Modern, moderate UAE to block Blackberry service as threat to national security and “social values”

One wonders if the UAE and other Muslim countries that may follow the UAE’s lead in this will really be able to keep non-Sharia influences from creeping in. Of course, with the West so supine in the face of Sharia’s advance, that question may be moot within a few decades…

August 1st, 2010
Topic: JW

U.K.: Recycled “extremist” group threatens “new 7/7″ attacks

According to the article, a number of the supporters of “Muslims Against Crusaders” are former members of Islam4UK, which actually got itself banned earlier in the year. No problem; they’re taking a page from Pakistani groups like Jamaat ud-Dawa and simply re-branding as needed. And also, according to the article,…

August 1st, 2010
Topic: JW

Hot Post in the Feminist Hawks’ Nest: “Normal” Domestic Violence in Morocco is a Crime in the United States

Editors Note: On Sundays we’re going to start a new feature where we republish some of the most popular and important posts of the week for those who might have missed them. This post by Phyllis Chesler was originally published on July 27, 2010.
So sayeth the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division.
On July 31, [...]

August 1st, 2010
Topic: NRB

Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front group sponsoring interfaith events at Boy Scouts National Jamboree

ISNA has admitted ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is waging, in its own words, “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it…

August 1st, 2010
Topic: JW

Brutality and Subjugation: The Women of Islam at Home and Abroad

Talk is cheap. I’ve heard a lot of talk about the Islamic faith in the past several years. I’ve heard everything from Muslims are pure evil to Muslims are the embodiment of all that is good and pure in the world.
As with most things pertaining to a group of people sharing a religion, I believe [...]

July 31st, 2010
Topic: NRB

Obama administration “notably silent” on Morocco’s treatment of Christians

Surprising? Not at all, but newsworthy nonetheless. It is but one more example in the broader pattern of disturbing conduct by the Obama administration in its drive to gain the approval of the Muslim world at seemingly any cost. It will not make us safer. It will not make us,…

July 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

University lecturer barred from class after refusing to wear a burqa

We always hear in the West that women who choose to don the veil are doing so of their own free will, and are perfectly free not to wear it. Yet the leader of the students’ union at Aliah University is willing to put this kind of pressure on Sirin…

July 31st, 2010
Topic: JW

Anti-Defamation League comes out against Ground Zero mosque; bully CAIR urges ADL to retract statement

Of course, that would just be the shape of things to come in an Islamic state: Bark at the uppity kuffar to put them back in their place. “Key Jewish Group Rejects Ground Zero Mosque,” from the Associated Press, July 30: The nation’s leading Jewish civil rights group has come…

July 30th, 2010
Topic: JW

Sharia Special in the U.K.: National Health Service picks up the tab for “increasing number” of hymen restoration surgeries for Muslim women

There is a virtually unlimited need, and an unlimited demand for health care the world over. It is a perpetually scarce and costly resource. So, what better way to spend it than in submission to Islamic mores? Not that the taxpayer-funded virginity “Mulligan” is new to the U.K. This has…

July 30th, 2010
Topic: JW

The Post-American Presidency

A new book exposes the Obama administration’s war on America.

July 29th, 2010
Topic: FPM