Religious profiling: horrors! Why isn’t DHS checking Methodists for terrorist activity? And what about those Amish? What are they up to? Come on, where is your sense of fairness? From AP, “Muslims claim unfair treatment at border,” with thanks to Kemaste: BUFFALO, N.Y. — An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday accused U.S. border agents of […]
Archives for December 2004
Senegal: rally race targeted by jihadists
“Security among many risks for Dakar rally racers,” from Reuters, with thanks to Kemaste: DAKAR, Senegal – Ronn Bailey is a computer security expert but he will be worrying more about low-tech threats when he takes part in the 5,000-mile Dakar rally, considered the world’s premier off-road race. Like all the participants, the American millionaire […]
Haaretz’s Travesty of Language
The forces of truth and right will have won a great victory when people start calling things by their right names. From P. David Hornik in FrontPage, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Haaretz story from Monday, December 27 informs us: ” . . an Israel Defense Forces tank opened fire and killed two Hamas […]
Russia: Muslim Clergymen Go Back to School
It will be interesting to see if this initiative can possibly succeed. For what can the “well-educated mullahs” learn and teach that will really blunt the force of Qur’anic literalism? If they do succeed, they will have something that the whole world needs. But the “traditional Islam” mentioned in this article is more of a […]
Bush Takes Rare Step of Debating bin Laden
From the New York Times, with thanks to Ron: CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 29 – President Bush took the unusual step on Wednesday of responding to one of Osama bin Laden’s taunting tape recordings, declaring that Mr. bin Laden’s recent call for Iraqis to boycott the elections in January “make the stakes of this pretty clear […]
Prosecutor: Lawyer Helped Sheik Break Law
Lynne Stewart trial update, from AP, with thanks to None: NEW YORK — A lawyer and two co-defendants helped an imprisoned Egyptian sheik commit a sort of “jailbreak” by allowing him to get around prison rules and feed messages to terrorists overseas, a prosecutor told a federal jury Wednesday. In his closing argument, assistant U.S. […]
Spencer in FP Symposium on Gender Apartheid and Islam
This morning FrontPage carries a Symposium on women’s rights in Islam. This is actually the second Symposium on this topic in which I have participated; the first two Muslim participants dropped out after the first round of responses from Ali Sina and me. This one, which is quite lengthy, carries this introduction: Does Islam have […]
Petition to End Dhimmitude!
From the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, an Open Letter to the United Nations Against Religious Apartheid. Sign it here. (Thanks to Mike for the link.) Open Letter to the United Nations Against Religious Apartheid To: H.E. the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan; The Coalition for the Defense of Human […]
Pakistani pol: West must stop equating Jihad with terrorism
Memo to Osama bin Laden: stop equating jihad with terrorism, will you? It is astonishing that anyone after 9/11 would dare to suggest that the equation of jihad with terrorism comes from the West (I know, I know, there are a thousand academics suggesting just that every day in classes all across this fair land), […]
City of Dearborn Opposes CLEAR Act
From the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Service (ACCESS) (scroll down), with thanks to EPG: ACCESS applauds the Dearborn City Council for passing a resolution on December 7, 2004, opposing the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal (CLEAR) Act. The CLEAR Act mandates that local law enforcement officers enforce federal immigration laws. […]