I received this message from a friend about an article in the LA Times, “Killers rendered in shades of gray,” that is aptly characterized as an “erudite and subtle propaganda piece.” Below is a discussion of a new movie that tells the story of a pair of suicide bombers. The author of the article refers […]
Archives for October 2005
Crackdown on mannequins in Iran
Sharia update from Iran! “Alluring mannequins” are now verboten in Iran, and are being impounded. This is in the interests of public chastity, you see. After all, we can’t have men falling for mannequins, can we? It might lead them to…join biker gangs! You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Alert: “City tackles titillating mannequins,” from […]
Jihad group claims India blasts
Update on the jihad murders in India. “Militant-Linked Group Claims India Blasts,” from AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: NEW DELHI — A little-known group that police say has ties to Kashmir’s most feared militants claimed responsibility Sunday for a series of terrorist bombings that killed 59 people in New Delhi…. A […]
Bomber’s hometown celebrates attack
Tiny minority of extremists update from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Kabatiya, south of Jenin, Wednesday night to celebrate the suicide bombing in Hadera, which was carried out by local resident Hassan Abu Zeid. Chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great), some 3,000 people, […]
Swiss cuff Islamic hate message duo
Jihad from the University of Geneva computer system. From The Register, with thanks to Twostellas: Swiss police last week arrested two African men who allegedly used the University of Geneva’s computer system to disseminate Islamic fundamentalist hate messages and justifications for terrorist attacks, AFP reports. The two – a 27-year-old Moroccan and a 41-year-old Algerian, […]
Muslims issue Internet death threats to Omar Sharif
Because he dared to portray a Christian. “Terrorism: Internet Terror Threats to Omar Sharif,” from AKI, with thanks to Erick Stakelbeck: Rome, 28 Oct. (AKI) – Death threats to the Egyptian-born actor Omar Sharif have appeared in Islamist forums on the Internet, after Sharif’s appearance as a Christian, Saint Peter, in an Italian biblical epic […]
Fourth night of riots in Paris
“A police union spokesman says a Paris suburb is seeing ‘civil war.’” More on the Muslim riots in Paris from Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: BOBIGNY, France (Reuters) — Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday defended his tough crime policies against claims they helped increase tension after a fourth night of […]
London bomber buried in Pakistan
Shazad Tanweer, a thoroughly English lad according to his father, was not buried not in Twickenham or Surrey or Newcastle-on-Tyne, but in Pakistan — in the shrine of an Islamic saint. Now why is that? Could it be that his family and others think of Tanweer as having done something honorable on July 7? What […]
New York: 20 held in suspect tobacco ring
Al-Qaeda, HizbAllah and others have been involved with cigarette smuggling. From the Times Union, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: ROTTERDAM — State Police rounded up 20 men in Rotterdam Wednesday night on felony conspiracy charges related to a cigarette smuggling ring, according to authorities…. One of the men, Elhadi Abdalla, 42, of 180 Lark […]
Fitzgerald: A “Palestinian” Jerusalem?
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses what might happen if Jerusalem is turned over to the “Palestinians,” as Muslims around the world called for on Friday’s Al-Quds Day: The history of Muslim conquest all over the world is nothing less than a virtually unmitigated history of destruction. The Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, now […]