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After all, if successfully used, it could get in the way of some stonings in the Middle East, and some honor killings elsewhere. Members of the Egyptian parliament have called for its banning; it's that big a deal. Of course, there are two angles...
An appalling update on this story. "Father Wants Public Caning for Malaysian Woman Who Drank Beer," by Ranjeetha Pakiam for Bloomberg, August 20:
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The caning of a Malaysian mother for drinking a beer should be conduct...
But will the world take notice? Ever?
In FrontPage this morning:
On Saturday, a frenzied mob of three thousand Muslims stormed the tiny Pakistani Christian village of Gojra. Enflamed by (unconfirmed) charges that a Christian had burned pages of the...
They were dressed indecently, doncha know. What fun they will have once they gain jurisdiction over the likes of Christina Aguilera.
Sharia Respects Women Alert: "Sudan women 'lashed for trousers,'" from the BBC, July 13 (thanks t...
Sharia Alert from one of the places where Saudis go when they want to escape the strictures of Sharia.
"Woman jailed for kissing in public," from the BBC via Australia's ABC News, June 17 (thanks to JE):
A court in Bahrain has impriso...
We've covered the dawah buses that appeared in various cities a few months ago, but has anyone seen anything like this white truck? In "A Different Kind of Ice Cream," November 23, the estimable Baldilocks recalls a strange visitor to her Los Angeles...
Mamoun Fandy doesn't discuss the Koranic roots of taqiyya (3:28; 16:106), which make this something that is sometimes used by Sunnis as well as Shi'ites, and he seems to continue to be a bit naive about trusting Iran, but this is nevertheless an...
Our old friend Raymond Ibrahim explains the Islamic doctrines in play in Nidal Hasan's jihad at Fort Hood, and the cost of ignoring them. "Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslim Doctrine," by Raymond Ibrahim for Pajamas Media via Middle East...
But in the article's eleventh paragraph we learn that there is an "Islamic insurgency" in the area. Fit to print -- but just barely! "21 Filipinos Are Reported Dead in Election Violence," by Carlos H. Conde for the New York Times, November 23 (thanks...
Giving out the wrong message. Absurd Britannia Alert: "Spared jail, the forced marriage case father who told wife: 'I'll cut out your tongue,'" by James Tozer in the Daily Mail, November 19 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A muslim who threatened to...
Simply an invaluable filter from which to interpret global and civic events in the face of Islamic cultural, financial, and political imperialism. A daily must-read, feed, etc.
