Which Brigitte is to be believed? From The Australian, with thanks to Jean-Luc: SUSPECTED French terrorist Willie Brigitte has retracted statements about his knowledge of a possible bomb plot in Australia, according to French judicial sources. In his first detailed interrogation by investigating magistrate judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere about his activities in Australia, Brigitte went back […]
Archives for February 2004
Islam illegal under law, court told
Interesting court case going on in Australia. Two Christian pastors are on trial for “vilifying Muslims” during a 2002 seminar. But as they make their defense, they are going on the offensive. From The Age, with thanks to Jean-Luc: Islam was an illegal religion because the Koran preached violence against Christians and Jews, a Christian […]
Australia: Mufti not to be investigated
The Australian Mufti, Sheikh Al-Hilali, who reportedly called for jihad against Israel recently (as well as claiming that Australia was originally Muslim), is now singing a different tune “” and Australia’s Federal Police are accepting that he does not support an armed uprising against any state. From News.com.au, with thanks to Jean-Luc: THE Australian Federal […]
Jihad and Musharraf
M. A. Niazi in HiPakistan contributes a complex theological argument about whether or not Pakistan’s President Musharraf has been speaking correctly about jihad. In the course of the article he makes a number of statements that are revealing in that he seems to assume that his readers will take them for granted. One is that […]
Noose Tightening around Bin Laden?
This weekend a number of sources have been reporting a stepped up hunt for Osama bin Laden. Word from Pakistan is that they have soldiers combing the mountains. Word from London is that Osama is surrounded. Word from The Washington Post is that we are, of course, to blame. UPDATE: U.S., Pakistan Deny They’re Closing […]
“To me all the Jews are soldiers and I want to kill them.”
Skynews has a chilling look inside the mind of a female suicide bomber: In the terrorist wing of Israel’s Hasharon Prison, Obaydeh Khalil sat in her tiny cell and spoke calmly of murder. “I wanted to kill as many of them as possible,” she said. “To me all the Jews are soldiers and I want […]
Alabama to Allow Headscarves in Drivers License Photos
A new policy in Alabama is not in and of itself an example of dhimmitude, but it is interesting to contrast this with the French headscarf ban: Responding to complaints from Muslims and Sikhs, Gov. Bob Riley’s administration is changing a policy that prohibited the wearing of head scarves and turbans in driver’s license photos. […]
Case Dismissed Against Alleged Jihad Group Member
The Washington Post reports that a member of a Virginia jihad group was acquitted. It seems that among other things he dozed off at a key meeting. Those who doubt the relevance of the Kashmir conflict to the war on terror should be reminded that one of the key features of the war is a […]
U.S. freezes accounts of Saudi charity
This group had been spreading its message in American prisons, mosques, and Islamic schools. From the Washington Post, with thanks to EPG: The Treasury Department ordered banks yesterday to freeze the accounts of the Oregon and Missouri branches of a large Saudi charity that U.S. officials say has been used to finance the al Qaeda […]
Greenberg: Radical Islam tops list of U.S. enemies
Common sense from Dan Greenberg in the MetroWest Daily News (thanks to Nicolei): It has become almost impossible to have a detached discussion — one that takes historical considerations into account — about the war on terror, and the position of Iraq in the context of that war. Here, I would like to do my […]
Security review again delays Muslim chaplain’s hearing
Continued strange goings-on in the Yee case. From the Miami Herald: For the fifth time, the Army on Tuesday delayed the pretrial hearing for a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified information at the U.S. terror prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The Southern Command in Miami said Capt. James ”Youseff” Yee’s hearing at Fort Benning, […]
Dhimmitude in India
This one seems motivated by a desire to get votes. From Sify.com: The BJP has strongly protested against the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government’s decision to cut short school hours on Fridays to allow Muslim students to offer Jumma ki namaz. The move is being perceived as an effort to appease the Muslim votebank ahead of […]
Musharraf urges end to jihad culture
Musharraf’s anti-jihad jihad: too late? What’s this? Pakistan’s Musharraf has called upon his countrymen to stop “loving Allah above everything else and resisting worldly temptations“? Well, not exactly. He has denounced the jihadi culture, and he, his hearers, and the rest of the world know what he meant: the culture of violence and murder that […]
Girls’ schools in Pakistan blasted
Discrimination against women is so deeply ingrained into the Sharia in so many ways (women’s testimony is devalued, they cannot marry or even leave the house without permission, they may be beaten (Qur’an, Sura 4:34), etc.), that many Islamic radicals consider the very idea of education for women to be an affront to Islam. This […]
Witness: Terror Group Asked Defendant to Perform Mission in U.S.
Those Virginia paintballers hoped to strike in the U.S. From AP, : Testimony in the case of a Maryland man charged with trying to join the Taliban and fight U.S. troops indicates that he was asked by members of a militant Islamic group to perform a special mission inside the United States. Yong Ki Kwon […]
Ryan Anderson Charged With Trying to Aid Al Qaeda
From Fox: Spc. Ryan G. Anderson, a National Guardsman accused of trying to aid the Al Qaeda terror network, has been formally charged, the Army said. Anderson, 26, a Muslim convert, was arrested last week after U.S. officials discovered he allegedly tried to give military data to Al Qaeda. If convicted, he could face the […]
Message of hate brought to Ohio campus
A disquieting story about the propagation of jihadist “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” slander in the United States, unconscionable dhimmitude from a Presbyterian “peacemaking group” — and nothing but supine silence from officials at an American college. From Cleveland Jewish News, with thanks to EPG: Last October, Samir Makhlouf, invited to speak at the […]
Anti-dhimmitude in Denmark
Jihadist khutbas are not welcome in Denmark. From the Guardian, with thanks to Andy Bannister: Denmark is tightening its immigration rules to make it harder for fundamentalist Muslim clerics to settle in the country and establish radical communities. The move is designed to encourage Muslims to integrate into wider Danish society but is bound to […]
Pakistan: “It’s almost impossible for them to curb these jihadis. The jihadi establishment has become too big”
This article chronicles the jihad activities of Hafiz Saeed and his Lashkar-e-Taiba organization in Pakistan, which threatens to derail the India/Pakistan peace process before it really starts. From KRT Wire: Alighting swiftly from a smoky windowed minibus on the edge of a small park in central Islamabad, the man blamed by India for orchestrating the […]
The Jihad World War
Stephen J. Kohn in Arutz Sheva states plainly and courageously some obvious truths that are all too widely ignored these days: “This is the time for collective wisdom and judgment to declare that any manifestation and glorification of The Jihad World War must be fought, unceasingly and aggressively. To lose this war may indeed mean […]