Archives for February 2007

Lt. Gen. William Odom, ret’d., was head of Army intelligence and director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan, and served on the National Security Council staff under Jimmy Carter. He is a West Point graduate with a PhD from Columbia, and is a fellow at the Hudson Institute. He somehow has managed to […]

Whoops. “Biking militants die when bomb explodes prematurely,” from AP, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair: CHEECHA WATNI, Pakistan (AP) — Three Islamic militants died in eastern Pakistan when a powerful bomb they were transporting by bicycle accidentally exploded Saturday near a bustling cattle market, police said. Mohammed Shakil, a police inspector at the scene, told […]

The Danish Embassy in India is located on Aurangzeb Road in New Delhi. So there is still a road in India that is named after the most ruthless and cruel of the many ruthless and cruel Muslim rulers, oppressor and mass-murderer of Hindus. Why is there a road by that name? Change it, for god’s […]

It was right, proper, necessary to destroy Iraq’s military power, and its regime. The Ba’athist regime owed its origin to the desperate attempt of Syrian Christians to concoct an ideology that would be an alternative to naked Islam (Michel Aflaq, the founder of Ba’athism, converted to Islam on his deathbed; his life was one of […]

WORLD opinion emphatically rejects the idea that Islam and the West are heading for an inevitable clash of civilisations, according to an ambitious poll of public attitudes across 27 countries, commissioned by The Age and the BBC World Service.””from this article This “opinion poll” was commissioned by the BBC World Service. The American who conducted […]

WASHINGTON “” A Muslim group said Monday it had invited Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., to expand on biting remarks he made last week during debate on a House resolution disapproving of President Bush’s decision to send more than 21,000 U.S. troops into Iraq. The Muslim American Public Affairs Council has “extended this invitation to Congressman […]

Of course, this is not surprising, as the punishment for apostasy under Islamic law comes directly from the words of Muhammad himself: “If anyone changes his religion, kill him.” (Bukhari 9.84.57, and others). “Founder of ex-Muslim group threatened,” from UPI: COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 23 (UPI) — The founder of a group in Germany for former […]

“The case is one of the first in Pakistan to underline in court the links between splinter cells of Pakistani jihad groups and Qaeda operatives in Waziristan.” “Blast That Killed U.S. Diplomat Tied to Qaeda,” by Carlotta Gall in the New York Times, : KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb. 22 “” The suicide bombing that killed an […]

Followed by a scrupulously fair discussion of Israel’s Report by members of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/70th session). Comments by David G. Littman: Representative to the United Nations (Geneva) The Association for World Education and World Union of Progressive Judaism On February 22/23, Israel presented its comprehensive periodic CERD Report […]

“We’re going to war.” Who is “we,” Mousa? What kind of “war”? It may be that gang warfare was indeed all Mousa Abuelawi had in mind, but mines? Did he expect the gangs to lay landmines in St. Charles, Missouri? An update on this story. “St. Charles man accused in arms case is indicted,” by […]

Dr. Raphael Israeli speaks out in The Australian (thanks to Looney Tunes) about the dhimmis who canceled his speaking tour in Australia. AS an Israeli, one becomes used to the bias of the world’s media and the frustrations of being misrepresented in the face of hysteria. But as a visiting academic to the land of […]

No Compulsion In Religion Update from the UK, via the Daily Mail (thanks to Kasper): Extremist Muslims who force vulnerable teenage girls to convert to Islam are being targeted by police, Met chief Sir Ian Blair has revealed. Police are working with universities to clamp down on “aggressive conversions” during which girls are beaten up […]

Dr. Rusty Shackleford has some more info on the infamous Pipes and Spencer Hacking Caper (actually, Pipes and Spencer sounds more like a department store than a hacking team). He even reveals the true culprit, who actually was no culprit at all, but just someone who took over Imam Musa’s site after Musa apparently took […]

I am told that the Flying Imams incident has accomplished just what it was probably intended to accomplish: I have information that Islamic sensitivity training, often led by CAIR, has intensified among law enforcement officials in direct response to this incident. But there are still a number of troubling questions about the imams’ behavior. Here […]

Erick Stakelbeck details the madness at Hot Air.

The Washington, DC imam whose Myspace page Daniel Pipes and I are alleged to have hacked is back. It’s here. (Thanks to Marked Manner.) A few highlights: While incarcerated, Imam Musa accepted traditional, orthodox Islam before his release. For many years after his release, the Imam continued his studies of Islam and was a keen […]

A couple of weeks ago I posted here about Imam Musa, a Washington D.C.-area imam whose Myspace page praised the jihad theorists Sayyid Qutb and Syed Abul Ala Maududi, as well as the Ayatollah Khomeini. That Myspace page has since been taken down, but before it was it was apparently taken over by an opponent […]

Daniel Pipes has sent around this email about the ongoing Minneapolis airport cab controversy: Dear Reader: A further decision is due in the controversy over taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport who refuse to transport passengers visibly carrying alcohol. The Metropolitan Airports Commission, which has jurisdiction over the drivers, invites the public’s opinion; […]

They were forced to declare that they burned their own houses down. From Compass Direct, with thanks to Suzy: ISTANBUL, February 22 (Compass Direct News) — Police detained Christian families in Upper Egypt and forced them to deny arson attacks on their homes during a spate of anti-Christian violence last week, the families said. Two […]

Evidently it would be the decent thing to do just to allow them to nuke Israel. “Fears grow over Iran,” by Tom Baldwin and Philip Webster in the TimesOnline, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Tony Blair has declared himself at odds with hawks in the US Administration by saying publicly for the first time […]