In Islamic law, apostasy leads to death — something this writer conveniently leaves out. But that fact is crucial in understanding the often violent hostility sparked by perceived to insults to Islam, and the threats frequently faced by Muslim skeptics and would-be reformers even on the most minor of levels….
Adnan Babar Mirza’s alleged jihadist activity and his more conventional charitable activity and dawa, or Islamic proselytizing, in the community are not mutually exclusive. Qur’an 9:60 provides for the allocation of zakat to “those whose hearts are to be reconciled,” but also for those fighting in the cause of Allah….
In FrontPage this morning I explain why Muslims have only themselves to blame for the recent proliferation of Motoons: With last Thursday’s “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” which began on Facebook but spread to anti-jihad sites all over the Internet, Muhammad cartoons are now everywhere — and Muslims are outraged. The…
Last week, Newsweek published yet another liberal opinion piece: Superficially but falsely even-handed, optimistic, pro-Arab and Muslim culture, pro-Judeo-Christian Western culture—safely middle-of-the-road. So “middle” that the reader does not really know what road she is on or where she is going. The journalist, Christopher Dickey, is writing about the new winner of the Miss America contest, [...]
Certainly any Western state that ruled Islamic courts illegal would be tarred as “racist,” as is any individual who opposes Islamic supremacism and Sharia. So is Kenya racist now? “Kenya court rules Islamic courts are illegal,” from the BBC, May 24 (thanks to Davida): Kenya’s Islamic courts are illegal and…
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…
And in an earlier incident, “extremists attacked and set fire to a Christian centre in Bogor on the ground that Christians wanted to build a house of prayer.” Islamic law forbids dhimmi populations to build new houses of worship. How inconvenient for those who claim that dhimmitude is a relic…
Why won’t they come out publicly? Could it be that they know what Islamic spokesmen and the politically correct media establishment would do to them if they did? “Lower Manhattan board mixed on planned mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero WTC site,” by Samuel Goldsmith for the New York…
