“The Kremlin has given him its staunch backing, seeing him as the key to keeping the separatists in check, and that has allowed him to impose his will.” Sharia Alert, and Myopia in Moscow. “Chechen leader imposes strict brand of Islam,” from the Associated Press, February 28 (thanks to L.): GROZNY, Russia: The bullnecked president […]
Archives for February 2009
Daniel Pearl’s father: Antisemitism rising on campuses, administrators doing little or nothing
“The verbal abuse is there, the intimidation is there, the feeling of helplessness is there, not only among students but among faculty.” And Judea Pearl doesn’t say so, but it is coming from Muslim students and their Leftist allies. Israeli consul general Avika Tor was hounded off a stage at San Jose State University three […]
Wilders event last night in Washington: the $25 banana!
Last night Geert Wilders spoke at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC — the site of CPAC. Pamela Geller organized a gala event that was sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Atlas Shrugs, and Jihad Watch. Here via Pamela is a firsthand account of what happened from a reader of Atlas Shrugs and […]
The Evils of Islamic Political Ideology: Suppression of Women
Here is part two of Alyssa A. Lappen’s interview of Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs at Right Side News (part one is here). In this segment they discuss a longstanding focus of Jihad Watch: Islamic law’s institutionalized discrimination against women, and how it plays out in violent and oppressive behavior today. AAL: Why do you […]
Fitzgerald: Building That Bridge Over The River Kwai, Or, Why Are We In Afghanistan?
The very idea that because Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan, Afghanistan has a special, irreplaceable importance in the “war against terrorism,” is false. In the first place, the fact that Al Qaeda found Afghanistan under the Taliban (a Taliban nurtured by an American-supported Pakistan, and recognized by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) […]
How U.S. Islamic advocacy groups trump up controversy to advance the stealth jihad agenda
Extraordinarily important observations about a phenomenon that has been far too little noted by law enforcement and government officials. “Are Acts of Staged Controversy an Islamist Strategic Tactic?,” by Madeleine Gruen and Edward Sloan for IPT News, February 27: […] Minnesota Imams On November 20, 2006, six imams boarded a US Airways jet that was […]
Police in Scotland ordered to give special priority to crimes where the victims are Muslim
Because, you see, this will keep them from becoming “radicalized” — i.e., turning to jihad. Living in a society that treats all equally before the law is not enough: Muslims have to be placed in a special class with rights and privileges beyond those of non-Muslims. And that, of course, is precisely the arrangement envisioned […]
Bombarded Somali government goes dhimmi
The government is “saddened” by the AU peacekeepers’ assertive measures vis-a-vis the Islamists, who, as opposed to the former, intentionally and repeatedly kill and terrorize Somali civilians — with, of course, nary a word from the Somali government (yes, Somalia actually has a government). “Somalia ‘saddened’ by AU peacekeepers’ shelling of Mogadishu residential areas,” from […]
“We will continue to pursue Mr. al-Marri’s case before the Supreme Court to make sure that no American citizen or lawful resident will ever again be subjected to such treatment”
Even though he “pledged to do his [Bin Laden’s] bidding in the United States” Ali al-Marri update. “U.S. indictment of enemy combatant unsealed,” by John Schwartz for IHT, February 27 : Ali al-Marri, the only prisoner considered an enemy combatant being detained on U.S. soil, has been indicted on charges of helping the terrorist group […]
Malaysia: Chair of Islamic Dawah Foundation calls on gov’t to rescind permission for Catholic paper to use “Allah,” lest it anger Muslims worldwide
Why would the chair of the Islamic Dawah Foundation be upset about this? After all, Qur’an 29:46 says: “And argue not with the People of the Scripture unless it be in (a way) that is better, save with such of them as do wrong; and say: We believe in that which hath been revealed unto […]