They’re also linked to the 7/7 attacks. “5 Convicted in London Bomb Plot,” by David Stringer for Associated Press, with thanks to all who sent this in: LONDON (AP) – A judge sentenced five men to life in prison Monday for plotting to attack targets in London, including a popular nightclub, power plants and shopping […]
Archives for April 2007
Karen Armstrong: Defender of the wrong faith
Damian Thompson at the Telegraph blogs has noticed Karen Armstrong’s light-on-truth review of my book The Truth About Muhammad, and has written a stinging response, “Defender of the wrong faith”: Karen Armstrong is a comically conceited feminist ex-nun who has assumed the duty of defending Islam from its critics. Yesterday”s Financial Times carried her review […]
Fitzgerald: Help the New Duranty Times see the light
Walter Duranty was the New York Times correspondent in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. He also won a Pulitzer Press for his coverage of the Soviet Union. This was strange, because what he reported was nonstop apologetic nonsense, and perhaps worst of all was his supposedly splendid reporting in the Soviet-induced famine in Ukraine. […]
Fitzgerald: The School of Qom and the School of Najaf
A little background on the claque that has, for roughly the past three years, found Sistani to be the Man of the Hour in Iraq. At My Weekly Standard the claque consists of Reuel Gerecht and the carriers of Weiss-Schwartz Syndrome. Fouad Ajami, whose usefulness is limited given his tiptoeing around the subject of Islam, […]
Fitzgerald: The “Palestinian” “refugees”
Arab and Muslim states, or governments, although they now ask Israel to surrender still more, created the so-called “Palestinian refugee” problem. These were not classic refugees, hounded out, but rather people who left a war zone, for an Arab assault was anticipated even in 1947. They were confident that they would soon be returning. The […]
Jihadists shoot, kill 3-year-old boy in southern Thailand
Thai Jihad Update. “Three-year-old boy shot dead in Thailand,” from Agence France-Presse: PATTANI, Thailand (AFP) – Suspected separatists shot dead a three-year-old boy in Thailand’s restive south Sunday, police said, hours after hundreds of Muslims gathered to protest the killing of a retired teacher. The child was killed when insurgents in a truck opened fire […]
Turks protest Islamic-rooted government
Another demonstration against the spread of Sharia in Turkey. This time 700,000 people participated. Apparently Turkish secularism will not go gentle into that good night. By Benjamin Harvey for Associated Press, with thanks to all who sent this in: ISTANBUL, Turkey – Some 700,000 Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul on Sunday […]
Strong support for Sharia in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, and Indonesia
It’s hard to discern much from this without seeing the actual questions that were asked, since the answers are somewhat confused and contradictory: two-thirds want a caliphate, but two-thirds also want a “democratic political system.” “Less than 25% of Muslims blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 attacks,” from the Malaysia Sun, with thanks to Wally: An in-depth […]
Turkey: Four street evangelists jailed
Even as hundreds of thousands demonstrate in favor of secular government in Turkey, the Turkish government again demonstrates that it is not interested in according all religious groups equality of rights. “Turkey: Four Street Evangelists Jailed,” from Compass Direct: ISTANBUL, April 27 (Compass Direct News) — Police jailed four Christian street evangelists in Istanbul for […]
Saudi Arabia’s jihadi chickens come home to roost
An excellent piece on the double game our Friend and Ally has long been playing. “Saudi Arabia’s Domestic Crackdown,” by Youssef Ibrahim in the New York Sun (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): For decades, Saudi Arabia’s ruling family has lent political and financial support to the country’s most fanatical Muslim clergy. The clergy received money […]