Well, President Trump? How big are your cajones? ======= On the night before her final hearing before Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Asia Bibi had a dream. “I saw in a dream that all the doors of the prison are open,” she described, “and I’m worrying that if the jail superintendent comes she will be very furious.” Hope can burn from the faintest wick. For... Read more
Archive for the ‘Islam’ Category
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December 5 | Posted by mrossol | Christianity, Islam, Religious PersecutionThe Truth About Muhammad Ali and the Draft
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Islam, Radical IslamMy bet? That you’ve never heard this before… ========== WSJ 4/28/2017 By Paul Beston On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali—then still known to many by his birth name, Cassius Clay—reported to Local Board No. 61 in Houston for induction into the U.S. armed forces. The 25-year-old heavyweight champion spent the morning filling out forms and receiving a physical exam. In the afternoon,... Read more
Can Islam Really Function in Democracy?
July 27 | Posted by mrossol | Islam, Losing Freedom, Radical Islam, Western CivilizationTHis one is a bit long, but well worth the read. ===== WSJ 7/23/2016 First Egypt and now Turkey show the perils of ideological religious parties (and strongman rule), but other Muslim countries are faring better with democracy. BY YAROSLAV TROFIMOV IN 1999, a former mayor of Istanbul named Recep Tayyip Erdogan was imprisoned and banned from politics for life for reciting a poem. “Our... Read more
Poll: Unease of Islam Growing in EU
May 8 | Posted by mrossol | Europe, Islam, Western CivilizationSometimes I can’t believe it has taken this long. Of course, the liberal left, with its dominance in the media, likely have a significant impact filtering what might be a significantly wide-spread unease. ============ France is waking up. Breitbart reports that “an Ifop poll for Le Figaro measuring perceptions of Islam has found that people have a growing sense of unease about its... Read more
Let’s Stop It Before It’s Too Late
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Islam, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationFrom my friend Bob Ruble. If you don’t ready anything else today, read this. ============= More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the Obama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana. One of the speakers was a... Read more
January 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Islam, Religion
I side with Wheaton. Christians and Muslims – worship the same God? That is such a stretch. ======== By Stephen Prothero WSJ Jan. 7, 2016 7:09 p.m. Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? For a month, controversy has swirled over that question at Wheaton College in Illinois. In December, Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science, was placed on administrative leave... Read more
