Evidently multiculturalism trumps feminism at Duke. From Cinnamon Stillwell at FrontPage, with thanks to the many who sent this to me: Afghanistan’s Taliban was one of the most oppressive regimes in the world, and doubly so when it came to women’s rights. For years, various activists expressed concern about the situation of Afghan women and […]
Archives for September 2004
Pakistanis arrest four jihadists
No confirming word on Zawahri, which makes me think it is a false report. But there is this, from AP: KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) “” Security forces following up on a raid that killed a top al-Qaeda fugitive arrested four more suspected extremists Monday, and Pakistan’s president predicted the investigation would lead to more high-profile militants. […]
Could it be? Report: Top Bin Laden deputy caught in Pakistan
From the Jerusalem Post: Top Bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has been caught in Pakistan, according to a report from the region quoted on Israel Radio Monday. Pakistani forces operating against al Qaida strongholds in the country report capturing the Egyptian national, who was formerly the head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which operated in […]
Iraqi Columnist: ‘It is Difficult to Recall a Period in which Christian Arabs Were in Greater Danger than Today’
We have posted many stories here about the plight of Christians in Iraq. Here is a new report from an Iraqi paper about the plight of Christians all over the Middle East, courtesy MEMRI: In an article in the Iraqi daily Al-Zaman, a newspaper published simultaneously in London and Baghdad with an independent and liberal […]
Egyptian Intellectual: Al-Azhar University Curricula Encourages Extremism and Terrorism
Here’s another stop-the-presses story, as I have chronicled Al-Azhar’s radicalism for years, but it is good to see it being acknowledged in the Islamic world — especially the parts about the oppression of dhimmis, which are almost never admitted by Muslim spokesmen. From MEMRI: Progressive writer and Cairo University lecturer on the sociology of religion […]
Pakistan: Police “stumped” on Christian murders
Try as they might, the Pakistani police just can’t seem to figure out who might have killed seven Christians two years ago. From Compass Direct: Two years after seven Christians were gunned down at the Karachi headquarters of one of Pakistan’s established Christian welfare agencies, local police investigators have failed to identify a single suspect. […]
Swiss Voters Reject Relaxed Citizenship Rules
“Anti-Muslim sentiment”? Did the Swiss vote for “racism”? Or simply against Sharia? From VOANews, with thanks to Nicolei: Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposed easing of the country’s strict citizenship rules that would have made it easier for second- and third-generation immigrants to attain Swiss citizenship…. The measures had been fought by the right-wing […]
Stop the presses! AP discovers link to jihad in Chechnya!
AP has just discovered — get this — that the Chechen “separatists” and “militants” might actually be … Islamic jihadists! I know, it’s shocking beyond measure, but here are the grisly details: MOSCOW (AP) “” The brutality and meticulous planning of the school hostage-taking and other recent terror attacks in Russia have focused new attention […]
Thailand: bomb wounds 9 during Buddhist festival
Those oppressive, bloodthirsty Buddhists are at it again, provoking peaceful Muslims to violence by daring to … hold a festival. From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: BANGKOK (Reuters) – A bomb wounded nine soldiers and civilian volunteers manning a checkpoint near a local Buddhist festival in Thailand’s mainly Muslim south on Sunday, police said. The […]
Treasury’s task re the Saudis
Nicole Gelinas in the New York Post outlines what the Treasury Department should do about Saudi terror financing. I’m not holding my breath here. Saudi Arabia, as everyone knows, promotes domestic intolerance of Christians, Jews and Shia Muslims. That would be mostly a Saudi problem “” if the Saudis didn’t have so much money. But […]
International Association of Muslim Scholars condemns hostage-taking
Islam Online (thanks to A. El Haji) has a lengthy statement from the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAS) condemning hostage taking. At first glance it looks great: a carefully reasoned argument from Islamic sources showing that the behavior of the Iraqi jihadists is wrong. Just what we need. However, once again there is somewhat […]
Indonesian radical Muslim groups learning Chechen terrorist tactics
Wait a minute? Weren’t the Chechen jihadists condemned by the whole world after Beslan? Apparently not: in Indonesia, radical Muslim groups were taking notes. From The Star Online, with thanks to Nicolei: SINGAPORE: Indonesian radical groups with links to the Jemaah Islamiah terrorist network have produced VCDs and documents on how Chechen separatists make and […]
Iran ready to confront U.S. militarily
From UPI, : Beirut, Lebanon, Sep. 27 (UPI) — Maj. Gen. Rahim Safawi, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, said Monday his country is ready to confront U.S. pressure, including military. In an interview with the London-based Saudi daily al-Hayat, monitored in Beirut, Safawi said although the United States is deeply involved in Iraq, it […]
Cypriot Minister Says Chechen Terrorists Train in Northern Cyprus
Jihad in northern Cyprus, which is illegally controlled by secular Turkey. Evidently secular Turkey is not secular enough to keep the jihadists out of northern Cyprus; it only maintains its “secular” character by a continuing series of concessions to radical Muslims; maybe this is one. From VOA News, with thanks to twostellas: Cyprus’ justice minister […]
Hirsi Ali: “I won’t be intimidated for expressing my views”
An interview with an international hero of the resistance to jihad, the Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. From Expatica, with thanks to Peter Rockas and RickB: People who object to her criticism of Islam should take her to court rather than take the law into their own hands, Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells […]
BBC: “Arabs ambivalent over hostage crisis” — but 93% support hostage-taking
Of course, hostage-taking is completely against Islam, but 93% of Muslims support it. I suppose now we are to believe that Muslims have failed so utterly to instruct their children in their faith that they have almost all picked up a violent, Orientalist caricature of the real thing? The taqiyya (religious deception, sanctioned by Qur’an […]
Two Italian hostages in good health, Italian media reports
Hope it’s true. From Xinhuanet: ROME, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) — A Kuwaiti paper said that the two kidnapped Italian aid workers in Iraq were in good health and being treated well by their kidnappers, Italian News Agency ANSA reported on Sunday. The Al Ray Al-Aam, Kuwait’s top newspaper, said the kidnappers would not release the […]
Former Gitmo Inmate Killed in Afghanistan
He had gone back to resume fighting the jihad. And what was preventing him? Guantanamo does nothing to disabuse inmates of the jihad ideology. From AP, with thanks to Douglas: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan “” A former inmate at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who returned to Afghanistan to rejoin the Taliban as a […]
Hamas big killed in Syria, Hamas threatens to target Israelis abroad
From Reuters, with thanks to Jeff Lastname: GAZA, Sept 26 (Reuters) – The Palestinian militant group Hamas threatened on Sunday to target Israelis abroad after blaming Israel for the killing of a Hamas official in Syria. “We have let hundreds of thousands of Zionists travel and move in capitals of the world in order not […]
UK moderate Muslims: hostage-taking against Islam
Ayman Gomaa of Al Akhbar in Cairo writes in the Sunday Herald that hostage-taking is against Islamic law: Moderate Muslims are united in believing that the taking and killing of hostages is forbidden by the teachings of Islam. Almost 150 foreigners have been seized in Iraq since April, in the name of Islam and under […]