Maybe they’re enraged about those Christians getting in the way of Muslim torches over in Nigeria. “Liberia town hit by sectarian unrest,” from the Associated Press, February 27 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The United Nations has deployed peacekeepers to a northern Liberian town where sectarian violence has left at least three people dead […]
Ex-Liberian leader receiving al-Qaeda support, prosecutor says
Charles Taylor may find that in accepting this support he has taken on more than he can handle. In my forthcoming book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery) I discuss how the Byzantine Emperor John VI Cantacuzenes appealed to Muslims for help in a dynastic dispute. They came into Europe and […]
Jihad in Liberia
No indication in this piece as to why the “violence between Muslims and Christians” erupted. However, in nearby Nigeria, the international media routinely portrays jihad violence as “Muslim/Christian strife.” This reminds me of the Liberian cab driver who drove me across Washington last year. He was nursing hopes of returning home and running for President […]
Al Qaeda’s Growing Sanctuary
West Africa, as we have often noted here, is increasingly becoming a safe haven for radical Muslims. From the Washington Post, : With the end of the brutal conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, West Africa is seldom in the news or on the policy agenda these days. Yet the region is quietly gaining recognition […]
FBI Probes Terror Link to Diamond Trade in Liberia
From Insight Magazine, with thanks to EPG: U.S. counterterrorism agents have visited war-torn Liberia to investigate allegations of terrorist involvement in the West African diamond trade, according to the FBI. A small team of financial specialists from the FBI’s counterterrorism division left late last year to probe the shadowy trade in so-called conflict diamonds, Paul […]