Category: Islam
"President Obama's world apology tour is now the stuff of legend, but even his worst critics probably didn't expect this week's footnote involving Libya's Moammar Gadhafi."
"A Swedish cartoonist whose controversial image of the Prophet Muhammad led to a series of death threats said today that he had secured his property with a homemade panic room and booby-trapped artwork. The latest threat to Lars Vilks emerged yesterday when seven people were arrested in Ireland accused of plotting to kill the 63-year-old artist."
"Consider the following remarks from one of Britain’s leading 'moderate' Muslim journalists, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, writing about Israeli actions in Gaza: . . . "
From a London Muslim Cleric: "'You can't say that Islam is a religion of peace,' Choudary told CBN News. 'Because Islam does not mean peace. Islam means submission. So the Muslim is one who submits. There is a place for violence in Islam. There is a place for jihad in Islam.'"
"The leader of a global Muslim movement Tuesday issued a rare religious edict condemning terrorism and denouncing suicide bombers as 'heroes of hellfire' in an effort to help prevent the radicalization of young British Muslims."
"The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country will continue its slide toward Islamism or revert to its traditional secularism. The denouement has major implications for Muslims everywhere."
"After securing an apology from one Danish newspaper for publishing a cartoon satirizing Mohammed, a Saudi lawyer now plans to confront another 15 newspapers, filing lawsuits against them if necessary."
"Lessons from the Netherlands, the University of California, and Yale."
"We are accepting government prohibitions on the thoughts we may express, we are allowing extremists to shout us down and shut us up, and we are self-censoring out of fear or faux-sensitivity. A few examples? Start with the Dutch government’s prosecution of Geert Wilders . . . ."
"The son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets . . . . Mr Yousef, a 32-year-old convert to Christianity who now lives in California, has revealed the intrigues of his years as a spy in a new book called Son of Hamas . . . ."
"[B]y ignoring the great achievements of Jewish culture and their impact on modern civilization, Obama is sending a message to the world that his presidential responsibilities do not include defending Israel from attacks directed at it. Read more »
Pew reports on an actual study on attitudes toward terrorism in the Arab world with some good news and bad news. We should adjust our foreign policy accordingly. "[U]ntil high-level diplomats such as Ms. Clinton and George Mitchell acknowledge that the populations of 'friendly' Arab nations are in fact inimical to peace, they will continue to place pressure in all the wrong places."
"The British media is reporting that a teacher in the London School of Economics’ government department is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group seeking to internally overthrow democracy and capitalism and replace it with Sharia Law. Unfortunately, the violence of groups like Al-Qaeda has caused HUT and groups like it to look less extreme by comparison and so they are not receiving the attention they deserve."
