Al-Arian walk watch: I think the Rumpled Academic is very close to walking, and thereby handing the jihadists and their fellow travelers in the U.S. a decisive victory. Why? Well, if the jury can’t make a decision in nine days, I don’t think a conviction is imminent. On the other hand, maybe I will be […]
Archives for November 2005
The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Project”
Scott Burgess at the Daily Ablution (thanks to LGF) has some extraordinarily important information (here and here) about a recently discovered document that contains “an outline for a strategy – most likely drawn up by the Muslim Brotherhood – to combine jihad, surveillance, infiltration and propaganda (among other techniques) in order to ‘establish the reign […]
Washington state Muslim: Walter Mitty jihadist, or the real thing?
He’s got an “active fantasy life.” Involving real guns. “Sentencing puzzle: family man or radical Muslim?,” from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TACOMA, Wash. — Is Zaid Mu’min a mainstream Muslim with “an active fantasy life” or a radical preparing for holy war? Nearly five hours of testimony failed to clear up the […]
Fitzgerald: Arab Christians in Israel and elsewhere
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the identity and plight of Arab Christians: The notion that Arab Christians have a difficult time in Israel is belied by any number of telling facts. Christian sites are scrupulously taken care of, and available to all. It has not been the Israelis who took over the […]
UK: Christian doctor ‘was forced out’
Eurabia Update from the TimesOnline, with thanks to Interested: An eye specialist has accepted undisclosed damages after claiming that he was forced out of his job by Muslim colleagues. Joseph Erian took the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust to an employment tribunal, stating that he was made to resign from the ophthalmology department of Pilgrim Hospital, […]
Muslim Nations Skip Meeting With Europe
More news about this meeting from the New York Times, with thanks to Ruth King: BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 27 – In a summit meeting marked as much by who was not there as who was, the European Union opened a two-day conference here on Sunday aimed at renewing its commitment to developing and democratizing Muslim […]
Ten dead, 21 seriously hurt in Bangladesh’s first suicide bombings
Bangladesh jihad escalating. From AFP, : CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) – Ten people were killed and 21 badly injured in what police said were Bangladesh’s first suicide bombings and the latest in a string of attacks by Islamic extremists. The government and police accused the hardline Jamayetul Mujahideen, which wants to introduce strict Islamic law in […]
Hizballah Rising
Brigitte Gabriel traces the resurgence of Hizballah in “Hezbollah Rising” in FrontPage: Hezbollah – the organization that America failed to deal with back in 1983 after it blew up Marines in Lebanon – is now flexing its political muscle, positioning itself to take control over South Lebanon and parts of the Bekaa Valley beside the […]
Norway staging post for terrorists
Fruits of Multiculturalism Update from Aftenposten, : The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has other persons linked to the 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid and recent terrorism arrests in Italy under surveillance. The PST believes that Norway is used by ‘freelance’ terrorists as a place to lie low and plan activities, newspaper VG reports. By […]
Egyptian police detain 1,610 Muslim Brotherhood members
It looks as if Mubarak isn’t going to be saguine about the Ikhwan’s electoral gains. From Reuters, : CAIRO – Egyptian police have detained 1,610 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the two days before the last stage of voting in parliamentary elections, a Brotherhood spokesman said on Wednesday. Most of the detentions were in […]
British police arrest man in probe into suspected terrorist plots
The article doesn’t say so, but it is of course probable that he is an Anglican, since as we all know Christianity is just as prone to violence as Islam. From AFP, : LONDON – British police said on Wednesday they have arrested a man as part of an investigation into suspected plans to buy […]
Iraq: Christian hostages called ‘spies’
In reality, they’re not spies; they’re collaborators. From the Washington Times, : BAGHDAD — Al Jazeera television yesterday aired a video of four aid workers kidnapped over the weekend, apparently being held by a previously unknown terrorist group called the “Swords of Righteousness.” The four — two Canadians, an American and a Briton, members of […]
EU cannot enforce security at Rafah
Condoleeza Rice compelled the Israelis to give control of the Egypt-Gaza border to the Palestinians, and in the last few days there have been numerous self-congratulatory articles about the “freedom” the Palestinians have felt while crossing to and from Egypt without elaborate security checks. But Israel’s main objection to giving up control of the crossing […]
Spencer: Fallaci: Warrior in the Cause of Human Freedom
Monday morning there was snow, ice, fog, flooding, locusts, flaming frogs, pestilence, sword, you name it here in Secure Undisclosed Locationville, and the planes weren’t running. So I took the world’s longest taxicab ride through several states so as not to miss what may have been the last public appearance of one of the heroes […]
Belgian woman, convert to Islam, ID’d as Iraqi suicide bomber
Welcome to Europe’s future — as a source for jihadist recruits. We now have the first European female suicide bomber. And apparently her Muslim husband put her up to this, since evidently he “organized her trip.” “Female Belgian suicide bomber hit Baghdad,” from UPI, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: BRUSSELS, Nov. 29 (UPI) — […]
Oakland liquor store owner kidnapped
Threats, arson, and now kidnapping in the name of Islamic values. Oakland is getting to look like Baghdad. “Clerk Of Liquor Store Hit By Vandals Safe After Kidnapping,” from ABC7News.com, with thanks to Alone: Nov. 29 – BCN – Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said today that a clerk at a West Oakland liquor […]
Fitzgerald: Shi’a Islam and reality
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses some prevailing misperceptions of Shi’ite Islam, and their sources: The “typical representatives” of “Shi’a Islam” known to the editors of My Weekly Standard, and to the U.S. Government, have included such highly typical Shi’a (just the kind you find in SCIRI and DAWA and Moqtada al-Sadr’s ranks, […]
Fitzgerald: What if Israel disappeared?
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses what might happen to Christian holy sites and other monuments in Israel if the Jewish State disappeared: Israel’s disappearance would have several consequences: 1) The Old City, all of Jerusalem, and all of the sites in the Holy Land that matter to the world’s Christians (of course […]
Iran: Zoroastrian Lawmaker Faces Slander Charges
Jannati says that non-Muslims “cannot be called human beings but are animals who roam the earth and engage in corruption.” And you know what happens to those who roam the earth and engage in corruption: “The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land […]
Iran president had “˜religious vision” during UN speech
The Thug-In-Chief of Iran imagines himself as an emissary of an apparently equally bullying deity. From Financial Times via Regime Change Iran, with thanks to Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi: A leading website in Iran has published a transcript and video recording of President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad claiming to have felt “a light” while addressing world leaders at the […]