From the Edmonton Journal: A former Edmonton-area cinema owner has been charged in the United States with raising cash and recruiting Muslim extremists in North America throughout the 1990s to help wage a worldwide Islamic jihad. Kassem Daher, linked by CSIS to al-Qaeda, is a Lebanese native who came to Canada in the 1980s as […]
Archives for March 2005
New jihad magazine hits Internet
What? These terrorists use “doctrinal arguments” to recruit? Why, does Rich Lowry know about this attempt to discredit Muhammad and Islam? “Jihad’s latest ‘rag’ hits the Internet,” from the Asia Times: BANGALORE – A new jihadi magazine made its appearance on the Internet this month. [1] Named Dhurwat al-Sanam, Arabic for “the highest or most […]
Conyers helps Muslims keep official out of U.S.
From the Detroit Free Press, with thanks to EPG: Michigan Muslims of Indian descent are hailing the U.S. government’s decision to deny a prominent Indian minister entry into the country because of his intolerance toward religious minorities. The State Department’s move came after U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, sponsored a congressional resolution last week to […]
Arabs, Muslims being wooed by NJ governor candidates
From AP, with thanks to EPG: NEWARK — From a living room festooned with dozens of elephants in all shapes and sizes, Sherine El-Abd is busily raising money for gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler, whose call for lower property taxes she loves. It’s only March, but the Edison woman, an Egyptian immigrant and Republican organizer, is […]
Reporters Visit Underground Iran Nuclear Plant
From the Bridge for Sale Department, via Reuters, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum: NATANZ, Iran – Iran’s President Mohammad Khatami took a group of journalists deep underground on Wednesday into the heart of a key nuclear plant which Washington wants dismantled and whose existence was kept secret until 2002. About 30 local and foreign journalists […]
A ridiculous and ominous decision in Britain
Could this be National Review’s last article critical of the creeping Islamization of Europe? “Wrong from Head to Toe: A ridiculous and ominous decision in Britain,” by Theodore Dalrymple in the March 28 issue of NR, via The Manhattan Institute, with thanks to EPG: In the long annals of judicial stupidity, there can rarely have […]
“The Prophet (peace be upon him) was the perfect role model in all situations”
Wouldn’t it be important, with this kind of rhetoric going around, to know what the Prophet said and did? And how jihad terrorists make use of it? Apparently not. “The Prophet as a Man – 29: Perfect Role Model in All Situations,” from Arab News, with thanks to JJP Mackie: The Prophet (peace be upon […]
Moderate Muslims celebrate public rebuke of bin Laden
Everything was going along great in this one until I chanced upon mention of the illustrious Omid Safi, who is such a kind professor that he does his students’ thinking for them “” particularly on that global menace, “Islamophobia.” From the Washington Times, with thanks to Bill Roggio: CAIRO – The condemnation of Osama bin […]
CAIR conference to tackle Islamophobia, anti-Americanism
The arbiters of what is and is not “Islamophobia” in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations, are planning to devote their 2005 Annual Conference to “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism, Causes and Remedies.” Among the luminaries speaking is the infamous Muzammil H. Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America. A Harvard educated, highly […]
Lowry speaks about CAIR and NR
Rich Lowry of NR says this at The Corner about the CAIR book brouhaha: THE BOOK BUSINESS [Rich Lowry ] Some folks have e-mailed in asking about a book brouhaha going on in some parts of the blogosphere involving us. Here is what happened: A National Review Book Service e-mail blast for the book “The […]