Archives for March 2007

Of course, Iran bears no responsibility for this incident at all. From IRNA, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini Saturday categorically condemned the “illegal entry” into Iranian territorial waters of British forces. Hosseini considered the “illegal and interventionist” entry into Iranian territorial waters of British forces as a “suspicious move and […]

“A peaceful society that wishes to remain existent and stay peaceful ‘will have to find a way to defend itself through non-peaceful means from people who are not peaceful.’” Yes. From NIS News Bulletin, with thanks to Hugh: AMSTERDAM, 24/03/07 – Dutch politicians and media are downplaying excesses of multicultural society and thereby increasing these, […]

In other words, Prime Minister Balkenende and others want Wilders to sit back and quietly accept the Netherlands’ fate. And some, as Wilders points out, would add an “or else” at the end of that sentence. “Wilders: left sows hate and aggression,” from Expatica, with thanks to Anna: AMSTERDAM — Freedom Party (PVV) leader and […]

Hostage crisis revisited: Jimmy Carter, call your office. If only we had a Winston Churchill. By Richard Beeston and James Bone in the Times Online, with thanks to James: Britain’s crisis with Iran deepened last night after Tehran justified seizing 15 British servicemen by claiming that they had strayed into Iranian territorial waters “illegally”. The […]

Sheikh Tantawi, who approves of suicide bombing, won’t meet with the Pope because he quoted someone who said Muhammad brought nothing that wasn’t “evil and inhuman.” Since jihadists routinely justify suicide bombing by referring to Qur’an 9:111, which guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah, apparently Tantawi’s idea of what is […]

I was on the William Bennett show this morning following Zuhdi Jasser, the Muslim leader who has offered to help the passengers who are being sued by the Flying Imams. Now several people have written to me about an allegation by a blogger that on the show I said I was “optimistic” about the prospects […]

About three-quarters of a million people (okay, so maybe I’m exaggerating a little) today have sent me a Reuters story, “Woman re-interprets Koran with feminist view” by Manuela Badawy. In it, Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar, formerly of the University of Chicago, offers an alternative translation of Qur’an 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating verse.” The article says: In […]

He was a Sunni who was working within the Shi’ite government. “We announce to the Islamic nation, to our people and expecially al-Zubayi’s tribe, that the soldiers of Iraqi Islam have with Allah’s permission struck the so-called vice premier close to his home.” From AKI, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Baghdad, 23 March (AKI) – […]

A press release from The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public interest law firm renowned for defending all faiths, today offered to defend for free any individual citizens sued by the Muslim plaintiffs in what has become known as “the case of the flying imams.” “The Flying Imams” […]

The always perceptive David Thompson discusses the implications of the Charlie Hebdo verdict. Be sure to go to David’s site and follow the links, which I have not included here. Further to this piece, and this and this, the BBC reports that the editor of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has been acquitted. A French […]

Covering their dhimmi tracks. By Paul Revoir in the Daily Mail, with thanks to Rudi: The BBC has been accused of “shameful hypocrisy” over its decision to spend £200,000 blocking a freedom of information request about its reporting in the Middle East. The corporation, which has itself made extensive use of FOI requests in its […]

Here’s the story, from the Daily Mail. I hope that politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, law enforcement officials, and liberal and conservative media figures will soon be lining up for this surgery.

Since “anti-Muslim bias” all too often means “having a realistic and informed awareness of the elements of the Qur’an and Sunnah that jihadists use to justify their actions,” this is an attempt to stack the jury with witless naifs who will be more likely to buy the assertion that these men were just acting upon […]

More information on this story. One of those who sent this in said, “I guess this is will be a September 1, 1939 Alert.” Maybe. But I suspect more varieties of appeasement will be in the offing first. “Iran nabs British sailors in Iraq waters,” by Robert Barr for Associated Press (thanks to all those […]

Afghanistan is often held out as the “success” (as opposed to what even Bush loyalists cannot deny is the mess in Tarbaby Iraq) story. It is true that al Qaeda was attacked and the Taliban driven out. But Islam wasn’t driven out — Sharia was enshrined in the new Afghan Constitution. Islam wasn’t driven out […]

Iran recently threatened to kidnap American soldiers and feed them to roosters. Roosters? Feed American soldiers to the roosters? These days I am often led to think of Senator Foghorn Leghorn. But thinking of Senator Foghorn Leghorn is not a result only of the Iranians threatening to throw our soldiers to those roosters. No, there […]

An update on this story. “Mardan barbers warned not to shave beards,” from the Daily Times: MARDAN: After Dir and Bajaur, barbers in Mardan have also received letters from a purported jihadi outfit to stop shaving beards. Sana hairdresser, a barbershop in the Par Hoti area, has received a letter from an organisation called Tanzeemul […]

Al-Libi knows what a compelling argument he has for fellow Muslims in appealing to the Qur’an’s teachings on jihad, an appeal to which most putatively “moderate” Muslims have offered no substantive answer, or which they have simply tried to ignore. “In video, al-Qaida urges unification,” by Maamoun Youssef for Associated Press: CAIRO, EGYPT – In […]

1938 Alert? “UK forces say ‘incident’ in Gulf waterway near Iran,” from Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph: BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – British forces said on Friday there had been “an incident” in the northern Gulf after an Iraqi fisherman reported seeing up to seven British or American military personnel being seized by an Iranian […]

Somalia Jihad Update. “Somali gov’t names Qaeda leader as fighting rages,” by Sahal Abdulle for Reuters: MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali government said on Thursday that al Qaeda had made a young militant Islamist commander its leader in Mogadishu as fighting raged for a second day in the coastal capital. Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali […]