Afshin Ellian is blogging today on the rich pre Islamic cultures and religions of Iran. This Wednesday marks an important day in the tradition of Zoroastrianism. But it's caught up in the crack down of the regime on dissenters. Rather than translating the entire post, due to time constraints have chosen in part for the descriptive style. Iran is the only Muslim country with a strong pre Islam...
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Politeia on 17th Mar 2010 (via newcitizenship.blogspot.com)
A moderate Muslim has not understood Islam. - Sam Solomon, twenty five minutes into a remarkable video interview of him by Ezra Levant. Solomon, who was raised a Muslim but is now a Christian, explains, in particular, just what is so explosive about the threat to Islam of Christianity. Built into Islam, says Solomon, is a huge bundle of falsehood about what Christianity actually says. Simply learn...
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Samizdata on 30th May 2011 (via samizdata.net)
The National Association of Muslim Police doesn't think that Islam is a "driver" behind recent terrorist attacks. Pointing out a supposed link between Islam and Islamism is, they believe, discriminatory. I wonder what Hasib Hussain, Mohammed Sidique Khan, Germaine Lindsay, Shehzad Tanweer (the London 7/7 terrorists), Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar, Hussain Osman, Ramzi Mohammed (the London ...
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BlaneysBlarney on 22nd Jan 2010 (via donalblaney.blogspot.com)
The Islam Channel is the largest satellite channel aimed specifically at British and European Muslims. The Islam Channel says it is committed to giving a platform to a range of views from across Britain's Muslim and non-Muslim communities. This is a complete fiction. What it is has done is to give an un-due prominence to Islamist voices that represent only a small minority of British Muslims....
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PickledPolitics on 30th Apr 2009 (via pickledpolitics.com)
Blogger Sid has a spot-on take on Islam Channel, a UK-based broadcaster: The Islam Channel says it is committed to giving a platform to a range of views from across Britain’s Muslim and non-Muslim communities. This is a complete fiction. What it is has done is to give an un-due prominence to Islamist voices that represent only
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HarrysPlace on 30th Apr 2009 (via hurryupharry.org)
This is the story of Bridges TV, the US equivalent of the United Kingdom’s Islam Channel. Founded in 2003, this is how the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islam Online described its genesis: While driving one night last year, Muzzammil S. Hassan and his wife, Aasiya, were listening to a talk show that took an anti-Muslim turn. Aasiya turned to
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HarrysPlace on 14th Feb 2009 (via hurryupharry.org)
"As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith" The Nation of Islam? "It was Islam – at places like al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment" Rubbish. "And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibili...
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DavidLindsay on 4th Jun 2009 (via davidaslindsay.blogspot.com)
It's a real problem. "Staff at a top security jail fear Muslim inmates are pressurising other Muslim prisoners to adopt extremist views and encouraging other offenders to convert to Islam, according to an inspection report published today. Prison officers at Whitemoor jail also feared growing radicalisation and conversions among the 395 inmates, of whom almost one third were Muslims.On one wi...
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ATangledWeb on 10th Oct 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
What happens to society's as the Muslim population grows in percentage of the total? In the book, Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, written by Dr. Peter Hammond, he explores the topic of the impact that an increasing Muslim population has on that society. The lists below illustrate the Muslim population status of countries around the world, and exactl...
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PoliticsandFinance on 24th Jun 2010 (via politicsandfinance.blogspot.com)
And, moreover, they find it painfully obvious that the state broadcasting company is ‘pandering to Britain's Muslim community by making a disproportionate number of programmes on Islam at the expense of covering other Asian religions’. It is, they say ‘BBC policy’. Research establishes that over the past seven years, the BBC has made 41 programmes on Islam, compared wi...
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Cranmer on 11th Sep 2008 (via archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com)