More evidence that our friend and ally Musharraf may not have been quite as successful in stamping out support for Osama and Company as he would like us to believe. Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: “FEATURE-Pakistani jihadi videos thrive on execution scenes,” from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: ISLAMABAD, April 30 (Reuters) – […]
Archives for April 2006
A trip to the nuthouse
A few days ago you could have checked my biography at Wikipedia and found this: Most have discredited Mr. Spencer’s views on Islam due to oft-exaggeration. It must also be noted that Mr. Spencer’s work is highly biased and influenced by his Jewish Ancestral viewpoints. Of course, this has happened before. Jihad Watch News Editor […]
In Iraqi town, trainees are also suspects
From the Bandar Beacon, aka The Washington Post with thanks to Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald. HAWIJAH, Iraq – After midnight on a bare stretch of highway near this ramshackle town last week, Staff Sgt. Jason Hoover saw what looked like a fishing line strung across the road and ordered his Humvee to […]
Indian Hostage Beheaded in Afghanistan
From AP, with thanks to Looney Tunes. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Police found an Indian hostage’s beheaded body in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. Taliban militants said they shot the hostage dead as he tried to escape. Escape beheading, perhaps? “The death of the Indian engineer who was working for the construction and reconstruction of […]
Fitzgerald: Who’s crazy?
Taking a cue from the master saxophonist Ornette Coleman, Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald asks, “Who’s crazy?”: people like Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi and Zacarias Moussaoui, or the dhimmi analysts who diagnose them? “‘I’m going to make this easy for you guys. I fought against the United States. I took up arms,” he said […]
Pakistan Frees Scientist Held for 2 Years
More help from our friend and ally. From AP, with thanks to JE: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A senior Pakistani scientist suspected of helping leak nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea has been released after two years in detention, an army spokesman said Sunday. Mohammed Farooq, who worked at Pakistan’s top nuclear weapons […]
Al-Qaeda leader plans an Iraq army
More Iranian activity in Iraq: Al-Zarqawi planning to set up an Al-Qaeda army in Iraq with help from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. What’s that? A Sunni group getting help from Shi’ites? Don’t they realize that the learned Western analysts have told us that Sunnis don’t work with Shi’ites? Al-Zarqawi must be some kind of simplistic Islamophobic […]
Iraqis using ‘new Hizbollah bombs’ to kill British troops
Shi’ite and Iranian jihad against American and British troops in Iraq. 1938 Alert from The Telegraph, with thanks to JE: A multi-charged roadside bomb, developed by Hizbollah in Lebanon, is being used against British and American soldiers by Iraqi insurgents linked to Iran, according to military intelligence sources. The device consists of an array of […]
British “anti-terrorist experts” just can’t figure out why Muslims would become suicide bombers
Steadfastly refusing to consider the power of Islam, and probably utterly ignorant of Qur’an 9:111 (which guarantees Paradise to those who “slay and are slain” for Allah), and not even considering whether suicide bombers found a religion-based appeal compelling, these dhimmi “experts” just can’t figure out why any Muslim would want to blow himself up. […]
Australia: New South Wales Premier tells Muslims to join police
Iemma says that young Muslims don’t join the police force because they feel unwanted. He doesn’t seem to consider that there might be another explanation: that many young Muslims don’t consider themselves Australians and don’t want to take part in an infidel governing apparatus. This reminds me of the handwringing last fall over the French’s […]
Pakistan: tribal council to kill anyone reporting honor killings to police
A jirga is a tribal council. Dir and Wari are in Pakistan. It is a good sign that the government will not accept the jirga’s ruling, but this nevertheless indicates why we don’t see more moderate Muslims speaking out. In this case as in many other cases, those who question established belief and practice are […]
Report from the America’s Truth Forum Symposium
Richard Miniter has alerted me to an error I made in my post on his talk here (read the comments for his message and my response), but he did not dispute my core assertion, that he holds to the demonstrably false line that Islam’s core teachings do not encourage the jihad violence that we see […]
no, body can stop Jehad
This just in from the Hate Mail Bag (the headline above was the email’s subject line): Hope, u will be fine and I want tell little information that no body can stop the jehadies. Jehad will be being at till the last day of this earth. Its understood. God bless You. No body can stop […]
Hirsi Ali, The Hunted
This comes to us from Pieter Dorsman at Peaktalk: Just to show how far Dutch tolerance goes: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s neighbors have sued the Dutch state in order to get her to be removed from the apartment complex in which she is living under police protection. The request was initially rejected, but following an appeal […]
Killing of Al-Qaeda ‘Emir’ Called Blow to Insurgency
From today’s Bandar Beacon, aka The Washington Post: BAGHDAD, April 28 — U.S. forces killed a local leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and captured another in raids north of Baghdad on Thursday and Friday, dealing a blow to the insurgent organization’s leadership in the violent city of Samarra, Iraqi police and U.S. military authorities said. […]
Terrorist Escapes Raid in Indonesia but Two Militants Killed
From VOA: One of Asia’s most wanted fugitive terrorist leaders, Noordin Mohammed Top, has escaped an early morning raid by Indonesian police in a central Java town, but the police say they killed two other wanted militants. Malaysian-born Noordin Mohammed Top, believed to be one of the leaders in the regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah […]
Nigeria: Anglican bishop survives fourth attack
More jihadist persecution of Christians in Nigeria. “Anglican Bishop Survives Fourth Attack,” from Compass Direct, with thanks to all who sent this in: The latest attack on the Rt. Rev. Ali Buba Lamido, 47, Anglican bishop of Wusasa diocese in Kaduna state, began as the past year’s previous three did: Armed men whom he believes […]
Spencer at America’s Truth Forum symposium today
This morning I am in the Belly of the Beast, the Capital of the Great Satan, for a day-long symposium hosted by the America’s Truth Forum, “The Underlying Roots of Terrorism: Terrorism’s Threat to World Peace and National Security.” Security is very high, and with good reason: speakers include…Walid Phares, David Horowitz, Paul Williams, and […]
Indonesia: Muslim group threatens Christian foundation
In Muslim countries, Muslim groups not infrequently protest Christian activity. In Western countries, Muslim groups not infrequently protest any perceived restriction on Islamic activity, even if it is undertaken in order to restrain terrorism. This is because of the assumption of Islamic supremacy, and of the inferiority and venality of the dhimmis — for unbelievers […]
Al-Zawahri releases a new tape, but doesn’t sing any new songs
“Al-Qaida Leader: U.S. ‘Broken’ in Iraq,” from AP, with thanks to JE: CAIRO, Egypt – Hundreds of suicide bombings in Iraq have “broken the back” of the U.S. military, al-Qaida’s No. 2 said in a video posted Saturday “” the latest in a series of messages from the terror network. The video by Ayman al-Zawahri, […]