Unless the West comes across with more jizya. From Reuters, with thanks to the American Israeli Patriot: RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal warned Israel could face another Palestinian uprising unless conditions in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank improved. Let it be remembered that the conditions in the Gaza Strip […]
Archives for April 2007
Large cache of bomb ingredients seized in Iraq; Islamic State of Iraq gives Samarra police 3 days to “repent” or die
“Iraq raids net al Qaeda suspects, bomb ingredients,” from CNN: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. and Iraqi troops found 100 gallons of nitric acid and other bomb-making materials Sunday during raids that yielded the arrests of 72 suspected members of the al Qaeda in Iraq network, the U.S. military said. The “constellation of overnight raids” […]
UK Court blocks deportation of two Libyans considered a danger to national security
“The commission accepted that the men posed a security risk to Britain but said they should be granted bail under strict conditions.” “Libyans win appeal against extradition,” by Jill Lawless for the Associated Press: LONDON – A British court ruled Friday that two Libyan terror suspects cannot be deported to their homeland even though they […]
Iran bans Western haircuts, eyebrow plucking for men
An update on this story, from Reuters: TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) — Iranian police have warned barbers against offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their male customers, Iranian media said Sunday. Only Westerners don’t like a “unibrow,” apparently. The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news agency, appeared to […]
Captured Al-Qaeda leader masterminded 7/7 London bombings
More on this story. “7/7 “˜mastermind” is seized in Iraq,” by Sean O”Neill, Tim Reid and Michael Evans for the TimesOnline, with thanks to James: The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured […]
Kosovo’s top Islamic leader asks Detroit Muslims for support
“With the blood of these shahids, with the lots of suffering of innocent people”¦we hope in the near future to be the newest state in the world.” Here’s an intriguing story, sent in to us by Jim Jatras, Director of the American Council for Kosovo and a member of the Jihad Watch Board. “Kosovo’s top […]
Fitzgerald: Who Was Right — And Who Was Wrong?
‘Democracy is nothing, but counting of heads. It cannot differentiate between good and bad people, as in this system the vote of a devout Muslim equals the vote of a frail Muslim,’ [Maulana Abdul Aziz, head of the Lal Masjid] said.”– from this article Yet Bush and Cheney and Rice keep singing the praises of […]
Non-Muslim children forced to attend classes on Islam in Pakistani schools without parental permission
No Compulsion in Religion Alert. “Hindu, Christian students struggle in Arabic in state-run schools,” by Amar Guriro for the Daily Times: KARACHI: Seven-year-old Angela finds it difficult to study Islamiyat at school. “I don’t know if I have to study it or not, but it’s really difficult to pronounce the Arabic properly,” she said. Angela, […]
Fitzgerald: Paul Wolfowitz, or, After Such Ignorance, What Forgiveness?
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them. — Cardinal De Retz Paul Wolfowitz is in trouble, but for all the wrong reasons. Surely the main and overlooked aspect of the entire World Bank brouhaha is not any supposed “corruption” in the arrangements made for Shaha Ali […]
“The Darfurians say Muslim apathy is due to racism and that Arab Muslims see black African Muslims as inferior.”
Islamic Tolerance Alert. “Darfuri refugees say they face apathy, silence from most of their fellow Muslims,” by Robert King for the Indianapolis Star: FORT WAYNE, Ind. — They are devoted to Islam but increasingly skeptical of Muslims. This is the strange paradox Darfuri refugees in Fort Wayne are facing: A fundamentalist government in Sudan turned […]