Julia Gorin at Political Mavens details a particularly jaw-dropping case of moral equivalence. I had to do a double take when I read these opening paragraphs in Saturday”s Salt Lake Tribune: Holocaust survivor mesmerizes students He was just a little older than his audience when the Nazis starved him and showed him such unspeakable brutality. […]
Archives for February 2007
No Sharia in Minnesota
Jihad Watch reader Greg writes from Minneapolis with an update about the Sharia Cab Controversy: I attended the MAC hearing today about increasing refusal-of-service penalties for cab drivers. It was very well attended, especially by the Somali cabbies (must have been 100 of them). Also present were the NCAA, a Teamsters Union representative, Northwest Airlines, […]
Indian train blast: Jihad groups suspected
However, no group has claimed responsibility. “Indo-Pak peace train hit by terror; 67 dead,” from NewsLocale: Terror struck the Samjhauta Express early Monday morning when a bomb blast ripped apart the peace train causing the death of at least 67 people and injuring many others. The attack involved two crude bombs and occurred near the […]
Taliban ‘knew of Cheney visit’
How did they find out? Probably through contact with people who work with the Americans — in other words, this is likely another indication of the fact that there is no firewall within Muslim communities between jihadists and peaceful Muslims. Jihadists have never been expelled from Islamic communities, but rather move freely within them. And […]
Fitzgerald: What have we got for that $27.5 billion?
Selig Harrison notes something that almost no one knows, not in Congress, not in the press, and not, it seems, many others: that since 9/11/2001 the Bush Administration has given Pakistan the equivalent of $27.5 billion dollars. That makes Pakistan, after Iraq, the largest recipient per annum of American aid. The next time someone begins […]
Rage at the Emory Wheel
On February 16 I sent this letter to the Emory Wheel, the newspaper of Emory University, in response to a letter they had printed protesting an advertisement from our Terrorism Awareness Program at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Emory Wheel printed it a few days later, whereupon I wrote here: “I predict right now […]
Chicago cousins were seeking “training in jihad”
Chicago Jihad Update. “Cousins sought `training in Jihad,’ prosecutors say,” by Jeff Coen in the Chicago Tribune, via the KRT Wire, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: CHICAGO – Two Chicago-area cousins linked to a terrorism conspiracy last week traveled to Egypt in 2004 and planned to head to Pakistan for military training, federal prosecutors […]
Case against husband for selling wife’s kidney
From Pakistan comes this When Men Own Women Update, via the Daily Times, with thanks to Twostellas: MULTAN: The wife of a farmer from Bahawalpur has registered a case against her husband, accusing him of selling her kidney without her consent to purchase a tractor, police said on Monday. District Police Officer (DPO) Bahawlapur Arif […]
Pakistan: More polio cases if resistance continues; Islamic clerics say those who die of polio are ‘martyrs’
An update on this story. “More polio cases if resistance continues: NIH, WHO,” from the Daily Times, with thanks to Twostellas: ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) fear that more polio cases will crop up in the Bajaur and Malakand agencies since workers are denied access to children […]
Religion isn’t the sickness. It’s the cure
William Rees-Mogg in the TimesOnline (thanks to all who sent this in) addresses the fashionable moral equivalence that would see all religions as presenting more or less the same threat to generally accepted modern notions of human rights. I address the same question from a different angle here. From the earliest days Christianity has been […]