“Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks…” (Qur’an 47:4). From AP, with thanks to Mackie: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Explosives experts had to dismantle three roadside bombs to reach the brutalized bodies of two missing U.S. soldiers, whose remains were found tied together with a bomb between one soldier’s legs, […]
Archives for June 2006
Hamas-Fatah to Implicitly Recognize Israel
Bridge For Sale! Bridge For Sale! From AP, with thanks to Mackie: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations meant to lift crippling international aid sanctions. “We have an agreement over the […]
Police have no right to rush into action on dubious intelligence, say most Muslims in poll
Notice this: when polls show that Muslims have lost confidence in non-Muslim authorities, those non-Muslim authorities are expected to do something about it. And when polls show that non-Muslims have lost confidence in the loyalty and trustworthiness of the Muslims among them, non-Muslim authorities are expected to do something about it. Never, never, is any […]
Iran’s Ahmadinejad to visit Iraq ““ report
And why not? After all, Hitler visited Austria after the Anchluss. Of course, Ahmadinejad may be jumping the gun a bit as far as that is concerned, but he is certainly doing all he can to bring into being a Shi’ite client state in Iraq. From Iran Focus, with thanks to JE: Tehran, Iran, Jun. […]
Thai bombs target teacher convoy
Thai Jihad Update from the BBC, with thanks to Charles Martel: Five security officers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Thailand’s south. They were attacked by a group of suspected insurgents, who ambushed them as they were guarding teachers on their way to a school in Yala province. The attack is the latest […]
Denver Safeway shooter was “being teased at work because he’s a Muslim and he couldn’t take it anymore”
So of course his response was to start randomly shooting his coworkers. “Suspect, Victims In Safeway Shooting Rampage Identified: Gunman Tentatively Identified As Michael Ford,” from The Denver Channel, with thanks to David: DENVER — An investigation is under way to determine why a Safeway warehouse employee walked into work and opened fire on his […]
Man jailed for daughter’s genital mutilation
How long will Sweden have the will to continue to proseecute such cases? Clash of Civilizations Update: “Man jailed for daughter’s circumcision,” from Sweden’s The Local, with thanks to Twostellas: A man who arranged for his daughter to be circumcised has been jailed for four years by Gothenburg District Court. The man was found guilty […]
Fitzgerald: Turkey has had a good run
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald wonders if policy should really be a matter of avoiding hurting other’s feelings: Turkey has had a good run. Ataturk, “secular” Turkey, Bernard Lewis and “The Emergence of Modern Turkey,” Sanford Shaw, of course (without the Vryonis replique), those generals in Ankara meeting those American generals, the performance […]
“Self-recruited, self-trained, and self-executing” jihadists
“They answer not to a particular leader but to an ideology. In short, they operate under the radar. And that makes their detection that much more difficult.” That means, of course, that that ideology has to be confronted and combatted. American Muslim advocacy groups should do this energetically — or if they refuse, be shut […]
Worm sympathetic greetings from the first modern Islamic terrorist group
This morning I got this message from the Muslim Brotherhood, the forefather of Hamas and Al-Qaeda. Dear sir I’m touched by your worm sympathetic words towards the Islamic cause, which I assure you is a totally peaceful one. Islam dictates on its follower to pursue justice and prosperity through peaceful means that is based on […]
Fitzgerald: Jihad, not hirabah
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald explains why the recommendation that American policymakers refer to the global jihad as “hirabah” (unlawful warfare) is wrongheaded: Two analysts at the National Defense University have recently recommended that the West use the word “hirabah” instead of “jihad” to describe the actions of Osama bin Laden and Co. […]
“just wait now all muslims will starting the JIHAD against u……….”
What? You mean it hasn’t already started? Just in from the Hate Mail Bag: hi bladdy americans. whats going on just wait now all muslims will starting the JIHAD against u………. and u know who is this country…..? this is PAKISTAN PAKISTAN PAKISTAN bladdy?
Somali militia leader wants Islamic gov’t
Further developments toward the formal establishment of an Islamic state in Somalia, from AP: NAIROBI, Kenya – An Islamic cleric accused by Washington of collaborating with al-Qaida said Monday he will only support a government based on Islam in his new role as head of a militia that controls Somalia’s capital and much of the […]
“Allah promise to us that we will win this holy war”
I just received this email. The dajjal is an Islamic apocalytic figure of evil; Kaffirs are unbelievers. Note the familiar notes sounded: the displacement of responsibility (“The Dajjal DOGS like America and his allies are beginning the holy war”), the exhortation to desire Heaven, the call to defend “our honour as moslems.” This emailer clearly […]
Occupied Byzantium: Denigrating Dervishes Dance on Image of Christ, and the World Yawns
A horrible story from Western Resistance, with thanks to Looney Tunes: Russian and western media are ignoring how the Turkish Tourism Board is airing an advertisement where drug-entranced Muslim dervishes dance on an image of Christ taken from a destroyed church, reports Fontanka.ru, a web-based newspaper in St. Petersburg. So far, the offending advertisement has […]
Wanted jihadist cleric to head Somali “parliament”
Somali Jihad Update: “Wanted terrorist to head Somali ‘parliament,’” from The Australian, with thanks to all who sent this in: MOGADISHU: Somali Islamists have named as the head of their new “parliament” a firebrand cleric wanted by the US for alleged links to al-Qa’ida. Officials said Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys — a wanted “terrorist” in […]
Olmert orders military operation in Gaza
As the jihad against Israel continues, Olmert takes action. From AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday said he has ordered the army to prepare a “broad” military operation against militants in the Gaza Strip following the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier. “It should be […]
“The latest dominant trait of the Muslims is victimhood”
Memo to Ibrahim Hooper: better get the feds on this guy. It’s Khaled Ahmed of the Daily Times (thanks to Sandi). The latest dominant trait of the Muslims is victimhood. They think they are being persecuted and killed everywhere in the world. They want the world to take notice of this while the Muslims as […]
“Beggar scholars will speak that slaughtering infidels is sacrilegious…We tell them that this is the book of God, which will be the judge”
Another invocation of the Qur’an to justify violence. “Iraqi Qaeda-led group says Russian hostages killed” from Reuters, with thanks to M3: DUBAI, June 25 (Reuters) – An al Qaeda-led group posted video footage on the Internet on Sunday showing the killing of three men it said were Russian hostages seized in Iraq earlier this month. […]
Tension in Bangladesh as Sunni jihadists threaten Ahmadiya mosque
Islamic Tolerance Alert: “Tension in Bangladesh as Sunni militants threaten Ahmadiya mosque,” from DPA, with thanks to Twostellas: Dhaka – Tension was mounting in a northern suburb of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka Saturday after an Islamic militant group threatened to blow up a mosque of members of the minority Ahmadiya Muslim sect, officials said. The […]