Sharia alert. As I have pointed out many times, this is what makes reform in Islam virtually impossible: when reformers seek to set aside practices such as polygamy, hardliners see it as a transgression of Allah’s will. “Ugandan Muslims March in Defense of Polygamy,” from Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei: KAMPALA – Hundreds of Ugandan […]
Archives for March 2005
Hamas Recruit Says He Was Trained in Militant Camp in Syria
When is news not really news? When the whole world knows it. Yet Syria continues in denial. From AP, : ASHKELON, Israel – A 20-year-old Palestinian recruited from a mosque in Gaza by Hamas militants told The Associated Press in a jailhouse interview Tuesday that he received weeks of military training in a Hamas camp […]
Aryan Nation leader reaches out to al Qaeda
I posted an earlier story about this here. This one, “An unholy alliance: Aryan Nation leader reaches out to al Qaeda,” is from CNN, , who notes that this is “another story of Nazi goals to link with Islamist extremist terrorists. This is why I have a separate watch of Nazi extremists and terrorists at: […]
‘Va. Jihad’ Trial May Focus on Free Speech
Paintball jihad trial update. Al-Timimi was just exercising his freedom of speech, you see. From AP, with thanks to JS: ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge indicated Monday that the defense believes First Amendment issues may play a significant role in the trial of an Islamic scholar accused of exhorting followers to fight U.S. troops […]
New Head of Jihad Inc.?
From ABC News, with thanks to Nicolei: However big a shock a recent suicide bombing in Doha was to the Qataris, it was far from unexpected in Western capitals, where intelligence agencies had discreetly put out a travel warning through their respective embassies. The emirate, a key ally in the Bush administration’s war on terror, […]
Fitzgerald: In Turkey, Islam is permanent, Kemalism transient
The nonpareil Hugh Fitzgerald on false dhimmi assumptions made about Islam vis-a-vis Turkey, and much more: The refusal to allow the American government to use an American airbase for which a large rent is paid, the attacks by important members of the Turkish government or Parliament decrying the Americans in Iraq as “worse than the […]
Spencer: CAIR’s War on National Review
Here is my piece in FrontPage this morning explaining why this is important. Because jihadists use Muhammad’s words and deeds as their primary guide for their own actions, it is imperative for Americans to know what Muhammad said and did — and thus imperative to read books like those of Menezes and Trifkovic (click to […]
Egyptian stabs two Hungarian tourists who kissed outside Cairo mosque
From AP, with thanks to Treehugger: CAIRO, Egypt – An Egyptian stabbed a Hungarian man and woman, slightly wounding them, after the couple kissed while pausing for a photograph near a mosque at Cairo’s popular tourist bazaar, police said Tuesday. Hesham Mohammed, 36, apparently was upset by the kiss Monday in front of Al-Hussein Mosque, […]
Uproar Over Armed Attack on Student Event Redraws Debate on Islam’s Role and Reach
Picnic jihad update, from the Washington Post Foreign Service in Uruknet, with thanks to Nicolei: BASRA, Iraq, Celia Garabet thought students were roughhousing. Sinan Saeed was sure a fight had erupted. Within a few minutes, on a sunny day at a riverside park, they realized something different was afoot. A group of Shiite Muslim militiamen […]
Al-Qaeda funding the return of the Taliban
“Al-Qaeda funding the return of the Taliban, top US commander says,” from the Turkish Press, : KABUL – Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network is making fresh efforts to engineer a comeback by the Taliban and regain a foothold of its own in Afghanistan, the commander of US forces in the country said Tuesday. Lieutenant General […]
CAIR crows at victory over National Review
Rich Lowry is choosing his battles; but how many more like this can we afford to lose? CAIR’s crowing press release: NATIONAL REVIEW REMOVES BOOKS ATTACKING PROPHET MUHAMMAD Hundreds contact Boeing to urge withdrawal of magazine ads (WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/29/05) – Alhamdulillah (praise be to God), CAIR today announced that National Review magazine has apparently […]
CAIR pressures Boeing to drop ads from National Review
In their ongoing efforts to obscure uncomfortable facts about the career of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, CAIR is trying to intimidate Boeing into dropping ads from National Review as long as NR continues to advertise The Life and Religion of Mohammed by Fr. J. L. Menezes. From CAIR’s press release (thanks to all who sent […]
A different view of Raid Al-Banna
Earlier today I posted a Time magazine article about suicide bomber (and murderer of 132 people) Raid Al-Banna that had his parents lamenting his deed and wondering what went wrong. But this MEMRI piece, “Iraqi-Jordanian Tension Over the Most Lethal Suicide Bombing in Iraq” (thanks to Waterdragon52), gives a very different picture of his family’s […]
Dhimmitude at the Wall Street Journal: the Journal touts MPAC
The Wall Street Journal has shown some disturbing dhimmi tendencies in the past, but it really takes the cake today with a puff piece by George Melloan on the Muslim Public Affairs Council. (WSJ is a paid subscription site, so no link.) In it, Melloan says: Muhammad was a different kind of prophet also in […]
Dubai: Teachers object to book showing Jewish children
Why? Because the book was called “Friends Forever,” and thus seemed to suggest that Muslims should become friends to Jews. From the Khaleej Times, with thanks to Teri: DUBAI — Education authorities here have promised to review a book taught in an international private school that features a photograph of two Jewish children sporting plaited […]
Koran scholar: US will cease to exist in 2007
Well, it looks as if it’s just about over. Might as well start rolling up the sidewalks. From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Doc Washburn: A thorough analysis of the Koran reveals that the US will cease to exist in the year 2007, according to research published by Palestinian scholar Ziad Silwadi. And he’s […]
Former Detroit School Official Accused Of Terrorist Ties
From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: DETROIT — A former Detroit Public Schools official is accused of conspiring with a Florida man in the mid- and late 1990s to raise money and recruit Muslim extremists to fight in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Somalia. A criminal complaint unsealed in Miami charges Kifah Wael Jayyousi, 43, and […]
West has little clue about Islam, says don
Muhammad Abu Layla plays us for dummies, or dhimmis. It would be refreshing if he would bother to explain to his fellow Muslims, the jihad terrorists around the world, how they have misunderstood Islam. From the Star Online, with thanks to Nicolei: KOTA KINABALU: Islam continues to be one of the most misunderstood religions due […]
One Killed and Six Injured as Assailants Attack During Easter Morning Service in Pakistan
From the Voice of the Martyrs, with thanks to Nicolei: The Voice of the Martyrs has learned that Sunday’s Easter morning service of the Victory Church International (also known as the New Apostolic Church) in the village of Khambay near Lahore, Pakistan was disrupted as four armed assailants opened fire on the church property, murdering […]
Google deletes Hamas ad
An update of this story from Ynet News, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Google has removed the Hamas-funded advertisement that linked to the website of the terror organization’s military wing Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, following Ynet’s inquiry into the matter. Internet surfers who entered the word “Hamas” in Arabic in the Google search engine, […]