November 17, 2008 – 8:31 am
Go figure There is a “dearth” of high-ranking Muslim police officers (Note: this is in England)Â and they are “largely absent” from specialist units like counter-terrorism, a report said today. Progress in diversity in forces is also too slow and urgent changes are needed to rectify the situation, the survey says. Imagine. Few Muslims dealing with […]
November 14, 2008 – 8:45 am
They might have a slight point, but, whoever makes the soccer balls, along FIFA execs, might want to hire body guards Souvenir soccer balls for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to be hosted in South Africa next year have angered South African Muslims because they have an Arabic inscription that is considered sacred and are […]
November 13, 2008 – 9:37 am
It’s those uber-fashionable Islamic insurgents! Islamic insurgents seized a strategic port city in Somalia on Wednesday, raising fears that they were gearing up for an assault on the capital, about 50 miles away. The fighters, wearing red head scarves and chanting “God is great,” marched into Marka without firing a shot. Government troops had fled […]
November 9, 2008 – 9:11 am
Now that the election is over, and it is a few months for Senator Neophyte starts really screwing things up as president (“say, ah, um, er, folks, I initiated this 3am conference call to see what I should do about the Iranians announcing they just exploded a nuclear weapon. Any ideas?”), we can take some time to […]
November 6, 2008 – 7:40 am
Nope, that title is not a joke. And it is not that far off. Charging that principles of Islamic law are being introduced in the United States by stealth, critics on Thursday will protest outside a U.S. Treasury Department seminar on shari’a-complaint finance. Although this is not the department’s first “Islamic Finance 101†seminar, it comes […]
November 3, 2008 – 6:18 pm
So, let me ask you a question: you just got a job doing, well, whatever, and it requires that you do something that is part of the job, has always been part of the job, and will always be part of the job, but, is against your religion. What do you do? Look for another […]
October 28, 2008 – 3:09 pm
It probably won’t cause riots and the burning of McDonald’s, though “The Messenger of Peace“, to be shot around the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, was originally a 1977 Hollywood film made by Moustapha Akkad and starring Anthony Quinn. It is often applauded by Muslims as an example of how commercial Western cinema can […]
October 20, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Uh huh, 7 years later, and some sanity might be prevailing A U.S. military “Red Team” charged with challenging conventional thinking says that words like “jihad” and “Islamist” are needed in discussing 21st-century terrorism and that federal agencies that avoid the words soft-pedaled the link between religious extremism and violent acts. “We must reject the […]
October 17, 2008 – 6:28 pm
Check it out, we finally found something Islamists like A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big […]
October 16, 2008 – 2:15 pm
The real thing, though, I bet they are not real happy with the drink, either A British couple whose drunken escapade led to sex on the beach, tabloid headlines and a clash between Western permissiveness and Islamic values was sentenced Thursday by a Dubai court to three months in prison. Vince Acors and Michelle Palmer […]
