Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses a particular element of traditional Islamic family values: the need to ask permission of one’s parents before going on jihad. Family values, family values. Tradition. I just checked my copy of The Lawful and The Prohibited in Islam (Al-Halal Wal Haram Fil Islam) by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi […]
Archives for April 2006
Hezbollah, Illegal Immigration, and the Next 9/11
I just finished posting this story about MPAC’s calling for Muslims to join the illegal immigration protests on May 1 when I saw this article by LTC Joseph Myers and Patrick Poole in FrontPage. Here is abundant documentation that Hizballah is taking advantage of our porous borders in order to place operatives in the U.S. […]
Muslims to join pro-illegals protest in L.A.
Let’s see. The Muslim Public Affairs Council has a senior advisor who has declared support for Hizballah. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has had five officials associated with various terrorism-related activities and no longer contests statements connecting it with Hamas. The Muslim American Society has U.S. chapters that speak of establishing Islamic government. When groups […]
More evidence of al-Qaida nukes
This report comes to us from the g2 bulletin (subscription required): Hamid Mir, the only journalist to interview Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in the wake of 9/11, has confirmed that al-Qaida has obtained nuclear suitcase weapons from the Russian black market, that the weapons were tested in Kabul in 2000 and that may […]
Zarqawi tape authentic, says Fisk
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondant for the UK Independent, is interviewed by Tony Jones for Lateline about the new Zarqawi video: TONY JONES, LATELINE PRESENTER: Well, Robert Fisk is Middle East correspondent for ‘The Independent’ newspaper and more than 30 years of reporting from the region makes him one of the most acute observers of […]
Jihadist tried in NYC subway plot
This piece shows how the mainstream media is both actively obfuscating and highly ignorant of the jihad ideology. The fact that this man is a Muslim and a jihadist, not that he is a Pakistan native, is the reason why he plotted these actions. But which one shows up in the AP headline? Of course […]
14 hurt in jihad attack in Jammu and Kashmir tourist town
More tourism jihad. Tourism for the mujahedin is just another manifestation of jahiliyya — non-Islamic ignorance. It is also a context that leads to immorality, which to some gives rise to the idea that violent attacks are an appropriate response. “14 hurt in grenade attack in Kashmir tourist town,” from DPA, : NEW DELHI – […]
Muslims who skip Friday prayers can be punished
A There-Is-No-Compulsion-In-Religion Update from Malaysia. From The Star, with thanks to Nicolei: KOTA BARU: Skipping Friday prayers is a major sin for Muslims and it is punishable under the state’s Syariah laws, said Kelantan Bar Committee chairman Datuk Wan Harun Shukri Noordin. Therefore, Muslims in the state must remember that Friday prayers are compulsory, otherwise […]
Christians on the West Bank face more fire bomb attacks
Islamic Tolerance Alert from Ekklesia, with thanks to Cornelius: A Roman Catholic parish school and a Protestant Bible-study centre in the West Bank have been fire-bombed twice since the Islamist Hamas movement won a legislative election in January 2006, according to Christian clerics in the region. According to the Presbyterian Church USA News Service, a […]
Utah jihad?
Have some of the global mujahedin said, “This is the place”? “A Utah link to terrorism?,” from The Salt Lake Tribune, with thanks to Cindy: Counterterrorist agents pounced on five men, one in Utah and four in California, on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the U.S. connections of a suspected senior al-Qaida operative […]
Iran has missiles that put Europe in range: report
Well, yes, but they plan to use them only as minarets. From Reuters, with thanks to JE (both for link and quip): JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Iran has received a first shipment of missiles from North Korea that are capable of reaching Europe, Israel’s military intelligence chief was quoted on Thursday as saying. Known in the […]
Indonesia: Government wants non-Muslims tried by Islamic court
This will, of course, lead to a systematic denial of equality of rights to non-Muslims if Sharia is fully implemented. “Indonesia: Government Wants Non-Muslims Tried By Acheh Islamic Court,” from AKI, with thanks to Nicolei: Banda Aceh, 26 April (AKI/Jakarta Post) – The Indonesian government has insisted that Muslims and non-Muslims alike in Nanggroe Aceh […]
Jury Convicts Calif. Man in Terrorism Case
Khan urged Hayat to attend a jihadi camp, but now of course it was all made up to please interrogators. Hamid Hayat Update from AP, with thanks to Mackie: A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a 23-year-old man of supporting terrorists by attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan three years ago. Hamid Hayat, a […]
Jihadis Use Media as a Weapon
From our “no kidding” department and Newswise, with thanks to LS. Jihadis place a great deal of emphasis on developing comprehensive public relations and communication strategies to aid their side in the media war. That’s according to communication researchers at Arizona State University who studied recently declassified al-Qaida documents and other open source reports captured […]
Two suicide bombings in Egypt’s Sinai
More jihad in Egypt. Just in from Reuters: CAIRO (Reuters) – Two men blew themselves up in Egypt’s north Sinai on Wednesday, one near an airport used by an international observer force and one near the northern town of El Arish, security sources said. The bombs, which followed three deadly explosions in the east Sinai […]
Job offer
I just received this email: Robert, Why don’t you use your talent and energy in something positive that can be more benfitted to human being than running this jihadiwatch website? Regards, Hasan Gee, Hasan, it’s swell of you to be concerned about my professional prospects. I can’t tell you how grateful I am. But just […]
Iran threatens retaliation if America attacks
1938 Alert from The Guardian, with thanks to JE: Iran will harm US interests anywhere in the world if America launches an attack, the supreme leader of the country, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today. “The Americans should know that if they assault Iran their interests will be harmed anywhere in the world that is possible,” […]
German language interview with Robert Spencer
For those who haff vays of reading it, it can be found here.
Dhimmis at State deny Congresswoman permission to travel to Qatar because she planned to ask “sharp questions”
Why, we wouldn’t want to offend our friend and ally. “Feds Nix Pol’s Arab Tour,” from the New York Post, with thanks to David: April 24, 2006 — WASHINGTON – The State Department blocked a New York congresswoman from traveling to Qatar after being informed she planned to raise sharp questions about a high-ranking Qatar […]
“Can you provide to your fellow Muslims a convincing interpretation of a peaceful and loving Koran? We hope you can”
We hope you can. I have expressed that hope many times here myself. But they haven’t yet. From “A Peaceful Koran?” by Father Jonathan Morris at FoxNews, with thanks to all who sent this in: The Muslim tradition leaves no room for interpretation or theological development. The Koran is what it is. Those who dare […]