From the Stop the Presses Department, via MSNBC, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Inside Saudi Arabia today there’s a national campaign against extremism. Television ads, billboards and even ATM machines drive home the toll of terror. The Saudis recently hosted a worldwide conference condemning all terrorism and declaring they’ve cracked down. “When imams preach […]
Archives for March 2005
Anti-dhimmitude: Judge kills CAIR’s suit against ex-Rep. Ballenger
CAIR finally loses one. Good thing Ballenger didn’t retain Rich Lowry as his lawyer. “Judge kills suit against ex-Rep. Ballenger,” from the Charlotte Observer, with thanks to Daniel Pipes: WASHINGTON – A federal judge has dismissed a $2 million lawsuit filed against former Rep. Cass Ballenger by an American Muslim civil rights group for linking […]
Schwartz: “The Battle for Islam is Joined”
Stephen Schwartz, a convert to Islam, makes a momentous announcement in TechCentralStation, via FrontPage: On March 25, seven American Muslim activists joined me in founding a new, and much-needed platform for moderate Islam in America. Our organization is titled the Center for Islamic Pluralism. We have a website, www.islamicpluralism.org, at which our inaugural press release […]
Fitzgerald: Fourteen Points on How to Discuss Islam Properly
Jihad Watch Advisory Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald has nothing in common with Woodrow Wilson except that they are both carbon-based life forms — and both have Fourteen Points: For people to discuss Islam properly, they would need to do a number of things. The first thing would be to recognize that the Qur’an itself […]
Academic Marxist Rock Star
In FrontPage today, Tzvi Kahn takes another look at my old pal Mark LeVine. Funny how all of Mark’s challenges to debate me melted away when I asked him actually to supply a specific date and venue. Here is my first article about the great LeVine. Here is his reply, with additional responses by me. […]
Young Muslim immigrant killers deported from Denmark, leftists mourn
From the Norwegian Kafir’s superb Fjordman blog: One of the men, Hizir Kilic, was born in Denmark, while his cousin Ferhat Kilic came to the country when he was three. The two men were minors at the time of the crime, and had therefore not yet become Danish citizens, since anyone born to immigrant parents […]
The Death of France’s “Multiculturalism”
The great Nidra Poller, writing in Frontpage (thanks to EPG): October 2000, Place de la République in Paris: the first of what would become an endless series of ambiguous pro-Palestinian demonstrations welcomed the snake of anti-Semitism into its heart. “Death to the Jews” rang out loud and clear that day as policemen stood by, journalists […]
Latinas Embrace Islam
Another article about Latinas converting to Islam, in Florida this time. From the TBO News, with thanks to Skeetstreet: TAMPA – As a child, Amy Perez attended different Christian churches, praying at Catholic Masses and singing at Baptist revivals. But she never felt satisfied with the answers those faiths provided to her questions. At 12, […]
Muslims plan to disrupt Temple Mount visit
From World Net Daily, with thanks to EPG: JERUSALEM — A plan by a grassroots Jewish organization to bring 10,000 Jews to the Temple Mount has prompted an Islamic group allegedly connected to Hamas to instruct followers to disrupt the visit, a high-ranking Jerusalem police official told WND. Revava, a group with the stated mission […]
Dhimmitude at the Treasury Department
“Outside View: Terrorist Financing and Crime” is an egregious piece of ignorance and dhimmitude by Juan Carlos Zarate, U.S. assistant secretary of the Treasury Department for terrorist financing. Among other duties, Zarate is responsible for formulating and coordinating the department’s counter-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering efforts. From UPI, with thanks to EPG: Washington, DC, Over […]