Archives for December 2004

Last thoughts on the man who might have been a professor at Notre Dame from Jihad Watch Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald: Several things have happened to Tariq Ramadan that have made him extremely eager to move to the United States. Essentially, in Europe, for him, the jig is up. Too many people have been studying […]

Recent posts about Khomeini and Sistani seem to have aroused the ire of the tiny minority of extremists, who have written in (from the United States) with their usual moderation and tolerance: HYPOCRITE! YOU MAKE A FUSS BECAUSE MUSLIMS REMEMBER KHOMEINI YET YOU DONT CRITISIZE SOUTHERN WHITE NEO-CONFEDERATES WHO COMMEMORATE THE TRAITOR ROBERT E LEE! […]

From ABC, with thanks to Nicolei: – A California woman reveals to ABC News that she unknowingly married a Muslim extremist who helped set up what authorities say was one of the first al Qaeda sleeper cells out of their Orange County apartment complex. Saraah Olson says she watched as her then-husband, Hisham Diab, and […]

CAIR plays, but DHS doesn’t dance. However, the FBI cuts a mean jig. From the LA Times, with thanks to JS: Muslim American groups from Southern California held a town hall meeting Monday to discuss with federal officials what they call unfair targeting of Muslim travelers and immigrants in the wake of 9/11. Nearly 500 […]

From CNN, with thanks to Teri: BANGKOK, Thailand — Thousands of teachers in Thailand have walked off their jobs to protest a lack of security in the country’s south. More than 300 schools in Pattani province, a region hard hit by a Muslim insurgency, closed their doors Thursday. But others in Yala and Narathiwat provinces […]

From Israel National News, with thanks to Teri: The Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem was to be the target of choice for an Israeli-Arab couple who planned to blow themselves up following their wedding. Israeli security forces thwarted their plans. It was released for publication on Wednesday that the GSS recently arrested an Arab resident of […]

Oh. I guess they think that makes it all right. Leila M update, from Persian Journal, with thanks to Anthony: An Iranian mullah judiciary official today denied reports that a young woman, who has been sentenced to death for prostitution, is mentally disabled. Leila Mafi, 21, was sentenced more than a year ago by a […]

From the New York Times, with thanks to Anthony: BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Dec. 20 – In the town where Christians believe Christ was born, the Christians are leaving. Four years of violence, an economic free fall and the Israeli separation barrier have all contributed to the hardships facing Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem, one of the […]

From the Washington Times, with thanks to EPG: AL QOSH, Iraq “” Compared with the ferocity of war in much of Iraq, the isolated Monastery of the Virgin Mary “” 25 miles north of Mosul “” exists in tranquility. Surrounded by desert, this cool shelter “” complete with olive trees, honeybees and a Chaldean church […]

Andrew Bolt on the shameful conviction of the two Christian pastors in Australia. From The Herald Sun, with thanks to JE: HOW odd that a Christian pastor has been found guilty of vilifying Islam after quoting the Koran. Is this really what Premier Steve Bracks intended with his absurd racial and religious vilification law? Pastor […]

From Asia Times, with thanks to EPG: At least fourteen American troops and several others were killed on Tuesday in an attack on an improvised dining hall of a US military base at Mosul in northern Iraq. An organization called Jaish Ansar al-Sunnah (JAAS) has claimed responsibility for the attack. While JAAS has projected the […]

Their sensibilities cannot be offended in Saudi Arabia, and their sensibilities cannot be offended in Europe, as we have documented here with several recent stories. So in both Christmas is increasingly furtive. From AP, with thanks to EPG: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — It’s beginning to look a little bit like Christmas in Saudi Arabia, […]

It would have been interesting to know if anyone else in this Islamic chat room took issue with the posting of the video, saying (as we always here from Muslim apologists in America) that “Islam forbids suicide.” Somehow I doubt it. From MSNBC, with thanks to Eschwapp: Posted in a militant Islamic chat room three […]

The propaganda jihad in Iran. From MEMRI, with thanks to EPG: Iran’s Sahar 1 TV station is currently airing a weekly series titled “For You, Palestine,” or “Zahra’s Blue Eyes.” The series premiered on December 13, and is set in Israel and the West Bank. It broadcasts every Monday, and was filmed in Persian but […]

The Dallas News (thanks to Anthony) speaks out about the Khomeini tribute held recently by Muslims in Dallas. Khomeini led the 1979 Iranian revolution that overthrew the corrupt shah and replaced the government with a brutal Islamic theocracy that today is locked in battle with reformers seeking to end a quarter century of repression. Khomeini […]

I wrote about this case in Islam Unveiled. It is interesting in light of the way Muslims in the West tend to downplay the existence and implications of Qur’an 4:34. From Expatica, with thanks to Anthony: MADRID-The Spanish deputy prime minister has attacked the decision to free a controversial imam who was jailed for writing […]

Ron Csillag of Religion News Service (thanks to Anthony) makes much of this mosque where women pray together with men. And gee, it all sounds swell — until one realizes that the article says absolutely nothing about these modern, progressive Muslims addressing and fighting the roots of Islamic terror. We have yet to see a […]

No surprise here. Search for “Abu Bakar Bashir” in the Jihad Watch archives. From China’s Xinhuanet, with thanks to Anthony: JAKARTA, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) — Indonesian Muslim Cleric Abu Bakar Ba’ashir had delivered edicts from Osama Bin Laden to kill citizens of the United States and its allies in Indonesia, a witness said on Tuesday. […]

No surprise here. From AFP, with thanks to Anthony: Warnings from foreign governments of an imminent terrorist attack in Indonesia have led to a spate of cancellations from visitors planning to travel to the country, tourism officials in Jakarta said. “At least 500 tourists have cancelled their planned trip to Indonesia for the December 2004 […]

From The Scotsman, with thanks to Anthony: Spanish police have broken up a radical Islamic cell that was trying to buy explosives for a terrorist attack in Spain, the Interior Ministry said today. Three Moroccans, identified as Majid Bakkali, Mohamed Douha and Abdelkader Farhaoui, were arrested in different towns in the north-eastern region of Catalonia. […]