From Expatica, with thanks to Anthony: But employers’ federation president Dieter Hundt and trade union federation chairman Michael Sommer said in a joint statement issued on Sunday it was up to politicians to create the conditions for a society “which offers room for different cultural identities and development opportunities”. Because that’s all it is, you […]
Archives for November 2004
South Korea: “Arab Culture Night” Draws Locals, Foreigners
This “Arab Culture Night” — “jointly organized by embassies of 10 Arab countries in Seoul — Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisia” — seems to have been exclusively an Islamic culture night. While noting that Islam “spread” for a thousand years, it doesn’t say how. And before the emails […]
British Muslims want Islamic courts
From The Guardian, with thanks to all those who sent this in: Muslims in Britain want greater recognition of their faith with the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases and time off for prayers during the working day, but are equally committed to greater participation in British life. A special Guardian/ICM poll based on […]
Al-Zawahiri Vows to Keep Fighting U.S.
Zawahiri threatens the US again. From Fox: “The results of the elections do not matter for us,” al-Zawahiri said in the three-minute excerpt. “Vote [for] whoever you want, Bush, Kerry or the devil himself. This does not concern us. What concerns us is to purge our land from the aggressors.” Al-Zawahiri also accused the United […]
Turkey implements “Copenhagen Criteria” in Qosere: Turkish police kill Kurdish school child, label boy “terrorist”
Let them into the EU! From KurdishMedia.com, with thanks to Kemaste: London (Kurdish.Media.com) 27 November 2004: Turkish police killed a 12-year-old Kurdish boy and his father in “execution style” in front of their house in Kiziltepe last Saturday, says the Human Rights Association of Turkey (HRA). The police, it appears, then planted weapons on their […]
Germany Takes Steps to Integrate Muslims
From AP, with thanks to Kemaste and KJL: BERLIN (AP) – Shop signs in Arabic and Turkish, storefront mosques and women wearing headscarves in the streets are evidence of how new arrivals have found a slice of home in Berlin’s heavily immigrant Neukoelln neighborhood. For years, Germans viewed such neighborhoods as a sign of a […]
Terror expert: Qaida WMD attack on US likely soon
We have been hearing this for quite some time now. Which, of course, doesn’t mean that it isn’t true. But since November 2003 I have posted here about various “imminent” attacks; either the jihadists are full of empty bluster, or DHS is doing its job, or a little of both. From the Jerusalem Post, with […]
US: Mall security growing more vigilant against terrorism
From AP, with thanks to Kemaste: MANCHESTER, Conn. — In a suburban mall outside Hartford, past the Abercrombie & Fitch and the cell phone kiosks, tucked away by the Barnes & Noble, a conference room full of shopping mall security guards are learning to spot suicide bombers. They’re being taught blast patterns and behavior profiles, […]
Sheikh Yusef: Hamas ready for ‘hudna’
According to Islamic law, a hudna can only be agreed to in order to allow the Muslim forces to gather strength. From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Kemaste: Sheikh Hassan Yusef, head of the Hamas political bureau in Ramallah said Monday that Hamas is willing to declare a 10 year hudna, or ceasefire. In […]
Iran says it has never allowed terrorists to cross territory
Hey mister! Would you like to buy a suspension bridge? From AFP, with thanks to Kemaste: TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) – Iran said Sunday that is has never allowed any terrorists to cross into Iraq from its territory and offered its help to restore security in its neighbour, including the training of police and border […]
Iran group canvasses for suicide attacks on Israel
Why didn’t these 300 men recoil and say, “Don’t you know the Qur’an forbids suicide?” American Muslim apologists and their non-Muslim allies have reached a level of gall that is nothing short of awe-inspiring in their refusal to face up to the implications of incidents like these. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: […]
FBI Finds Link Between 9/11, Madrid Bombs
This shouldn’t come as any surprise to those who understand the ideological ties that bind together the two attacks and their perpetrators. From Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: MADRID (Reuters) – The FBI has established the clearest link yet between the March 11 Madrid train bombings and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on […]
Swedish Children for Sale
An appalling story — but the father is acting in accord with Islamic law. From Ilya Meyer in FrontPage, with thanks to Rochi: In June 2004, Swedish mother Elizabeth Krantz’s five children were kidnapped from Sweden by Krantz’s estranged Palestinian husband Ismail Nowajah. The children — Adam, Amina, Zakarias, Miriam and Sara — range in […]
US: Madarsahs in Pakistan are hatcheries for jihad
It looks as if nothing has changed in Pakistani madrassas. From KeralaNext.com: Despite various claims made by Pakistan, the schools in Pakistan are acting as ‘incubators for violent extremism’ claims a report. The Daily Times quoted a report in the Chicago Tribune as saying that notwithstanding claims to the contrary, Pakistan government has done very […]
Death Threats for a Dutch MP
More on Geert Wilders from Alexis Amory in FrontPage, with thanks to Robert Wikström and Anthony: In the turbulent wake of the slaughter of Dutch media personality and provocateur Theo van Gogh, maverick Member of Parliament Geert Wilders has called for a five-year moratorium on all non-European immigration. Against a backdrop of threats to his […]
Is Hamas raising funds in Canada?
From the National Post: OTTAWA – Conservative MP Stockwell Day wants Ottawa to investigate a Mississauga, Ont., charity he alleges has been operating as a front for a Palestinian terrorist organization. Mr. Day called on federal officials to study the charitable status of the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy, which he said […]
The Wahhabi Bomb: Iran Says Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons
From the Diversionary Tactics Department (not that it isn’t probably true). From UPI, with thanks to Kemaste: Teheran, Iran, Nov. 28 (UPI) — Iranian sources said the country has discovered Saudi Arabia has access to nuclear weapons and technology, the Middle East Newsline reported Sunday. The sources said Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed an agreement […]
Turkey in the EU would be ‘bridge to Islamic world’: Schroeder
From AFP, with thanks to Kemaste: BERLIN, Nov 26 (AFP) – Integrating Turkey into the European Union would be “a historic opportunity to build a bridge to the Islamic world”, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Friday…. “A democratic Turkey which makes a commitment to respect European values would be clear proof that there is […]
Keystone Taliban
Link and headline courtesy Kemaste. From CNN: CNN) — At least three people have been killed as Taliban militants attacked an aid office in southwestern Afghanistan, officials said. Antoine Russell, operations officer at the Afghan Non-Governmental Organization Security Office, said between 20 and 40 suspected Taliban attacked the Voluntary Association for Rehabilitation of Afghanistan (VARA) […]
A jihadist’s journey
How is it that the son of a Saudi middle-class family with no history of violence suddenly became a jihadist? Get the explanations here and here. From Newsday, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The caller roused Abu Khaled from his slumber shortly after dawn prayers one day in mid-April. “Your […]