Daniel Pipes writes in FrontPage (thanks to all who sent this in) about the Ottawa Islamic school scandal and similar incidents. “Shocked” is how Aisha Sherazi, principal of the Abraar Islamic school in Ottawa, described the reaction of the school’s administration and board on learning last week that two of its teachers had incited hatred […]
Archives for March 2005
“Since 9/11 we have to bend over backwards for them”
Al-Muhajiroun in New York. “Defending Terrorism: Interview with Kristine Withers,” from the Global Politician, with thanks to Nicolei: Kristine Withers claims to have been assaulted by the Islamic Thinkers’ Society, a group she says is likely tied to Al-Muhajiroun, which is a radical Islamic group that is believed to have worked with Al-Qaeda. The following […]
A Jihadist’s Tale
From Time magazine, with thanks to Scaramouche: Ra’ed al-Banna loved America. During his nearly two years in the U.S., al-Banna, a lawyer by training, made a living as a factory worker, a shuttle-bus driver and a pizza tosser. He went to the World Trade Center and the Golden Gate Bridge, grew his hair long and […]
Turkey Shrugs Off Success of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
Turkey’s Hitler Fan Club update, from Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s government Monday played down soaring sales of Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic book “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) and said there were no racists in the large Muslim country. Booksellers say “Mein Kampf,” or “Kavgam” in Turkish, has featured […]
Allowing religion to play a greater role in Iraq’s government could “lead to instability in the relations between political forces in the Iraqi arena”
While Iraqi pols debate the role of Islam in the new government, Al-Qaeda adds is own unique contribution to the debate. “New Purported Video From Al Qaeda in Iraq,” from AP, : BAGHDAD, Iraq – Al Qaeda in Iraq released a video Sunday claiming to show the murder of an Interior Ministry official, and the […]
Afghanistan: Campaign against “anti-Islamic” TV stations
Sharia alert from the Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss Department in Afghanistan: “Conservatives wage new campaign against ‘anti-Islamic’ TV stations,” from Reporters Without Borders, with thanks to the Norwegian Kafir: Reporters Without Borders today called on President Hamid Karzai to take a clear and definitive public stance in support of cable […]
Kuwait: Writer convicted of mocking Islam plans asylum bid
More on the Islamic jihad against the truth about Islam, from AP, with thanks to Ted Robertson: KUWAIT CITY, A Kuwait professor convicted Sunday of mocking Islam said he will seek political asylum in a western country to protect his life and family and his freedom of speech. Ahmed al-Baghdadi was sentenced to a suspended […]
Germany: College Launches Disputed Islamic Program
From Deutsche Welle, with thanks to the Norwegian Kafir: Frankfurt University is the most recent German college to launch an Islamic studies program. But it’s already under fire for working closely with Turkey’s state religion authority…. Mehmet Emin Köktas and two professors of Protestant theology have been working on the curriculum for two years. Köktas, […]
How a Lone Diplomat Compromised the Hunt for Bin Laden
From the Keystone Diplomat Department, a real head-shaker from the New York Sun, with thanks to Romy: Ambassador Nancy Powell, America’s representative in Pakistan, refused to allow the distribution in Pakistan of wanted posters, matchbooks, and other items advertising America’s $25 million reward for information leading to the capture of Mr. bin Laden and other […]
FBI Admits Mistakenly Giving Man Back Secret Files He Took
From the Keystone Kops Department, one from the Washington Post, with thanks to Nobody: Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, who was released from jail earlier this month, contacted the FBI’s Boston office Tuesday after he realized agents had inadvertently given him the computer disk containing the secret files along with his personal property. Mehalba had the disk […]
Islamic teachers suspended for praising essay on killing Jews
But would they have been suspended, or even reprimanded, and would the principal have been shocked, shocked!, if reporters hadn’t discovered this essay to begin with? From The Telegraph, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Two teachers at an Islamic school in Canada who praised a pupil’s essay about killing Jews with hand grenades and […]
Muslim clerics’ warning of U.S. plot hinders measles vaccinations
The human cost of the paranoia fueled by jihadists. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: KANO, Nigeria — Accusations by Islamic preachers that vaccines are part of an American anti-Islamic plot are threatening efforts to combat a measles epidemic that has killed hundreds of Nigerian children, health workers say. Government officials play down the anti-vaccine […]
Google advertises Hamas
From Ynet News, with thanks to Alain: Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations methods: Internet surfers who enter the word “Hamas” in Arabic in the Google search engine, will view, in addition to the search results, an AdWord message that links directly to the website of the organization’s military faction Izz al-Din […]
Indonesia Denies Jemaah Islamiyah Faces Ban
Tiny minority of extremists update: contrary to this story, the jihad terror group Jemaah Islamiyah will not be banned — apparently because it has too much support among Muslims. From Laksamana.net, with thanks to Chas & Pat: Laksamana.Net – A presidential spokesman has denied claims by a senior security official that Indonesia is planning to […]
Terror: The Hunt for Zarqawi’s Webmasters
Internet jihad update, from Snoozeweek, with thanks to EPG: NewsweekApril 4 issue – Intelligence and law-enforcement agencies are learning that tracking down the operators of Islamic terrorist Web sites is like trying to locate a floating craps game: here today, gone tomorrow. During the past year, investigators in America and Europe watched as a business […]
Instructions for a dhimmi
“How to Influence Muslim Minds and Capture the Arab Hearts” is the title of this piece by Ibtissam Al-Bassam in Arab News (thanks to Skeetstreet), but a better title might be “How to Flatter Muslim Minds and Cater to Arab Hearts.” Dina Powell is going to the Middle East, and when she’s there, she better […]
Jihad, Hamas likely to join PLO
Thereby legitimizing jihad terror and the ideology that fuels it. But of course, the ideological distinction between them has never been all that sharp in the first place. From China View, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: GAZA, March 28 (Xinhuanet) — The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad (Holy War) may join the […]
MS-13 Gang will target Minuteman vigil on Mexico border
Al-Qaeda-linked gang update, from the Washington Times, with thanks to RB: NACO, Ariz. — Members of a violent Central America-based gang have been sent to Arizona to target Minuteman Project volunteers, who will begin a monthlong border vigil this weekend to find and report foreigner sneaking into the United States, project officials say. James Gilchrist, […]
IslamOnline urges the spread of Islam in the West
On this the holiest of days for Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Protestant Christians comes an article on the necessity of spreading Islam in the West. “Countering Islamophobia: The Urgency of Da`wah in the West,” from IslamOnline, with thanks to the Norwegian Kafir: USA:”A girl like you should take off this burqa and start getting […]
Saudi Arabia: Makeshift Hindu temple razed, three worshippers deported
From the Malaysian Manorama, with thanks to Twostellas: Riyadh: Saudi religious police have destroyed a clandestine makeshift Hindu temple in an old district of Riyadh and deported three worshippers found there, a newspaper reported. Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or religious police, Thursday stumbled across a room […]