Category Archives: Islam

Hang the Hangmen

Britain, History, Islam, Justice, Morality, Religion, The West

With reference to Abdul Rahman of Afghanistan who narrowly averted death for apostasy: I pointed out that the “Afghani judiciary is criminal, not—conservative,” as it had been characterized in our multicultural media. By natural law standards, to kill someone for his beliefs is a crime.

Mark Steyn dredges a delightful anecdote from a time when Englishmen were real men and knew what was naturally just. A doff of the hat to George Reisman for sending along this relic from a proud past:

“In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of `suttee’ – the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Gen. Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural: `You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.'”

Updated: Muhammad on the Cover of "The New Individualist"

Islam, The Zeitgeist

The winter-2006 issue of The New Individualist should be on sale any day now. Robert J. Bidinotto, TNI’s perfectionist editor (actually, he’s a slave driver), reveals that:

[H]e is the editor of the first magazine in America (to the best of his knowledge) to have PUBLISHED THE MOST “OFFENSIVE” OF THOSE DANISH CARTOON DEPICTIONS OF MUHAMMAD RIGHT ON THE MAGAZINE’S COVER.

And that:

The issue… contains a number of great articles, essays, and reviews by the likes of constitutional law expert Henry Mark Holzer, columnist Ilana Mercer, filmmaker Duncan Scott, art expert Michelle Marder Kamhi, and essayists Roger Donway and Lou Villadsen.

I review Paul Sperry’s Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.

You can find out about The New Individualist, get a free sample copy, or subscribe, by clicking here.

Update: Robert Bidinotto’s cover-art decision has generated tons of support. Read Michelle Malkin’s write-up. Praise from Samizdata is here. This is a good time to subscribe to the only magazine in the country to have featured the most controversial drawing, smack-dab where it can’t be missed.

Updated: Muhammad on the Cover of “The New Individualist”

Islam, The Zeitgeist

The winter-2006 issue of The New Individualist should be on sale any day now. Robert J. Bidinotto, TNI’s perfectionist editor (actually, he’s a slave driver), reveals that:

[H]e is the editor of the first magazine in America (to the best of his knowledge) to have PUBLISHED THE MOST “OFFENSIVE” OF THOSE DANISH CARTOON DEPICTIONS OF MUHAMMAD RIGHT ON THE MAGAZINE’S COVER.

And that:

The issue… contains a number of great articles, essays, and reviews by the likes of constitutional law expert Henry Mark Holzer, columnist Ilana Mercer, filmmaker Duncan Scott, art expert Michelle Marder Kamhi, and essayists Roger Donway and Lou Villadsen.

I review Paul Sperry’s Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.

You can find out about The New Individualist, get a free sample copy, or subscribe, by clicking here.

Afghani Judiciary is Criminal, Not 'Conservative'

Criminal Injustice, Islam, The State

In the matter of Afghanistan V. Abdul Rahman: Rahman faces the death penalty for converting to Christianity. The Christian Science Monitor characterizes the case as showing “the tension between the more Western approach being advocated by Karzai’s government, and more conservative elements in the country.”

Come again! Conservative elements? These are criminal, not conservative, elements.

By natural law standards, to kill someone for of his beliefs is a crime. Natural justice is immutably true; it is the ultimate guide to what’s right or wrong. The law of the state—any state—ought to be rejected and condemned when it conflicts with natural law.

Most of what Bush does is naturally illicit, but that’s another story.