A new article by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, “Islamic France and Human Rights,” is available today at WorldNet Daily.
Archives for January 2004
Jerusalem Bus Bomber Kills 10, Wounds 50
The horror continues. This from AP: A suicide bomber blew up a bus near the prime minister’s residence Thursday, killing 10 bystanders and wounding at least 50 in the deadliest attack in four months. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, which dealt a further setback to stalled peace efforts and coincided with a German-brokered […]
Tariq Ramadan, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the State Department
Agent of the Muslim Brotherhood? (Photo: Time) France’s Nouvel Observateur (thanks to Joyce) is reporting that controversial European Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan’s move to the United States may be related to talks between Washington and the Muslim Brotherhood. Here is my rough-and-ready translation of the French article: Surprise: Tariq Ramadan, part-time lecturer at the University […]
Virginia Jihad Defendants Waive Jury Trial
AP reports that “Four members of what the government calls the ‘Virginia jihad network’ have waived their right to a jury trial on charges they conspired to aid Taliban forces fighting the United States.” The unusual move by the defendants, set to go on trial Feb. 9, puts the verdict solely in the hands of […]
FBI: U.S. seaports are targets, but guard shooting not terrorism
Few hard facts have come out about the mysterious incident in Freeport, Texas: where a security guard at the BASF chemical plant was shot in the shoulder by a man he describes as Middle Eastern or Pakistani. The man was taking pictures of the lights at the chemical plant, and sped away after the shooting […]
Many Turks become Christians, but must tread carefully
UPI reports that 35,000 Turks became Christians last year — a major social movement in that country. There is a certain poetic justice to this, as the report suggests that many are the descendants of Christians who were forced to become Muslims during the time of the Armenian genocide and the persecution and expulsion of […]
MEMRI Chief: Contemporary Islamist Ideology Permitting Genocidal Murder
The President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Yigal Carmon, presented this paper to the 2004 Stockholm International Forum on Preventing Genocide. It is an illuminating exploration of the murderous ideology that fuels Islamic radicalism. (Thanks to TwoStellas and Joyce.) The text and a few comments: Jews, Christians, and Sabians [2] are, according […]
AAH: Florida Islamic Center features material from terrorist charity
Jihad Watch has received this press release from Americans Against Hate: For Immediate Release: January 27, 2004 Contact: Joe Kaufman, joe@joe4rep.com BOCA ISLAMIC CENTER FEATURES MATERIAL TAKEN FROM TERRORIST CHARITY — AAH CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION (Coral Springs, FL) Americans Against Hate is urging law enforcement to investigate the Islamic Center of Boca Raton’s usage of […]
Hamas in the Florida Classroom
Daniel Pipes and Asaf Romirowsky continue the appalling story of Mustafa Abu Sway, the Hamas activist who is now a visiting professor at Florida Atlantic University: We broke the news in October 2003 that Mustafa Abu Sway, a visiting Palestinian professor at Florida Atlantic University, is “known as an activist” in Hamas, a group on […]
Sex slave jihad
Writes Donna Hughes in FrontPage magazine: “A measure of Islamic fundamentalists’ success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women.” And since they find their justifications for suppressing the freedom and rights of women in the Sharia, this bodes ill for non-Muslims also: the freedom […]
9/11 mastermind got a visa despite terror indictment
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: a terror indictment and a visa According to the Los Angeles Times, the mastermind of 9/11 obtained a visa just weeks before the attacks — even though he had already been indicted by the feds for terrorist activities! Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, plot, obtained a […]
“I’ll be back,” foiled hijacker told agent
The New York Daily News recounts Customs inspector Jose Melendez-Perez’s encounter with Al-Qahtani, a man officials suspect was planning to be the 20th hijacker. A U.S. customs inspector praised for keeping the 20th hijacker in the 9/11 plot from getting into the country told Congress yesterday that the “hostile” Saudi gave him the creeps and […]
Muslim Britain: More people attend mosques than Church of England
Muslims in Great Britain are asking for greater representation in the House of Lords, based on the apparent fact that there are more practicing Muslims in Britain today than practicing Anglicans. This from the Hindustan Times, with thanks to the many who sent this to me: More people in Britain attend mosques than the Church […]
Al-Qaeda’s “Voice of Jihad,” issue #9
MEMRI reports that “the online magazine ‘The Voice of Jihad,’ which is published by Al-Qa’ida members in Saudi Arabia and describes itself as a ‘biweekly dealing with Jihad and the Mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula,’ devoted its ninth issue to two main subjects: Osama bin Laden’s most recent speech, excerpts of which were broadcast on […]
Picking jihad over children
Reem Raiyshi and her son (AP, via LGF) Reem Raiyshi, the young Palestinian mother who murdered four people in a suicide attack last week, is being viewed as less than heroic by many Palestinians. This from the Philadelphia Inquirer, with thanks to Jean-Luc: Wind whipped a chilly Gaza street, kicking up dust around Um Zayad, […]
Small Blast Damages French School
Last week Aissa Dermouche’s car was blown up. This week a school he used to head was bombed. Why? Reports on the car bombing suggested that it is all because Dermouche, a Muslim, supports France’s headscarf ban. Now evidently that explanation has gone down the memory hole. In any case, welcome to the new France. […]
Hamas offers 10 year truce with Israel in exchange for full withdrawal from West Bank and Gaza Strip
I have long maintained that a great deal can be discovered about the motives and goals of radical Islamic terrorists by studying Islamic religious sources “” an idea which most people, particularly those in positions of influence, continue to disregard. But here is more evidence of its truth: Hamas is proposing a 10-year truce in […]
Pro-terrorism pop stars sell hate in U.S. Muslim neighborhoods
Last week I posted a piece about jihadis spreading their message through pop songs in Iraq. Now the terrorist top 40’s jihad jingles have spread to the U.S. and Canada: Pro-jihadi activists in North America, including U.S. and Canadian citizens, use Arab pop stars as a tool to disseminate their propaganda, reports the premium online […]
Bush: Bin Laden Aide Is Caught in Iraq
The President is saying that a senior member of Al-Qaeda has been caught. This just in from AP: The minister in charge of Iraqi police said Monday that al-Qaida was probably behind some suicide bombings in Iraq, and President Bush praised the capture of a senior member of Osama bin Laden’s network. “There is a […]
9/11 ringleader Atta raised enough red flags at customs, still got in
Muhammad Atta shouldn’t have gotten into the United States at all. This from AP: A border agent said Monday that the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks raised enough red flags at customs “” including having the wrong student visa “” that he should been prevented from entering the United States. Customs agent Jose […]