How far will they go? From AP, with thanks to Nicolei: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Page after page, self-appointed hate hunters underline passages in Pakistani schoolbooks. They flag hard-edged Muslim views toward other faiths, such as those describing past efforts by Hindus and Christians to ”erase” Muslims. They note sections that speak of martyrdom and the […]
Archives for November 2005
Arab Christian longs for dhimmitude
Jonathan Kuttab, a “Jerusalem-based Palestinian human rights lawyer and peace activist,” argues in the Lebanese Daily Star that the West’s conflict is and always has been with the Arab world, not with Islam, and that Arab Christians are the natural allies of Muslims in that struggle, “dreaming of a revival of a modern, relevant, vibrant, […]
Charity cash for Palestinian poor was siphoned to suicide bombers
This is what the great human rights activists of the Western world are supporting. This is where Palestinian Christians have placed their hope. All on a culture of dishonesty and murder. From The Independent, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Millions of pounds donated by British and other European charities to help the Palestinian poor were […]
A friendly reminder
A series of emails I have received lately suggests to me that many of you don’t know that Jihad Watch is not one, but two weblogs. The other is called Dhimmi Watch. It covers the oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic societies, as mandated by Sharia law, as well as the oppression of women, since Sharia […]
New Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem: No land for Jews
Palestinian Arab Christians are going to be in for a rude surprise when the Islamic state so many of them are abetting actually takes power, and they find life more difficult for them than it was in Israel. When I was in Jerusalem last week, I attended an address by Natan Sharansky, the great ex-Soviet […]
Dissent on campus
Has the dissent in the camp manifested into a dissent on campus? A report from Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 27 — Several anti-government student protests erupted in the Iranian capital on Sunday in response to an increasingly harsher government crackdown on campus activists. Students at the University of Tehran refused to attend classes in […]
Yemen executes Muslim cleric
From the AFP: A hardline Muslim cleric has been executed by firing squad in Yemen after being convicted of the murder three years ago of an official in the opposition socialist party. Ali Ahmed Jarallah was executed on Sunday in the courtyard of the main Sanaa prison in the presence of his family, judges and […]
Back in the fold
Is this the future of Europe once Turkey is allowed to join the “elite” club? From Iran Focus: London, Nov. 27 — Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will travel on Wednesday to Turkey, a country that once expelled him for his involvement in terrorism when he was the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Ankara. Mottaki, 52, […]
Dissent in the camp
According to this report from the AP, all is not going well for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. TEHRAN, Iran – Critics say the 1980s-style radicalism of ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is hurting Iran at home and abroad – to the point that even his natural allies in parliament have rejected his three choices to run […]
Empowering Saudi Youth for the World
The chairman of the Saudi International Relations Committee (IRC), Mr. Amr Khashoggi, has asked members to “think of ways of training our youth on how to communicate, appreciate and project our country and culture.” The committee came back with the following plan. From the Arab News: Saudi Arabian Youth Ambassadors Program is dedicated to creating […]
Bangladesh: Bomb panic at city high school
On the heels of a crippling nationwide general strike waged by opposition groups determined to oust the ruling Islamist-allied government comes this high school bomb scare out of Dhaka. From The New Nation: The students and teachers of city”s Khilgaon High School panicked Sunday afternoon at sight of a bomb-like device set under the table […]
Fitzgerald: The real questions that now matter
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald explores the dhimmi blindness of the current Iraqi nation-building policy, and asks some questions of policymakers: “The Iraqi authorities say that they have arrested the leaders of three terror networks operating around Baghdad, two of which were headed by an interior ministry official.” — From this news item […]
How did we forget that Israel’s story is the story of the West?
Charles Moore asks this pointed and crucially important question of dhimmi government officials and opinion-makers in the Telegraph: Well, some will say, that is the way it is: Israel has abused power, and is reaping the whirlwind. I don’t want to argue today about the rights and wrongs of Israel’s actions, though I think, given […]
Linking Islam to terror ‘will divide civilisations’
Memo to Osama bin Laden, Al-Zarqawi, Abu Bakar Bashir, Omar Bakri, Abu Hamza, Fawaz Damra, Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud, etc. etc. etc.: stop associating Islam with terror. Bahrain doesn’t like it. What’s that? Bahrain’s Al-Mousawi was telling Europeans and other Westerners, not jihadist Muslims, to stop associating Islam with terror? Oh, of course. How could […]
Muslim Brotherhood builds Egyptian Parliamentary bloc
The Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon) was the first modern Islamic terrorist organization. Founded in 1928, it is the the direct forefather of both Hamas and Al-Qaeda. In its Egyptian homeland it has had a checkered history — and is at present banned. Through it all, its goal has always remained the same: to reestablish Sharia […]
Teheran ‘secretly trains’ Chechens to fight in Russia
Here’s one for the neocons who support the Chechen jihad because they prefer to see it as a plucky group of independence fighters poking the big bad Russian bear in the eye: welcome to your alliance with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Of course, the Russians themselves need to wake up, too. Across the board, the governing elites […]
France: Extremism on the rise while intertwining with foreign terror groups
While government officials bicker amongst themselves on how to appease blatant rioters, an insidious infiltration is quietly occurring right under the authorities’ noses. From the Los Angeles Times: PARIS “” Employees set up clandestine prayer areas on the grounds of the Euro Disney resort. Workers for a cargo firm at Charles de Gaulle airport praise […]
No accounting of religion
Three weeks of riots has prompted French prime minister Dominique de Villepin and interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy to fall over each other in an attempt help the “disaffected youths”. From Reuters: “Proclaiming equality before the law is no longer enough: henceforth we also need to promote equality by (using) the law,” Sarkozy wrote in an […]
Minister: “In Pakistan there is complete freedom of speech and expression.”
Apparently, the good minister does not consider this nor this nor this to be stark contradictions to his bold statement. But of course! Violations of Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws are punishable just as violations of laws are in any other “democratic” nation. From the Online – International News Network: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has underlined […]
Iraq seizes booby-trapped toys
Yes, yes, it is they who are the aggrieved and oppressed. I keep forgetting. From SA, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Baghdad – The Iraqi army said on Thursday it had seized a number of booby-trapped children’s dolls, accusing insurgents of using the explosive-filled toys to target children. The dolls were found in a […]