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 […]
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 […]