Some of the stuff you run into in Muslim dominated Middle Eastern countries is not only surprising but entirely horrific. Here’s a video of a proud Saudi Arabian father auctioning off his young son as a ‘sacred sacrifice’ to Islam.     The young man is destined to become a jihadi suicide bomber while his [...]

                                 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the Weekly Standard: In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration is grappling with how to handle Islamists, radical adherents to Islam. Particularly, the issue has come to the fore in regards to Egypt, which, as Reuel Marc Gerecht notes, "is now certain" to elect "an Islamist" as [...]

Bashar and Asma al-Assad, President and first-wife of Syria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last year with the coming of the ‘Arab Spring,’ the popular notion projected and supported by the Western media was that oppressed people in the Middle East were rising up against their long-time ruthless dictators seeking Western-style democracy. Since that time, in every [...]

                                            (Image via Wikipedia) The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, recently called for the destruction of all Christian churches in the region. This declaration came in response to an inquiry by a delegation from Kuwait. Raymond Ibrahim reports: According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin [...]

          (Image via Wikipedia) From NDTV: Riyadh: A Saudi woman was beheaded on Monday after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said. Amina bin Abdulhalim Nassar was executed in the northern province of Jawf for "practising witchcraft and sorcery," the ministry said in a statement carried [...]

             (Image via Wikipedia) The U.S. government shut down the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on November 18 due to lack of funding. The USCIRF was the government agency that monitored religious freedom in countries around the world. According to reports, the allocation of funding for the commission could not get out of [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ began with the revolt in Tunisia. The secularists got their vote but on Monday it was the Islamist party which commanded the majority and will lead the Assembly in writing a new constitution for the North African Muslim country. Now it appears certain with an Islamist victory that [...]