Top conservative cleric Ayatollah Ja’far Sobhani has recently ruled that religious law forbids the use of mobile phones containing Islamic contents in bathrooms… Continue reading
Een Amerikaanse diplomaat beklaagt zich in een memo van 3 juli 2001 erover dat het Vaticaan weinig behulpzaam is in het Vredesproces en Midden Oosten diplomatie, omdat de Heilige Stoel [het bestuurlijke orgaan] vrijwel uitsluitend aan haar eigen… Lees verder
If you’re a regular visitor to our website, you’ll probably know that we published an article on August 09, 2010 about an Iranian website promoting chastity and hijab by using posters, clothes and bags. We also showed you some posters which they use for their promotional activities, because it gives us a… Continue reading
Seyyed Mehdi Khamoushi, the head of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, announced this week the coming launch of Wikifeqh, an online encyclopedia which is based on “wiki” technology and includes articles on Islamic religious law and the principles of Islam… Continue reading
In a speech given by IHH leader Bulent Yildirim two months prior to the Marmara flotilla, he presented a radical Islamic ideology with anti-Western and anti-Israeli motifs. He said that the aim of the flotilla was to isolate Israel by “breaking the siege” and stressed his determination… Continue reading
Curious how the niqabi’s hidden identity would be handled, I looked back as the trio was dealing with the security agent. To my astonishment, the agent did not demand to see the niqabi’s face but was… Continue reading
Since September 11 2001, the crusades are news and are quite possibly the most misunderstood event in European history. So, what do the medieval crusades have to do with… Continue reading
Retired ambassadors hit back at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s criticisms of Foreign Ministry diplomats, saying no diplomat deserves to be the target of such uninformed speech… Continue reading
On April 29, the United Nations elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a [totalitarian] theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and… Continue reading
Eind mei vergadert de Moslimbroederschap in Amsterdam. Deze organisatie verhult zijn doelstellingen niet: vernietiging van Israel en het bevorderen van islamitische wereldoverheersing. Maar volgens sommigen… Continue reading
Op NOS-teletekst lees ik het bericht dat Amnesty International scherpe kritiek heeft op het (wellicht aanstaande) boerka-verbod in België. Volgens Amnesty is het in strijd met de mensenrechten en de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Daarnaast gaat er een gevaarlijke precedentwerking vanuit… Continue reading
Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world… Continue reading
In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, many people anticipated a quick and satisfying American victory over Al Qaeda. The terrorist army was thought to be no bigger than a pirate ship… Continue reading
In the fourth century of the Christian era, Emperor Constantine converted the Roman Empire to Christianity. But Constantine, in Qutb’s interpretation, did this in a spirit of pagan hypocrisy… Continue reading
Turkey’s Brinkmanship Against Israel
The Gaza Flotilla was a well-calculated stunt by Turkey’s Islamist AKP government to punish Israel, not only for the Islamists’ inherent hatred for Israel and Jews, but also for Israel’s past… Continue reading