Archives for 2004

I doubt it can, and I doubt it will survive without recovering its own spiritual resources — as I argued in Islam Unveiled. Rónán Mullen explores this idea in the Irish Examiner: “Christian Europe may have to rely on Muslims to keep the faith.” (Thanks to Anthony for the link.) HERE”S a question to ponder […]

Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer writes in FrontPage this morning about the terrible implications of the Australian religious vilification case. Two Christian pastors in Australia have been found guilty of religious vilification of Muslims. The decision threatens us all. One of the pastors, Daniel Scot, is Pakistani. He fled his native land seventeen years ago […]

I put this up so that you will remember that there was a plot to destroy the Dutch Parliament and the charming Schiphol Airport. One of these days such plots will succeed somewhere, and people will say, “We didn’t know there was a threat!” From Expatica, with thanks to Anthony: AMSTERDAM “” An 18-year-old man, […]

A strange story from Expatica, with thanks to Anthony: AMSTERDAM “” Alderman Ahmed Aboutaleb has launched a blistering attack on the Dutch government for the way Cabinet ministers reacted to the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Moroccan-born Aboutaleb is in charge of Amsterdam City Council’s Social Affairs Department and has been under 24-hour guard […]

An update on this curious story. From AllAfrica.com, with thanks to Jeff Lastname: TWO South Africans who returned home after five months in a Pakistani jail were on a training mission for Al-Qaeda, according to a statement sent to the South African police by Pakistani authorities. Dr Feroz Ganchi, a trauma surgeon from Johannesburg, and […]

Here is Daniel Pipes on CAIR, taken from a generally good writeup on him in Harvard Magazine (thanks to all who sent this in): The true obstacle to bridging differences in the United States, he repeats, is Islamism, principally its “worst, most aggressive, and most prominent” practitioner, CAIR. “CAIR and I are engaged in an […]

Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR has sent around this fresh steaming pile of taqiyya to the mainstream media, and many fish are biting. This link is to the Providence Journal (thanks to the bullfrog and 1 for alerting me to this piece). In it, Hooper tries through Qur’anic sleight of hand (quoting only convenient verses, ignoring […]

Is there no end to this man’s gall? He has called for jihad in Britain, and now he wants to dhimmis to give him more money. Well, that is what they’re for, after all. From AFP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: LONDON : Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is in a British […]

At least in the short term. Ask Zapatero. He’ll tell you. From the BBC, with thanks to Mike: Militants in Iraq have freed French reporters Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, who were taken hostage on 20 August. The French foreign ministry confirmed an Arabic TV report that the two men had been set free and […]

From WND, : A major Islamic charity raising millions of dollars in Britain “to provide humanitarian aid to peoples of the Middle East” is actually a Hamas front that channels funds from British Muslims to support Hamas terrorism, Israeli security sources told WorldNetDaily. According to its website, Interpal, established in 1994, is a British charity […]

A cleric? But how did he miss all the peaceful teachings of the Qur’an? Of course, sarcasm aside, clerics are generally among the leaders of jihad terror groups. Search for “cleric” in the archives and you’ll see what I mean. You might be interested in all the archived articles about “Abu Bakar Bashir” (spelled Ba’aysir […]

Kudos to the Pentagon. From China’s Xinhuanet, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: GAZA, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) — The radical Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement accused on Tuesday the US Pentagon of shutting down its websites on the Internet. The movement’s media office condemned the American action, saying “several similar actions were pursued against the movement’s […]

Tariq Ramadan is the world’s most famous “moderate Muslim.” He was slated to take a professorial job at the University of Notre Dame this year, until his visa was revoked by DHS. DHS hasn’t explained why, and his case has become a cause celebre for the anti-anti-terror Left, but here is a French-language story (from […]

And the first thing they did after that, evidently, was call the newspapers and tell the world, thus rendering their achievement essentially worthless for any future use. From Expatica, with thanks to Anthony: HAMBURG – German intelligence services have deciphered secret codes used by the Ansar al-Islam organization which is suspected of being behind many […]

Bitterly ironic, this, since if the opponents of this particular “terrorist state” prevail, Bishop Nasir’s coreligionists in the new Palestinian state will find themselves subject to far harsher oppression, courtesy Sharia laws of dhimmitude, than they suffer under the Israeli government. Farfetched? No: in May 1999, Sheikh Yussef Salameh, the Palestinian Authority”s undersecretary for religious […]

Another unfortunately familiar story of professorial dhimmitude, courtesy Alyssa Lappen at FrontPage (thanks to EPG): He denounces American “imperialism” on Al-Jazeera Television. A former Zionist, he refers to jihadist suicide bombers as “martyrs.” He praised Mideast scholars for ignoring the issue of terrorism, and he regularly repeats the most twisted and paranoid claims of Islamist […]

From Daniel Pipes in FrontPage, with thanks to EPG. The FP article has many links. Yasser Arafat died last month. This month, his death is prompting plans for a foreign aid bounty of $500 million to $1 billion a year for the Palestinians. That’s the scoop Steven R. Weisman published in the New York Times […]

From AP, : WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Islamic extremists with links to international terror groups are believed to be using New Zealand as a safe haven, the nation’s top spy agency has warned. Security Intelligence Service Director Richard Woods said in his annual report to Parliament that “increased vigilance and effort” was needed to […]

“It is a process of the Netherlands, of Germany, of France redefining who and what we are. Right now, we don’t know who we want to be. All we know is that we don’t want it to be Muslim.” From the Washington Times, with thanks to Anthony: AMSTERDAM – Parliamentarian Geert Wilders sees himself as […]

Update on the British controversy over terror suspects being held without trial. From AFP, with thanks to Anthony: LONDON (AFP) – Prime Minister Tony Blair warned that Britain would be in danger if foreign terror suspects were freed after the nation’s highest court ruled that detaining such people indefinitely without trial or charge violated their […]