholars against trans working in women’s beauty salons,” by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, May 26 (thanks to Block Ness): Jakarta (AsiaNews) – A group of Islamic experts…
We have previously thought that Islamic banking — that is, the accommodation of Western banking practices to Islamic legal requirements — was being pursued by non-Muslim financial institutions out of a desire for economic gain. But in this story, DBS Group is still determined to make a go of Islamic…
Witness the intrepid muhajedin, keeping the world safe from “fitness” and “dancing.” “Islamists torch summer camp in Gaza,” from the Jerusalem Post, May 23: Masked gunmen from an Islamist group torched a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza on Sunday, Army Radio reported, the top UN aid…
Sheikh Ali Dhere is a Misunderstander of Islam. He doesn’t seem to understand that jihad is primarily an interior spiritual struggle. Nor does he seem to understand that when jihad becomes martial, it is only for defense. Instead, he seems to think that jihad involves offensive warfare to impose the…
