People died during Tawaf al-Wada

During the Tawaf al-Wada about 345 people died, being trapped.
Tthe Tawaf al-Wada is performed after the Hajj has finished. And every year several people seem to die during the performance of this ritual.
According to the BBC, the stoning is the riskiest ritual of the Hajj, as worshippers jostle to try to target the stones, often [...]

Some call it entertainment

Some others call it sick to regard it as such! A serious case divided the Dutch nation, and to name it entertainment wouldn’t be regarded as a sensitive action. However, the BBC, which I normally regard very high in their news coverage had no trouble in calling conviction of the van Gogh killer as [...]

Who condemns Israel?

I sometimes wonder, why do people commit attrocities? Why do people scream when they themselves can be blamed for a more or less likewise activity as they scream about? In his article at the Thomas Paige blog the activist Jason Miller writes several statements made by Israeli politicians in which they call for the destruction [...]

response to Fitzgerald

2.The word “moderate” cannot be reasonably applied to any Muslim who continues to deny the contents — the real contents, not the sanitized or gussied-up contents — of Qur’an, hadith, and sira. Whether that denial is based on ignorance, or based on embarrassment, or based on filial piety (and an unwillingness to wash dirty ideological [...]

Burkha prohibition

Ok, I agree, if you don’t read Dutch, you ignorant you, this article link might be dificult and you have to believe me!
The Dutch parlement has agreed that a Burkha should be prohibited in public areas. I as a DutchMAN and a Muslim wonder what the advantages and democratic justification of this prohibition might [...]