What if they were Muslim?: Killed for trying to Watch the World Cup Instead of Gospel Show Loonwatch.com Islamophobes such as Robert Spencer frequently like to say, “there is no fun in Islam.” They gleefully then make posts about how Somali extremists killed men for watching the World Cup. Now, after a man was killed by his family for watching the World Cup instead of a Gospel program will they say that there is no fun in Christianity? This just highlights that extremism and violence are not the sole property of Muslims. Police: Family killed dad for watching World Cup … Continue reading Christian Extremist Family kill Dad for watching World Cup!

South African Muslims Set Up “Welcome Centers” for Visiting World Cup Tourists IslamToday / Agencies 16 June 2010 South Africa’s Muslim community says as many as 130,000 Muslim fans could visit for the World Cup, and it has set up welcome centres and a website to inform visitors where to eat and pray close to stadiums. In Cape Town, local Muslims are expecting to welcome Muslim supporters from Algeria, who will play England in Cape Town on Friday, as well as fans of Muslim faith from competing nations such as Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon. “We thought to ourselves … Continue reading British Muslims should prepare for the 2012 Olympics like this!

Exiled on the no-fly list An American Muslim stranded in Egypt can’t board a plane home until he commits the logical impossibility of proving a negative Jennifer Abel guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 June 2010 13.30 BST Article history The oil geyser in the Gulf of Mexico has brutally driven home the message “We Americans must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.” Yet without gasoline, how can we operate the cars and trucks that make modern American life possible? Easy: just require that all internal combustion engines be replaced by clean-running, environmentally friendly perpetual motion machines. What’s that? Perpetual motion is impossible, … Continue reading How to Hate America in a few easy steps – courtesy of the FBI!

America’s new cowboy diplomacy A US citizen went on a solo mission to catch Osama bin Laden – and he’s not the first to take a DIY approach to foreign policy Lionel Beehner guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 June 2010 17.30 BST Article history Gary Brooks Faulkner who went on a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. Photograph: Scott Faulkner/APAmericans are nothing if not individualistic. That explains our go-it-alone can-do optimism that other countries find frustrating but which is the backbone of the American experiment, as it were. That is why the helplessness many of us feel as … Continue reading American DIY Cowboy

What drove Melanie Phillips to the right? The much-mocked columnist stands as a warning of what happens when the liberal-left ignores its own weaknesses Keith Kahn-Harris guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 June 2010 10.48 BST Article history Melanie Phillips, journalist and political commentator, whose new book, The World Turned Upside Down, is a polemic against the values of the post-1960s liberal-left. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianAt least in liberal-left circles, the reaction to Melanie Phillips‘s The World Turned Upside Down has largely been a mixture of bemusement and amusement. The book is the culmination of Phillips’s journey from campaigning leftist journalist … Continue reading Melanie Phillips – why she became a Mad!

The MCB’s Wonderland election The vote for a new leader of the Muslim Council of Britain points up worrying fissures Madeleine Bunting The Guardian, Friday 18 June 2010 Article history Imagine an election with only one declared candidate running … and he is not going to win. It may sound like a form of democracy better devised in Alice’s Wonderland, but unfortunately it’s home grown: this is how the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is due to decide on its next leader this Sunday. Over the past few years, the MCB has been repeatedly lambasted in the media; its sins … Continue reading Muslim Council of Britain in Wonderland?

Fierce warriors set to battle at Shandur Dawn.com Sports Desk Players from Gilgit and Chitral in action at the 2009 Shandur Polo Festival, Chitral, Pakistan. -Photo by APP Sport Chitral bag annual Shandur title with win over Gilgit Chitral bag annual Shandur title with win over Gilgit It will be blood and guts when Gilgit will take on Chitral in Pakistan’s annual Shandur Polo festival next month. The festival takes place on the Shandur Pass, the world’s highest polo ground, rising 3,700 meters above sea level. To an outsider it may seem like a scene from a medieval war-epic and … Continue reading Polo – Shandur!

2014 will determine course of century, says Cambridge professor A dramatic event that will determine the course of the 21st century will take place in 2014, according to a Cambridge University academic. telegraph.co.uk In 1517 Martin Luther nailed his theses to the door of Wittenburg church, sparking the Reformation and the rise of Protestantism Prof Nicholas Boyle claims that events of the fateful year will decide whether the world enjoys peace and prosperity over the coming decades or suffers war and poverty. He believes financial turmoil could be the trigger for the crisis, and that the reactions of American leaders … Continue reading 2014 not 2012 to be decisive moment

Saudi clerics issue fatwa okaying adult breast-feeding as way of circumventing Islamic law BY Paulina Reso Fuse/Getty Related News Articles Full-body airport scanners violate Islamic law, says Muslim-American group Muslim women barred from flight after refusing full-body scan Saudi woman blasts Muslim clerics’ ‘frightening’ religious edicts on TV Kissing cousins? Not quite. While it has been common for women to breast-feed their young male relations so that they may be allowed together alone later, two Saudi clerics recently advocated extending the practice to unrelated adult males. As part of Islamic law, men and women are forbidden to be alone together, … Continue reading I will NOT ask ‘any woman’ for her breast milk 😦

Danios of LoonWatch Accepts Robert Spencer’s Challenge to a Debate Posted on 17 June 2010 by Danios LOONWATCH.COM (Please keep checking this site for updates) Lord Voldemort, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Once again, Robert Spencer responds to one of my articles but refuses to take my name.  I am forever “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.”  Spencer says: And on those rare occasions when the opposition does offer a substantive response, it’s tissue-paper thin. A friend recently told me that he posted a lengthy rebuttal to a pseudo-scholarly presentation purporting to prove false something I said about the meaning of an Arabic word (my friend is a native … Continue reading Debate Robert Spencer!