A new article by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, “Stay Quiet and You”ll Be OK,” is up at FrontPage this morning. Here’s a new slogan for the zeitgeist: stay quiet and you”ll be OK. This was the message, according to the tapes released last week, that Muhammad Atta gave to the passengers on the ill-fated […]
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Comments are, alas, still disabled, but the last stagecoach to Secure Undisclosed Locationville should be bringing the tools we need to fix up a new troll-proof comments feature by this afternoon, and it should be up by tomorrow or Friday. Apologies for the long delay, and many thanks for your patience. But when it is […]
Moore film distributor OK with terror support
When I posted about the offer, some people were angry. Stop picking on liberals, they said. Just because Hizballah made the offer doesn’t mean that Moore is on their side. Well, now the picture is a bit different. From WND: The company distributing filmmaker Michael Moore’s Bush-bashing movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” says it won’t reject an […]
Iraqi Militants Reportedly Behead Korean
“Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks …” (Qur’an, Sura 47:4). From AP: CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – An Iraqi militant group has beheaded its South Korean hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The pan-Arab station said it had received a videotape showing that Kim Sun-il had been executed. … Al-Jazeera, which […]
U.S. threatens to abandon Saudis and their oil
Heartening news from the World Tribune: The United States has sent a tough message to Saudi Arabia that did not rule out abandoning of the kingdom’s oil sector. U.S. officials said the Bush administration has warned that Americans would not stay in Saudi Arabia unless the kingdom takes significant steps to protect them. The officials […]
Terrorist nuclear threat ‘real and imminent’
From This Is London: The threat of a terrorist attack using nuclear weapons is “real and imminent”, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said today. Mohammed al Baradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said it was a “race against time” to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials. … “We are actually having […]
Al-Qaida suspect tied to U.S.-UK jihad group
More on Mohammed Junaid Babar, from WND (thanks to Margelfand). He turns out to be the Muhammad Junaid who was widely reported after 9/11 to be on his way to Afghanistan to fight against Americans, even though his mother had survived the World Trade Center attack. I tried to track him down then, but since […]
Accused of Aiding Terror Plot, Lawyer Braces for Fight of Her Life
The Washington Post just loves this woman, despite the fact that she is accused of aiding terrorists. Just look at the opening of this story. Why do they love her? Is it her Ashcroft-baiting? Her belief in “armed struggle” (by whom, and for what cause)? Her “left-leaning” activism? Her grandmotherly cuteness? Whatever the case, what […]
UK: Arson attacks at synagogues
Now let’s see. There is a large, growing, and vocal group in England that is virulently anti-Semitic and sometimes violent. Could they have anything to do with the attacks on 100 synagogues since 2000? Could that at least be investigated? No: to do so would be “racism.” From This Is London, with thanks to Andy: […]
Jihadists seize ministry building in Russia
Yes, it’s a jihad in Chechnya. And the surrounding areas. From AP, with thanks to Nicolei: VLADIKAVKAZ (Russia) – Assailants armed with grenade- and rocket-launchers seized the Interior Ministry headquarters in Ingushetia, a Russian region bordering warring Chechnya, killing the acting minister, a ministry official said on Tuesday. Attacks were also reported elsewhere in Ingushetia. […]
Convicted Muslims appeal to Dutch Supreme Court
Holland’s first convicted terrorists are appealing. From Expatica, with thanks to Nicolei: AMSTERDAM “” Two of the four Muslims convicted by an appeals court in The Hague on Monday will take their cases to the Supreme Court to have their sentences quashed. One of the men was sentenced to six years jail for involvement in […]
Pakistan: Militant leader vows jihad against US
Musharraf hasn’t gotten them all. And what is he doing about the madrassas again? From HiPakistan: WANA, June 21: The head of ‘mujahideen’ shura in South Waziristan on Monday said they wanted to live in peace with Pakistan, but vowed to continue waging a jihad against the United States. “We want peace for Pakistan, but […]
Is the U.N. finally ready to get serious about anti-Semitism?
The courageous Anne Bayefsky of Columbia University at the UN conference on Confronting Anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding. From Opinion Journal, with thanks to all who sent it to me: I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you at this first U.N. conference on anti-Semitism, which is being convened six decades after the organization’s […]
Beheadings cause Muslims grief
Bruno Guiderdoni isn’t concerned about Westerners who go to Iraq in order to rebuild the country and end up being beheaded; he is concerned that someone might look askance at the Muslims in France as a result. Of course, no one should target innocent people in France, Iraq, or anywhere, but where exactly is the […]
Algerian Military Says Terror Leader Killed
One of the most active Islamic radical leaders in North Africa has been killed. No doubt he was waging jihad in North Africa because of his rage over Abu Ghraib and Israel. From AP, with thanks to Ali Dashti: ALGIERS, Algeria — Troops killed one of North Africa’s most wanted Islamic militants, who had sought […]
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For those of you who may be checking in just now, I thought I’d repeat the notice that comments are temporarily closed. We have been hearing from a high volume of jihadists here at Jihad Watch, who are both enraged that we would tell the truth about jihad terrorism and ready to do violence to […]
Allah’s Butchers
Ralph Peters says it all at FrontPage (thanks to Charles): Religions are what men make of them. In the Arab heartlands of Islam, Muslims are making a gory mess of their faith. It’s time to end the politically correct baby-talk insisting that Islam isn’t the problem. In the decaying Arab world, Islam is the problem–because […]
UNLV: Lecturer says Islam helps create terror
Given the state of higher education today, this is a jaw-dropping story. From the Review Journal, with thanks to Twostellas: Patrick Boylan, a member of the state’s board of education, brought out the Quran before 19 of the state’s highest emergency responders. “It says it right here. Do not take the infidels as your friends,” […]
Hizb-ut-Tahrir aided girl in jilbab controversy
Charles at LGF has posted a Times article revealing that Hizb-ut-Tahrir, the “peaceful” Islamic group that wants to establish Sharia wherever it can, was behind the girl who sued for the right to wear Islamic dress to school in England. Here is Hizb-ut-Tahrir’s agenda, as I summarized it at Jihad Watch last October: 1. Restore […]
Ex-officer ‘to lead Saudi al-Qaeda’
Why is it unthinkable that Saudi officials could have helped Al-Qaeda kidnap Paul Johnson when a Saudi ex-policeman is going to head Al-Qaeda there? From the BBC, with thanks to Nicolei: An ex-Saudi policeman has become leader of the al-Qaeda militant group in Saudi Arabia, according to media reports from the troubled kingdom. Saleh al-Oufi, […]