Another attempt to stifle all honest discussion of the roots within Islam of Islamic jihad violence and what can be done about them. “MWL Wants Lawsuits for Abuse of Islam and the Prophet,” by P.K. Abdul Ghafour in Arab News, with thanks to all who sent this in: JEDDAH, 28 December 2006 “” A two-day […]
Archives for December 2006
Spencer nominated for Anti-Idiotarian of the Year 2006
I’ve been nominated for Little Green Footballs’ Anti-Idiotarian of the Year 2006, along with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, John Bolton, Canadian PM Stephen Harper, Australian PM John Howard, Melanie Phillips, Pope Benedict XVI, Mark Steyn, Stuck Mojo, and Wafa Sultan. I don’t really belong on this list — all the other candidates are worthier than I […]
Report: Hizballah paying for Qassam rocket attacks
“Hizbullah paying for Kassam attacks,” by Herb Keinon and Yaakov Katz for the Jerusalem Post: Hizbullah is paying Palestinian splinter groups “thousands of dollars” for each Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev, The Jerusalem Post has learned. According to Israeli intelligence information, Hizbullah is smuggling cash into the Gaza Strip and paying “a number […]
Israel lets Egypt ship arms to Fatah — with the blessing of the U.S.
There’s no indicator of cluelessness quite like arming one’s enemy. From the Jerusalem Post: In response to continued violence between the Hamas and Fatah factions in the Palestinian Authority, Israel approved on Wednesday night the transfer of 2,000 automatic rifles, 20,000 ammunition clips and 2 million bullets, to the Fatah security forces in the Gaza […]
Jihad Watch at Hot Air on Goode and Ellison
In this week’s Jihad Watch videoblog at Hot Air, I discuss the Keith Ellison/Virgil Goode Qur’an controversy.
Fitzgerald: A teaching moment
Voting for Keith Ellison was a way for Minnesotans in his district to demonstrate, to themselves and to others, that they were certifiably tolerant, impeccably broad-minded. All the better if it was done without even making a move to find out what might be in the texts, tenets, attitudes, and atmospherics of Islam to cause […]
Fitzgerald: A tribute to King Abdullah
Jordan’s King Abdullah said some time ago that “Islam honors every human being, without distinction of color, race, or religion.” So that whole business of the jizyah, the kharaj, the distinctive garb, the ban on marrying Muslim women, the ban on riding horses, the inability to have one’s testimony against Muslims be considered valid, and […]
Fitzgerald: Moral preening
Those who are criticizing Congressman Virgil Goode these days are engaging in moral preening, without any felt need of responsibility to study carefully both the actual contents of the belief-system too easily assumed to be a “religion” (and therefore, presumably, to be accorded the status of a Good Thing). It is assumed, furthermore, to be […]
Pastors’ convictions for quoting Quran overturned
Good news from Australia about a case we have covered here extensively. Remember, one of the things they were censured for was…reading from the Qur’an. From WorldNetDaily.com, with thanks to all who sent this in: Two Australian pastors who were convicted of “vilifying” Muslims when they quoted from the Quran during a seminar on jihad […]
Jihadists abandon Mogadishu
“Islamic forces abandon Somalia’s capital,” by Salad Duhul for Associated Press: MOGADISHU, Somalia – Clan militiamen poured into the streets of Somalia’s capital Thursday after the Islamic movement that has controlled Mogadishu for months abandoned the city and government forces advanced to within striking distance. Gunfire echoed through the streets and hundreds of gunmen who […]
Tony Blair speaks of “progressive” Qur’an, says “the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking”
Tony Blair strikes again, this time in Foreign Affairs (thanks to Looney Tunes). For him to relate the Qur’an’s delegitimization of Judaism and Christianity as akin to the Protestant Reformation is unsurprising, but his papering over the bloodiness of the conquest of the formerly Christian lands of the Middle East and North Africa, as well […]
Spencer: A Bigot in Congress?
In FrontPage this morning I discuss the controversy over the letter written by Congressman Virgil Goode (news links in the original): Congressman Virgil Goode (R-VA) is being censured by almost everyone for his remarks about incoming Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Muslim immigration. “I fear that in the next century we will have many more […]
Another death threat
Most of this message from “mohammed_souljha@hotmail.co.uk” was unrepeatable, but it ended with these Christmas wishes (yes, I put in the asterisks): i will f**kin chop you up and put chilli powder all over your wounds. ps bin laden What never ceases to amaze me about this sort of thing is that some people in the […]
U.S. says captured Iranians can be linked to attacks
An update on this story. By Sabrina Tavernise for the New York Times: BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 “” The American military said Tuesday that it had credible evidence linking Iranians and their Iraqi associates, detained here in raids last week, to criminal activities, including attacks against American forces. Evidence also emerged that some detainees had been […]
Increase in ‘race hate crimes’ casts doubt on ‘One Scotland’ PC propaganda campaign
Just the smallest hint in this article as to why these “race hate” crimes are growing: a passing mention of the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks. But there is no hint here that that holds the key as to how these “racist crimes” can be stopped, and why no amount of propaganda indoctrination will suffice. “Increase […]
Ethiopian, Somali troops near Mogadishu
The jihad there may be ending soon. By Mohamed Olad Hassan for Associated Press, with thanks to D. C. Watson: MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somali and Ethiopian troops drove Islamic fighters out of the last major town before Mogadishu on Wednesday, and the government predicted that the capital and stronghold of the radical Islamists would fall […]
Spain: Muslims Appeal for Use of Cathedral
Their appeal should be granted — as soon as the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is reopened for use as a cathedral. From Reuters, with thanks to Seymour Paine: Spanish Muslims said they had appealed to Pope Benedict XVI to be allowed to prostrate themselves in worship in Córdoba Cathedral, built as a mosque in southern […]
“Rise up and march with Somalia to destroy Christianity and establish Khilafah”
Making clear what the war there is about. From the Islam First website, with thanks to DFS: ** Rise up and march with Somalia 2 crush Christianity RISE UP AND MARCH WITH SOMALIA TO DESTROY CHRISTIANITY AND ESTABLISH KHILAFAH DOORS OF JIHAD OPEN IN SOMALIA A Somali Islamic Courts defence chief has for the first […]
Iranian parliament adopts bill to speed up nuclear activities
Perhaps they’re anxious to get on with nuking Israel. From Al-Bawaba, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian parliament or Majlis) on Wednesday ratified a double-urgency bill urging the government to speed up Iran’s nuclear activities and make a revision in the country’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to […]
Palestinian PM: US plan for state with temporary borders is ‘unacceptable intervention’
A two-state solution is no good as far as Hamas is concerned. Hamas wants a one-state solution. “Hamas rejects US state offer: Palestinian PM: US plan for state with temporary borders is ‘unacceptable intervention,’” by Yaakov Lappin for YnetNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The PA Hamas government has turned down an American proposal to […]