Archive for the ‘Non-Christian Religions’ Category
The claim that Hinduism is a uniquely pacific and tolerant religion is dangerous bunk, says (UK) Guardian columnist Rahila Gupta. There is a profoundly disquieting myth about Hinduism which has been put about by its adherents so often and so successfully that it is in danger of crystallising into a truth – that of its [...]
Tags: Hinduism, Hypocrisy, India, Persecution, Rahila Gupta, Sikhism
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Non-Christian Religions | 2 Comments »
A Singapore court has convicted a Christian couple for handing out a particular brand of religious tracts to Muslims. The pair could be fined or even imprisoned. A Singapore court Thursday has found a Christian couple guilty for distributing seditious and objectionable publications to Muslims, media reports said. Between March and December 2007, Ong Kian [...]
Tags: Evangelism, Folly, Jack Chick, Persecution, Singapore
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues | 3 Comments »
Sikhism officially rejects India’s caste system, but the murder of a Sikh religious leader at a Vienna temple is believed to have been motivated by caste-based prejudice. The mayhem in Vienna sparked rioting in Punjab state, northwest India. Dalits in Vancouver have denounced the killing, calling it an act of terrorism. Outraged by the killing [...]
Tags: Austria, India, Injustice, Sikhism
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Canada, Non-Christian Religions | 1 Comment »
A British judge went out of his way to denounce “honour” crimes in a case involving three children of Pakistani descent being cared for by a non-Muslim family. The children’s mother is in prison for setting her sister-in-law’s house on fire in a dispute involving alleged violations of family honour. The father was refused care [...]
Tags: Culture of life, Honour crime, Islamic teaching
Posted in Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
A British Muslim mother has been sentenced to three years for forcing her school-age daughters to marry cousins in Pakistan. A Muslim mother who forced her two daughters to marry their cousins in Pakistan has been jailed for three years and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register. She told her elder daughter that if [...]
Tags: England, Forced marriage, Islamic teaching, Pakistan
Posted in Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
So says Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (at right), a British Muslim peer, Conservative MP, and Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action. PC SENSITIVITIES must not block efforts to protect women from forced marriage and violence, a leading Muslim peer said yesterday. Sayeeda Warsi believes “white liberalism” – the belief people cannot talk about such [...]
Tags: Forced marriage, Islamic teaching, Political correctness, Sayeeda Warsi
Posted in Islam, Life Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
US President Barack Obama has chosen Egypt as the site of his promised major speech to the Muslim world. Christian Freedom International (CFI) hopes he will not overlook Egypt’s atrocious record of trampling on the religious liberties of Christians. According to [CFI President Jim] Jacobson, “When it comes to human rights and the treatment of [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Egypt, Islamic teaching, Persecution
Posted in Africa, Christianity, Islam, Non-Christian Religions, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United States | 1 Comment »
April 30th, 2009 | Comments Off
So much for that “Islamic solidarity” stuff. Tehran has canceled the Islamic Solidarity Games after Saudi Arabia asked Iran to remove the term Persian Gulf from game medals and brochures. The Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) Secretary General Saleh Gazdar and Technical Committee Chairman Mohammad Bashir Al-Trabosli said in a Tehran meeting that Arab states [...]
Tags: Folly, Iran, Islamic teaching, Saudi Arabia
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Islam | Comments Off
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issued a letter of greeting to the Coptic Diaspora on the occasion of Easter, which Eastern Christians celebrated on 19 April. Voice of the Copts says President Mubarak’s letter contains Taquiah—dissimulation or falsehood permitted by Islam under certain conditions. (The word is also spelled “Taqiyya” in English.) In last week’s letter, [...]
Tags: Coptic Church, Egypt, Hypocrisy, Islamic teaching, Persecution, Taqiyya
Posted in Africa, Christianity, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 2 Comments »
April 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment
A Glasgow jewellery shop has decided to bar individuals wearing face coverings after being robbed by two men in Muslim female dress. BBC News reports. ATAA Jewellers in the west end of Glasgow was raided by two Asian men entirely covered apart from their eyes. […] The two girls working at the time were left [...]
Tags: Hypocrisy, Islamic teaching, Scotland
Posted in Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
April 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment
In an interview published in Macleans, Hossain Ali Ramoz, executive director of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, insists that most Afghan Shia Muslims do not support the controversial law obligating a wife to “fulfill the sexual desires of her husband”. Afghanistan’s Shias, most of whom belong to the Hazara ethnic group, are typically among the [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Iran, Islamic teaching, Marriage and family
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Islam | 1 Comment »
April 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment
Four Christian leaders in Camden, Australia, have spoken against the construction of a Muslim school. Their attack goes beyond the logistics of this particular project to condemn Islam itself. Most astonishing (to me, anyway) is that one of the Christians leaders is Anglican. Calling the religion an ideology driven by world domination, a submission to [...]
Tags: Australia, Ecumenism, Education, Islamic teaching
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Islam | 1 Comment »
April 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment
The British Home Office calls it “search engine optimisation”, but that’s just a euphemism for “manipulation”. Whatever you call it, it’s idiotic and futile. Whitehall officials will train pro-West Islamic groups to manipulate their Google search ranking in an attempt to drown out extremist voices online, The Register has learned. The policy is being developed [...]
Tags: Folly, Internet, Islamic teaching, UK politics
Posted in Computers and technology, Islam, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
April 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment
In India, Christians are vilified and attacked by Hindus; in Sri Lanka, Buddhists are the persecutors. Buddhist mobs attacked several churches in Sri Lanka last week, threatening to kill a pastor in the southern province of Hambanthota and ransacking a 150-year-old Methodist church building in the capital. On April 8, four Buddhist extremists approached the [...]
Tags: Buddhism, Persecution, Sri Lanka
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Non-Christian Religions, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 1 Comment »
Muslim militants set upon Christians and burned churches in Niger state, northern Nigeria, during Easter celebrations last weekend. Christian services and processions were attacked in the state capital of Minna and the nearby town of Gwada. [T]he day turned bloody in Gwada, where three churches were burnt while about 26 Christians were injured. In Minna, [...]
Tags: Nigeria, Persecution
Posted in Africa, Christianity, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 2 Comments »