News from Iran, via Robert Tait at the Daily Telegraph: …A fundamentalist MP, Mohammad Ali Asfenani, has said Iran has a religious obligation to legally recognise the weddings of girls as young as nine. “As some people may not comply with our current Islamic legal system, we must regard nine as being the appropriate age for […]
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Glenn Beck’s End-Times Prophet Joel Richardson responds to my recent post deunking his claim on WND that “51 million” girls under the age of ten are being married to Muslim men in an “epidemic across the Muslim world”: Personally, it is largely irrelevant to my primary point if it is 51 million or 1 million. Either way, […]
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Mark Goodacre’s NT Blog has the details: I commented yesterday on the error-laden obituary of Marvin Meyer in The Telegraph. It turns out that the errors are not the worst of it. Chunks of the piece have been plagiarized. Meyer’s specialism was Gnosticism, and the errors in the obituary include the false claim that “The Gospel of Mary suggests a sexual […]
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From Joel Richardson, last week at WND: An article featured last week on CNN’s website by Samuel Burke highlighted the epidemic of child brides throughout the Islamic world. Burke’s article begins by discussing the marriage of Faiz, an 11-year-old girl, and Ghulam, a 40-year-old man, in Afghanistan. …According to Burke, there are approximately 51 million such child […]
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From an anonymous “Guest Post” at Harry’s Place: The Islamia Village event that was to take place at Thorpe Underwood Estate this Bank Holiday weekend (24th— 27th August) has now been cancelled. Readers of this blog were first alerted to this event by The Islamic Far-Right in Britain, reposted at Harry’s Place on the 13th of July. […]
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From Jon Swaine at the Telegraph: Mitt Romney met John Willke, the doctor credited with popularising Todd Akin’s controversial views on rape and abortion, during the current election campaign and told him they agreed on “almost everything,” Dr Willke said. Dr Willke, a prominent anti-abortion campaigner, claims to be an authority on the theory espoused by […]
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Marko Attila Hoare has published an account of his reasons for severing his association with the Henry Jackson Society, citing concerns about leadership, procedure, direction – and the involvement of Douglas Murray: Murray was and is also the director of another outfit, the ‘Centre for Social Cohesion’. Or rather, he is the Centre for Social Cohesion… In April […]
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Also: Bishop of London is “silly and faintly disgraceful” In the wake of the Pussy Riot sentencing, yesterday’s Observer saw Nick Cohen draw attention to the book Freedom and Responsibility: A Search for Harmony, by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow: If its Amazon ranking is a guide, hardly any English reader has glanced at it, which is a pity […]
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A July article in Roll Call (“The Newspaper of Capitol Hill”) profiles Chris Stewart, who will be a Congressman from Utah from November: Stewart… is a conservative Republican who surprised political observers by winning Utah’s 2nd district nominating convention with more than 60 percent of the vote, thereby avoiding a primary. …While in the USAF, he […]
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Timothy Furnish of MahdiWatch casts an eye over a recent Pew Forum study on “The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity“, based on “38,000 face-to-face interviews in over 80 languages”: Of the 23 countries whose Muslim citizens were polled, nine have majorities which expect the Mahdi in their lifetimes, with the overall average percentage at 41.8%–and considering […]
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