From the daily archives:

Thursday, June 12, 2008

How did Muhammad get his religion all wrong?

June 12, 2008

California: Muslim polygamist guilty of torturing 2 wives, 19 children
Here is one of the 50,000 to 100,000 Muslim polygamists in the U.S. Of course, there are abusive husbands in all cultures, but only in an Islamic context is there the idea that beating one’s wife has divine sanction (Qur’an 4:34). Might not that create a [...]

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AP discovers ‘troubling texts’ at Islamic School in Virginia: “Kill the Infidels and Take Their Property”

June 12, 2008

Imagine! The Associated Press reports that there are some “troubling passages” in texts at Va. school.
That would be the notorious Islamic Saudi Academy, and those “troubling passages” say things like “kill the infidels and steal their property.”
Troubling.

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible [...]

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Ahmed Bedier: Me and my Doudou

June 12, 2008

Birds of a feather…
* From JW
 
Guess who met with Doudou Diène, United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, in Miami on June 2 at a hearing on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination.
That’s right: none other than ex-CAIR operative Ahmed Bedier, whose unsavory statements and associations I detailed here recently.
Bedier, according to his [...]

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The Re-Islamization of Turkey

June 12, 2008

University hijab ban upheld
Ruling by top court expected to accelerate Turkish republic’s `divide over religion’

*     ”Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Suzan Fraser/Associated Press
ANKARA–Turkey’s top court has ruled that Islamic headscarves violate secularism and cannot be allowed at [...]

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Fauzia Mufti Abbas, Go and f*@k yourself!

June 12, 2008

We need more cartoons, not less!

“I’d like to know if your newspaper is satisfied with what it has done and what it has unleashed?”
That is the question that should be asked of all Muslims who have killed or exhorted others to violence over these cartoons — not of the cartoonists or any Western government.

The [...]

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