Archives for 2005

Charles Jacobs of the David Project writes in to the Boston Globe with some disturbing information about the Islamic Society of Boston’s associations. THE STORY on the lawsuit filed against us by the Islamic Society of Boston (”Praised by beacon, mosque project stalls amid rancor,” Page A1, Dec. 18) did mention that the society’s founder, […]

Residents of Indonesia’s Aceh Province, already burdened with the devastating effects of last year’s catastrophic tsunami, are now being forced to deal with an emboldened Taliban-style vice squad, according to the San Francisco Chronicle: The morality enforcers, a squad of men clad in green trousers and white shirts and women in white head scarves, stride […]

The American war on terror is not the only Western effort against jihad being hamstrung by overzealous rights advocates and their elitist sycophants in the judiciary and legislature. In the Netherlands, the recent case of suspected terrorist Samir Azzouz, as summarized by The New York Times, seems oddly similar to the trial of Sami Al-Arian […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald, in the spirit of the day, offers some reflections on the use of strategic gift-giving in the advancement of the global jihad agenda: The more we have to do with Muslim mores and manners, Muslim ways and Muslim byways, inevitably there will be more opportunities for Infidels to […]

Another honor killing in Pakistan. Those who claim that this sort of thing has nothing to do with Islam and the Sharia imperative have yet to explain why the overwhelming majority of such cases happen in an Islamic context. The shame/honor culture, rooted in Islamic ideas of purity and impurity, is what gives rise to […]

Voted in by free elections. Indicating, as I have said here many times and elsewhere over the years, that the simple act of voting is not nearly enough to establish a viable free society. From IranFocus, with thanks to JE: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 23 — The editorial of Iran’s leading hard-line daily hailed the outcome […]

A few words from one of the jurors who voted the Rumpled Academic guilty on some counts, but who was, of course, outvoted. “‘I Can Sleep At Night,’ Juror Says,” from the Tampa Tribune, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TAMPA – Juror 211 is one of the reasons that the fate of Sami Al-Arian […]

The hate mail bag doesn’t rest even for Christmas: To: director@jihadwatch.org Subject: you spreader of evil and corruption on gods earth I am a liberal muslim who celebrates christmas with my children also my doctor is a jewish friend but after viewing your website and reading some of the comments I will start practising my […]

…to all those who observe either. May we grow stronger in the coming year to defend the civilization built by those who through history have celebrated these holy days.

Update from Anne Crockett: Yalto points out he did not originate the Islamic Christian Forum postings. My mistake. He more recently added, “Frankly, I am disgusted by Spencer and the hypocrisy that he practices. I find the level of pure hatred and bigotry expressed on the JihadWatch site, by both “commenters” and staff, to be […]

One of the more unfortunate consequences of the Israeli pullout from Gaza has been their continuing inability to quiet the rocket salvos that now pour into Israel from newly “liberated” Palestinian territory. Once considered a nuisance, the rocket fire has been increasing in intensity, and is causing Israel to consider new security measures, since the […]

Gotta watch out for those Canadian terrorists, eh? What’s that? A Muslim? No, that’s not important. What’s that? The common denominator of some of the primary groups committing terrorist acts today? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe? And on Christmas Eve, yet! From the Globe and Mail, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: A […]

A welcome and surprising bit of anti-dhimmitude, this. From AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: BUFFALO, N.Y. — A judge Thursday refused to prohibit U.S. border officers from conducting potentially lengthy security checks on Muslim-Americans on their way home from a religious conference in Canada that begins Friday. The New York Civil […]

Anti-dhimmi Christmas (and Hanukkah) wishes from Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald: While wishing all who observe the day the merriest of Christmases (or Hanukkahs, which custom now holds to be “happy” rather than “merry”) I also wish that you give a sobering thought to those who, though they may ardently desire to, cannot […]

Can you feel it? The Christmas cheer just keeps spreading in Indonesia. From AP, with thanks to JE: JAKARTA, Indonesia – Bomb squads searched for explosives Saturday at churches in the capital Jakarta and its satellite cities hours before Christmas Eve celebrations amid fears that terrorists might carry out attacks to mar the holiday. Police […]

Whatever the domestic political motives are behind this, she is right. From NewsMax, with thanks to Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi: Teresa Heinz Kerry says she is “outraged” that President Bush didn’t react more forcefully to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent recommendation that Israel be “wiped off the map,” saying that the way to deal with Iranian threats […]

That is the original headline of this piece from ChannelNewsAsia (thanks to Daryl), and it is of course quite true. The “true voice of Islam,” whatever that may be, could be decisive in the success or failure of the global jihad. But this article once again assumes that the jihadists are twisting the true peaceful […]

An update to this Dhimmi Watch post. From the AP: U.S. and European officials have agreed with Libya on setting up a fund to offer financial assistance to the families of AIDS-infected children in the Libyan city of Benghazi, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said Friday. The move is part of international efforts to secure the release […]

In her landmark work “Eurabia,” author Bat Ye’or points out that the most effective agents of dhimmitude are often Christian clerics who defend the excesses of their Muslim overlords, usually at their congregation’s expense. A good example of this phenomenon is Jerusalem Patriarch Michel Sabbah, whose latest Christmas message not only praises the “efforts” of […]

New arrests of Al-Qaeda related militants reported in Europe, according to the Associated Press: Police in southern Italy arrested three Algerians Friday on international terrorism charges and accused them of planning attacks in Iraq and Italy, police and the Interior Ministry said. The three were arrested in a nationwide sweep against an extremist group in […]