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Archives for May 2005

“we make dua Allah allows your blood to spill over our hands”

May 31, 2005 2:38 pm By Robert Spencer

I’ve been receiving some love notes over at RevivingIslam.com. The Forum there is by registration only, and some people have registered and sent me some posts from it, including this one. This led some at the Forum to think that I was registered there — I was not and am not — and to start […]

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Fitzgerald: A tribute to Dominique de Villepin

May 31, 2005 12:16 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald assesses the new French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin: Born in Sale, jeek-by-jowl to Rabat, Dominique de Villepin has always believed that having spent the first few years of his life in Morocco has given him great understanding of Islam. He knows nothing about it. He persists in […]

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Iran: Convert from Islam acquitted of apostasy charges

May 31, 2005 8:44 am By Robert Spencer

Good news for a change! Hamid Pourmand could have been sentenced to death, but international attention once again embarrasses Muslims into mitigating Sharia law, as it did in the infamous Amina Lawal stoning case in Nigeria. From AsiaNews, with thanks to Sparta: Teheran (AsiaNews/Mec) – Christians in Iran have learned that Hamid Pourmand, a lay […]

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Chicken jihad

May 31, 2005 8:40 am By Robert Spencer

Sunni Muslims destroy a Shi’ite mosque with a suicide bomb. In retaliation, Shi’ite Muslims burn down a Kentucky Fried Chicken, killing six people. This one is just as crystalline an example of linear reasoning as the killing of 17 Afghanis because a Gitmo interrogator may have flushed a Qur’an. “Six KFC workers die in Karachi […]

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Filed Under: Pakistan, Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad

2 terror suspects to be arraigned: U.S. citizens accused of planning to help al Qaeda with training, medical care

May 31, 2005 8:39 am By Robert Spencer

An update on this story from the San Francisco Chronicle: Miami — Rafiq Abdus Sabir, a doctor, kept mostly to himself, neighbors remembered Monday. He lived in a gated South Florida community west of the exclusive town of Boca Raton with a woman and two children. The couple drove a black sport utility vehicle and […]

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, American jihadis, United States

Spencer: Abu Zarqawi: Holy Man

May 31, 2005 8:32 am By Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer’s latest in FrontPage: While the world media has been consumed with speculation about the health and whereabouts of jihad leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, it has hardly noted at all a challenge he issued just before he was injured. Yet this challenge could in the long run prove to be more […]

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Pipes: The Ugly History of Jihad

May 31, 2005 7:55 am By Robert Spencer

Daniel Pipes has an interesting piece in FrontPage today, discussing David Cook’s new book Understanding Jihad, which I have not yet seen. In his review, Pipes succintly sums up the history of the concept of jihad in Islam, showing the hollowness of claims that it has always primarily represented a spiritual struggle: The Koran invites […]

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Filed Under: Jihad doctrine

Iraq: When Violence Comes To Campus

May 30, 2005 3:29 pm By Robert Spencer

Once havens of tolerance, Iraq’s universities are becoming battlefields in an escalating civil war. From Time magazine, with thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Rebecca Bynum: On May 3, when the members of Iraq’s new government were sworn in, Masar Sarhan al-Rubaiyi, 24, a pharmacy undergraduate at the University of Baghdad, decided to throw a […]

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Filed Under: Iraq, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery

Pakistan: Bride gang-raped after wedding

May 30, 2005 3:21 pm By Robert Spencer

As evidenced by the opposition of Muslim scholars, practices like these are not sanctioned by Islam. But it must be honestly acknowledged, particularly by Islamic reformers in Pakistan and elsewhere, that the devaluation of women in Islam contributes to this kind of thinking. From News 24, with thanks to Skeetstreet: Islamabad – A bride was […]

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Filed Under: Pakistan, women's rights in Islam

US to expand anti-terror, oil interests in Africa

May 30, 2005 3:13 pm By Robert Spencer

From the Taipai Times, with thanks to Counterterrorism Operations: The US is pouring more soldiers and millions more dollars into its anti-terrorism campaign in Africa, including in Algeria and chaotic Nigeria, both oil-rich nations where radical Islam has a following. A new north and west African effort outlined Wednesday in a statement from the US […]

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Filed Under: Algeria, Nigeria, United States

English TV series will glorify polygamy

May 30, 2005 2:39 pm By Robert Spencer

While untold numbers of Muslim women worldwide live lives of misery in polygamous relationships. “Harem role for Martine,” from the Irish Examiner, with thanks to Susan: Martine McCutcheon has landed a TV role in a new romantic drama about Islam. She will star opposite Art Malik in ITV’s The English Harem. McCutcheon plays a supermarket […]

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Filed Under: moral equivalence, United Kingdom, Useful idiots, women's rights in Islam

Phillips: “Where is there the slightest indication that anyone grasps what is going on here?”

May 30, 2005 2:36 pm By Robert Spencer

The incomparable Melanie Phillips writes in her blog, which is always essential reading, about “Dhimmi Britain” and what ought to be called Stockport Syndrome: Political correctness is turning lethal. Stockport Council is now using resource packs provided by the Muslim Council of Britain to teach schoolchildren about Islam, an initiative which is to be extended […]

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Filed Under: dhimmitude, United Kingdom

Japanese deny ransom sought for old soldiers

May 30, 2005 2:22 pm By Robert Spencer

Here’s a strange one. Have you heard that the Japanese are looking for a couple of World War II soldiers, both in their mid- to late-eighties, who may still be alive and in the Philippines? Well, some reports have indicated that Islamic jihadists from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have the old men and […]

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Filed Under: Japan, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery, Philippines

2 Men, in New York and Florida, Charged in Qaeda Conspiracy

May 30, 2005 8:23 am By Robert Spencer

I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven. And evidence continues to […]

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, United States

Abbas: Suicide bomb era may be over

May 30, 2005 8:02 am By Robert Spencer

Suicide bombings are happening almost daily in Iraq, but in the place where the practice became internationally famous, we are being assured that it is all over. A Bridge For Sale Alert from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to JS: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview aired on Sunday that the era […]

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Filed Under: Palestinian Authority, Palestinian jihad, suicide bombing

Explosion shakes U.N.’s Kabul HQ

May 30, 2005 7:57 am By Robert Spencer

Don’t they realize the UN is their best friend? Evidently not. From AP, : KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion shook the headquarters of NATO’s 8,000-strong security force in the Afghan capital on Monday but there were no immediate reports of injuries, a spokeswoman for the force said. The blast occurred “in the vicinity” of […]

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Filed Under: Afghanistan, United Nations

Islam humiliated by giant teapot

May 30, 2005 7:38 am By Robert Spencer

Oh, the horror! Will the apostates stop at nothing? Would singing “I’m a little teapot, short and stout” get you arrested for apostasy? A giant teapot built by apostates in Malaysia will be demolished for the offense it presents to Islam. “Sect leader will not resist action,” from the StarOnline, with thanks to Nicolei: JERTEH: […]

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Filed Under: Apostasy, Islamic bigotry and intolerance, Malaysia

Saudi Arabia: Syria Hands Over Saudi Fighters Trying to Reach Iraq

May 30, 2005 7:37 am By Robert Spencer

But what happens to them after they’re turned over to the Saudis? Are they released with encouragement to try again? From AKI, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Riyadh, 30 May (AKI) – Syria has handed more than 30 Saudis caught trying to cross the border into Iraq back to Saudi Arabia, according to the […]

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Filed Under: Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria

Iraqi Muslim Leader Detained; 20 Killed

May 30, 2005 7:15 am By Robert Spencer

From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. troops detained the head of Iraq’s largest Sunni Muslim political party on Monday, according to party officials, police and the man’s wife. South of the capital, two suicide bombers attacked a crowd of policemen in Hillah, killing 20 and wounding nearly 100…. The […]

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Filed Under: Iraq, suicide bombing, United States

Hamas capable of suicide bombings in Britain

May 30, 2005 7:12 am By Robert Spencer

I think this is only a matter of time, although there may be an awareness among jihad leaders of how difficult things would (probably) become for them after suicide attacks in the West. From WND, : JERUSALEM — Hamas has several cells inside the United Kingdom and is capable of attacking the country, a senior […]

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Filed Under: Hamas, suicide bombing, United Kingdom

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