Sunni Muslims assaulted two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore Pakistan on Friday. Two groups of Sunni’s conducted coordinated attacks in the Model Town and Garhi Shahu neighborhoods. The assault was sponsored by the Punjab province branch of the Pakistani Taliban, with logistical support from the Tableeghi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary group. Approximately eighty worshippers were murdered [...]
Most Muslims with whom I talk support Islamist terrorism in some way. Sometimes the support is outright, in terms of funding operations or spreading the message of Islamist governance. At other times the support is more guarded, such as blaming every act of Islamist terrorism on the Jews, George Bush, or capitalism. I hope that [...]
In Sura 4, verse 34, the Qua’ran orders men to beat their wives if they fail to be properly obedient: 4:34 Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are [...]
The Roman Catholic church is once again being rocked by scandals of sexual abuse by priests. Simultaneous scandals have erupted across Western Europe and in the United States. According the the Monsignor Charles Scicluna, sixty percent of known abuse cases are homosexual, while only 30% are heterosexual. The church categorizes another 10% of cases as [...]
Sawsan Salim was being harassed by local officials, so she went to the government offices in Rass to complain. As a result, she was sentenced to 300 lashes and 18 months in jail for the “crime” of visiting government offices without a male relative. In a comically obvious failure of the Saudi “justice” system, one [...]
As a one-time resident of the Netherlands, a headline like “Freedom of Speech Under Attack in The Netherlands” feels quite odd to me. The people of the Netherlands, the Dutch, are a fantastic study in human decency. In all of my travels, I have never encountered a nation of people more in touch with common [...]
