TagsTagsThe Afghan “holy warriors” who kidnapped an Italian journalist last Thursday are demanding a swap—the Italian for Christian convert Abdul Rahman. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) So they can murder Rahman, as Islam mandates. KABUL (Reuters) - The kidnappers of an Italian photojournalist have demanded Italy hand over an Afghan who converted to ...
The case of Abdul Rahman has cast a sudden sharp light on the quaint Islamic practice of murdering those who leave the faith—and this, inevitably, has also led to a blizzard of misleading politically correct articles in mainstream media. Robert Spencer sets the record straight: Academic Lies About Killing Apostates. The ...
National Geographic looks at the Abdul Rahman case, and lays down a nice coat of whitewash on the subject of Islamic apostasy laws, asking the question: Does Islam Allow for Death Penalty for Converts? (Hat tip: Doss.) Of course it does, in nearly every Muslim nation. But don’t let that fool ...
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Afghan spokesmen for the Religion of Peace™ are threatening violence unless they get to kill Christian convert Abdul Rahman. (Hat tip: Killian Bundy.) MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan clerics and their followers threatened violence against the government on Sunday over the release of a Christian convert, saying he had to be ...
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Christian Convert Abdul Rahman has left Afghanistan, and been granted asylum in Italy. KABUL, Afghanistan - The man who faced the death penalty after converting from Islam to Christianity left Afghanistan on Wednesday, and Italy said it granted him asylum and expected him to arrive “soon.” Big LGF kudos to the ...
Mark Steyn wonders when we’re going to start facing down a culture where they talk like crazies. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The reality is our society pays enormous respect to minorities — President Bush holds a monthlong Ramadan-a-ding-dong at the White House every year; the immediate reaction to the slaughter of ...
Abdul Rahman faced death for converting to Christianity—but should we have been surprised? Andrew Bostom examines the Islamic roots of the death penalty for apostasy: Under the Scimitar of Damocles.
Earlier we pointed out this end-of-the-line absurd piece from al-Reuters, arguing that the controversy over the Afghan convert is just like the Muslim world’s reaction to the Danish Mohammed cartoons. ROME (Reuters) - The strong Western response to a threatened death sentence for an Afghan convert to Christianity looks something like ...
Nothing less than the death of Christian convert Abdul Rahman will do for the clerics of Afghanistan, and they’re warning that if Hamid Karzai caves in to Western pressure they’ll incite people to pull Rahman into pieces. And those are the moderates. “Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God ...
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