“A mixture of British people, from numerous backgrounds.” Huh. Anglican cat fanciers? Agnostic numismatists? In any event, the fact that they’re from “numerous backgrounds” again demonstrates the centrality of the jihadist ideology to the conflict, rather than mere “tribal” or “nationalistic” issues. “More Britons travel to Somalia for ‘jihad’: report,” from Agence France-Presse, September 13: […]
Pakistan: Incited at Friday prayers, Muslims burn church over new case of alleged “blasphemy”
“According to preliminary reports, the real cause of tension is a relationship between a twenty year old Christian, whose name is Fanish, and a Muslim girl.” “Punjab, Muslim extremists burn church over alleged blasphemy case,” by Fareed Khan for AsiaNews, September 12: Sialkot (AsiaNews) – A church burnt by a mob of angry Muslims, who […]
Ohio governor on Rifqa Bary case: “We have no reason to believe that she would be unsafe in Ohio”
Even if the sheer level of public attention deters Rifqa’s father and like-minded supporters from harming her or taking her out of the country — and blindly hoping for that would be gambling with her life — this is case has larger implications in the precedent it will set, possibly discouraging children like her from […]
Israel files complaint with UN as rockets fired again from southern Lebanon
Commence “Operation We Might As Well Be Talking To The Wall”: “Israel files complaint with UN over rocket fire,” by Yitzhak Benhorin for YNetNews, September 11: WASHINGTON – Israel filed a complaint with the United Nations on Friday evening following the firing of two rockets from southern Lebanon to the Western Galilee, saying the Lebanese […]
Report: Indonesia’s Aceh province set to approve stoning as punishment under Sharia
Demonstrating once again that any Sharia is a slippery slope to more Sharia: theocratic systems don’t lend themselves to selective implementation. Those who campaign for it are unlikely to be satisfied with just a little Sharia — rather, it is a proverbial foot in the door. And as the Islamic arm of government gains strength […]
Ex-Gitmo detainee re-arrested in Pakistan for allegedly aiding al-Qaeda
Gitmo Recidivism Update. “Swedish former Guantánamo prisoner arrested in Pakistan,” from Stockholm News, September 10: One of the three Swedish citizens who last week where arrested in Pakistan is, according to public broadcaster SVT, Mehdi Ghezali, who for several years was imprisoned at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay on Cuba. According to reports […]
Somalia: More amputations for theft, this time in Mogadishu
When will some Islamic apologist send these misunderstanders of Islam the decoder ring that magically renders Qur’an 5:38’s call for amputation as the penalty for theft as a call for group therapy and a visit from Dr. Phil? “Somali Islamists chop off hands of Mogadishu ‘thieves’,” from Agence France-Presse, September 9: MOGADISHU — Somali Islamists […]
Serbian court jails four jihadists for planning attacks in Balkans
Much is made in this article about the role of Wahhabist Muslims — adherents of the predominant type of Islamic observance in Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, what the Wahhabists are doing in the Balkans, and where they get their funding goes unexamined. Granted, it is a brief article, but it is laden with assumptions in its […]
France accuses IAEA’s El-Baradei of covering for Iran’s nuke program
That’s the same El-Baradei who just recently said the Iranian nuclear threat is “hyped.” “Mohamed ElBaradei left out evidence of Iran bomb, France claims,” from the Times, September 8 (thanks to Awake): […] [El-Baradei] will not be universally missed. Long chided for being soft on Iran, he goes into this year’s conference amid a diplomatic […]
Sudanese woman abruptly freed from prison-for-pants sentence
Hussein saw it as a chance to report on prison conditions; that undoubtedly made some people in Khartoum nervous. And the case is so high-profile that they couldn’t just make her disappear. An update on this story. “Pants-Wearing Woman Freed in Sudan,” by Jeffrey Gettleman for the New York Times, September 8: NAIROBI, Kenya — […]