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Sudan: Muslim turns in his son to police for leaving Islam By Robert Spencer on Jan 06, 2016 07:55 pm
“You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred.” (Qur’an 58:22) “O you who have believed, do not take your fathers or your brothers as […] Read in browser »
Nigeria court sentences Muslim cleric to death for blaspheming Muhammad By Robert Spencer on Jan 06, 2016 07:36 pm
“The Sufi preacher, from Sunni Islam who are the majority among Nigerian Muslims, was accused of having issued statement considered to have mocked the prophet during a religious ceremony.” It isn’t really very likely that a Muslim cleric mocked Muhammad, but the verdict is what it is. In the West, meanwhile, we are more civilized. […] Read in browser »
Pamela Geller: Charlie Hebdo’s PTSD By Robert Spencer on Jan 06, 2016 06:36 pm
In “Charlie Hebdo’s PTSD” at Breitbart today, Pamela Geller discusses what went wrong with a magazine that was once a foremost defender of the freedom of speech: In the wake of the jihad slaughter of cartoonists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last January, the remaining employees of the magazine have said a number of […] Read in browser »
Will 2016 Be the Year of Abbas Diplomacy? By A. J. Caschetta on Jan 06, 2016 06:13 pm
Any early-January look ahead to the year in international politics would be incomplete without acknowledging the boldest diplomatic move of the year just ended. That move came when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stole the spotlight from far more visible diplomats John Kerry, Mohammed Zarif and Sergey Lavrov by threatening unilateral withdrawal from the Oslo […] Read in browser »
Hugh Fitzgerald: What do we want in the Muslim lands? By Hugh Fitzgerald on Jan 06, 2016 02:54 pm
The multifarious geopolitical messes in the Middle East, the almost comical variety of resentments, hostilities, mutual denouncements, and hatreds in the Muslim lands that are presented to us each day on some news channel’s platter, the confusion worse compounded that overcomes us when we look at any part or aspect of the Camp of Islam […] Read in browser »
Reza Aslan wants to see a Muslim “All in the Family”; will he play Meathead? By Robert Spencer on Jan 06, 2016 11:14 am
“I’m waiting for a Muslim ‘All in the Family.’ Muslims are never going to feel like a part of the American family until people start to make fun of them on TV. That’s how minds have always been changed in this country.” Really? Can he give us a single other example of a group that […] Read in browser »
Marco Rubio campaign advisory board on religious liberty includes Rick Warren, supporter of Hamas-linked ISNA By Robert Spencer on Jan 06, 2016 10:22 am
Who better to advise on religious liberty issues than a useful idiot for a Hamas front? In July 2009, Warren addressed the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, despite the fact that it has been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case. Federal prosecutors said that ISNA had an “intimate […] Read in browser »
Nonie Darwish Moment: My New Year Wish List For America By Jamie Glazov on Jan 06, 2016 10:02 am
This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents The Nonie Darwish Moment with Nonie Darwish, the author of The Devil We Don’t Know. Nonie focuses on My New Year Wish List For America, unveiling how Americans can reinvigorate themselves and save their nation. Don’t miss it! And make sure to watch The Nonie Darwish Moment: Hiding Tashfeen […] Read in browser »
Vatican spokesman: Islam teaches “non-violence in the name of God” By Robert Spencer on Jan 06, 2016 08:13 am
How could an organization that claims to speak for God and to be led by the Holy Spirit be so indefatigably committed to a lie? For it isn’t only Bruno Forte: the Pope has said the same thing, and it’s the official policy of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which winks at dissent on […] Read in browser »
Canadian PM: We won’t bomb the Islamic State even if attacked By Robert Spencer on Jan 06, 2016 07:57 am
Telling the enemy that you won’t retaliate if attacked is simply inviting him to attack you. “Canadian PM: We won’t bomb ISIS even if attacked,” by Raphael Poch, Israel National News, January 5, 2016: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is keeping his post-election promises and planning to put an end to the participation of the […] Read in browser »
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