An interview from June 10 with the author of Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations: Click through the video to see all 5 parts. Your Thoughts?
Paris Bans A “Sausage And Wine” Protest Of Muslims Who Close Down Roads By Praying In The Streets
June 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From Reuters’s FaithWorld blog: A giant “sausage and wine” party planned later this week in a Paris neighbourhood with many Muslim residents risks sparking disturbances and will therefore be banned, police in the French capital announced on Tuesday. The event, announced on the social networking site Facebook late last month (see page here in French), [...]
The Rise Of Islamo-Erotica
June 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
(Image: “God Is Great” by Makan Emadi) Betwa Shermer has a really interesting piece about Muslim artists in America who incorporate nudes into their art. Defenses of nudity in art as permissible by Islamic standards: The Lebanese-born artist, who now lives in New York, insists that the taboo stems from a conservative society and not [...]
Is Shari’a Law “Inevitable” For UK Muslims?
June 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, claims it is: Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4′s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system. Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social [...]
What is fundamentalism?
June 11, 2010 By 13 Comments
by Sara Manasterska A couple of days ago, I saw Dan’s post of a Ayaan Hirsi Ali video, in which she was explaining that the willingness of fundamentalists to kill people cannot be only blamed on their destitute situation (for two reasons: 1. not all of the fundamentalists who become terrorists are poor, 2. not [...]
Taliban Executes 7 Year Old Boy, Accusing Him Of Spying
June 10, 2010 By 3 Comments
Creepy Pro-Geert Wilders Propaganda
June 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’m as troubled by Islam’s authoritarianism of thought and practice as any one but Christian crusading is is not much better. This is called “Geert Wilders The Lion Heart” and unless it’s just an exceptional satire, it’s a really unsettling, unrestrained glorification of Christian warfare against Islam. How long until the Christian theocrats begin embracing [...]
Exit Polls Say Geert Wilders’s Anti-Islamic Party Doubles Its Seats In Dutch Parliament
June 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Guardian: The Netherlands’ anti-Islamic MP Geert Wilders appeared on course for major gains in a general election yesterday, more than doubling his party’s seats in the Dutch parliament and overtaking the incumbent ruling Christian Democrats, according to exit polls last night. Wilders’ Freedom party looked to have taken third place in a close-fought election [...]
The Right To Apostasy
June 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
Former Muslims United claim the right to apostasy for American Muslims is in danger: FMU has asked me to note two corrections that need to be made in the article below: Wafa Sultan is the president of Former Muslims United. The right of apostasy pledge was sent to 111 Muslim leaders, not groups. In the fall [...]
Lars Vilks, Recently Attacked At Speech, Joins “Kill Lars Vilks” Facebook Group
June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
After he drew Mohammed with the body of a dog, an Al-Qaeda front organization put a bounty on Lars Vilks’s head: $100,000 for killing him and $150,000 if it’s a death by slit throat. He was recently attacked at a talk he was giving when he showed photos of his controversy riling drawings. Now he [...]
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