Monthly Archives: February 2008

   The Pre-Islamic Zoroastrian Culture of Iran Revered Dogs, and Suffered for this Behavior Under Muslim Rule From this story, “Iran: Four months in jail and 30 lashes for walking dog in streets”: Tehran, 19 Feb.(AKI) – A 70-year-old man … Continue reading →

From this report of February 17, 2008, “Show Islam is religion of peace, Muslims told,” the Jew-hating, jihad supporting (against all Israelis, including non-combatants, as well as US troops in Iraq) Muslim Pope, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, Grand Imam of … Continue reading →

Yet another “misunderstander” of the dictum*, “Love of the prophet requires hatred of the Jews?”   (*From a verse by the inveterate Jew hating Moroccan jurist al-Maghili [d. 1505], whose widely read treatises on the dhimmi Jews influenced Muslim attitudes … Continue reading →

From this story, “Iran: Religious edict authorizes crocodile meat consumption”:  Tehran, February 18, 2008 (Adnkronos International)—  Iranian Shia religious authorities have issued a fatwa, or religious edict allowing crocodile meat to be eaten by humans. The meat of amphibian animals … Continue reading →

From the Invaluable MEMRI Turkish Media Blog, More Signs That the Lone Unequivocal Social Advance Under Kemalism—the Improved Status of Muslim Women—is Under Siege:   A high school senior and an elementary school student were attacked in the Mediterranean town of … Continue reading →

Saeed and Jan’s E. coli Chocolate Cake. Recommended beverage: Warm, unpasteurized Listeria milk Hat tip Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch.  Visceral—in this case downright colonic—infidel hatred manifested by British Muslims?  As reported in the Daily Mail, 2/11/08?  Two shop-owners were today … Continue reading →

The leader of the Copts surrendering, bowed, to ‘Ali amidst the scattered decapitated heads, and severed torsos of the Coptic forces. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Khavarnama, a poem on the legendary warlike deeds of ‘Ali. … Continue reading →

Shari’a, Boys and Girls? David Pryce-Jones, a sagacious observer of both Islamic culture, and modern totalitarianisms, skewers the dangerously buffoonish Rowan Williams in a posting from February 8, 2008 that I had missed. It is reproduced in its entirety, below.   … Continue reading →

This posting is in solidarity with the courageous reprinting of the Danish cartoons, as suggested by Michele Malkin.     Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro, written at the close of the 18th century, included this freedom of speech monologue in Act V, Scene … Continue reading →

You can listen to the full interview  here  (see specific link for audio, within the post)