From the Observer, with thanks to Susan: Ayse was 14 when she was smuggled into Britain and forced to marry her cousin. Family members turned out in large numbers to welcome her at the illegal ceremony in a north London public hall. ‘They kept whispering in my ear to ask why I wasn’t smiling,’ recalls […]
Archives for February 2004
Mickey in controversial 9/11 art
Bin Laden Lieutenant Taunts Bush on Tape
Al-Qaeda is still full of threats and murder — oh, and they’re not too happy about France and that headscarf thing, either. From AP, : Audiotapes purported to be from Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant aired on Arabic TV stations Tuesday, one taunting President Bush and threatening more attacks on the United States, the second […]
C.I.A. was given data on 9/11 hijacker in 1999
The CIA had a chance in 1999 — and blew it. From the New York Times: American investigators were given the first name and telephone number of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers two and a half years before the attacks on New York and Washington, but the United States appears to have failed to […]
US Muslim power broker’s ties to terror suspects
Kenneth Timmerman in Insight has valuable background on Khaled Saffuri, a man whose influence has reached to the White House: The rise of Khaled Saffuri to political prominence within the U.S. Muslim community has all the ingredients of a Horatio Alger success story. Brought up as a stateless exile in Kuwait, Saffuri came to America […]
Voice of Palestine Honors Rather Than Condemns Bus Bomber
The official PA radio is contradicting official condemnation of the latest bus bombing. From IMRA: Voice of Palestine Radio (VOP) (that is run by the PA and under the tight control of Yasser Arafat) referred to the man who committed the bombing of the bus in Jerusalem yesterday as a martyr (“shahid”) in their news […]
Alleged traitor’s Saudi influence
Joel Mowbray has more insight on the Ryan Anderson case. From the Jewish World Review, with thanks to Nicolei: To those who worry about the extremism that Saudi influence can foster here in the United States, the joint Muslim community at Washington State University and the University of Idaho “” just nine miles apart “” […]
Pakistani, US Troops Intensify Bin Laden Search
Now comes a report that the hunt is continuing and intensifying. From the Dow Jones Newswires, : U.S. spy chief George Tenet made a secret visit to Islamabad last week as American and Pakistani troops began a major operation to hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda fugitives believed to be hiding along […]
Australia: Terror’s many tongues
Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun has some pointed observations about the situation in Australia. (Thanks to Kevin.) IT goes like this. First, Australia’s Mufti, Taj El-Din El-Hilaly, praises terrorists in Arabic. Then, when his words leak out, the sheik’s spokesman, Keysar Trad of the Lebanese Muslim Association, tells us in English how we’ve again […]
Letter to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
From the Simon Wiesenthal Center (): Monday, February 23, 2004 German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder We join with the Simon Wiesenthal Center in demanding your public rebuke of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, the flagship of your Social Democratic Party, for funding the three-day Beirut International Conference on ‘The Islamic World and Europe: from Dialogue towards […]
Taliban claim responsibility for fatal attack on American reconstruction team
The Taliban is attempting to keep the jihad alive in Afghanistan by murdering construction workers. The focus on non-combatants accord with the provisions of Islamic law that forbid killing them unless they are considered to be aiding the war effort. This is used to justify bombings on buses in Israel, and by Osama for his […]
Kerry’s wife supports U.S. radicals, jihadists
I was starting to think that the message John Kerry’s campaign sent to an Iranian news agency was just a blanket email in which the Iranians were included, but was not specifically a message to the mullahs. That may be true. But Kerry’s wife is a major donor to a group that funds all sorts […]
New jihadist tape from Iraq
The world is gradually waking up to the fact that Al-Qaeda is far from the only radical Islamic group out there. This new tape takes responsibility for several recent bombings in Iraq, and purports to come from a “new” terror group, Ansar Al-Sunnah. “A key purpose of the video is for propaganda “” to attract […]
Global bomb-making network
More on the global reach of radical Islam, from the New York Times. (Thanks to Filtrat.) Government forensic investigators examining how terrorists manufacture improvised explosives have found indications of a global bomb-making network, and have concluded that Islamic militant bomb builders have used the same designs for car bombs in Africa, the Middle East and […]
Sharia vs. polio in Nigeria
AP reported that the rejection of the polio vaccine by a polio-ravaged Nigerian state was due to anti-American sentiment and conspiracy theories. That is true, but it is also true that these fears are being stoked by the local Islamic authorities: “But fears mounted last year after Datti Ahmed, a Kano physician who heads a […]
Suicide bomber kills 7 in Jerusalem
From CNN: A suicide bomber on Sunday killed at least seven passengers on a crowded bus in Jerusalem at the height of rush hour, according to police in the city and Israeli ambulance services. Jerusalem police spokesman Gil Kleiman said the suicide bomber also died in the terrorist attack, which wounded more than 50 people, […]
Presbyterian church apologizes
Here is an apology from the Presbyterian church for anti-Semitic remarks made by a Muslim speaker sponsored by a Presbyterian group, speaking at Wooster College in Ohio. The following statement is made by the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, the Office for Interfaith Relations and the Office for the Middle East and Europe of the Presbyterian Church […]
Pakistan Sharia watch: ninth school destroyed
From the BBC, with thanks to Nicolei: Police in Pakistan’s remote Northern Areas said on Friday that a ninth school in five days had been attacked and destroyed. Local officials have blamed hardline Islamists opposed to female education. Eight of the schools were for girls, although the latest – burned down in a village near […]
Video games attract young to Hizballah
There are several jihadist video games out there. I wrote of a children’s version a couple of years ago. This from the Telegraph, with thanks to EPG: Perching on the edge of a chair in a darkened room in Beirut, seven-year-old Hassan el Zein takes aim with his pistol and pumps three bullets into the […]
Sharia alert: Bangladesh bans another novel by Taslima Nasreen
Can such actions be compatible with a free society? From the Hindustan Times, with thanks to TwoStellas: Bangladesh has banned controversial feminist author Taslima Nasrin latest book for allegedly containing “objectionable” comments about Islam and Prophet Mohammad. The government in a notification issued on Thursday banned the printing, reprinting, sale and stockpiling of the book, […]