Archives for February 2006

Stop the Presses! Ahmadinejad blames the Zionists, of all people, for Sunni violence! From AP, with thanks to Teri: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the United States and Israel on Thursday for the blowing up of a Shi’ite shrine’s golden dome in Iraq, saying it was the work of “defeated Zionists and occupiers.”… “They invade the […]

Anti-dhimmitude in Australia. “Go elsewhere for sharia law: Costello,” from AAP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: ANYONE who believes Islamic sharia law can co-exist with Australian law should move to a country where they feel more comfortable, Treasurer Peter Costello said today. All Australian citizens must adhere to the framework in society which maintains tolerance […]

Why do we have to bribe our putative allies to cooperate with investigations? And why any concessions at all? Port Jihad Update from AP: WASHINGTON – The Bush administration secretly required a company in the United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future U.S. investigations before approving its takeover of operations at six American ports, according […]

It was perhaps inevitable that it would come to this. Democratic elections will not heal this rift. Now: is it the responsibility of the U.S. government and military to try to heal it? Is it really in the best interests of the West to give the Shi’ites money to rebuild the Golden Mosque when the […]

Of course, it was “ordinary Palestinians” who elected Hamas, but why should our friend and ally be expected to make such fine distinctions? From CNN, with thanks to Shinolite: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — Saudi Arabia will continue supporting the Palestinian Authority despite the election of a government led by the Islamic militant group Hamas […]

A press release from the United American Committee: The United American Committee announces a protest rally on March 4 against the recent sale of the operations of our nation’s ports to a United Arab Emirates-owned company. The protest will be held in New York by the port at West 42nd St. & West Side Hwy […]

In “Stand up for Denmark! Why are we not defending our ally?,” Christopher Hitchens calls for a show of support for the embattled Danes at the Danish Embassy in Washington: Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24. Read it all.

Convenience store jihad? From KNOE TV8, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TV 8 News has learned FBI agents and local law enforcement authorities are conducting a raid of service stations and businesses owned by Middle Easterners in Northeast Louisiana. Agents executed search warrants today at 10 businesses in Tallulah, Delhi, Monroe and Ruston. The […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald offers a cartoon controversy curriculum: The cartoon controversy has created a teaching moment in American high schools and universities. History teachers, civics teachers, government teachers, do the following: Print out relevant sections from Milton’s Areopagitica (“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue” etc.), the trial of John […]

“Olmert: Hamas Not a Strategic Threat,” from AP: JERUSALEM – Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Hamas is not a strategic threat to the Jewish state, signaling that he has no plans to take military action against the violent group, which swept Palestinian elections last month. As Hamas worked to form a […]

Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update from Iraq, via Associated Press: SAMARRA, Iraq – Assailants wearing uniforms detonated two bombs inside one of Iraq’s most revered Shiite shrines Wednesday, blowing the top off its landmark golden dome and spawning mass protests and reprisal attacks against dozens of Sunni mosques. The brazen assault “” the third major attack against […]

Voluntary dhimmitude in Minnesota. “The Art of Compromise,” from the Pioneer Press, with thanks to all who sent this in: As violent protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad continue around the world, a St. Paul charter school is quietly negotiating the delicate question of how to teach art to Muslims. Any depiction of God […]

CAIR board member Mazhar Rishi maintains there is no right to defame religious figures — in other words, no right to free speech at all, for if any person or group or idea is beyond criticism, then the society is no longer free. Note also the words of Rachel Lawton: “You cross the line when […]

Bernard K. Freamon, a Muslim and a professor of law at Seton Hall University, advocates that Denmark abandon freedom of speech in order to forestall future strife between Muslims and non-Muslims. From Jurist, with thanks to Mac: In September, Danish prosecutors, acting on a complaint by Danish Muslim clerics, nonetheless refused to authorize a criminal […]

Dhimmitude in Helsinki, from Helsingen Sanomat, with thanks to Millo: The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) has decided to prohibit showing the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in its entertainment programmes. The ban applies, for example, to popular quizzes such as SF-studio, to the animated political satire Itse valtiaat, and to Uutisvuoto (the Finnish version […]

No doubt the Palestinians would have dismantled this bomb factory anyway, since everyone knows they want peace, right? Right? From Haaretz, with thanks to Twostellas: An IDF force found a large bomb factory in the casbah area of the West Bank city of Nablus early on Tuesday, the third day of a broad IDF operation […]

Port Jihad Update from Bill Gertz in the Washington Times, : Several Bush-administration security officials expressed concerns yesterday that terrorists could infiltrate seaports through a United Arab Emirates company that is vying to manage six U.S. ports. Intelligence and security officials opposed to the deal with Dubai Ports World said ports are vulnerable to the […]

A press release from the March for Free Expression: A Rally in support of Freedom of Expression will be held in Trafalgar Square, London, UK between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on March 25th 2006. A direct response to the Danish Cartoons controversy, this rally aims to send a message to British politicians of all parties demanding […]

Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer (left) with archconspirator Daniel Pipes at the Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference in The Hague last week The Arab European League (thanks to BV) has discovered the culprit behind the Muhammad cartoons: The mainstream media coverage of the anti-Islamic racist cartoons ignores the fact that the publication of the images was […]

But will the EU be up to the challenge? “Cartoon Crisis is EU Fight,” from AFP, with thanks to JE: The Danish Prime Minister has said the unrest triggered by cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammed now pits the entire European Union against the Muslim world. Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the next step in the […]