Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald surveys the situation in “tolerant,” “progressive” Malaysia: Malaysia is, quite incorrectly I’m afraid, always adduced as an example of a progressive, forward-looking, prosperous Muslim state. In fact its prosperity would be considerably diminished but for its Chinese and Hindu population. All Malays are required to be counted as […]
Archives for February 2006
Indian Muslim leader writes to Danish Ambassador about cartoons
He invokes Seton Hall prof Bernard Freamon to argue that the cartoonists be prosecuted, in order to “cool down religious passions all over the Muslim world.” As one might expect, he has no sense of responsibility for the Muslim violence over the cartoons. “Mushwarat writes to the Danish Ambassador to India on the Cartoon Issue,” […]
Fitzgerald: Mr. Mubarak, we want our money back
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald makes a proposal to Cairo and the dhimmis in Washington: Foreign aid should be subject to return if the recipient fails to show that it has put that foreign aid to good use. That good use should include, in the first place, encouraging gratitude, and friendship, toward the […]
Senior Iran cleric says attacks on embassies permissible
Yet another 1938 Alert from Iran Focus, with thanks to Mackie: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 — A senior Iranian cleric has approved attacks on foreign embassies in Tehran over the publication of insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European dailies, a website belonging to the office of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reported. “Muslims […]
Malaysian official: wrong to equate terrorists with Muslim fundamentalists
The Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry says that real Qur’an-believing Muslims abhor violence and suicide bombers, and instead live in peaceful co-existence, mingling freely with peoples of other religions and races. Well, that’s a relief. But I do wish that Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz would go farther. Here again the flat assertion is […]
Muslim groups criticize MSU for online caricatures
CAIR again comes out against freedom of speech. “We believe that responsibility comes with freedom of speech.” In other words, there is no freedom of speech at all when it comes to Islam. For if there is no right to speak what may offend this or any group, there is no right to speak about […]
U.S., Britain smuggling arms to Iran via Iraq ““ police chief
“…illegal arms, alcohol, and unethical items…” Another 1938 Alert from Iran Focus (thanks to JE): Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 — The United States and Britain are illegally smuggling arms into the Islamic Republic via its western neighbour Iraq in a bid to destabilise the Islamic Republic, Iran’s police chief said on Tuesday. “100 percent of […]
Terrorist training camps in Iran
1938 Alert: “Exclusive: Terrorist training camps in Iran,” from Iran Focus, with thanks to JE: London, Feb. 27 — Iran Focus has obtained a list of 20 terrorist camps and centres run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The names and details of the training centres were provided by a defector from the IRGC, […]
Jihadi Turns Bulldog
On Sunday I read with some amazement in the New York Times Magazine the story of Rahmatullah Hashemi, former Taliban spokesman and now a student at Yale. In Opinion Journal John Fund explains just what is so wrong with this — which never seemed to occur to the New Duranty Times: Never has an article […]
Dubai ports firm participates in Arab boycott of Israel
More unsavory news about our friends and allies in the UAE. Why can’t the President at least threaten to kill this deal unless the ports firm ends its boycott of what is an actual American ally? “Exclusive: Dubai firm boycotts Israel,” from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to all who sent this in: The parent […]