More tourist jihad. “30 injured as militants attack tourist buses in Kashmir,” from Deutsche Presse Agentur, with thanks to LGF: Srinagar – At least 30 people were injured when suspected Muslim militants hurled powerful grenades at two tourist buses in Srinagar, capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state Wednesday, police said. The buses, carrying tourists […]
Archives for May 2006
“Moderate Muslims” at MPACUK rage, froth about Zionism
It sure seems as if raging, frothing, obsessive types, flinging wild charges without evidence, and simultaneously claiming the moral high ground, are coming out of the woodwork these days. Here are yet more: The Muslim Public Affairs Council of the United Kingdom (MPACUK), which styles itself “the UK’s Leading Muslim civil liberties group, empowering Muslims […]
Fitzgerald: Bernard Lewis and his influence
Hugh Fitzgerald comments on the influence Bernard Lewis wields, and does not wield: Many have spoken approvingly of Bernard Lewis” influence in the Islamic world, and of the power of that influence when he claims that “suicide bombing” is un-Islamic. But in reality, Bernard Lewis has no influence among the Muslim masses. Prince Hassan, Halil […]
Fitzgerald: The destruction of the monuments
Islam, like other religions, was ruthlessly suppressed in the Soviet Union. For some this suppression apparently took. This forcible break with Islam was something that only a regime such as the Soviet Union could allow itself to enforce. But there were many — in Azerbaijan as well as elsewhere — among whom it did not […]
John Updike pens a “sympathetic, loving” portrait of a jihadist
In my younger days I used to look forward eagerly to the next John Updike novel, until he became little more than an upscale pornographer. I haven’t read anything he has written in years, and this one looks supremely missable — unless one wants an insight into how wealthy postmodern Americans view with careful, studied […]
Pakistan: Around 600 people a year are forcely converted to Islam
Forced conversion is forbidden by Islamic law. However, it has been a constant of Islamic history, and continues today. “Around 600 people a year are forcely converted to Islam,” from AsiaNews, with thanks to Liberal Muslim: Lahore (AsiaNews) — The same Islam that pronounces death for conversion to another religion, forces women married to Muslims […]
Saudis flout vow to US to end Israel boycott
I repeat: in what way is Saudi Arabia actually an ally of the United States? “Saudis flout vow to end Israel boycott,” from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Michael: Despite renewed assurances given to Washington that it is no longer enforcing a trade boycott against the Jewish state, Saudi Arabia continues to prohibit Israeli-made […]
Saudi fighters ‘are leading the surge in attacks on British troops’
Why can’t or won’t the Saudis stop the flow of mujahedin into Iraq? Because if they do so, it will be one more sign to Al-Qaeda and its allies that they have abandoned Islam for alliance with the Great Satan. But since they can’t or won’t do this, is that alliance viable in any way? […]
Jail time for Jordanian editors who reprinted Muhammad cartoons
From The Khaleej Times: AMMAN – A Jordanian court Tuesday sentenced to prison two newspaper editors for “attacking religious sentiment” by reprinting cartoons deemed offensive to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), their lawyer said. Jihad Momani, former editor of the weekly Shihane tabloid, and Hisham Al Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the tabloid Al Mehwar, were each sentenced to […]
Iranian FM on Israel: “There is no such country”
From Haaretz: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, declaring that the United States was too tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan to be able to mount an attack on Iran, said Tuesday that “there is no such country” as Israel. The comments were made at a ministerial meeting of the Nonaligned Movement held in the city […]
“Youths” at it again in Paris
For background on these “youths,” see here and here. “Police injured as violence flares in suburbs of Paris,” from the Telegraph, with thanks to Tim: At least 100 youths, many brandishing baseball bats, clashed with police in a new outbreak of violence in the same Parisian suburbs in which nationwide rioting started last autumn. The […]
American Linguist Noam Chomsky: Hamas Policies Are More Conducive to a Peaceful Settlement than Those of the U.S. or Israel
In my 2003 book Onward Muslim Soldiers, I skewer Chomsky and the Left’s general eagerness to unite with the jihadists who will, if given the chance, happily subjugate their allies along with the rest of us. Here is more evidence. From MEMRITV, with thanks to all who sent this in: Following are excerpts from an […]
German Women Vowed to Mount Suicide Attacks in Iraq
They have “close contacts to the Islamist scene in Germany and at least one…has converted to Islam.” The phenomenon of white European converts to Islam, and like-minded fellow travelers, underscores that this is not a problem of race, but of ideology. Even if Europe’s immigration crisis were solved tomorrow, the jihad ideology would not be […]
Islamic Jihad group threatens…more jihad
Since Iran funds Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and they are dedicated to continuing their jihad as a “holy religious obligation” until the last Israeli is “removed from the holy Palestinian land,” it should be obvious that Iran is already at war with Israel. A nuclear attack would just be a continuation of that war. And […]
Jury Finds Beltway Jihadist Guilty of Six Murders
Beltway Sniper Jihad Update. “Jury Finds Sniper Guilty of Six Murders,” from AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — John Allen Muhammad was convicted of six of the Washington-area sniper killings Tuesday after the prosecution’s star witness, Muhammad’s young protege, portrayed him as the mastermind of an audacious terror […]
Electing a New People: The Leftist – Islamic Alliance
A new essay by the European writer Fjordman: Bertolt Brecht wrote a satirical poem after the 1953 East German risings: “The solution After the uprising of 17 June The Secretary of the Writers’ Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the People Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it […]
Blunders that left Abu Hamza free
Abu Hamza should have been expelled from Britain twenty-five years ago. Think about that. Twenty-five years of jihad recruitment. Think of how many he preached to in (and later, outside) the Finsbury Park Mosque. How many believed him? How many took his words to heart? Where are they now? What are they doing? Why have […]
Cheney Urges Naval Academy Class of 2006 to Know the Enemy
This is interesting advice, since our chief criticism of the Administration over the last few years at Jihad Watch has been centered on the apparent fact that the key players don’t seem to understand the enemy, and that this is leading to policy mistakes of an increasingly disastrous type. Naval Academy grads: congratulations. Contact me […]
Dick Sartain, RIP
When I spoke in late April at the America’s Truth Forum Symposium in Washington, I had the honor of meeting Dick Sartain. I had corresponded with him for some time; he kindly kept me informed about his quiet activities exposing jihadist activity in the Dallas, Texas area. People often ask me: What can I do, […]
An Islamist human rights activist
In “Omani dissident promises to keep speaking out” from Agence France Presse (thanks to DFS), Taiba al-Mawali is called both an “Islamist” and a “human rights activist.” And, apparently with abundant justification, a “very unusual woman.” It would be interesting to know whether she thinks general equality of rights should be accorded to women in […]