Via WSJ: Last year Random House signed a $100,000, two-book deal with journalist Sherry Jones for The Jewel of Medina, a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha’s life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. In May, Random House abruptly called off publication of the book, fearing...
Saudi man ‘wins’ 10-yr-old in deal with her dad
Here is another gem from our friends, the Saudis. Received by email from Vick, from this Arab news source. A 60-year old Saudi man who was set to marry a 10-year old girl—he ‘won’ in a bet with her father—has postponed his marriage after protests from human rights groups, press reports revealed. The fate of the little girl was decided after her father dared the elderly man to marry a...
Anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Academics
From Anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Academics: PA efforts to delegitimize Israel are evident throughout Palestinian society and involve television, schoolbooks, and culture, incorporating hate messages and the denial of Israel’s right to exist. Academics including professors, religious scholars, teachers, and schoolbook authors are all participating. Palestinian academics...
Anti-Semitic Hate Speech in the Name of Islam
From Anti-Semitic Hate Speech in the Name of Islam: Farfur, the cartoon character on Hamas’ children’s television program, is a carbon copy of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. But the Hamas version does something that Mickey would never do: He entertains children while propagating the murder of Jews. Farfur’s appearances are typical of Hamas’ anti-Semitic propaganda...
Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism
Deconstructing the mythology of Islam’s historical love for the Jews. From Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism: The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism by Andrew Bostom refutes the claim that Islam, unlike Christianity, had not entertained a systematic persecution of the Jews, with a well-tailored survey of the theological, historical and juridical origins of Islamic anti-Semitism. A trove of anti...
A Hamas Family Tradition
Muslim traditions have morphed into a pathology. From A Hamas Family Tradition: In the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun on Thursday, an Israeli airstrike killed two Hamas members, including a son of senior Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Haya. The group said he had commanded a rocket-launching squad. Khalil al-Haya said, “I thank God for this gift. This is the 10th member of my family to receive...
The Guidebook for Taking a Life
More proof that the entire world should not have fallen for the ruse and the trumped up concoction and deceit that is Islam merely because the world was cursed by having its main energy source located under the feet of savges. From The Guidebook for Taking a Life: We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants about their distribution of...
Palestinians release kidnap training video
Get out your notebooks, kiddies. Islam 101 is rearing its ugly head. From Palestinians Release Kidnap Training Video: The Internet site of the Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, released a video Monday showing some members of the unit that kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit training for the operation. The narrator explains that preparations lasted six...
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