Archives for September 2004

Terence Jeffrey asks: Will promoting democracy in Islamic lands really make us safer from terrorism? Clearly, the answer is no, as he demonstrates from the career of Chechnya’s Shamil Basayev. Only a thoroughgoing worldwide repudiation of the Islamic principles that lead to terrorist violence will suffice. From Town Hall, with thanks to EPG: By turns, […]

This tiny 60- to 65% minority thinks highly of Osama, too. From ANI, with thanks to KnowIslam: Six in ten Pakistanis have come out in support of suicide attacks against “enemies” of Islam. Going by a report prepared by the Washington-based PEW Research Centre, though most people in Muslim-dominated nations are divided over violence against […]

Turkey’s recent dalliance with criminalizing adultery seems to have awakened a bit of long-slumbering EU anti-dhimmitude. From the BBC, with thanks to Ali Dashti: “If this central element of reform, that is the new civil code, is not adopted negotiations cannot start,” said a Commission spokesman on Monday. The Commission is due to present a […]

The dilemmas of defense play out in the Netherlands. Why not ask the leaders of the Muslim community there to formulate what they believe would be an adequate defense against the specter of terrorist attacks? That could be an extremely enlightening exercise. From AP, with thanks to Nicolei. After the Sept. 11 attacks in the […]

I have been saying this for several years now, in three books, scores of articles, and many public addresses. Now here is Daniel Pipes with more. He outlines the material in a recent Chicago Tribune article about the Muslim Brotherhood in the USA, and its goal to establish an Islamic state here, and then draws […]

In fifteen airports. From Reuters, with thanks to Teri: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Undercover investigators were able to slip explosives and weapons past security screeners during tests at 15 U.S. airports, USA Today reported on Thursday, citing an investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Results of the department’s tests conducted during the second half […]

“The verdict of Allah Almighty.” Tell me again how God is glorified by brutality and murder. Dangerous workers on school and water projects here neutralized; the mujahedin must be congratulating each other tonight. From AP: CAIRO, Egypt – An Internet statement purportedly by a group which claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in […]

Airman Ahmad Al Halabi accepts a plea bargain arrangement. From the Sacramento Bee: Al Halabi, who once faced charges that could have resulted in the death penalty, agreed to a plea bargain that involves substantially reduced charges, admitting he was guilty of illegally taking photographs, lying to investigators and improperly handling sensitive materials…. Al Halabi, […]

From Nettavisen, with thanks to Andy: The audience got more than they bargained for when they attended Sunday”s game between Djerv 2 and Hetlevik at Askøy outside Bergen. Several of the Djerv 2 players acted aggressively towards both other players and the audience. According to the local paper Bergensavisen, one person was injured after being […]

Allah is glorified yet again: one killed and fourteen wounded at a bus stop. From AP: JERUSALEM – A female Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up near a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding at least 14 others, Israeli authorities said. The explosion occurred at a busy intersection in […]

From the New York Daily News, : WASHINGTON – After mocking President Bush as an arrogant “Christian dog,” terrorists beheaded American hostage Eugene Armstrong in Iraq yesterday and posted a horrific video of his murder on an Islamic Web site. A helpless and clearly terrified Armstrong was forced to await his brutal death until a […]

From WFTV.com, : KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Channel 9 has discovered another controversial toy. A local mother took a closer look at the toy and realized something wasn’t right. It’s a toy cell phone with a picture of Osama bin Laden on it with one word above it, “King.” The toy cell phone is tiny, only […]

“Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and […]

More on the conspiratorial mind of the Muslim world. From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Hugh Fitzgerald: Dr. Nawwal Nur and her son Hazem Saleh Abu Isma’il, who preach Islam in the US, were interviewed about 9/11 by Saudi Iqra TV on July 15. The host asked if the attacks had harmed Americans’ image […]

Do Muslims have a natural right to enter the Netherlands? In light of the fact that many want to subvert the state, doesn’t the state (the U.S. as well as the Netherlands) have a right to limit such immigration or halt it altogether? From Expatica, : AMSTERDAM “” The Netherlands could have a new Pim […]

Of course, when non-Muslims lay this out, they’re “Islamophobes” — so then what is Shaikh Abdurrahman Abdul-Khaliq? Well, for one thing he is refreshingly candid. From Islamweb (thanks to Nicolei): The fourth reason for sending Prophet Mohammad is to establish Islam as the dominant religion above all, till the Day of Judgment. Allah said, what […]

No surprise here. From the Washington Times, and Ali Dashti: Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body of powerful Muslim clerics that chooses the country’s supreme leader, opened its 12th session Sunday calling for an Islamic republic in Iraq. In his opening speech, the assembly’s speaker, Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, urged Iraqi leaders to unite to expel […]

Revenge for his arrest. From the New York Times, : Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn claimed yesterday that a Yemeni cleric accused of major terrorism financing had issued a “public call for revenge against Americans for his arrest.” The cleric, Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, is in custody in Brooklyn awaiting trial Jan. 10 in federal […]

Clash of civilizations in Como. From NBC, with thanks to Ali Dashti: ROME – An Italian woman who is married to an Arab man and converted to Islam, has been ticketed twice in the past week for wearing a burqa in her small village in the province of Como. The dispute, which may eventually reach […]

Burak Bekdil in Kathimerini (thanks to Ali Dashti) asks some much-needed questions about Turkey’s radical Muslims and its hopes to enter the EU: This column has invariably argued that Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a reformist, but an overrated one. He has reformed some of Turkey”s laws, not necessarily because he genuinely believed in reforms, but […]