Terrorism creates more terror. Now, here’s an assignment for all you moral equivalence advocates. Please compile a list similar to the one below of similar bombings and other attacks taking place in and around churches since 1980. The shootings by Muslims in Pakistani churches, as well as the destruction of churches by Muslims in Indonesia […]
Archives for August 2005
Spencer on radio Wednesday
Topics for this last day of August will include jihad, dhimmitude, and my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades): 12:30 PM EDT: JD Balart’s American Radio Journal (Nationally Syndicated) 1:00 PM EDT: WVTF with Seth Williamson 2:05 PM EDT: Rightalk “Citizen’s Lobby” with Scott Lauf 5:00 PM EDT: WDEO “Kresta in […]
MPAC, CAIR, ISNA feel excluded from the struggle against terrorism
Supreme chutzpah. Why might MPAC not be included in top-level anti-terror consultations? See here. How about CAIR? Here. ISNA? Here. But of course Reuters doesn’t mention any of this. “U.S. Muslims feel sidelined in terrorism fight,” from Reuters, with thanks to Kemaste: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Bush administration is neglecting American Muslims in the fight […]
Bush appeals to public not to waver in Iraq
From Reuters: SAN DIEGO – President George W. Bush, facing waning support for his Iraq policy, on Tuesday appealed to Americans not to waver because of the rising death toll and said U.S. credibility was at stake. With nearly 1,900 U.S. troops killed in Iraq and anti-war protesters trailing him from his secluded Texas ranch […]
Pope meets controversial critic of Islam
An interesting development from AFP, with thanks to Stephania. VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI held a meeting at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, a strident critic of Islam, Vatican sources confirmed. The 76-year-old writer, who describes herself as an atheist Christian and was sued in Italy for insulting […]
Pipes: Islamists, Get Out
Daniel Pipes writes in the New York Sun and his website about the growing anti-dhimmitude in Europe, the UK and Australia and asks, “where are the Americans?” As the full implications of the London terrorist attacks by domestic jihadis sink in, Westerners are speaking out about the problem of radical Islam with new clarity and […]
Iraq’s doomed police training
Paula Broadwell writes in the Boston Globe, with thanks to Hugh Fitzgerald. IN SEPTEMBER 2003, the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs constructed the Jordan International Police Training Center outside of Amman to train Iraq law enforcement personnel. Sixteen nations provide a total of 352 police trainers for the center. The camp has […]
U.S.: Airstrike kills al-Qaida operative in Iraq
Tribal clashes are increasing as well. From MSNBC: BAGHDAD, Iraq – The U.S. military said its forces killed an al-Qaida operative they named as Abu Islam and a number of fighters in air strikes at Karabila, close to Qaim, on the Syrian border on Tuesday. “Intelligence leads Coalition forces to believe that Abu Islam and […]
Palestinian Authority’s US assets are frozen
From the Boston Globe, with thanks to Hugh Fitzgerald. WASHINGTON — A Rhode Island lawyer trying to collect a $116 million terrorism judgment against the Palestinian Authority has obtained a court-ordered freeze on all its US-based assets, severely limiting most Palestinian economic and diplomatic activities in the United States at a critical moment for the […]
Lebanon says pro-Syrians suspects in Hariri murder
From Reuters: BEIRUT – U.N. investigators questioned an aide to Lebanon’s pro-Syrian president and three former security chiefs on Tuesday as suspects in the killing of ex-Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, the prime minister said. Lebanese police detained the three top security officials in dawn raids, the first concrete steps toward implicating allies of Syria in […]