And the the EU has expressed objections to this, remaining all too eager to extend the rights and privileges of membership to a country where jihadists can — and will, if allowed — exploit the democratic process to achieve their goals. From AP: A top Turkish general said Monday that increasingly powerful Islamist forces threatened […]
Archives for September 2006
Islamic foreign ministers press pope to apologize
The Pope respects them and is committed to dialogue? So what? He must kowtow. Nothing less than full submission will be acceptable. Pope Rage Update from Reuters, with thanks to Rudi: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – An organization of 56 Islamic nations pressed Pope Benedict on Tuesday to apologize for his comments linking Muslims and violence, […]
Egyptian Cleric Explains His Fatwa Sanctioning the Killing of Israelis Visiting Egypt
“I was dreaming a beautiful dream…” From MEMRITV, with thanks to all who sent this in: Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Safwat Higazi, which aired on Dream2 TV on August 26, 2006: […] When I said what I said, I was dreaming a beautiful dream, which I hope will come true, […]
Hizballah moving rockets to Palestinian camps, rebuilding bunkers
Ceasefire Update from YNet News: “Hizbullah moving rockets to Palestinian camps” Hizbullah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials. The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to […]
Intimidating the West, from Rushdie to Benedict
Daniel Pipes has a terrific piece in today’s New York Sun (there entitled “A Look at Islamic Violence,” but it bears the title above at his website.) In it, he notes that “the violence by Muslims responding to comments by the pope fit a pattern that has been building and accelerating since 1989. Six times […]
Islamic group threatens to “physically resist” music classes at Punjab University
Instrumental music is automatically an issue under sharia law due to the dictates of Muhammad. For example: Narrated Abu ‘Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash’ari: that he heard the Prophet saying, “From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and […]
Somali jihadists seize port city, fire on protestors
Somali Jihad Update from AP: “Demonstrations turn violent in Somalia” MOGADISHU, Somalia – Fears of regional conflict soared as angry demonstrations against Somalia’s radical Islamic militia grew Monday into deadly violence in a southern port city, and the militia for the first time acknowledged getting help from foreign Muslims. […] As it has established authority […]
U.S. rejects visa for Tariq Ramadan
“U.S. Rejects Visa for Muslim Scholar,” from AP, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair: NEW YORK – The government has rejected a prominent Muslim scholar’s application to enter the country, contending that he gave support to a terrorist group, but his attorneys allege the U.S. is using charitable donations he made as a pretext for stifling […]
Pakistan: Teenage Christian jailed for blasphemy
More depredations of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. From Compass Direct: A Pakistani Christian jailed last week on suspicion of ripping book pages containing Quranic verses appealed to Punjabi police through his lawyer yesterday (September 21) for his case to be cancelled for lack of evidence. Lawyer Khalil Tahir Sindhu asked Faisalabad city police to throw out […]
Bin Laden lieutenant killed by British troops
A key jihadist who had escaped from the Americans in Afghanistan. From Reuters: BRITISH troops in Iraq said they killed one of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s top global lieutenants, who escaped from a US prison in Afghanistan last year. Omar Faruq was shot dead while resisting arrest during a raid by about 200 British […]
Islamic jurisprudence based on reason and wisdom: clergyman
Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani misrepresents the Pope’s words and speaks of jihad as “effort to save mankind from idolatry” — whether mankind likes it or not, of course. From Iran’s Mehr News Agency, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TEHRAN, Sept. 25 (MNA) — Most Western jurists know that reason and wisdom are the main sources […]
Musharraf: M16 ‘didn’t tell us that 7/7 bombers were in Pakistan’
Musharraf Meltdown Update: “M16 ‘didn’t tell us that 7/7 bombers were in Pakistan,’” from the TimesOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph: PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF of Pakistan says he is angered by the failure of British police and intelligence services to stop young British militants such as the 7/7 suicide bombers visiting his country before staging their […]
My citizenship has been revoked!
I have received this email from a “Charles B. Hoff,” revoking my citizenship as well as that of Jihad Watch Board Vice President “Huge” Fitzgerald: I as than born amererican want you and Huge to leave America as you are criminality racist for being hateful toward Islam so back to the homeland anster came from […]
CAIR’s Awad denies support for Hamas
In the course of an article about the Muslim Congressional candidate, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, CAIR’s Nihad Awad declares his support for Ellison — and his rejection of Hamas. “Muslims rally around congressional candidate,” from AP, with thanks to Mike: Republicans are trying to make an issue of a contribution from another Council on American-Islamic […]
German opera house dumps Mozart opera depicting Mohammed
Because it might offend Muslims, of course: who wants to get blown up for an opera? From the Violent-Intimidation-Works Department: “German opera house dumps Mozart opera depicting Mohammed,” from DPA, with thanks to Sugiero: Berlin- One of Germany’s leading opera houses, Deutsche Oper Berlin, announced Monday that it was cancelling a controversial production because of […]
Car dealer caves to CAIR, drops ‘Jihad’ radio ad
CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper: would you buy a used car from this man? I have canceled my trip to Columbus, Ohio, where I had planned to buy a new car. Dennis Mitsubishi is now kowtowing to the good folks over at the Council on American Islamic Relations, no doubt not realizing the record and lingering questions […]
Spencer to discuss Pope Rage on Mike Reagan Show tonight
I am scheduled to be on the Mike Reagan Show this afternoon at 4PM PDT with guest host Jed Babbin. We are scheduled to be discussing Pope Rage.
Spy agencies: stop fighting back
Imagine a report from 1944: “This just in: the invasion of Normandy has led to increased Nazi activity in Europe.” Leaving aside the question of whether or not the attempt to democratize Iraq is the best way to defeat the jihad, the idea that resisting the jihadists is inadvisable because it causes them to fight […]
Pope says Christians, Muslims must reject violence
A report on the Pope’s meeting with Muslims from Reuters: CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (Reuters) – Pope Benedict said on Monday that Christians and Muslims must reject violence, in an unprecedented meeting with Islamic envoys to defuse anger at his use of quotes saying their faith was spread by the sword. The Pope expressed his “esteem and […]
Fitzgerald: Fighting against the Jihad in Latin America
At this website, the part of the world least discussed is Latin America. A few things are alluded to: one knows about the triangle between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, a supposed no man’s land full of Muslim Arabs, engaged in all kinds of louche activities, and where support for Hizballah is high. Is it beyond […]