Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald surveys the situation in “tolerant,” “progressive” Malaysia: Malaysia is, quite incorrectly I’m afraid, always adduced as an example of a progressive, forward-looking, prosperous Muslim state. In fact its prosperity would be considerably diminished but for its Chinese and Hindu population. All Malays are required to be counted as […]
Archives for February 2006
Indian Muslim leader writes to Danish Ambassador about cartoons
He invokes Seton Hall prof Bernard Freamon to argue that the cartoonists be prosecuted, in order to “cool down religious passions all over the Muslim world.” As one might expect, he has no sense of responsibility for the Muslim violence over the cartoons. “Mushwarat writes to the Danish Ambassador to India on the Cartoon Issue,” […]
Fitzgerald: Mr. Mubarak, we want our money back
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald makes a proposal to Cairo and the dhimmis in Washington: Foreign aid should be subject to return if the recipient fails to show that it has put that foreign aid to good use. That good use should include, in the first place, encouraging gratitude, and friendship, toward the […]
Senior Iran cleric says attacks on embassies permissible
Yet another 1938 Alert from Iran Focus, with thanks to Mackie: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 — A senior Iranian cleric has approved attacks on foreign embassies in Tehran over the publication of insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European dailies, a website belonging to the office of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reported. “Muslims […]
Malaysian official: wrong to equate terrorists with Muslim fundamentalists
The Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry says that real Qur’an-believing Muslims abhor violence and suicide bombers, and instead live in peaceful co-existence, mingling freely with peoples of other religions and races. Well, that’s a relief. But I do wish that Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz would go farther. Here again the flat assertion is […]
Muslim groups criticize MSU for online caricatures
CAIR again comes out against freedom of speech. “We believe that responsibility comes with freedom of speech.” In other words, there is no freedom of speech at all when it comes to Islam. For if there is no right to speak what may offend this or any group, there is no right to speak about […]
EU regrets ‘offensive’ cartoons
Dhimmitude from the EU, throwing freedom of speech overboard. From the BBC, with thanks to Hutchrun: EU foreign ministers have expressed regret that cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in European papers were found offensive by Muslims. At a meeting in Brussels they also agreed on a common line of action to rebuild ties with […]
U.S., Britain smuggling arms to Iran via Iraq ““ police chief
“…illegal arms, alcohol, and unethical items…” Another 1938 Alert from Iran Focus (thanks to JE): Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 — The United States and Britain are illegally smuggling arms into the Islamic Republic via its western neighbour Iraq in a bid to destabilise the Islamic Republic, Iran’s police chief said on Tuesday. “100 percent of […]
Terrorist training camps in Iran
1938 Alert: “Exclusive: Terrorist training camps in Iran,” from Iran Focus, with thanks to JE: London, Feb. 27 — Iran Focus has obtained a list of 20 terrorist camps and centres run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The names and details of the training centres were provided by a defector from the IRGC, […]
Jihadi Turns Bulldog
On Sunday I read with some amazement in the New York Times Magazine the story of Rahmatullah Hashemi, former Taliban spokesman and now a student at Yale. In Opinion Journal John Fund explains just what is so wrong with this — which never seemed to occur to the New Duranty Times: Never has an article […]
Dubai ports firm participates in Arab boycott of Israel
More unsavory news about our friends and allies in the UAE. Why can’t the President at least threaten to kill this deal unless the ports firm ends its boycott of what is an actual American ally? “Exclusive: Dubai firm boycotts Israel,” from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to all who sent this in: The parent […]
Abu Hamza’s son raps the jihad
“Imam’s son embraces rap,” from AFP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: London – The son of jailed radical Islamist imam Abu Hamza al-Masri is embracing rap music to sing the praises of Hezbollah and Hamas, the Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday. The best-selling daily said it sent reporters under cover to meet Mohammed Kamel […]
Baltimore: School days off for Muslims unlikely
The Hillsborough County Board of Education initially made the dhimmi move of cancelling all religious holidays rather than add Muslim ones. Now the Baltimore Board is taking the more sensible line that there simply aren’t enough Muslim students to justify these holidays. In this day and age, with pusillanimity and political correctness the reigning responses […]
Major al-Qaida in Iraq Figure Jailed
I believe that Zalmay Khalilzad is painting a bit overly rosy a picture, as other details in this article suggest. However, it is good to see that Abou al-Farouq was captured on a tip from residents. Muslim-on-Muslim violence always arouses a disgust with the mujahedin that violence against non-Muslims does not arouse, and it may […]
The Internet jihad
Internet Jihad Update from a Washington Times editorial today (thanks to Gnosis): A troubling video of an insurgent sniper in Iraq known only as “Juba” is spreading across the Internet. As National Public Radio describes it, in the professional-quality video, “Juba” is quiet, efficient and ruthless as he trains his sights on American soldiers and […]
Qaradawi: We are Fighting in the Name of Islam…This Jihad is an Individual Duty of the Entire Muslim Nation…We Should Fight Them With the Koran: “There is a Jew Behind Me, Come and Kill Him”
A few days ago I wrote briefly about a Wall Street Journal article about Yenny Wahid, the daughter of the former President of Indonesia, who reasserted the familiar tropes that the true Islam is a religion of peace and that the global mujahedin are misusing it. Now Sheikh Qaradawi, who has been praised as a […]
Fitzgerald: There is no need to curry favor
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the need felt by so many Western politicians to court approval among Muslims by disclaiming any connection between Islam and terrorist violence: There is no need to curry favor with those whose immutable holy text contains Quran 9.29, or indeed all of Sura 9, received as the […]
Douglas Murray: We should fear Holland’s silence
Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer (left) with Douglas Murray at the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference in The Hague last week The English writer Douglas Murray reports in The Times of London about the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference in The Hague, where I had the pleasure of meeting him and hearing his superb address last week. […]
Fitzgerald: Will political power lead to moderation?
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the increasingly common misapprehension that Hamas, once in power, will moderate: This business that Bush has been repeating, of how the responsibilities of rule will likely lead to a “moderation” of Hamas” views can only be uttered by someone ignorant of history, and ignorant of a Total […]
Anti-dhimmitude in the UK: Muslims who want sharia law ‘should leave’
Oh, Sir Trevor, you racist! A welcome statement in the UK, echoing one that has already been made in Australia. Other non-Muslim states should follow suit. “Muslims who want sharia law ‘should leave,’” from The Guardian, with thanks to John: Muslims who wish to live under a system of sharia law should leave Britain, the […]