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 […]