Tag: "Islam"

A Sigheh of Relief

From the country that brought us “Let’s wipe Israel off the map” comes “Let’s get married and divorced real quickly so I can have as much nookie as possible.” Iran’s hard-line interior minister is encouraging temporary marriages as a way to avoid extramarital sex, a stance many in this conservative country fear would instead encourage [...]

What Got My Goat

For the past few weeks, the Sydney Morning Herald have been running a series called The Face of Islam, which seems to be an attempt to portray Islam in a favorable light. Included are a number of stories of Catholics who converted to Islam (including one which ends with “Islam did not fly planes into [...]

A Predictable Turn

The Bob Woolmer murder investigation may be heading down a familiar path. Pakistan’s cricket coach Bob Woolmer may have been murdered after angering radical Muslims, according to a BBC investigation.   The Panorama TV show suggests some players followed the extremist Muslim movement, Tablighi Jamaat.   The claims come as preliminary toxicology tests confirm Woolmer was rendered [...]

Faulty Compass

Some Dutch policeman has had an Urkel moment. A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction. The Segbroek police station in The Hague borrowed the idea of putting compass marks on ceilings from an Amsterdam hotel, the Dutch daily De [...]

More From the “Misquoted” Mufti

Like a bad smell, Sheik “Catmeathead” Hilaly just won’t go away. Outspoken Muslim cleric Sheik Taj el-Dene Elhilaly believes “enemies” are using “advanced sciences” to divide Muslims and called on the world’s Islamic communities to unite.   His latest rant comes as Federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews yesterday issued the mufti with an ultimatum: Shut up [...]

Praying, Not Playing

I’m sure you’ve all heard of losing your religion, but how many of you have heard of losing because of your religion? PJ Mir (not to be confused with PJM – ed.), Pakistan’s media manager during the World Cup, has blamed the influence of religion in the dressing room for Pakistan’s disastrous performance in the [...]

The Islamicization of Antwerp

Here is a must-read editorial from the Washington Times, which illustrates how Europe is being taken over by radical Islam, while those who speak out against it are being silenced: The Islamicization of Antwerp. The decisive battle against Islamic extremists will not be fought in Iraq, but in Europe. It is not in Baghdad but [...]

The Party of Uncovered Meat

Australia’s fun-loving Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly has decided that its time to throw his hat kufi in to the ring, and form a political party. Top Islamic cleric Taj el-Dene Elhilaly is “urgently” working towards forming a new political party. Speaking through an interpreter, the Sheik said that Australian Muslims need proper political representation as [...]

From Mathematics to Fanatics

Reuters reports: Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical breakthrough 500 years earlier than Western scholars, scientists said on Thursday. By the 15th century, decorative tile patterns on these masterpieces of Islamic architecture reached such complexity that a small number boasted what seem to be “quasicrystalline” designs, Harvard [...]

The Meat’s Revenge

Looks like some women in Kuwait are taking the whole gender equality thing too far:  A Kuwaiti court has sentenced two women to seven years in jail each for kidnapping a man and forcing him to have sex with them   The two were convicted of raping the man by forcing him to have sex against his [...]