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 […]
Archives for May 2005
Fitzgerald: A tribute to Dominique de Villepin
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 […]
Iran: Convert from Islam acquitted of apostasy charges
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 […]
Chicken jihad
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 […]
2 terror suspects to be arraigned: U.S. citizens accused of planning to help al Qaeda with training, medical care
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 […]
Spencer: Abu Zarqawi: Holy Man
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 […]
Pipes: The Ugly History of Jihad
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 […]
Iraq: When Violence Comes To Campus
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 […]
Pakistan: Bride gang-raped after wedding
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 […]
US to expand anti-terror, oil interests in Africa
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 […]
English TV series will glorify polygamy
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 […]
Phillips: “Where is there the slightest indication that anyone grasps what is going on here?”
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 […]
Japanese deny ransom sought for old soldiers
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 […]
2 Men, in New York and Florida, Charged in Qaeda Conspiracy
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 […]
Abbas: Suicide bomb era may be over
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 […]
Explosion shakes U.N.’s Kabul HQ
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 […]
Islam humiliated by giant teapot
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: […]
Saudi Arabia: Syria Hands Over Saudi Fighters Trying to Reach Iraq
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 […]
Iraqi Muslim Leader Detained; 20 Killed
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 […]
Hamas capable of suicide bombings in Britain
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 […]