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Yesterday was World Hijab Day, a recent holiday confected to celebrate (and justify) the Muslim symbol of oppression. The description in Wikipedia says this: World Hijab Day is an annual event founded by Nazma Khan in 2013. The event takes place on February 1st each year in 140 countries worldwide. Its stated purpose is to encourage women of all religions … Continue reading World Hijab Day versus Wear A Kimono Day
CBS News reports that a Turkish woman named Seyran Ateş has started a “liberal mosque” in Berlin. This one, the Ibn-Rusd-Goethe mosque, incorporating the name of the great German literary polymath, is unusual in several respects. It welcomes devotees of any sect of Islam: Sunni, Shia, Sufi, and so on; women are not segregated from … Continue reading The demonization of Islamic reformers: woman who starts liberal mosque in Berlin gets hatred and threats from Muslims
I’ve written this headline exactly as PuffHo would have written it—if they had any rationality. In fact, by some twist of fate the subject of my post, an article by Zubin Madon, an engineer and humanist living in Bombay, India, did appear in the April 2016 PuffHo, and undercuts everything they have written denying the … Continue reading Zubin Madon has the perfect response to the Islamophilic truth haters
This video, published two days ago, features Sam Harris on Bill Maher’s “Real Time.” The conversation, about Islam and Trump’s orders on immigration, is wide ranging, centering on the need for moderate and ex-Muslims to help effect the taming of invidious Islamic theology. For those who call Sam an “Islamophobe,” this video is required viewing; but … Continue reading Sam Harris on Bill Maher
Nonie Darwish is an Egyptian-American who converted to Christianity from Islam, wrote several books criticizing Islam, its treatment of women and sharia law, and is the director of Former Muslims United. Given that her father was assassinated by the Israeli Defense Force for Islamic terrorism, you’d think she’d be violently anti-Israel, but that doesn’t seem to … Continue reading Critic of Islam is excoriated by Georgetown students for being “Islamophobic” and promulgating “hate speech”
At her website yesterday, ex-Muslim “Nice Mangos” blogger, artist, and podcaster Eiynah hosted a two-hour discussion: four women engaging in a Great Burkini/Hijab/Niqab debate. The other three were Hala Arafa (former newscaster/news editor at Voice of America, Arabic branch), Hoda Katebi (Muslim Iranian fashion blogger), and Sarah Haider (co-founder of ex Muslims of North America). If you have time, … Continue reading Four Muslim and ex-Muslim women discuss hijabs, niqabs, burkinis, morality, and modesty
UPDATE: This article appeared on the new HuffPo, and after writing this piece I realized I’d criticized the identical article a year ago, here. Well, so I’ve done it twice. My takes aren’t the same, so if you haven’t read the other one, read this one instead. Better yet, read both, as the earlier piece, which … Continue reading “Muslims are the true feminists”: HuffPo lies to itself and its readers
This tale comes from today’s Sunday Express as well as Jihad Watch (which took the story from the Express), and it’s a bit confusing. Apparently a government-funded hotline in the Netherlands has said it’s basically okay for callers (or posters) to call for the death of gays if they’re Muslims; after all, that’s what the Qur’an … Continue reading Government-funded hotline in the Netherlands says it’s okay for Muslims to threaten gays with death
