Category Archives: Islam

Another kind of wardrobe malfunction

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From here:

Woman fined for erratic driving caused by niqab headscarf impairing her vision

A motorist has been fined for erratic driving caused by her Islamic headscarf, just weeks after a similar incident sparked a major political row.

Police in Vaucluse in southern France stopped the woman after she was spotted driving her vehicle carelessly on the road.

It was then officers noticed the driver was wearing a niqab, a veil that leaves only the eyes exposed, and that her sight was impaired, according to commanding officer Charles Bourillon.

‘[The headscarf] was bothering the driver in her manoeuvres … It was obvious she could not see a thing,’ he said.

The solution is obvious: drive one of these and leave your niqab at home:

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On Yahoo, Islam is a forbidden word

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Yahoo News allows the public to make comments on its news articles.

The funny thing is, @#$% is substituted for “Islam” in every comment. For example, in comment 19 here, I entered:

Why is Islam being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism  are not?

What was posted was:

Why is @#$% being changed into special characters and Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism are not?

Surely this could not be another example of a pusillanimous Western technology company, could it? It must be a variant of the infamous Google “bug”.

There used to be an app for that

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iSlam Muhammad is an iPhone application that makes fun of the Muslim tendency to persuade opponents by beheading them. Apple executives removed the application, kept their heads and invented the iDhimmi.

A description of the $.99 app encourages users to “enjoy violent and hateful passages from The Qur’an that support and encourage Muslims to attack and behead anyone who does not agree with them. See how Allah directs his followers to treat men and women.”

The app revolves around parchment images featuring controversial images from the holy text. The app was in the store for a day before it was pulled. Below is audio from the developer’s conversation with Apple, which among other things, points out that a similar app targeting Christians called BibleThumper still exists in the store.

If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons

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I don’t really need any more reasons to like George W. Bush, but here is another one anyway from Mark Steyn:

I was among a small group of columnists in the Oval Office when President Bush, after running through selected highlights from a long list of Islamic discontents, concluded with an exasperated: “If it’s not the Crusades, it’s the cartoons.” That’d make a great bumper sticker: It encapsulates both Islam’s inability to move on millennium-in millennium-out, plus the grievance-mongers’ utter lack of proportion.

Contrary to popular belief, Christopher Hitchens isn’t always wrong

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From Slate:

French attempts to outlaw the burqa strike a blow for the rights of women.

The French legislators who seek to repudiate the wearing of the veil or the burqa—whether the garment covers “only” the face or the entire female body—are often described as seeking to impose a “ban.” To the contrary, they are attempting to lift a ban: a ban on the right of women to choose their own dress, a ban on the right of women to disagree with male and clerical authority, and a ban on the right of all citizens to look one another in the face. The proposed law is in the best traditions of the French republic, which declares all citizens equal before the law and—no less important—equal in the face of one another.

In contrast, Bishop Barry Clarke – a bellwether whose proclamations I routinely use as a litmus for ideological buffoonery – unsurprisingly opposes a similar ban in Quebec:

MONTREAL – A bill that would bar a woman wearing a face veil from receiving government services is an attack on women’s rights in the guise of defending equality of the sexes, say the Anglican diocese of Montreal and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

In a statement approved Monday night by local clergy and Bishop Barry Clarke, the diocese said the bill erodes freedom of religion guaranteed under the Quebec and Canadian human-rights charters.

Replica Mosques used for target practice

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Simply incredible story reaches Times Online from Bradford, where the Army has apologised to Muslim groups after building green-domed mosque-style buildings  at a firing range where soldiers are trained in target practice.

Saleem Khan, chief executive of Bradford Council for Mosques said the structures at Bellerby in Catterick should be removed straight away. ‘They do owe apologies to the Muslim community and it is the mind set which needs changing,’ he said.

Let’s change our mindset. Recite after me 100 times:

Mosques are never used as a cover for Islamist terrorists. Ever.

A Muslim student doesn’t want ‘in the year of our Lord' on his diploma

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And he has convinced a cadre of mindless dupes to go along with him:

A group of students at Trinity University is lobbying trustees to drop a reference to “Our Lord” on their diplomas, arguing it does not respect the diversity of religions on campus.

“A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes,” said Sidra Qureshi, president of Trinity Diversity Connection. “By having the phrase ‘In the Year of Our Lord,’ it is directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not everyone believes in Jesus Christ.”

Qureshi, who is Muslim, has led the charge to tweak the wording, winning support from student government and a campus commencement committee. Trustees are expected to consider the students’ request at a May board meeting.

Other students and President Dennis Ahlburg have defended the wording, arguing that references to the school’s Presbyterian roots are appropriate and unobtrusive.

Founded by Presbyterians in 1869, Trinity has been governed by an independent board of trustees since 1969 but maintains a “covenant relationship” with the church.

“Any cultural reference, even if it is religious, our first instinct should not be to remove it, but to accept it and tolerate it,” said Brendan McNamara, president of the College Republicans.

McNamara pointed out that Trinity displays other signs of its Christian heritage, including a chapel on campus, a chaplain, Christmas vespers and a Bible etching on the Trinity seal.

Why, I wonder, did a Muslim student attend a college with such overt Christian symbolism in evidence if he is too fastidious to have “in the year of our Lord” on his diploma?

This could not possibly be an attempt to subvert Christianity in the interests of promoting Islam could it? Surely not.

My fatwa is bigger than yours

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Canada-based Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri has declared a 600 page fatwa against terrorism and was in London to speak about it:

He’s a man on a mission – a mission to state the obvious.

But for Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri it is the obvious facts that need stating loudest. Last week the Pakistani-born cleric took to a stage in London to declare his Islamic religious ruling, or fatwa, against terrorism.

There was a man from the other side of the world telling an audience that included Parliamentarians and other government officials what they had been wanting to hear. A clear, concise and quotable denouncement of al-Qaeda’s worldview.

Canada-based Dr Qadri spoke for more than an hour on his reasons why the Koran forbids the murder and mayhem of suicide bombings.

“This fatwa is an absolute condemnation of terrorism. Without any excuse, without any pretext, without any exceptions, without creating any ways of justification,” he said.

“This condemnation is in its totality, in its comprehensiveness, its absoluteness, a total condemnation of every act of terrorism in every form which is being committed or has been committed wrongly in the name of Islam.”

Will this convince anyone?  Probably not those who need to be convinced. As an as aside, in addition to writing 600 page fatwas, Dr. Qadri is adept at writing the word “Muhammad” in the clouds; I’m not sure if this reduces or increases his credibility.

In saner times this headline would have been comical…..

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Religion not a factor in wife beheading, judge rules.

Considering a Muslim did the beheading, it isn’t humorous – merely credulity stretching.

From the NY Post:

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The founder of an Islam-oriented television station who is accused of beheading his wife is due in a Buffalo courtroom for proceedings in advance of his murder trial.

Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan is tentatively scheduled to stand trial later this month for the death of his wife, Aasiyah Hassan, last year.

Pretrial motions are scheduled for Friday.

Hassan’s attorney plans a defense that includes claims that Hassan was abused by his wife and emotionally out of control. But prosecutors are fighting the use of a psychiatric defense.

The Pakistan-born Hassans started Bridges TV in 2004, in part to dispel negative Muslim stereotypes.

Muzzammil Hassan was served divorce papers shortly before his wife’s slaying.

The worry here is, if Hassan is found guilty and it turns out – perish the thought – that it does have something to do with the Religion of Peace, there could be a terrible backlash against Muslims: someone might even say something rude.