The Rant

I have sometimes heard Islam praised for its strict criminal law system. The practice of chopping off hands for petty theft, for example, is admired as a no nonsense path to the paradise of perfect law and order. I am not sure as to the proper context for problems with "civil unrest" currently plaguing Gaza, and Iraq, in battles between Shiites and Sunnis, and Hamas and Fatah. Replacing petty crime with civil war is not quite my idea of perfect justice. Leaving those questions aside, it is also true that some strict law and order types fail to consider that under Islamic law, theological questions are also matters for the criminal courts. There is not doubt that Moslems take these matters very seriously. For example, the penalty for apostasy (dropping out of Islam), sometimes called changing your mind in the west, is death . If this be the case, what would be a reasonable and just punishment for merely thinking about leaving the faith, such as by talking to Christians or re

The religion of peace demonstrating that it has sympathy with mercy killing; the ultimate path to peace is well worn in Islam. Gunmen Invade Gaza and Kill Injured Patient Gaza - Ma'an – Gunmen disguised in Executive Force uniform invaded the Kamal Adwan Hospital and assassinated injured patient, Ramadan Sa'ed Ghaben, as well as shooting two women who were with him, on Thursday night. The Palestinian health ministry condemned the attack and issued a statement warning that several hospitals and medical centres in Gaza are in danger of similar attacks. The statement added that such attacks are negatively affecting the work of medical staff, and hospitals are seriously considering ceasing work, in order to protect staff. Ma'an News Agency _________________

by Hugh Fitzgerald (from Dhimmi Watch ) It has been nearly six years since the World Trade Center attack. It has been four decades since the Six-Day War, which signaled for the Arabs and Muslims a recognition that regular warfare, in the Lesser Jihad against Israel, would not do, and terrorism would have to be employed. And so began plane hijackings, and letter-bombs in embassies, and the seizing of schoolchildren and their subsequent murders (Ma'alot), and the explosions of planes in mid-air (that TWA plane that rose to a certain height and then, bam!), the smuggling of explosives onboard through the use of innocent Infidels (that pregnant Irish girl, given a "package" to unwittingly deliver on an El Al flight by her "Palestinian" boyfriend whom she loved so very much -- but apparently he had other ideas). It has been four and a half years since the Iraq War began, a war whose folly can only be properly understood not by those who counsel appeasement, not by