Tag Archives: Islam

The above text provided by Right Wing Watch lays out how the Texas chapter of the Phyllis Schlafly-founded Eagle Forum wants Muslims banned from the military, banned from political office, and banned from having government jobs. For those blissfully unaware, the Eagle Forum is the once powerful (but recently resurgent) Christianist group that seeks to install a theocratic U.S. government. …

National Public Radio has fired host Juan Williams (who also does political commentary for Fox) after he said on the Bill O’Reilly Show that seeing Muslim-looking people on airplanes makes him nervous. And all of Teabagistan is going nuts. Williams, who is also an analyst for Fox News, told Fox today that he was not given a chance to defend …

Florida Pastor Terry “Burn The Koran” Jones is getting a free car from a New Jersey dealership that is making good on their promise to give him one if he didn’t follow through on his plan. Car dealer Brad Benson made the pitch to Florida pastor Terry Jones in one of his quirky radio ads: If you don’t burn a …

(Via – Towleroad)

Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge today. Playing to the numerous cameras, the defiant Shahzad warned the packed courtroom that the Islamic war on America “has just begun.” “The defeat of the U.S. is imminent, inshallah, ” Shahzad said on Tuesday during the sentencing. Speaking in a 14th-floor courtroom …

Waving stills from the movies, hundreds of Islamic extremists protested yesterday in Jakarta, Indonesia demanding the closure of a gay film festival. Via the Jakarta Post: Clad in white Muslim attire, the members of the hard-line group removed posters of the movies to be screened during the Q Film Festival, being held from Sept. 21 to Sept. 30 in a …

North Carolina nurse Renee Ellmers is anti-gay, anti-health care reform, anti-immigration, anti-abortion and thinks Big Oil should just drill the fuck out of her state’s pristine coastal waters. Oh…and Islam of of the devil. Or something. Renee Ellmers for Congress. (Via – Pam Spaulding)

The city of Gainesville, Florida says it is sending Dove World Ministries a bill for $180,000 to pay for all the extra police protection they had to provide Pastor Terry Jones during the week-long media circus as he threatened to burn the Koran. Stand by for the teabagger fundraising to commence.

The man who ripped out pages of the Koran and burned them during the 9/11 protest at Ground Zero has been fired by his employer, NJ Transit. The incident was posted on YouTube and aired on television around the world. NJ Transit said that Derek Fenton’s “public actions” violated its code of ethics and that he “violated his trust as …

“We are doing a poor job of fighting the terrorists at home if we continue to allow Muslim immigrants, especially from Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, into America. We won’t win this war if we permit the uncontrolled construction of mosques, as well as Islamic schools, some of which already have sown the seeds from which future terrorists will be cultivated. …

Today the French Senate voted nearly unanimously* to ban the wearing of burqas in public, but the bill must pass constitutional review before it becomes law. The Senate voted 246 to 1 Tuesday in favor of the bill, which has already passed in the lower chamber, the National Assembly. It will need President Nicolas Sarkozy’s signature. Legislative leaders said they …

“This practice [of first cousin marriages], which has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses, was sanctioned by Muhammad and has been going on now for 50 generations (1,400 years) in the Muslim world. This practice of inbreeding will never go away in the Muslim world since Muhammad is the ultimate example and authority on all …

Nicely stated. The wingnuts are already going crazy.

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Having already predicted on Twitter that Pastor Terry Jones “would cave under pressure,” the Westboro Baptist Church vows that they’ll conduct a Koran burning of their own. Jones has protested with the Phelps family in years past, but apparently earned their enmity since then. Probably because he got more publicity than they did.

Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida’s Dove Outreach Ministry agreed late this afternoon to cancel his planned burning of Korans on September 11th. Additionally, Jones will fly to NYC this weekend and speak with the imam backing the Cordoba House about finding another location for the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” The agreement was announced by an imam from the Central …

“There’s really a staggering level of hypocrisy and double standard here for the military to burn the Holy Bible and then complain when a pastor’s going to do the same thing to the Quran. You know, if the military was going to be fair here and even-handed, they would count up the number of Holy Bibles that they incinerated in …

How many pastors does a 50-member church need anyway?