Translations of this item: Danish German Last week witnessed popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini boast about how Islam allows Muslims to buy and sell conquered infidel women, so that "When I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her." This week's depraved anachronism comes from a Muslim woman—Salwa al-Mutairi, a … [Read more...]
Conversion, Adultery, and Savagery Strike Egypt
Published in FrontPageMagazine.com The true story behind the recent Islamist attacks on Egypt's Copts—wherein over a dozen Christians were killed, hundreds wounded, and their churches torched—is as illuminating as it is sordid. To recap, Islamists—or "Salafists," as many in the Egyptian media are referring to the "Taliban-looking guys in slippers"—demonstrated before St. Mark … [Read more...]
The Muslim World’s Inferiority Complex
Dutch German What if an entire civilization developed an inferiority complex? What ramifications would that have on the rest of the world? How would such paranoia play itself out in the interaction of civilizations? An Arabic op-ed titled "The Broder Dilemma and Inferiority Complex," written by Muslim intellectual Khaled Montaser late last year portrays … [Read more...]
What Did You Say About Muhammad?!
Published in Pajamas Media Danish Which is more likely to elicit an irate Muslim response: 1) public cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, or 2) public proclamations that Muhammad was a bisexual, sometime transvestite and necrophile, who enjoyed sucking on the tongues of children, commanded a woman to "breastfeed" an adult man, and advised believers to drink his urine … [Read more...]
Jihad, Martyrdom, and the Torments of the Grave
Pajamas Media Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or "martyrs"? In fact, these two near antithetic words — on the one hand, broken, desperate suicides, on the other, heroic martyrs — intrinsically demonstrate the radically different epistemologies the average Westerner and Muslim will articulate their answer through. In other words, that Westerners consider them … [Read more...]