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 […]