There are so many distortions and inaccuracies in this short article that it would take a book to disentangle them all. From IslamOnline, with thanks to Anthony: GENEVA, June 26, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) — The West has misjudged Islam and done it injustice, largely because of shallow knowledge of the Muslim faith driven from the distorted […]
Archives for June 2005
‘My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies’
More peace and tolerance. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Doc Washburn: It was about midday when a young Palestinian woman from the refugee camp of Jabalya in Gaza approached an Israeli checkpoint clutching a special permit to visit a doctor on the other side of the border. The girl had big, brown eyes and […]
Freed hostage said he witnessed killings
More revelations from Douglas Wood, from UPI, : An Australian freed after 47 days as a hostage in Iraq has spoken on Australian television about the shooting of two fellow detainees in the same room. Douglas Wood, 63, also told Channel Ten of his efforts to retain his sanity during his captivity by replaying his […]
Jihad warning
A review of Bat Ye’or’s landmark book Eurabia from the New York Post, with thanks to all who sent this in: FOR over three decades, the historian Bat Ye’or has been a voice in the wilderness. Her warning that “jihad” had in the 1970s reemerged as a powerful force in much of Europe, fell on […]
Watson: Confronting CAIR at the local level: Meet Kevin Montavon
DC Watson recounts the activities of the courageous Kevin Montavon: We”ve witnessed what the Council on American Islamic Relations is willing to post on their website. We spar with them on a continual basis, and will do so until they cease to be. While we spend our time dealing with these spin artists, it’s very […]
“Jihad..Jihad..Jihad !! Finish with the jewish vermin once and forever !!”
Hot on the heels of our peek inside the fever swamps of the ITS (and they are even more fevered today, but as they are writing material hoping that I will post it here I am not going to oblige), here are some sentiments of peace and tolerance expressed by posters to the Islamic Action […]
Top Zarqawi aide killed in US attack
Another one down. “Top Zarqawi aide “˜killed” in US attack,” from DPA, with thanks to Eschwapp: AMMAN “” A senior member of Iraq’s Al Qaeda branch was killed recently in a US crackdown on insurgents in the Iraqi town of Qaim near the Syrian border, a Jordanian newspaper reported yesterday. Khalid Suleiman Darwish, better known […]
Fitzgerald: Countering the Jihad
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald on how to find a solution to our current problems: “When I ask her what “solution” there might be to prevent the European collapse of which she speaks, Ms. Fallaci flares up like a lit match. “How do you dare to ask me for a solution?” — from […]
2,500 US Scholarships Available for Saudis, Says Ministry Official
With no small help from obliging US officials who have expedited Saudi visas. From Arab News, with thanks to Eschwapp: RIYADH, 26 June 2005 “” Some 2,500 scholarships are available for Saudis wishing to study in the US in different fields, an official at the Ministry of Higher Education has announced. Speaking to Arab News, […]
A ‘Million Muslim March’ for Lodi?
First we had Kamal Nawash’s Million Muslim Rally Against Terrorism, Hold the Million. Now we have a call from a non-Muslim radio talk-show host in Lodi, California, home of the ice cream jihad, for a Million Muslim March Against Terrorism. And the excuses are flying thick and fast from local Muslim leaders. From the Sacramento […]
“As Muslims, our allegiance is only to Allah (SWT) and His messenger and the Muslim Ummah (community)”
Yamin Zakaria at Al-Jazeerah (not the Qatari TV station) takes issue with the recent knighthood of the Muslim Council of Britain’s Iqbal Sacranie — and with the very idea that a Muslim can have allegiance to a non-Muslim state. Sacranie and MCB spokesman Inayat Bunglawala should refute this article using Islamic texts — if they […]
70 British Muslims join Iraq fighters
More from the Whose Side Are You On Department, from the TimesOnline, with thanks to Nicolei: ABOUT 70 young Muslim men have left Britain to join the insurgents who are fighting coalition troops in Iraq, senior security sources have revealed. At least three have been killed in combat, including one whose role in an Iraq […]
Islamic Jihad: we’ll strike Tel Aviv
“Islamic Jihad Challenges Israel Amid Growing Anarchy,” from Israel National News, with thanks to all who sent this in: Islamic Jihad terror leaders declared they will end the “calm” and strike Tel Aviv if Israel tries to capture or kill them. Meanwhile, Arabs continued shooting each other in Jenin. Israel earlier this week arrested 50 […]
Indonesia: Schooled For Jihad
Noor Huda Ismail investigates the jihadists in Indonesia, including Abu Bakar Baasyir (Bashir), whom we have discussed many times here. Why do officials allow him to teach a course on Islam in the prison? Is that not simply creating a new contingent of jihadists? It indicates, of course, that their ideology doesn’t differ from his. […]
“Darth Spencer, Master of the Dark Side”
This image comes to you from the passworded, Muslim-only forums of the Islamic Thinkers Society, the outfit that trampled on the flag on video and then wished painful torment from Allah on me when I posted the video — which is tantamount to asking that someone fulfill Allah’s will in this regard. You can see […]
Muslim Hard-Liners Cheer Iran Vote Outcome
Was anyone really fooled by this sham election? From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The leader of a hard-line Islamic group, however, praised the outcome. “I’m glad and happy to know Iran’s result,” said Irfan Awwas, a leader of Majelis Mujahiddin Indonesia. The group’s founder, Abu Bakar Bashir, is jailed for his role […]
Show me the money!
I was just sent a link to a silly discussion board on which this was written about me: And Professors like THIS ONE, get alot of Money from the Goverment to write all of this Nonsense in his books. Hang it all, I don’t seem to have received my check from the “Goverment” lately. My […]
Attempted honor killing in Michigan?
“Parents of son charged in beating may lose girl,” from the Detroit News, with thanks to DC Watson: MADISON HEIGHTS — The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday will attempt to permanently end the parental rights of a Madison Heights couple who police say neglected to seek medical help for their daughter after her older […]
Lodi Imam Admits Giving Speeches Urging Pakistanis to Fight Americans
Ice cream jihad update from News10, with thanks to Twostellas: The spiritual leader of the Lodi mosque who was arrested in a sweep earlier this month admitted to the FBI that when he was in Pakistan he gave speeches to Muslims urging them to fight Americans in Afghanistan in the months following the September 11 […]
Fitzgerald: What to do in Iraq (part 2)
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald continues his reflections on what to do in Iraq with this exploration of the prospects for Iraqi nationalism, on which so many place such high hopes: There are hardly any people in Iraq who think of themselves first as Iraqis, though every single one of those who does […]