During the last round of the endless Esmay imbroglio, I followed a link from Esmay’s site to an anonymous blog that invoked me, gratuitously and without any specific examples of inaccuracies in my writing, in writing about the alleged sins of Little Green Footballs: To top it off, LGF has become an Internet Book Tour […]
Archives for October 2006
Al-Maliki Lifts Military Checkpoints Around Sadr City
Two joyous fellows Is al-Maliki on the road to creating the Shi’ite client state that the Iranians have been trying to foster in Iraq for quite some time now? From AP, : BAGHDAD, Iraq “” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the lifting of joint U.S.-Iraqi military checkpoints around the Shiite militant stronghold of […]
On this day, October 31
Today I suspect that many of you will be dressing in wild and gaudy costumes and indulging in revels to celebrate the anniversary of Reza Pahlavi’s declaring himself, on this day in 1980, the rightful heir to the Peacock Throne. Others will be doing the same thing to honor Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, nailed defiantly […]
Fitzgerald: They should be mocked out of office
It is absurd to think that Muslim hearts and minds can be won. They can be rented, not bought, and rented only for the shortest of periods. Meanwhile, the rent — that is the further transfer of wealth from the Camp of the Infidels to the Camp of Islam — only helps to pay for […]
Protest against strike on religious school in Pakistan
“They killed 80 teenagers who were students of the Quran.” Yes, and how does that establish in any way that this was not a “terrorist-training facility,” as Major General Shaukat Sultan called it? An update to this story from AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: KHAR, Pakistan Pakistan’s army spokesman said Tuesday […]
U.S. Bishops Call for Protection of Iraq’s Christians
I hope she heeds. From AINA, with thanks to DFS: WASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Policy has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to consider measures that would help improve the deteriorating situation for Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq. […] The complete text […]
Spencer: Muslim Rape? They Were Asking for It
In the featured article at FrontPage this morning I discuss the al-Hilali controversy (news links in the original): The Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, has gained international attention this week by saying that women are generally at fault if they are raped. Speaking to a Muslim audience in Sydney, he explained that rape […]
14,000 weapons, spare parts given to Iraqi forces missing
13,180 semiautomatic pistols, 751 assault rifles and 99 machine guns. And rocket-propelled grenades. It’s likely they’ll be seen again, of course, only in the hands of insurgents and death squads. “Audit reveals 14,000 arms given to Iraq are missing,” by John Heilprin for
Ex-official: Muhammad reveals key to overcoming jihadists
This is likely to cause a firestorm, but of course it is simple common sense to recognize what the enemy invokes as his guiding principle, and learn what can be learned from it. In a sane world, the failure to have done this in the five years since 9/11 would be the cause for the […]
Zawahiri Was Target in U.S. Attack on Religious School in Pakistan
An update on this story from Alexis Debat at ABC’s Blotter : Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of a Predator missile attack this morning on a religious school in Pakistan, according to Pakistani intelligence sources. ABC News has learned the raid was launched after U.S. intelligence received tips and examined Predator reconnaissance indicating that […]