“Saudi Arabia has arrested two Islamic suicide pilots who were preparing to fly two light aircraft into a packed British Airways (BA) jet, a British Sunday newspaper said, quoting a senior opposition politician.” This from The Age, with thanks to Nicolei and Mrs. Obelix. “The suspected suicide pilots were arrested in the last few weeks […]
Archives for 2003
The difference between jihad and terrorism? The target
Reader “my.joy18” has kindly forwarded to me an Arab News question and answer piece entitled “Sept. 11 Attacks Nothing but Terrorism.” Alas, I have been occupied with many other things the last few days, and didn’t immediately put it up. Now it is gone without a trace. I wonder if that has anything to do […]
The face of Islamic tolerance in Seattle
The Sharia mandates second-class status for non-Muslims, and forbids a non-Muslim man to marry a Muslim woman. This provision seems to have come West already: “A Grant County man has been charged with trying to kidnap his sister from her Sedro-Woolley home in what police believe was an attempt to punish her for marrying outside […]
Going out for a bomb
“Sabih Kahn, 18, founder of a Muslim football league, right, prepares to throw the ball as teammate Muhammad Akhtar, 18, heads down field for a pass during a training session at Heritage Park in Irvine, Calif., Sunday, Dec. 21, 2003. Critics say names of some of the teams such as Intifada, which is used by […]
Sharia watch: Kuwaiti MP calls for music ban in schools
Radical Muslims are fighting around the world to institute Sharia law, with its institutionalized oppression of non-Muslims — dhimmitude. A new glimpse at what a Sharia state would look like comes from Kuwait, where “an Islamist parliamentarian has said he was coordinating with other MPs to ban music education at schools in Kuwait as ‘anti-Islamic […]
Bush = Trotsky?
Amir Butler, Executive Director of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee (AMPAC), has written an op-ed in the Jakarta Post entitled “Trotsky’s idea clearly similar to forced democracy upon Muslim World.” Well, I wouldn’t have thought of comparing Bush to Trotsky, although Woodrow Wilson has crossed my mind. But the main point of Butler’s editorial […]
Jihad to be explained by scholars
At long last, a group of Islamic scholars is going to cut through all the confusion and explain what the word jihad really means: “The Council of Religious Ministers for Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore (MABIMS) will publish a comprehensive working paper for explaining Jihad (crusade or holy war) to their Ummah (followers of […]
Port of Miami or Port of Jihadi
By Joe Kaufman and Beila Rabinowitz In December 2002, the Washington Post published an alarming report stating that “U.S. intelligence officials had identified approximately 15 cargo freighters around the world that they believed were controlled by al Qaeda or could be used by the terrorist network to ferry operatives, bombs, money or commodities over the […]
A letter to AP
A letter to AP was recently sent to Jihad Watch from the author of the Letter to Reuters: “Dear Editor: “Your ‘Year in Photos’ has six glaring omissions, therefore, six major distortions. You chose 6 photos depicting ‘Palestinian’ suffering at the hands of Israelis but none of Israeli suffering at the hands of ‘Palestinians.’ I […]
Grassley to review Ford Foundation’s support for Palestinian extremists
We noted the Ford Foundation’s no-strings-attached support for Palestinian terrorists last month; now, Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has taken note as well. Opinion Journal notes that “in response to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency series detailing Ford’s support for Palestinian NGOs crusading against Israel, the Iowa Republican has announced that the Senate Finance Committee will review the […]
Pakistani official: he who denies jihad has no place in Islam
From the Daily Times of Pakistan: “Rashid says Muslims can’t deny jihadi culture.” “Rashid” is Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad. He “told a Pakistani television channel on Friday that one of the attackers of Thursday’s suicide bomb attack on President Musharraf seemed to be a foreigner. He also said the jihadi culture in Pakistan […]
“Blessings for whoever has saved a bullet in order to stick it in a Jew’s head”
MEMRI has published extracts from sermons in Palestinian mosques over the last three years. Anyone wanting real answers to hoary questions such as Why Do They Hate Us? and How Do They See Us? should read this material carefully. Says compiler Steven Stalinsky: “Each Khatib (preacher) is a paid employee of the Palestinian Authority (PA). […]
A Not So Merry Christmas in the Holy Land
David Bedein writes at FrontPage about Christmas in the Palestinian Authority, noting that “this is the first Christmas since the Palestinian Authority adopted an official constitution based on Koranic ‘Sharia’ Law, which means that all Christians who live under the PA are now subject to Islamic Law. “Over the past three years, while attention has […]
Jihad in Tennessee
Yes, there was a militant Muslim organization in Knoxville, Tennessee, that was helping fund jihad in Bosnia and Chechnya in the 1990s, but it’s no longer active. See? Nothing to be concerned about at all. KnoxNews reports that “a former member of a secretive Islamic fundamentalist organization in Knoxville helped funnel money to militant fighters […]
Jihad leader killed
“A military leader of the radical group Islamic Jihad and four other Palestinians were killed on Thursday, and seven people wounded, when Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a car here, Palestinian medical sources said.” This report is from News24.com, with thanks to Jean-Luc. “Islamic Jihad leader Moqbel Hamid was killed when a missile struck […]
Radical Muslims’ sentencing delayed
Did the attack on Maher cause the postponement? “An Egyptian security court has postponed sentencing in the trial of 23 Egyptians and three Britons accused of plotting to oust Arab governments.” So says Al-Jazeera, with thanks to Nicolei. “They stand accused of belonging to and trying to reactivate the banned Islamic Liberation Party, and aiming […]
Palestinian children collect pictures of militants like baseball cards
The tiny minority of extremists, repudiated and despised as they are by the vast majority of Muslims, is printing the faces of its heroes on trading cards. And the kids love ’em: “Palestinian children are collecting cards showing gunmen and soldiers the way American kids trade baseball cards, and some educators are concerned that the […]
Terrorists still plotting
Las Vegas — as a symbol of Western decadence — has surfaced in the past as a target of Islamic terrorism, and now it has come up again: “U.S. government officials said yesterday they believe some of the passengers boarding one of the three Air France flights from Paris to Los Angeles that were canceled […]
Dhimmitude and Bernard Lewis
In connection with scholar Bernard Lewis’s strange misapplication of the Qur’anic verse declaring that there is “no compulsion in religion,” Bassam Madany of Middle East Resources has kindly directed me to his article “ Bernard Lewis on ‘Triumphalist Religions.’” In it, Madany points out that Lewis’s equation of the missionary impulses of Christianity and Islam […]
Muslims warned to leave U.S. cities — again
Evidently American Muslims in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles should keep their bags packed: six weeks after warnings for Muslims to leave those cities were posted on radical Muslim websites, they have appeared again. WorldNetDaily reports that “known al-Qaida affiliated websites are warning Muslims to leave New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles ahead […]