More on the latest foiled British jihad plot. “Source: British Beheading Plot Was ‘Days Away,’” by Brian Ross and Alexis Debat at the ABC News blog : A plot to kidnap and behead a British soldier on videotape was only “days away” and led to the arrests today of nine men in Birmingham, England, a […]
Archives for January 2007
The Islamic Mein Kampf
An important new initiative is underway. Details at FrontPage: The Islamic Mein Kampf. In a rational world, American universities would lead the way in exposing the noxious roots of Islamic terrorism. Instead of psychoanalyzing Rush Limbaugh or President Bush, they would devote their attentions to what makes terrorists tick. Readers of FrontPage Magazine are uniquely […]
Iran role seen in attack on US troops
1938 Alert from The Australian, with thanks to Twostellas: THE US believes it has the first evidence of direct involvement by Tehran against US forces in Iraq, suspecting Iranians were behind a January 20 attack on a military compound in Karbala in which five US soldiers were killed. The news will boost the Bush administration’s […]
“i am not an extremist, but i did threaten to kill a man who insulted islam”
Traditional Muslim Alert: of course Mohammed Saud, mohammed_souljha@hotmail.co.uk, who threatened to kill me in an email he sent me in December, is indeed not an extremist. He recently wrote this in an email that was forwarded to me by a Jihad Watch reader who exchanged emails with him about his threatening me: i am not […]
Iran: Khamenei proposes anti-U.S. alliance to Russia
John VI Cantacuzenes Alert from AKI, with thanks to Fjordman: Tehran, 29 Jan. (AKI) – During a meeting with Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov in Tehran, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was reported as calling on Monday for a cooperation between the two countries to halt US ambitions in the region. “The alliance between the […]
Bush unveils security aid for “Palestinian” “ally”
What madness has overtaken them, that they would betray a genuine ally for a false ally? Mahmoud “Raise rifles against Israel” Abbas is an ally? Of course, the genuine ally is doing it too. From AFP, with thanks to Kemaste: WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President George W. Bush has ordered the transfer of about 86 […]
British Muslim soldier ‘was target of terror plot’
Muslims in Britain plotted to behead a Muslim soldier of the British military, and show the beheading on the Internet. By Adam Fresco and Daniel McGrory for The TimesOnline, with thanks to all who sent this in: Security services said today that they had foiled a suspected plot to kidnap and torture a British Muslim […]
D’Souza/Spencer Round II canceled
I was supposed to debate Dinesh D’Souza again tomorrow night on the online show “Libertarian Politics Live,” but I have just received word that D’Souza has canceled. The show may be rescheduled at a later date. You can hear the first debate, on the Lores Rizkalla Show a few nights ago, here, and my review […]
‘Palestinian Genocide Day’ instead of Holocaust Day
More of this sort of thing, this time in Spain. By Itamar Eichner for Ynet News, with thanks to Davida: While the rest of Europe marked the UN-established International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, a small town in Spain opted instead to commemorate the ‘Day of Palestinian Genocide’. Ciempozuelos, a Madrid suburb home to […]
Florida: Muslim doctor “volunteered as a medic for the al-Qaida military”
Aid and comfort to the enemy. “Judge: Doctor Can’t Treat Terrorists,” by Larry Neumeister for Associated Press, with thanks to Mackie: NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor accused of pledging to treat al-Qaida members can be prosecuted because medical care counts as material support to terrorists under federal law, a judge said Tuesday. Dr. Rafiq […]
2 Accused of Terror Ties to Stay in U.S.
“An embarrassment to the rule of law.” Yes. This kind of shoddy effort by prosecutors not only victimizes people who are possibly innocent — Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh — but it victimizes the rest of us if they are guilty. From AP, with thanks to Mackie: LOS ANGELES (AP) — An immigration judge ordered […]
Radicalized convert to Islam: “I became persuaded intellectually by the theological case” of the jihadists
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross explains in FrontPage, in the course of an interview about his new book My Year Inside Radical Islam, how he was convinced as a new convert to Islam that the jihadists were right — by their theological arguments. He went to work at what turned out to be a terror-linked charity, and gradually […]
UK: prison toilets rebuilt to face away from Mecca
In accord with Islamic law. “Jail loos turned from East,” by Jamie Pyatt in The Sun: JAIL bosses are rebuilding toilets so Muslim inmates don’t have to use them while facing Mecca. Thousands of pounds of taxpayers money are being spent to ensure lags are not offended. The Islamic religion prohibits Muslims from facing or […]
US Judge ok’s case against accused jihad-funding bank
A major victory. “US oks cases against accused terror-funding bank, from AP, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater: Israelis and other foreign nationals can pursue claims in US courts accusing the Jordan-based Arab Bank of promoting Palestinian suicide attacks by funneling Saudi money to bombers’ families, a judge ruled. In a written decision in federal court […]
Fitzgerald: Lewis should tell us where he was wrong, and why
“Bat Ye’or saw all this in 1994, when she said: “˜I do not see serious signs of a Europeanization of Islam anywhere, a move that would be expressed in a relativization of religion, a self-critical view of the history of Islamic imperialism…we are light years away from such a development…On the contrary, I think that […]
44 dead in attacks on Shi’ite ceremonies in Iraq
More attacks on Ashura ceremonies. Sunni/Shi’ite Jihad Update. “On Shiites’ holiest day, 44 dead in Iraq,” by Kim Gamel for Associated Press: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Assailants struck Shiite worshippers in three Iraqi cities Tuesday, killing at least 39 people in bombings and ambushes during the climax of ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day in the […]
Saudi Shi’ites troubled by Sunni rhetoric
Sunni/Shi’ite Jihad Update by Donna Abu-Nasr for Associated Press: QATIF, Saudi Arabia — Like many Saudi Shi’ites, Abdullah Abdul-Hussein is worried that if the government does not end anti-Shi’ite tirades by influential Sunni clerics, the sectarian conflict ravaging Iraq and threatening Lebanon could spread to his country. “This rhetoric provokes trouble,” said Abdul-Hussein, referring to […]
Sharia supremacists threaten Yemeni Jews for selling wine
“The subject peoples,” [i.e., the dhimmis] according to a manual of Islamic law endorsed by Al-Azhar University in Cairo, must “pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)” and “are distinguished from Muslims in dress, wearing a wide cloth belt (zunnar); are not greeted with “˜as-Salamu “˜alaykum” [the traditional Muslim greeting, ‘Peace be with you’]; must keep […]
American Muslim groups call for end to “harassment” of Sami Al-Arian
The American Muslim Alliance (AMA), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim American Society (MAS), Muslim Student Association-National (MSA-N), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), Project Islamic Hope (PIH), and United Muslims of America (UMA) rush to the defense of Sami Al-Arian, an admitted […]
Sunni jihad/martyrdom attack targeting Shia procession kills 2 in Pakistan
“The Americans Love Pepsi-Cola, We Love Death” Alert: the procession was going down the street while cutting their heads until the blood streamed down their faces, and then the bomber tried to stop them by…blowing himself up. “Suicide attack targeting Shia procession kills 2 in Pak,” from the Times of India: ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber […]