Besides its well-documented nuclear ambitions, Iran “is reportedly trying to extend the reach of its short and medium-range missiles, some of which could later be supplied to one of its main allies in the Middle East – Hizbullah. “Reports in the foreign and Hebrew press noted that Iran, under the auspices of Syria, had already […]
Archives for November 2003
Dhimmitude at the FBI: Jews Need Not Apply to Fight Terror
The best line in this terrific Front Page piece by Paul Sperry is the last: Shelomo Alfassa, vice president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture in New York, says: “Imagine if during the war against Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt felt that having Jews fight the Nazis might upset the everyday […]
Al-Qaida terrorists to gas U.S. subways?
“Al-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily.” “‘Al-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological […]
Jihad in the Saudi Embassy in Washington
MEMRI has an illuminating report about the Islamic Affairs Department (IAD) of the Saudi embassy in Washington: “Officials of the Saudi government working at the IAD in Washington, D.C. and its worldwide offices have been mentioned in media reports in 2002 and 2003 for suspected connections with terrorist activities. During the past week, it was […]
Al-Qaida Has Turkish Members
Why would a Muslim from secular Turkey leave his job and travel to Chechnya to fight battles against Russian infantry? Because the will to jihad is not born of poverty or desperation; it is not a disguised nationalistic impulse, despite the intimations otherwise in the article below. It is a religious impulse that is born […]
More on Al-Qaeda’s Christian targets
Paul Marshall offers a useful summation of the evidence that Al-Qaeda targeted Christians, not Muslims, in Riyadh — and of the dangers of glossing over that evidence. “The media,” says Marshall, “seem to equate Arab with Muslim and, along with some in the administration, think that al Qaeda’s war is against Americans and Westerners per […]
Jihad in Chechnya
Here is a detailed Islamic theological treatise explaining what jihad is and calling upon Muslims to wage jihad in Chechnya. It was prepared by the Shariah Council of State Defense Council of Chechnya, and published as “Jihad and Its Solution Today.” Its use of Islamic sources exactly parallels many other similar instances that I detail […]
Sharia in Canada
Canadian Muslims are taking steps to set up Sharia law to adjudicate disputes within their own communities. Law Times News reports that “a recent convention of Muslim community leaders” has “elected a 30-member council which will work towards establishing a Darul-Qada (a judicial tribunal), to be known as the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice (Canada).” […]
Dhimmis in California no longer compliant
The American Middle East Christian Association has staged a public protest against the teaching of Islam in a public school in California: “Hundreds of Christians who fled Egypt to the United States claiming persecution under Islam showed up outside a Southern California middle school yesterday to protest an extra-credit assignment urging students to participate in […]
Anti-dhimmitude from Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn’s column today addresses the furor over a comic strip that the Council on American Islamic Relations says insults Islam. Steyn, unlike CAIR, manages to keep a more balanced perspective. When asked to speak about the strip in The Media, Steyn declined: “Although I agreed of course that Islamophobic cartooning was the most pressing […]
Australian pol: radical Muslims could threaten Australia’s future
Watch for New South Wales Premier Bob Carr to be savaged as a racist for daring to declare that Australia faces a threat from “Islamists in Indonesia and I know there are different gradations of Islamist ideology and practice. But it was only 10 years ago we were being assured that aggressive Islamism would be […]
Bali bomber “urges others to continue struggle”
The Bali bomber has called on other Muslims to “continue the struggle” (which is jihad in Arabic): “The Bali bombing mastermind sentenced to death for his crimes urged fellow terrorists in Turkey, Iraq and elsewhere to ‘continue the struggle’, a report here said Tuesday.” This from AFP, with thanks to nicolei.) “Imam Samudra, convicted of […]
Identifying Muslim moderates
The courageous and insightful Daniel Pipes offers a succinct guide to identifying Muslim moderates. I look forward to seeing Muslim groups and individuals declaring that they fit these reasonable and intelligent criteria. Pipes includes important information about Abdurrahman Alamoudi and other deceptive self-proclaimed moderates, and offers these criteria for identifying real moderate Muslims: “- Violence […]
Terrorist attacks in Africa disrupted
“U.S. forces have disrupted several planned terrorist attacks against Western and other targets in the Horn of Africa and local authorities have killed or captured more than two dozen militants, the U.S. general in command of an anti-terrorism task force told The Associated Press.” This task force “is responsible for fighting terrorism in seven Horn […]
Taliban pair get 18 years, lecture on Islam
AP tells us that “two American Muslims who tried to join the Taliban were sentenced to 18 years in prison Monday during a hearing in which they denounced the Bush administration and pleaded in song for freedom. “Patrice Lumumba Ford, 32, and Jeffrey Leon Battle, 33, had pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy to levy […]
Dhimmitude in Australia: “If we arrest them it would cause a riot”
Columnist Michael Duffy of Sydney, Australia’s Daily Telegraph writes of Muslim thugs committing petty crimes — and dhimmi cops afraid to arrest them for fear of creating a political incident. He said that in response to a recent column, he received letters that “told me of incidents journalists never get to see. Incidents which do […]
Feds to cops: Prepare for al-Qaida car bombs
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has advised federal agencies to initiate emergency counterterrorism measures to prevent possible al-Qaida car bombings planned during the last days of the Muslim holiday Ramadan, according to a confidential department memo obtained by WorldNetDaily.” “Citing al-Qaida’s ‘increasingly sophisticated’ car-bombing tactics, it recommends security guards tow all vehicles parked illegally […]
Islamization in Switzerland: more Muslim school news
Showing that it can outsneer the New York Times any day, Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung headlines this story “Zurich’s Right fears rise of “Koran schools.’” I see. So the possibility that Muslim schools in Switzerland may become “universities of jihad,” or that Muslims in Switzerland may hold the radical Muslim convictions that no government has […]
Jakarta on alert for Christmas jihad
Will there be a Christmas jihad in Indonesia? “The countdown to Christmas has begun and it is giving security officials here sleepless nights.” This from Straits Times, with thanks to LGF. “What they fear is that Dec 25 will be ushered in with another terrorist bombing blitz. There are signs that preparations are under way, […]
Europe hasn’t faced up to “new terror”
Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew says that “Al-Qaeda is not like other terror groups Europeans are familiar with . . . its reach to fanatical Muslims is unique.” This is, as I have pointed out many times, because of its appeal to traditional Islamic concepts of jihad and martyrdom — although political correctness compels most observers […]