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Fresh from their absurd botching of the case against Slobodan Milosevic, the World Kangaroo Court is now ordering the United States to delay death sentences for five Mexicans—including one convicted of the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls: World Court: U.S. must delay Mexican death sentences. THE ...
In the apartheid theocracy of Saudi Arabia, a Turkish barber has been condemned to death by beheading for blasphemy. HATAY - A Saudi Arabian court on Thursday ratified the conviction of Turkish barber Sabri Bogday, who was sentenced to beheading in Saudi Arabia on charges of “cursing the name ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Beheading, Death Penalty, barbarism, Sharia, Shari'a, Islam
From Kuwait’s Al-Risala TV, November 5, 2007, here’s a sort of town hall meeting in which Muslim scholars and audience members discuss the fine points and religious justifications for killing people who decide to convert away from Islam. The audience is scarier than the “scholars” in this one. (Courtesy of ...
LGF, Video, MEMRI TV, Kuwait, Islam, Apostasy, Death Penalty
The Washington Post and Newsweek have been publishing a series of articles by Islamic advocates (in one case, a Hizballah terrorist) denying, among other things, that the penalty for leaving Islam is death. But Egyptian Mohammed Hegazy, who converted to Christianity, isn’t much interested in the academic arguments; he’s too ...
LGF reader Ralph forwarded a cartoon that’s appearing in German newspapers in reaction to the female judge in Frankfurt who ruled that the Koran allows wife beating: Oh, it’s a custom from the old country?! Why didn’t you say so!
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Multiculturalism
The nihilistic dead end of multiculturalism has been attained in Germany, where a female judge seemingly forgot which culture’s laws she was supposed to uphold: German judge rules Koran allows wife abuse. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BERLIN (AFP) - A German woman judge has refused a Moroccan-born woman permission to ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights
At Spiegel Online, two paragraphs in a long piece on “Religious Divisions within Germany” illustrate a heartbreaking truth about the misogyny of Islamic supremacism: A Parallel Muslim Universe. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) In another regional case, the judges had to decide whether a class excursion was mandatory for a Muslim girl. ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights
Sugiero has lots of interesting detail on the German organization for ex-Muslims, whose leader recently asked for police protection after receiving death threats from representatives of the Religion of Women’s Rights™: Ex-Muslim Says ‘Islam Inherently Radical’. Arzu Toker, deputy chairwoman, used a news conference to announce her separation from Islam: ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Apostasy, Shari'a, Death Penalty, Misogyny, Women's Rights
In Germany, the leader of a group of ex-Muslims has asked for police protection after receiving death threats from members of the Religion of Peace™. (Hat tip: Keith.) COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 23 (UPI) — The founder of a group in Germany for former Muslims has sought police protection after receiving ...
Germany, Islam, Radical Islam, Apostasy, Shari'a, Death Penalty
It took only a few days for Zacarias Moussaoui to begin trying to work the American legal system again: Moussaoui asks for new trial. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Less than a week after he was jailed for life over the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui submitted a motion ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence
They’re telling us that these will be Zacarias Moussaoui’s final public words: Moussaoui: U.S. Will Never Catch Bin Laden. “God save Osama bin Laden — you will never get him,” Moussaoui declared moments after walking into the courtroom flashing a victory sign. “You have branded me as a terrorist or ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence, France
The lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui’s mother says, “The fight isn’t over — far from it.” The lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui’s mother expressed delight Wednesday that the Frenchman was spared the death penalty, and vowed to lead a legal battle to bring the al-Qaida conspirator home. A federal jury in Alexandria, ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence, France
According to this AP release at the Jerusalem Post, France is offering Zacarias Moussaoui consular protection. The French government is offering Zacarias Moussaoui the consular protection he deserves as a French national, but so far the al-Qaida conspirator has not asked for it, the French Embassy said Wednesday. In a ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence, France
Allahpundit’s going through the juror answers in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial, and he’s found the only two mitigating factors that a majority of jurors agreed the defense had proved: He had a rough childhood. UPDATE at 5/3/06 6:16:23 pm: I wonder what sort of childhood this person ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence
In January 2002, I wrote this about the decision to try Zacarias Moussaoui in a criminal court: A criminal trial is too good for the likes of Zacarias Moussaoui, who by any definition of the words has to be considered a spy and a saboteur. But he will now be ...
Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11, Islam, Death Penalty, Life Sentence
Moussaoui Gets Life in Prison. A federal jury decided Wednesday al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui deserves life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, on Sept. 11, 2001. On the seventh day of deliberation, the jury of nine men and three women informed Judge Leonie ...
Robert Spencer rips apart another deceptive article from Islamic dissembler Stephen Schwartz: Jihad Watch: Disingenuousness about apostasy law. Islamic apologist Stephen Schwartz, who has responded with intemperate hostility in the past to my attempts to open a serious dialogue, has misrepresented Islamic apostasy law, specifically that of the Shafi’i school ...
Apostasy, Islam, Death Penalty, Stephen Schwartz, Robert Spencer
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 ...
From the Christian Science Monitor: Conversion a thorny issue in Muslim world. How thorny? Well... Most mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence call for converts to be executed. Though the Koran promises only hellfire for apostates and also says “there should be no compunction in religion,” Islamic jurists have typically argued ...
The apostasy case against Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman has been dismissed: Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence and he ...
Afghanistan, Shari'a, Apostasy, Death Penalty, Karzai, Rahman
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is intervening in the case of the Christian convert threatened with death, but the clerics are not happy about it. And they know who’s really to blame for this. Senior clerics condemned Rahman as an apostate. Rahman had “committed the greatest sin” by converting to Christianity ...
Afghanistan is now saying that the Christian convert on trial for his life under barbarous shari’a law is mentally unfit. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man facing a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity may be mentally unfit to stand trial, a state ...
Afghan Christian Could Get Death Sentence. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under this country’s Islamic laws, a judge said Sunday. The ...