“Not only will he learn about the culture by wearing traditional Muslim clothing and praying five times a day, but ‘Also going without pork for 30 days, that’s going to be rough but we’ll make do,’ said Morris.” In a public school. Imagine the outcry if the teacher were having his students dress as monks […]
Archives for 2006
U.S. agencies missing links between illegal immigration and jihad terrorism
Another story highlighting the howling need for immigration reform, and underscoring its status as a national security issue. As the embattled Congressman Goode said, illegal immigration must be stopped, and legal immigration drastically curtailed — with an eye toward keeping jihadists from entering the country. “Of special interest: U.S. agencies missing links between illegal immigration […]
Not a shot was fired yet the Somali jihad was suddenly over…
Yes. It was sweet — although many among the Western elites would prefer a “stable” Sharia-ruled Somalia. By Xan Rice in The Guardian: Their fortress fell without a shot. After just nine days of clashes in Somalia’s hinterland, the Islamists who had vowed to fight to the death abandoned Mogadishu, the city they had governed […]
Muslim world requires a dose of girl power
Anti-dhimmitude from Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian (thanks to Web): HER voice shaking, the young woman in the hijab sitting about five rows back from the podium was clearly angry with me. As were other women in the audience, some in hijabs, one wearing a nikab, only her eyes visible through a narrow slit. Angry […]
Zawahri: “Those who had sold Palestine, the secular traitors, can not be your brothers”
Another religion-based appeal from Al-Qaeda’s #2 man. “A-Zawahri: Abbas sold out Palestine: Al-Qaeda No. 2 lashes out at moderate Arab leaders for being traitors for cooperating with United States in audiotape posted on Islamic Web site,” from Associated Press, with thanks to Kemaste: …Ayman a-Zawahri’s wished the Palestinian people a happy Eid al-Adha but lashed […]
“The jihad in Iraq will be intensified and attacks on invader forces will increase”
Reactions ranged from hailing Saddam as a hero to condemning him as another Hitler. “Jubilation and anger,” from Reuters: …”There is a feeling of surprise and disapproval that the verdict has been applied during the holy months and the first days of Eid al-Adha,” a presenter on the official al-Ikhbariya TV said after programming was […]
Fitzgerald: Arab secularism
“Like Arafat, Nasser, and Assad, he [Saddam Hussein] was a secular Arab nationalist who lived and wielded power according to rules that were hardly uniformly Islamic.” — from the comment by Robert Spencer The phrase “secular Arab nationalist” may lead to some misunderstanding. Nasser and Saddam Hussein had pretensions to become King of the Arabs, […]
Saddam’s last words: “Muqtada al-Sadr”
In Saddam’s last thoughts UPDATE: The cellphone execution video that is making the rounds does not seem to bear this out. (Thanks to Jesse Petrilla.) SECOND UPDATE: The incident does seem to have occurred. The shouts of “Muqtada” can clearly be heard on the video, as well as what is apparently the voice of Saddam […]
Western media, bent on discrediting Islam and jihad, plants bomb on Iraqi bus — no, wait…
It was Sunni jihadists, taking time out from their inner spiritual struggle to set off a bomb on a minibus full of Shi’ites. “Bomb kills 31, wounds 58 in Iraqi town,” by Lauren Frayer for Associated Press, : BAGHDAD, Iraq – A bomb planted on a minibus killed 31 people in a fish market in […]
A couple of book reviews
I just discovered that two book reviews I recently wrote for Middle East Quarterly are online. Review of The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization by Richard W. Bulliet Review of Jihad: From Qur’an to Bin Laden by Richard Bonney More on Bonney and his book here.