An important message from Patrick Poole updating this story: The Dayton Daily News has been walking back their coverage of the so-called mosque incident this weekend. The initial article on Saturday was “Chemical irritant empties Islamic Society of Greater Dayton’s mosque”: http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/09/27/ddn092608evacweb.html Then on Sunday the story was “Islamic Society baffled by incident at worship […]
Archives for September 2008
Illinois mall jihadist gets 35 years in prison, man
He said: “I swear by Allah, man … I’m down to live for the cause and die for the cause, man.” I wonder if he is down to serve 35 years in the slammer, man. He also said, “I just want to smoke a judge.” He’ll have to settle for Marlboro Lights. Talib Abu Salam […]
Islamophobic terrorists attack Ohio mosque! No, wait…
I first encountered Aziz Poonawalla during my exchanges with the frothing psychopath Dean Esmay, as he is a contributor to his blog. Poonawalla and I have had several unpleasant exchanges, which are as tedious to reread as they were to go through, and in which I was not in every case terribly impressed with his […]
“But don’t you think that the real problem is not Islam but Islamophobia?”
At Pajamas Media today the superb Bruce Bawer asks the question, “Who’s Sleeping More Deeply “” Europe or America?”: […] Make no mistake: if Europeans are, on average, more aware than Americans of the realities of Islam, it’s no thanks to their media but rather because they can see with their own eyes what’s going […]
In midst of fire-fight with US warship, Somali “pirates” celebrate Eid al-Fitr
And use their plunder to fund the land jihad. “US official: 3 pirates may be dead in shootout,” by Mohamed Olad Hassan for AP, September 30 (thanks to Jeremy): Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense […]
Bombs kill five in India
In “areas wracked by Hindu-Muslim tensions.” “Five killed in India bomb blasts,” from AFP, September 30 (thanks to JE): Five people were killed and 25 others injured today in two suspected bomb attacks in the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, Indian media reported. Three people were killed and at least 12 others hurt […]
Melanie Phillips: “The leaders of the democracies are…burying their heads in the sand”
Strache: A limp-handed Nazi salute? The perceptive and courageous Melanie Phillips here discusses a phenomenon that Hugh and I have discussed at Jihad Watch several times over the years: that the mainstream parties in Europe are either mute or complicit in the face of the threat of the Islamization of the continent, and have thus […]
Professor says Obsession film “smells” and is “pure propaganda”
If this “conflict-resolution” professor deems the Obsession film “pure propaganda,” at least one Middle East history professor thinks otherwise. Wonder who knows more? More on this story. “Obsession smells: It’s propaganda, professor argues, by Tom H. Hastings for Oregon Live, September 29: Many who subscribed to The Sunday Oregonian received, unbidden, a copy of Wayne […]
Al-Qaeda preparing to blow Atlantis back into the water
Infidel stronghold on Muslim land “Symbol of decadence” — not to mention Disney characters (who, accordingly are liable to receive death fatwas) — must go. “Al-Qaeda planning to bomb Atlantis,” by Dylan Bowman for Arabian Business, September 29: The Atlantis hotel’s grand opening party is at the centre of a terrorism scare after British spies […]
The hardest thing to explain
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” — Ayn Rand (thanks to Vee)