“Netanyahu said if elected prime minister his first mission will be to thwart the Iranian nuclear threat.” “Netanyahu says Iran will not get hands on nukes,” by Aron Heller for Associated Press, February 1 (thanks to James): JERUSALEM – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s leading candidate for prime minister, said Saturday that Iran “will not be armed […]
Archives for January 2009
Jihadists using Google Earth
Google grows increasingly irresponsible, partisan, and — as this story shows — dangerously naive. “We’re not the bad guys: Google Earth boss,” by Stephen Hutcheon for the Sydney Morning Herald, January 31 (thanks to David): The head of Google Earth has hit back at those who claim that the free virtual mapping program is to […]
Fitzgerald: Ian Buruma, Geert Wilders, hatred, and ignorance
Ian Buruma, who has been given to some remarkable pronouncements on Islam, published on Friday a remarkable article in The New York Times on Geert Wilders. The article, “Totally Tolerant, Up To A Point,” was intended essentially to blacken the name of Geert Wilders, to present him — for likening the Qur’an to Mein Kampf […]
Pakistan: Muslim clerics call for Christian’s death after purportedly “blasphemous” text message
Who said sharia can’t be “modernized?” This story shows how its ability to harass and intimidate can be extended to all manner of previously unforeseen scenarios and new media! “Christian activist’s life in danger after arrest on blasphemy charges,” by Qaiser Felix for AsiaNews, January 30: Islamabad (AsiaNews) — The life of Hector Aleem, the […]
Beware of CAIR!
CAIR’s Honest Ibe Hooper in happier days We’ve been warning about CAIR for years, while CAIR has used its trademark intimidation and smear tactics to marginalize and silence its critics. But now at last the truth is coming out. “Beware Of CAIR,” from Investor’s Business Daily, January 30 (thanks to Ruth King): Homeland Security: You’d […]
Wilders is right: “The truth of the matter is ‘Fitna’ is simply reflecting how radical Muslims think and act, inspired and encouraged by the Koran.”
Prosecuted for speaking the truth Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-Muslim, is a professor of Sociology and an Arab/Muslim culture specialist. Before moving to Germany he taught at Kuwait University, King Saud University, and Michigan State University. “Wilders Prosecution is a Welcome Opportunity to Expose Islam,” by Dr. Sami Alrabaa at Canada Free Press, January 31: […]
Hamas: Tony Blair “stupid” for asking it to recognize Israel and renounce violence
Not schmart He is stupid to think that Hamas will ever sincerely do this, but his stupidity is shared by most policymakers today, as Hugh explains here. This kind of stupidity stems directly from an ignorance of the Islamic doctrines of jihad and Islamic supremacism. “Hamas: Blair’s statements ‘stupid,’” by Roee Nahmias for Ynet News, […]
Fitzgerald: The Ill-Founded Assumptions of Obama’s Address To Muslims
The notion that America managed, under Bush, to lose some kind of special place in the affections of the Muslim world — a special place that it possessed because America “had no colonial legacy” — is the kind of thing you read in the cheesiest potted summaries of the postwar period (“because, boys and girls, […]
More Saudi “interfaith dialogue” at home: Pastor serving foreign workers told by religious police to flee or be killed
Islamic Tolerance Alert, from the home country of that champion of “interfaith dialogue,” King Abdullah. “Saudi Arabia: Pastor flees death threats,” from Compass Direct News, January 30: LOS ANGELES, January 30 (Compass Direct News) — A prominent foreign pastor in Saudi Arabia has fled Riyadh after a member of the mutawwa”in, or religious police, and […]
Roseanne Barr for the jihad!
Friend of jihadists Blithely ignorant of or indifferent to the probability that her jihadist friends would stone her to death if they had the chance, Roseanne Barr (via the New York Post) wants Bruce Springsteen to come out for the jihad at the Super Bowl. (And as addled as he is, he just might.) BRUCE […]