The question of whether Barack Obama was a Muslim as a boy is still lurking around in some people’s minds, as demonstrated by Daniel Pipes’ Christmas Eve questions about Obama’s potential apostasy and Ben Smith’s reply calling the article a smear tactic. In a country of John Smiths, Barack Obama’s name carries with it an inherent…
Category: Islam
Murder on the Road to Democracy
I have to admit that I’m stuck on Benazir Bhutto. Quoting Mark Steyn again, “She was beautiful and charming and sophisticated and smart and modern, and everything we in the west would like a Muslim leader to be”. Writing about her murder, Andrew McCarthy had this to say about the nation she once led and, I…
Freedom Dead in Pakistan?
When Benazir Bhutto first decided to return to Pakistan to attempt to reclaim power I commented on a post by Kevin Sullivan to the effect that her return was more likely to lead to blood in the streets than democracy. Sadly, that rather obvious guess has proven true: Benazir Bhutto is dead, killed by an suicide…
NRO on Steyn, Muslim Plaintiffs
At the National Review, Stanley Kurtz has a great post about the Muslim law students who are suing Maclean’s over Mark Steyn’s article “The future belongs to Islam”. An excerpt: They claim to be believers in the marketplace of ideas, merely seeking a chance to respond to Mark Steyn. What they don’t say is that…
al-Sadr to Continue Restraint?
Reuters says that Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is considering extending a freeze on the activities of his powerful Mehdi Army militia. “Yes, there is a chance that the freeze on the Mehdi Army will be extended,” Salah al-Ubaidy told Reuters late on Wednesday. Ubaidy did not say how long another extension might last or…
A Modicum of Justice
In Indonesia Muhammad Basri was convicted of beheading 3 Christian schoolgirls in 2005 and sentenced to a whopping 19 years in prison. He was also convicted of shooting two other students and a priest in 2004. So that’s what a Christian’s life is worth in Indonesia? 5 years in the clink, where he’ll strut around…
Father Kills Daughter over Hijab
The 16-year-old Muslim girl Michael wrote about earlier has died as a result of injuries her father inflicted on her because she would no longer wear a hijab as he demanded. This heinous act can only be described as the most despicable betrayal possible – the deliberate murder of a beautiful child at the hands of her…
Runaway Juror
The case against the Holy Land Foundation was an open-and-shut one – the nominal charity was almost certainly guilty of funneling money to Hamas, an organization that most Americans recognize as a sponsor of terrorism in Israel and beyond. So how did the U.S. government lose the case? The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s new report…
Defending Mark Steyn
I wish I’d read Mark Steyn’s excellent article titled “The future belongs to Islam” when it was originally published last year. Doing so would have saved me the trouble of working out for myself the answer to troubling questions about demographics and the disintegration of western culture that ultimately led me to write this article…
Moderation in What, Exactly?
Ex-Muslim poster girl Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote today in the NY Times: IN the last few weeks, in three widely publicized episodes, we have seen Islamic justice enacted in ways that should make Muslim moderates rise up in horror. A 20-year-old woman from Qatif, Saudi Arabia, reported that she had been abducted by several men…