Yes, people really do believe these things. This comment was just posted (five times, but I deleted four) on an old thread here: peace. bin laden did not cause 911. bush Sr. and former cia subjects fired by Carter did. with help from Jewish Massad. The planes were remote controlled: check www.whatreallyhappened.com. That is why […]
Archives for January 2004
Seven Flights from Europe to U.S. Canceled
Seven more flights have just been grounded. Could this be connected with threats made by terrorists some time ago to mount a major attack around the time of the Hajj? This from Fox News: Just one day after U.S. officials expressed renewed security concerns over flights from London and Paris bound for the U.S., British […]
Pakistan: Christian jailed on dubious blasphemy charge
Since Pakistan’s blasphemy law was drafted by and is enforced by Muslims, virtually every blasphemy charge is dubious: a Christian can be accused of blasphemy simply by affirming his faith, since the Qur’an states that “they do blaspheme who say: ‘Allah is Christ the son of Mary’” (Sura 5:72). Note that this is a tendentious […]
News from the Hajj
It is time for the great Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, which every California public school student well knows is one of the five pillars of Islam. I wrote last year about how the Hajj has frequently been marred by violence, and this year again, pilgrims have some company. This from Straits Times, : […]
“We were asleep. Opportunities were lost”
So says Tom Kean, chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. It seems that not only did the 9/11 highjackers get past immigration. They also made it easily through airport security, despite arousing suspicion. This from AP: It’s long been known that U.S. authorities had opportunities to stop at least […]
Clark appealed to group suspected of terror link
“Retired Gen. Wesley Clark sought the political support of a Muslim group that is under FBI investigation for terror ties, sources told the Daily News.” The Democratic presidential candidate’s videotaped message was played Dec. 27 in Chicago for the annual conference of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America – a […]
U.S. general: Extremists in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan top terror threats
At last it has been said: Even with the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bigger challenge in the global war on terrorism is the threat posed by extremists in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the commander of U.S. forces in that region said Thursday. Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, told a […]
Speaker overturns “misconceptions” of Islamic jihad
CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush Hussam Ayloush of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) spoke at UCLA Wednesday night about jihad. Last year I debated Ayloush on a similar topic. At UCLA he declared that his intention was to dispel misconceptions. (Thanks to Jean-Luc.) The Muslim Student Association hosted an informational forum — “Operation Jihad: Misconceptions […]
Australian intelligence agencies miss terror suspect
America isn’t the only place with porous visa controls. An accused terror financier arrested in the US last week had only just returned from a trip to Australia where he is believed to have a child. In an embarrassing security blunder, the arrest took Australia’s intelligence agencies – who were unaware the suspect was in […]
France says it foiled Islamic militant plot
“French secret agents foiled a bid by Islamic militants to kidnap contestants in the Paris-Dakar rally earlier this month as they raced across the Sahara desert state of Mali, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.” This from Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei. A spokesman said the DGSE foreign intelligence service had played a key role […]
Hizballah entering U.S. through Mexico
Terence Jeffrey has been courageous and virtually alone in pointing out that Islamic radicals are entering the United States through Mexico. Now, he shows that a Hezballah operative entered the country this same way. (Thanks to LGF.) Politicians serious about preventing another Sept. 11 should listen to the leader of Hizballah, and then read an […]
7th Man in N.Y. Terror Cell Case Arrested
The seventh member of the terrorist cell in Lackawanna, New York has been caught. And from the lawyers from the other six comes more confirmation that jihadis are motivated by religion. Why, then, do so many analysts continue to discount what the Islamic religion can reveal about the motives and goals of terrorists? This from […]
Aspiration, not desperation: why suicide bombers do it
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook explain in the Jerusalem Post what I have long contended: that suicide bombings are not the result of poverty and desperation, but of deeply held religious motivations. “I always wanted to be the first woman who sacrifices her life for Allah. My joy will be complete when my body parts […]
FBI, DHS Warn of Possible Subway, Rail Attacks
“There is a continuing terrorist threat against U.S. subways and railways, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said in a bulletin sent to law enforcement agencies Wednesday.” This from FoxNews. “Recent intelligence indicates a continued terrorist interest in conducting attacks on U.S. subways and railways,” the bulletin said. “Although the FBI possesses no information […]
U.S. Revokes Visas of 16 at Islamic Institute
“The State Department recently revoked the diplomatic visas of 16 people affiliated with an Islamic institute in Virginia, the latest step in a joint U.S.-Saudi crackdown that has led to an exodus of Riyadh’s diplomats from the United States in recent months, a senior Saudi official said yesterday.” This from the Washington Post, : The […]
From Nazis to Schuller to Arabs
Orange County Weekly reports that “Bill Baker has resurfaced as a frequent guest speaker at Muslim functions across North America despite articles in OC Weekly in 2002 that outed the Laguna Hills resident as the former head of the neo-Nazi Populist Party and led to his ouster as a close associate to the Reverend Robert […]
Dhimmitude at the New York Times
Charles at LGF hits the nail on the head about a New York Times op-ed, “My God is Your God” by John Kearney. Says Kearney: Last August the Washington Post Web site posed this question to readers: “Do you think that Muslims, Christians and Jews all pray to the same God?” One Muslim respondent wrote […]
Pakistan: Christian teenager forced into hiding
This is what life is like in our secular ally Pakistan for one member of that nation’s Christian minority. This report is from Compass Direct: A Pakistani Christian teenager kidnapped for more than two weeks in November has been forced to flee his home and stay in hiding to avoid recapture by his Muslim extremist […]
Pakistan’s nuclear jihad
B. Raman in OutlookIndia points out that “till now, strategic analysts have been focusing only on the dangers of a possible Talibanisation or Al Qaedisation of the Pakistan Army. It is time now to pay more attention to Pakistan’s scientific community as well.” (Thanks to Jean-Luc.) Pakistan is not the original birth place of the […]
“Voice of Jihad” calls for big attack on U.S.
One thing not emphasized in our earlier report on the latest issue of Al-Qaeda’s “Voice of Jihad” is that the organization is still threatening a major attack on American soil. Many such threats have proved baseless quite recently. Here’s hoping they continue to do so. This from UPI, with thanks to Jean-Luc: The current strategy […]