May 12, 2014 01:01 am | Robert Spencer
“They
were telling him he would be in paradise with 44 virgins, and he
believed it.” Why wouldn’t he have believed it? The Qur’an doesn’t
specify a number, but does several times promise that the blessed in
Paradise will enjoy the houris — “companions pure, most beautiful of
eye” (44:54; see also 52:20, 55:72). And […]
May 11, 2014 09:38 pm | Robert Spencer
And
he said that the guards were “powerless” to stop him. That is, of
course, true. He was just converting prisoners to Islam — something they
wouldn’t have dreamed of trying to stop, as to have done so would have
been “Islamophobic.” The insuperable problem they have created for
themselves is that the “extremist” Islam […]
May 11, 2014 09:10 pm | Robert Spencer
“They
cut hands”: “The thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands
in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from
Allah.” (Qur’an 5:38)
“When your Lord inspired to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen
those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who
disbelieved, […]
May 11, 2014 08:56 pm | Raymond Ibrahim
The
war on Egypt’s Christian Copts and most indigenous inhabitants
continues. Most recently, five “unidentified persons” kidnapped yet
another Copt at gunpoint, Mr. Marcos, a 52-year-old pharmacy owner in
Sohag, Upper Egypt. This scenario of Coptic Christians—men, women, and
children—kidnapped and held for ransom has become commonplace in Egypt,
especially in the more rural south. […]
May 11, 2014 08:54 pm | Raymond Ibrahim
Several
are the important lessons learned from last year’s “Brave German Woman”
incident. Context: On November 10, 2013, a Muslim imam was invited to
give the Islamic call to prayer inside the Memorial Church of the
Reformation in the city of Speyer, Germany—a church dedicated to
honoring Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. “When the […]
May 11, 2014 06:57 pm | Robert Spencer
This
is a direct result of the Qur’an’s commands to fight against the People
of the Book until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel
themselves subdued (9:29),
and its declarations that the unbelievers among the People of the Book
are the most vile of created beings (98:6), and that Christians who
believe […]
May 11, 2014 06:45 pm | Robert Spencer
Few
things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the
permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that
Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and
nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage
contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his
marriage with […]
May 11, 2014 05:19 pm | Robert Spencer
The
amazing aspect about this story is that it is a story at all, so long
after it has been known that numerous Muslims from Britain have gone to
Syria to wage jihad. The British government, in its abject desire to
capitulate to and appease Islamic supremacists, bans counter-jihad
spokesmen such as Pamela Geller and […]
May 11, 2014 05:09 pm | Robert Spencer
Shhhh!
Do not speak of this! “talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the
atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the
positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our
inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013. “Church
Near Beit Jala Attacked,” CAMERA, May […]
May 11, 2014 02:56 pm | Robert Spencer
This
kind of action appears to be meant to emphasize that the government can
(or will) do nothing to stop them. Meanwhile, as British and American
forces arrive, “a well-known Nigerian Islamic scholar…warned that having
foreign soldiers on Nigerian soil could escalate the conflict and draw
foreign extremists to the West African nation. Ahmed Mahmud-Gumi, […]
May 11, 2014 01:54 pm | Robert Spencer
“Muhammad
is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one
another, but harsh to the unbelievers” (Qur’an 48:29). The sharp
dichotomy between Muslims and non-Muslims runs through all of Islamic
doctrine. In Islamic law, non-Muslims are to be denied basic rights;
indeed, they simply have no rights that Muslims are bound […]
May 11, 2014 08:42 am | Robert Spencer
From
a New York Times story about the NYPD recruiting Muslims to be
informers comes this quote of the day, or possibly of the entire year,
from a Muslim former police sergeant. The Times, of course, leaves it
out there as a rhetorical question, without bothering to inform its
readers that a Long Island mosque […] 
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