Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, the FBI agent who allegedly refused to tape a fellow Muslim, has been reinstated. Did he really refuse to tape a Muslim? He says he was misunderstood. From MSNBC, with thanks to LGF: Overturning the action of its senior disciplinary officer, the FBI has reinstated a high-profile Muslim agent who had been fired […]
Archives for February 2004
The U.S. Army builds a mosque
When was the last time you heard of the U.S. Army building a church, or a synagogue? What’s that? A wall of separation? Well, the wall is down in Afghanistan, where a plaque in front of one mosque proclaims: “Matachina mosque, reconstructed in 2002… with the help of the American people.” From AFP, with thanks […]
India: Islamic Militant Groups Demand Women Cover Up
Some Muslims seem to have no trouble turning from calls for the freedom to wear headscarves in France to denying the freedom not to wear them elsewhere. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: Three Islamic rebel groups in Indian-controlled Kashmir have demanded that women in the region wear head-to-toe veils and that all beauty parlors […]
Nigerian jihad continues
This “Muslim-Christian violence” is rather predictably one-sided. From AP, with thanks to Peter Rockas: Suspected Muslim militants armed with guns and bows and arrows killed at least 48 people in an attack on a farming village in central Nigeria. Most of the victims died as they sought refuge in a church, police said. The latest […]
Dawood Ibrahim: “India’s Osama”
Is terrorism really the last desperate resort of the poor? Dawood Ibrahim has 430 million dollars. From Asia Times, with thanks to Jean-Luc: While all attention is focused on Osama bin Laden and his cohorts allegedly cornered in western Pakistan, in India there is an equal amount of interest in the one man who is […]
“Chicks with Bombs”
The New York Post (as if you couldn’t tell from the headline) reviews a new book about female suicide bombers, Barbara Victor’s Army of Roses (Rodale Press). The Israeli occupation, Victor finds, does not fully explain Palestinian terrorism. Rather, its roots lie in the “culture of death” that Palestinian leaders have promoted. Hamas and Islamic […]
What Is Arab Antisemitism?
There is a great deal of value in this MEMRI report on Muslim Anti-Semitism, but one passage in particular caught my eye, as I discuss this phenomenon at length in Onward Muslim Soldiers: It is indeed unfortunate that the status of the Jews as a tolerated minority in the Muslim world before the advent of […]
Dhimmitude at the State Department
An official webpage on the U.S. State Department site celebrates “Muslim Life in America.” I looked in vain for similar pages celebrating Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist Life in America. Daniel Pipes, whose own site alerted me to this (with thanks to LGF), points out that “the State Department provides links to and thereby endorses […]
“I wanted to be a martyr and kill Israeli soldiers”
She will try again, and kill even children. From the Telegraph: A woman suicide bomber arrested by Israeli forces as she prepared to blow up a Tel Aviv bus station vowed yesterday to carry out a successful “martyr attack” as soon as she is freed from jail. “Yes, I will do it again if I […]
Terror suspects arrested in Italy
Milan’s Duomo: possibly a target Several imams have been arrested on suspicions of terror plotting in Italy. The spectacle of religious teachers being arrested for this kind of activity has become so commonplace as to escape notice. But it points up vividly the problem that Muslims face globally: radicalism is coming from those who should […]
A blueprint for jihad, or a red herring?
Gulf News thinks that the notorious Zarqawi letter is a forgery, for some interesting reasons. The London-based daily Al Hayat recently published a letter allegedly written by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, America’s most sought after man in Iraq due to his connections with Al Qaida. The US has placed a reward of $10 million on […]
Security Concerns Prevent Iraqi Christians from Returning Home
The harsh situation of Christians in postwar Iraq. From VOANews, with thanks to Jean-Luc: Many Iraqis who fled to Syria for safety before, during and just after the war in Iraq say they still are afraid to go home. Nearly a year after the war in Iraq, Seita Daoud sits in a sparsely furnished, badly […]
Unjust West ganging up on Islam: Megawati
Megawati (AFP) The US and its allies are behaving with “exceptional injustice” toward Muslim countries, says Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri. From Smh.com.au, with thanks to Jean-Luc: Mrs Megawati sought to contrast the way Indonesia had used the law to find and prosecute its terrorists with the “unilateral” US-led invasion of Iraq. The remarks opened an […]
Islamic teacher jailed for hiding Bali bomber
Until Muslim groups worldwide face up to the involvement of “Islamic teachers” in terrorist acts, and do something to prevent it, military actions will not win a decisive or lasting victory in the war on terror. From Reuters: An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced an Islamic teacher, believed to have been a leader of the […]
Terror attack in Britain ‘inevitable’
So said British Home Secretary David Blunkett, who also had some choice words for opponents of anti-terror measures. From the Australian, with thanks to Nicolei: A TERRORIST attack in Britain was inevitable, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said. Security measures alone were not sufficient to stop the threat, he said. Asked if such an attack […]
Tenet: al-Qaida Weakened, Extremism Isn’t
I have long argued that the worldwide jihadist movement is not restricted to any single organization. Now, after virtually everything has been blamed on Al-Qaeda for awhile, this is being acknowledged. From AP, with thanks to EPG: Al-Qaida is damaged seriously, but it has spread its radical agenda to other groups that now pose the […]
Israel Says Hizballah Pays Bonus For Suicide Bomb Victims
The more civilians are killed in those buses and restaurants, the better Hizballah likes it. From the Dow Jones Newswire, : Hezbollah is paying bonuses for each person Palestinian suicide bombers kill, the head of Israel’s parliamentary defense and foreign affairs committee said Tuesday. Committee chairman Yuval Steinitz told Dow Jones Newswires that the Lebanese […]
11th issue of “Voice of Jihad” released
Wage jihad, fight the Crusaders, topple the apostates of the House of Saud — that’s right, it’s a new issue of the Al-Qaeda magazine “Voice of Jihad.” From the SITE Institute, : The 11th issue of the al-Qaeda biweekly “Sawt al-Jihad” [Voice of Jihad] online magazine has been released. In this issue, we find three […]
“We didn’t kill our beautiful daughter”
The tragic story of Shafilea Ahmed is not necessarily one of honor killing; however, the girl was upset enough at the prospect of an arranged marriage to swallow bleach. As young Muslims in the West are increasingly caught between two cultures, we will see more of such stories. From the Telegraph, : The parents of […]
Iranian Government Daily: The U.S. & ‘Zionists’ have Bribed the IAEA to Fabricate Lies About Iran’s Nuclear Progress
When under pressure, blame the Zionists. The Tehran Times is resorting to this in the face of IAEA findings about Iran’s nuclear program. From MEMRI, : “Pressured by U.S. officials and supported by the Zionists, some officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its official website have started fabricating lies about the Iranian […]