Reminiscent of the New York Times' tendency to start their annual crime statistics article with: "Despite a drop in crime, more people than ever are in prison..." CBS News makes a similar, erroneous assumption when it comes to public perceptions of Islam. Although Americans believe they are better informed about Islam than they were five […]
Afghani Christian Abdul Rahman has had the case against him dropped due to "lack of evidence" -- which I suppose is better than decreeing him insane. However, it doesn't hold a lot of promise for religious freedom in that country. In fact, if all you read is the headline, you'll probably miss the fact that […]
It appears that Christian Abdul Rahman won't be executed in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity, but the "solution" to this international incident isn't acceptable either. Diplomats in several countries said Wednesday they had been assured Rahman would not be put to death, and Afghan diplomatic sources confirmed this. In Kabul, officials said Rahman, 46, might […]
Sometimes I can't keep the liberal position on the use of the military straight. Are we supposed to be the world's policeman? Are we supposed to have an exit strategy before we send troops in? Are we stretched too thin? Is the Army falling apart? Just about every single one of these positions have been […]
Despite the removal of the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, it's clear that the country once ruled by the worst sort of intolerant, Muslim fascists still has a long ways to go. KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of […]
The New York Times has a profile of Dr. Wafa Sultan, the psychologist whose tongue-lashing of Islam I linked to last week. The article is pretty good, but in an effort to write a compelling lede, the Times gets its facts wrong. Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living […]
Check out this video of Arab-American Psychologist Wafa Sultan calling Muslims to account -- on Al-Jazeera of all places.
One of the cornerstones of Western civilization is freedom of speech and of the press. A free press won't stay that way for long if it cannot criticize the world's second-largest religion. So, as a sign of solidarity with Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Here are a few of the blasphemous Mohammed cartoons. Michelle Malkin notes that […]
Actually, this one is a combination of culture and religion. Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" -- a crime that shocked Pakistan. The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in […]
We've got two bits of news from those lovable Islamists. First, they decided that Christians aren't the only people they hate. They hate Hindus too. Second, they also like to prove how manly they are by chopping off the heads of Christian schoolgirls. Cowards.