By Tawfik Hamid The recent terror act in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik is -without doubt- a heinous and an evil act. This attack cannot be ignored as it may herald the very early stages of serious communal conflict or worse in Europe. At the same time, what conclusions does it merit? The attack does illustrate [...]
Posts Tagged ‘intolerance’
July 27, 2011 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Security, Terrorism, Violence
Social Tagging: intolerance • Norway • radical • terrorism • violence
Filed under: Security, Terrorism, Violence
Social Tagging: intolerance • Norway • radical • terrorism • violence
May 19, 2011 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Anti-Christian Violence
Social Tagging: intolerance • persecution • radical • Turkey • violence
Filed under: Anti-Christian Violence
Social Tagging: intolerance • persecution • radical • Turkey • violence
From the Middle East Quarterly by John Eibner Middle East Quarterly Spring 2011, pp. 41-52 (view PDF) The brutal murder of the head of Turkey’s Catholic Church, Bishop Luigi Padovese, on June 3, 2010, has rattled the country’s small, diverse, and hard-pressed Christian community.[1] The 62-year-old bishop, who spearheaded the Vatican’s efforts to improve Muslim-Christian relations [...]
May 18, 2011 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Islam
Social Tagging: intolerance • politically correct • racism • taqiyya
Filed under: Islam
Social Tagging: intolerance • politically correct • racism • taqiyya
From Citizen Warrior Is Ayaan Hirsi Ali a racist? She was born in Somalia, from which she escaped to avoid an arranged marriage, and she eventually became a member of Parliament in the Netherlands. She helped produce a film with Theo Van Gogh which criticized Islam’s treatment of women. Van Gogh was shot to death [...]
April 20, 2011 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: christianity
Social Tagging: Afghanistan • intolerance • persecution
Filed under: christianity
Social Tagging: Afghanistan • intolerance • persecution
by Raymond Ibrahim The now infamous Koran burning by Florida pastor Terry Jones has created hysteria in the Muslim world. In Afghanistan alone, some twenty people, including U.N. workers, have been killed and beheaded to screams of “Allahu Akbar!” Western leaders around the globe—including Obama and members of Congress—have unequivocally condemned Jones’ actions (without bothering [...]
December 3, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Islam, Radical Islam
Social Tagging: intolerance • islamism • violence
Filed under: Islam, Radical Islam
Social Tagging: intolerance • islamism • violence
[Tawfik Hamid is a moderate, reformist Muslim who is one of a few lone voices attempting to bring Islam into the 21st century. He sent the following email.] Fighting Islam with Islam by Tawfik Hamid Unbiased observation of the Islamism phenomenon reveals beyond doubt that barbaric acts and discrimination against non-Muslim minorities are repeatedly practiced [...]
December 3, 2010 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Islam
Social Tagging: intolerance • islamophobia
Filed under: Islam
Social Tagging: intolerance • islamophobia
by David J. Rusin http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/12/hate-crime-stats-where-the-islamophobia Islamist pressure groups have spent years pushing the meme that Muslims in America face ever-increasing violence at the hands of their fellow citizens, but new statistics on hate crimes reported to the FBI once again undermine such claims. Just-released data covering 2009 (summarized in this important table) include 107 anti-Islamic hate crime incidents [...]
September 24, 2010 by Joe · 1 Comment
Filed under: christianity, Islam
Social Tagging: constitution • intolerance • Islam • persecution • politically correct • religious freedom
Filed under: christianity, Islam
Social Tagging: constitution • intolerance • Islam • persecution • politically correct • religious freedom
by David J. Rusin • Sep 24, 2010 at 10:27 am http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/09/trend-christians-preach-to-muslims-get-arrested Does the First Amendment protect Christians who bring their message to Muslims at public events or in front of mosques? This is a good question, given the trend of missionaries being placed under arrest while proselytizing to followers of Islam — right here [...]
August 9, 2010 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Islam
Social Tagging: ground zero • intolerance • islamism • mosque
Filed under: Islam
Social Tagging: ground zero • intolerance • islamism • mosque
The following article appeared on the opinion page of the Washington Post, Sunday August 8, 2010. I will let the author’s words speak for her. The author is a Muslim woman from Iran, now living in the U.S. A Muslim victim of 9/11: ‘Build your mosque somewhere else’ By Neda Bolourchi I have no grave [...]
August 2, 2010 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Islam, Politics
Social Tagging: intolerance • Islam • Obama • persecution • religious freedom
Filed under: Islam, Politics
Social Tagging: intolerance • Islam • Obama • persecution • religious freedom
Eighteen months ago the Hudson Institute issued a report under a broad category of reports identified as “Perspectives for the New Administration.” The report was targeted specifically at the new incoming administration of President Obama and it set out to suggest specific initiatives the new administration should undertake to end religious persecution worldwide. As the [...]
March 14, 2010 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Filed under: christianity
Social Tagging: intolerance • Islam • Morocco
Filed under: christianity
Social Tagging: intolerance • Islam • Morocco
I personally have friends serving in Morocco who have been there a number of years. Although Islam is the official government religion, the King of Morocco has taken great strides over the years to allow all religions freedom to worship in the Muslim nation. That all seems to be changing now with the appointment of [...]
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