TagsTagsYale is really circling the wagons over the case of former Taliban spokesman/now Yale student Syed Rahmatullah Hashmi. Evan Coyne Maloney was thrown off campus yesterday when he tried to get a statement from administrators.
Meanwhile, back at home, American Muslims are gaining a foothold in politics. The 9/11 attacks have had a curious double-edged impact on the political emergence of American Muslims. They are up against more stereotyping and backlash, which they perceived recently in the furor over a Dubai company’s thwarted plan to take ...
In 2003, LGF had a series of posts about Muslim Youth Camps of America, a Saudi-connected Wahhabist group, and their plans to set up a Muslim camp in Iowa with help from the US Army Corps of Engineers. MYCA has now signed the 25-year lease and work will begin soon. (Hat ...
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 ...
At the end of February, in a sermon at the mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Sheikh Ismail Nawahda called for Islamic world domination. Good luck with that. Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, preaching to Moslem masses on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday, has brought it out into the open: the call ...
Today the “moderate” Islamic government of Malaysia issued a sinister warning to non-Muslims. MALAYSIA’S de facto law minister has threatened to jail or fine non-Muslims who insult Islam, amid concern over recent articles perceived as attacking the religion. Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz said the country’s sedition act could be used on non-Muslims ...
A pro-US article posted on an Islamic web site by a Muslim serving in the US armed forces provokes some very disturbing responses: You are the biggest idiot I have ever met. You arent loyal to Muslims? What God do you believe in? Our God in Islam states that we have to ...
We’ve been noticing that the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI has been taking a much stronger stance against the global jihad, and today the Times reports that this new attitude is leading to a reexamination of the Crusades: Vatican change of heart over ‘barbaric’ Crusades. (Hat tip: Allah.) THE Vatican has ...
On the new Saudi Arabian channel Al-Risala TV (a project of Saudi Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal), an Iraqi cleric promotes violent jihad for two reasons: to take revenge on the West, and spread Islam. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Host: Dr. Ahmad, do you think that international treaties can resolve the West’s conflict ...
MEMRI TV, Saudi Arabia, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Islam, Jihad
In Indonesia, the showcase “moderate” Islamic state, eleven percent of Muslims say suicide bombings are justifiable, and almost half support stoning adulterers to death: One in 10 Indonesians back suicide bombings-survey. The survey, based on 1,200 respondents across Indonesia’s 33 provinces, showed 11.2 percent believed suicide bombings were justifiable on occasion ...
One of the reasons we see so few rational Muslims speaking out against the tide of jihad is that when they do, this happens. (Or worse.) Abdel Karim Suliman, the Egyptian blogger who was arrested then released for his controversial views, was expelled from his university Al Azhar. Abdel Karim Nabil ...
At Britain’s Ummah.com, the friendly inhabitants are trying to figure out why Westerners object to them wiping Israel off the map, preferably with nukes. In a hellish parody of leftist moral equivalence, they ask: If the atomic bombings of Japan can be justified, then why not bombing of Israel? Abdullah al-Muhajir Muwahhid ...
We’ve covered two stories in the past year about jihad activity in the Caribbean Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; today we have the curious news that a Muslim man has been found beheaded there: Murder victim beheaded. (Hat tip: Ringo the Gringo.) The slaying of Rasheed Ali was the sixth murder ...
Here’s an interesting review of Bruce Bawer’s new book While Europe Slept, by Andrew Bostom: Eurabian Nightmares. The final two sections of While Europe Slept elaborate how even two cataclysmic events—the 9/11/01 and 3/11/04 mass murdering acts of jihad terrorism—failed to alter Western Europe’s self-destructive capitulation to Islamic atavism. Bawer recalls ...
Several readers emailed over the weekend about an article in Britain’s The Independent, telling us “How Islamic inventors changed the world.” It’s the standard pro-Islam fare, recounting inventions such as coffee and fountain pens without dwelling much on the fact that all of the inventions took place in the Middle ...
Mark Steyn’s column is no longer available in the British press; according to the Guardian’s Lionel Shriver, Steyn has now been dropped from both the Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) And there’s very little doubt that it’s because of his clear-headed, uncompromising writing about Islam. UPDATE at 3/12/06 ...
Mark Steyn, Censorship, Danish cartoons, Islam, Free Expression
From Israel National Radio, here’s Wafa Sultan on the Tovia Singer radio show. (Running time: 13:27.) The full show is 48 minutes long, so I’m including only the section with Sultan; follow the link above to hear the rest of the show. [Audio]
Wafa Sultan, Islam, Al Jazeera, Television, Israel National Radio
Chechnya’s Islamic prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov has been pushing the government in the direction of shari’a, and now they are demanding that women wear headscarves. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) GROZNY, Russia, March 10 (Reuters) - The pro-Moscow Chechen government has started to demand that female state workers wear headscarves, women in ...
At The American Thinker, James Arlandson has a harrowing look at the life of Mohammed, and what happened to those who failed to show him the proper submissive attitude: Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society. (2) March 624: Uqbah bin Abu Muayt A similar story as that of Nadr can be told about Uqba ...
The author of a book about Islamic repression of women is the latest target of a death sentence from the Religion of Peace™: Call for Internet Publication of Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam. (Hat tip: Paul.) This is a call for the Internet publication (and eventual translation) ...
The Telegraph has apparently removed a story about shari’a law from their web site: This story has been removed for legal reasons. (Hat tip: No Pasaran!) Notice the URL of the article: .../news/2006/02/19/nsharia219.xml The story has also been deleted from Google’s cache. UPDATE at 3/10/06 11:36:27 am: Here’s the article they removed: ENGLAND: The ...
The Washington Post reports that Negative Perceptions Of Islam Are Increasing. (Hat tip: Ed Mahmoud.) The Post seems to think it’s entirely because of prejudice and “demonization,” and not at all because of beheadings, suicide bombings, insane conspiracy theories, antisemitism, misogyny, death threats, airplanes flown into buildings, and other minor annoyances. Get ...
Islam, Poll, Washington Post, Media Bias, Extremism, Juan Cole
Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, whose $10 million donation was rejected by Rudy Giuliani after 9/11, is now spending a tiny part of his immense oil wealth to launch another Islamic satellite channel: Al-Resalah Launched. RIYADH, 7 March 2006 — Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, CEO of Kingdom Holding Company, officially launched yesterday ...
Wafa Sultan, the Arab American psychologist who’s the talk of the blogosphere after appearing on Al Jazeera in a fearless encounter with an Islamic cleric, will be interviewed tonight on the Tovia Singer show and Ted Belman has details: Tovia Singer to interview Wafa Sultan and Ted Belman tonight. You can ...