This silly and naive policy is what results from the pervasive fundamental misunderstanding about the causes and roots of terrorism. From Reuters, with thanks to Ali Dashti: LONDON – Britain signalled its commitment to its Muslim community yesterday as a leaked document revealed a project to ‘win the hearts and minds’ of Islamic extremists and […]
Archives for May 2004
New generation of Osamas emerging
Despite the assumptions of some Western analysts, Islamic radicalism never was remotely close to being a personality cult centered around Osama. But just in case someone didn’t get the point, here is some information about some lesser-known but powerful terrorist leaders. From AP, with thanks to Peter Rockas: From the dusty Sahara to the jungles […]
Australia: Why did Jamal get bail?
Why was this man released? From The Age, with thanks to GMG: An Australian man arrested on terrorism charges in Lebanon should not have been given bail when facing serious firearms charges in NSW, Police Minister John Watkins said today. Saleh Jamal was arrested on Friday in Lebanon along with a Lebanese Australian, known only […]
Girls at London Saudi school are treated ‘as inferiors’
From The Telegraph, and IR1948: A London school funded by the Saudi Arabian government is facing complaints from parents that it is teaching British children “fundamentalist” Islam while giving girls an inferior education. The King Fahd Academy in Acton, west London, named after the current Saudi ruler, devotes up to 50 per cent of lessons […]
Top Pro-Taliban Cleric Gunned Down in Karachi
He lived by the sword, he died by the sword. From Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei: KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A senior pro-Taliban cleric in Pakistan was gunned down Sunday outside his mosque in the southern city of Karachi, and his death unleashed violent protests in which at least 17 people were hurt. Mufti Nizamuddin […]
American al-Qaida suspect’s imam headed probed group
More on Siddiqi, from WND. (Thanks to FreedomNowNews.) WASHINGTON – The California imam who helped convert an al-Qaida suspect to Islam headed a Muslim activist group under investigation here for possible financial ties to terrorist front groups. Adam Gadahn allegedly traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to train at al-Qaida camps following his conversion while attending […]
Saudi Arabia: “Are you Muslim or Christian?” Gunmen hunted “infidel” Westerners
From Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei: KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – “Are you Muslim or Christian? We don’t want to kill Muslims. Show us where the Americans and Westerners live,” Islamic militants told an Arab after launching a shooting spree on Westerners in Saudi Arabia. The four gunmen, aged 18 to 25 and wearing military […]
Another Hamas leader down
From AP, with thanks to DC Watson: JERUSALEM “” A senior Hamas commander, his assistant and a bystander died in a fiery Israeli airstrike in Gaza City early Sunday, hours before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was to confront his Cabinet over his plan to pull soldiers and settlers out of Gaza. Hamas called the […]
Christian beaten to death in hospital by Muslim cop
Samuel Masih’s grieving family (Reuters) Don’t you think that if this were a Muslim beaten with a hammer in his hospital bed by a Christian cop, that this story would be on the front page of the New York Times and in the frontline of media coverage worldwide? Said the cop: “I have offered my […]
Iranians sign up as suicide bombers
Why is it so easy to get people to sign up? Why won’t American Muslim spokesmen move beyond “the Qur’an forbids suicide” and answer that question? From AFP, with thanks to Twostellas: TEHRAN: Hundreds of Iranian men and women, even children, declared their willingness to carry out suicide attacks in Iraq and Israel following Friday […]