“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 […]
Archives for January 2007
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 […]