by Raymond Ibrahim  •  Apr 26, 2012 at 11:33 am Cross-posted from Jihad Watch According to Al Ahram, Egypt's leading newspaper, a shadowy organization calling itself the "Jihad Group to Cleanse the Country" is threatening On TV, one of the nation's leading liberal media stations, which regularly exposes the Islamist agenda. It sent a letter to the president of the station … [Read more...]

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  Apr 19, 2012 at 4:37 pm Cross-posted from Jihad Watch According to the Arabic website Al Shorfa, an al-Qaeda affiliated group in Yemen, called Ansar al-Sharia (or the "Supporters of Sharia Law") beheaded a woman on April 11 for "practicing magic and sorcery." Members of the group broke into the home of Sharifa Amr—a local healer who used natural herbs to … [Read more...]

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  Apr 19, 2012 at 1:35 pm Cross-posted from Jihad Watch Muslim claims that eminent Western figures—whether William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, or Leonardo Da Vinci—were Muslim believers are as frequent as they are unfounded. Here is yet another attempt to Islamize Western history: During an interview on Arabic TV, a Shia Muslim cleric, apparently in … [Read more...]

Danish Back in May 2007, Dr. Izzat Atiya, head of Al Azhar University's Department of Hadith, issued a fatwa, or Islamic legal decree, saying that female workers should "breastfeed" their male co-workers in order to work in each other's company. According to the BBC: He said that if a woman fed a male colleague "directly from her breast" at least five times they would … [Read more...]

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  Apr 6, 2012 at 1:29 pm Cross-posted from Jihad Watch Over and over, evidence emerges from Islamic nations that democracy and voting are instrumental means to an intrinsic end: the establishment of a decidedly undemocratic but draconian form of law—Islamic law, or Sharia. Earlier, for instance, there was Dr. Talat Zahran, an Egyptian cleric who … [Read more...]