The Business Journal of Phoenix: An Arizona lawmaker is upset with the Public Broadcasting Service for not airing a controversial documentary on radical and anti-American strains of Islam. U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., is joining other conservatives in criticizing the federally funded public television network for not running a documentary called “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices […]
Archives for April 2007
Bomb kills 26 in Pakistan, wounds Minister of Interior
From the Gulf Daily News: PESHAWAR, Pakistan: More than 26 people were killed and 25 wounded, including a federal minister, in a powerful suicide blast at a political rally in northwest Pakistan yesterday. Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao had just addressed the public gathering when the bomber rushed towards the stage, setting off a huge explosion, […]
Bomb kills many in Karbala
From the BBC: A car bomb has killed at least 55 people and injured about 70 in the Iraqi city of Karbala, in the second such attack in two weeks. The city houses two of Shia Islam’s holiest shrines and reports say the bomb went off on a busy street as people headed to pray. […]
Turkish army threatens to intervene to save secular gov’t
Kemalism on the brink. “Turkish government slams army intervention threat,” by Gareth Jones and Hidir Goktas for Reuters, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair: ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s Islamist-rooted government sharply criticized an army threat to intervene in domestic politics and said on Saturday the military must remain under civilian control. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke […]
Karen Armstrong reviews Spencer’s The Truth About Muhammad!
Karen Armstrong’s second hagiographical and highly selective (i.e., quasi-fictional) biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad appeared around the same time as my book The Truth About Muhammad. Armstrong, however, declined all invitations to debate me, turning down, among others, an O’Reilly Factor segment. (The truth-challenged Edina Lekovic of MPAC ultimately appeared with me, using her […]
Fitzgerald: We need a return on this fantastic investment
What has been the effect on weakening the Camp of Islam and Jihad by spending this $880 billion in Iraq, and how else might it have been spent to weaken that Camp? For example, some of it could have been spent on the building of nuclear plants (on the model of what the French government […]
Fitzgerald: Never Have So Few Done So Much Damage To So Many
Would it be immoral for Americans to leave Iraq, or to allow it to dissolve? Some have said so. But as to the question of morality, I don’t even understand the question. The Kurds resent the Arabs for good reason. Why should they not try to make a move for independence, and if by helping […]
U.S. reports capture of 4 jihadists with ties to Iran in Sadr City
An update on this story. “U.S. says has nabbed four “terrorists” in Iraq with Iranian EFPs,” from Iran Focus: London, Apr. 28 — The United States military announced on Friday that it had arrested four “suspected terrorists” with links to Iran during an operation in the Baghdad slum Sadr City. In a statement, the Multi-National […]
Turkish government official: “Missionaries are more dangerous than terror organizations”
Meanwhile, we in the West face groups engaging in da’wah that are actually connected with “terror organizations.” “Turkey – Four street evangelists jailed,” from Compass Direct: ISTANBUL, April 27 (Compass Direct News) — Police jailed four Christian street evangelists in Istanbul for “missionary activity” this week, even as government officials openly defended the right of […]
Fitzgerald: The destruction of the artifacts
Some 35,000 petroglyphs located in Pakistan’s Indus River area will soon be flooded by a giant dam. An archeologist from Heidelberg is trying to save as much as he can before encroaching modernity destroys the remote area’s cultural history.” — from this article The destruction of pre-Islamic and non-Islamic artifacts, which took place everywhere that […]
Is there a Global War On Terror?
Yes: Richardson, Dodd, Obama, Clinton. No: Edwards, Biden, Kucinich, Gravel Yes, it’s a silly and inadequate phrase — a war on a tactic rather than on an opponent. But those whose hands are not raised are not calling for a correct understanding of the war as a defensive action against the global jihad. Rather, they […]
A presidential candidate actually utters the words “global jihad”
I did think I sensed a disturbance in The Force. “Romney: Democratic debate lacked focus on Iran, global jihad,” by Daniel Lovering for the Associated Press, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: PITTSBURGH –Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday he wished his Democratic counterparts had focused on Iran and the threat of global jihad […]
Kansas City Airport adds foot basins for Muslim cabbies
This is a generous courtesy, but will the demands stop with this? Unfortunately, they will not. This just will encourage the cab drivers to behave in accord with Sharia — as the Minneapolis cabbies have already begun doing with their refusal to transport people carrying alcohol. “Airport adds foot basins for Muslim cabbies: Police worry […]
Dhimmi Swiss to host Haniyeh
Would they have hosted Hitler? Will they ask him about the calls for genocide that have gone out on PA TV? “Report: Haniyeh to visit Switzerland in first official state visit,” from Haaretz, with thanks to the American Israeli Patriot: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will visit Switzerland in May in what will be his […]
“We”re thinking suicide bombs, kidnappings and attacks on government hotels. Stuff like that”
Somali Jihad and Stuff Update. “Somali Capital Now Calm After Month in Which 1,000 Were Killed,” by Jeffrey Gettleman in the New York Times, with thanks to Arjun: NAIROBI, Kenya, April 27 “” An eerie calm slipped over Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, on Friday for the first time in a month. After intense combat that killed […]
Open Letter to UN officials on PA’s “direct and public incitement to commit genocide”
An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour from the World Union for Progressive Judaism and the Association for World Education, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Monday, 23 April 2007 (10:00a.m.). On PA”s ongoing “direct and public incitement to commit genocide” (1948 Genocide Convention: Article IIIc) […]
Ahmadinejad: Enemies ‘plotting’ against new dress code
Sharia Alert, and more on this story: 150,000 detained so far. “Iran: Enemies ‘plotting’ against new dress code says Ahmadinejad,” from Adnkronos International: Rome, 27 April (AKI) – One week after police started enforcing strict new Islamic dress code rules, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that his opponents were manipulating the moralization campaign so […]
Top Al Qaeda operative taken into US custody
A significant catch, though the general unwillingness in the West to engage in discussion about the Islamic teachings that underlie the jihad waged by al-Qaeda, other groups, and individuals only helps ensure there will be someone to take al-Iraqi’s place in the organization. But hopefully, his capture will yield actionable intelligence, including any documents and […]
Taliban seize, then abandon district
“Afghan forces recapture district,” by Amir Shah for the Associated Press: KABUL, Afghanistan – Hundreds of Afghan soldiers and police retook a district outside the capital from the Taliban on Friday, pushing out militants who had seized the area in fierce fighting a day earlier, a senior Afghan official said. Marajudin Pathan, the governor of […]
172 jihadists planning attack on oil fields arrested in Saudi Arabia
“172 Militants Planning Attack on Oil Fields Arrested in Saudi Arabia,” from Fox News (thanks to Infidel Pride): RIYADH, Saudi Arabia “” Saudi police arrested 172 Islamic militants who were on the verge of carrying out a series of terror attacks on oil facilities, military zones and public figures, the Interior Ministry said Friday. A […]