The “Ramadan gift” that this law was intended to be came a little late, but in the end, creeping sharia took a significant step forward. “The Indonesian parliament adopts anti-pornography bill,” by Mathias Hariyadi for AsiaNews, October 30: Jakarta (AsiaNews) — With opposition MPs absent, Indonesia’s parliament approved an anti-porn bill that was welcomed by […]
Archives for October 2008
OIC chief: Islamophobia is a new form of racism, except it’s even worse than racism
Eklemeddin İhsanoğlu insists that “Everybody is entitled to criticize anybody or anything,” but he also says there must be a “red line” that places “insults” and mockery off-limits. Who draws that line? What if, for example, the criticism is found to be insulting? And there is much more, including an attempt to bolster the “racism” […]
Al-Qaeda top dog prays: “O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him”
Not that he is endorsing any party, Reuters hastens to assure us. “Qaeda wants Republicans, Bush “humiliated”: Web video,” from Reuters, October 30 (thanks to Sr. Soph): DUBAI (Reuters) – An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be “humiliated,” without endorsing a party in the upcoming U.S. […]
SUNY-Binghamton: An unwitting admission
One of the most striking elements of the response to the talks that I have been giving on university campuses all over the country is the never-yielding unwillingness of Muslim questioners to admit even the smallest point. They will dismiss the evidence that I bring from authoritative Islamic sources of the jihad imperative to subjugate […]
Somalia bombings have markings of Al-Qaeda, US official says
Depending on what one means by “al-Qaeda,” perhaps. If this official means a leader in the core unit of al-Qaeda issued it, that would be unlikely; if by “al-Qaeda” the official means Islamists with the same ideologies, who may nonetheless have no formal connection with al-Qaeda, bingo. It’s most likely from al-Shabaab. “Somalia bombings have […]
Jack Straw: “Muslim courts will ALWAYS remain subservient to English law”
And this from Dhimmi Jack! Of course, he gets himself off the hook by explaining to Muslims that “the arguments against creating a parallel system of Sharia law in Britain were ‘overwhelming.’” Read: “It’s not my fault!” Still, he did say the right thing; good for you, Jack. “Jack Straw: Muslim courts will ALWAYS remain […]
UK: Art gallery under attack due to “insulting” artwork
Insulting artwork involving Islam, that is. Along with smashed windows and doors, the gallery has been receiving “12 abusive phone calls a day and emails condemning the show. Staff had to call police last week after an angry woman came in to complain. ‘She was in a full burqa and was irate and upset. Her […]
U.K.: Muslim worker loses case against supermarket that made him transport alcohol on a forklift like any other employee
A small victory for the idea that workers should be treated equally and held to a uniform set of expectations, with none “more equal” than others. An update on this story. “Muslim worker loses out in Tesco booze bid,” from the Evening Telegraph, October 29 (thanks to Eleutheria ´H Thanatos): A DERBY Muslim who sued […]
Spencer: Gates Woos Obama
In Human Events today I discuss how the Secretary of Defense seems to be wooing our media-anointed President-to-be by taking a hyper-PC line on the global jihad: Is Robert Gates hoping that if Barack Obama is elected president, he will keep him on as Secretary of Defense? It sure looks like it. Last week, while […]
Somali stoning case: “We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcibly bound, legs and hands.”
Note the usual insistence that sharia law itself is just, but isn’t being carried out properly. Part of that hinges on widely divergent views of what constitutes justice in the first place, but it is also worth noting how readily sharia lends itself to further abuses on top of those enshrined in the letter of […]