An update on the Korean Christian hostage crisis. From Reuters (thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Marisol Seibold): KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — Taliban kidnappers shot dead a male South Korean hostage on Monday, a spokesman said, accusing the Afghan government of not listening to rebel demands. Protestors participate in an anti-war rally calling for the […]
Archives for July 2007
Sudan sought Al-Qaeda’s help to fight Darfur peacekeepers
This is a race issue, or a class issue, says the mainstream media. Nothing to do with jihad. Yet when the Sudanese government needed help, they called…Al-Qaeda. By Wasil Ali for the Sudan Tribune : July 29, 2007 (KHARTOUM) “” The Sudanese government decided to lift restrictions on Al-Qaeda members in the country in return […]
Let’s launch a ‘cultural offensive’ against militant Islam, Brown tells Bush
This sounds great until one realizes that both Brown and Bush are in total denial about the deep roots of jihad and Islamic supremacism within Islamic theology and tradition. Can we really fight the war of ideas effectively while ignoring and denying the true nature of the conflict itself? And then when you see what […]
Olmert implementing Palestinian “Return”
Another goodwill gesture. A deadly precedent. One step closer to the abyss. “Israel to grant West Bank entry to Iraqi Palestinians,” by Akiva Eldar for Haaretz: Israel has recently agreed to allow a group of 41 Iraqi refugees of Palestinian origin to enter the West Bank and reunite with relatives there, as a gesture of […]
Karzai calls abductions un-Islamic
“When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money or for a Muslim captive held by the enemy.” — ‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.14 Of course, that refers to combatants, […]
Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 3, “The Family of Imran,” verses 33-63
Jesus was Moses’ nephew? Hey, it’s in the Qur’an. According to Muhammad’s first biographer, Ibn Ishaq, the first eighty verses of Sura 3 were revealed after a delegation of Christians came from the Yemeni city of Najran. One of the leaders of this delegation was a bishop, Abu Haritha ibn Alqama, who received money, servants, […]
Sudan’s defense minister: Jews behind Darfur conflict
Of course, this isn’t the first time Sudan has blamed Jews for Darfur. “Sudan: Jews behind Darfur conflict,” by Yaakov Lappin for YNet News: Sudan’s defense minister, Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has accused “24 Jewish organizations” of “fueling the conflict in Darfur” last week in an interview with a Saudi newspaper. Hussein was interviewed during […]
Freed Guantanamo inmates return to jihad
Why should this surprise anyone? No effort was made at Gitmo to disabuse them of jihadist sympathies. “Freed Guantanamo inmates take up arms,” from The Age (thanks to all who sent this in): AT LEAST 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release. […]
Pace University Qur’an desecrator facing two felony charges
Outrageous. Beyond outrageous. A book is placed in a toilet, which is a plumbing issue more than anything else and a vandalism issue at best, and a man is charged with two felonies. LGF has the details, via an email from the defendant.
Fitzgerald: See Dick Nod, Nouri, or, Color Me Kubrick
As Bush videoconferences with his new best friend Nouri Al-Maliki, new echoes of Dr. Strangelove: Hello?… Nouri? Ah… I can’t hear too well. But the picture’s great. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?… Oh-ho, that’s much better… yeah… huh… yes… Fine, I can hear you now, Nouri… plain and […]
Fitzgerald: What is wrong with press coverage of Islam
Such pictures as this one in Newsweek are akin to the performances of the Muslim women, usually Pakistanis, who come to elementary schools to “talk about Islam.” They bring pretty postcards of mosques and a prayer rug that can be turned Meccawards, and are eager to share information about “family-centered” Islam. Everything concentrates on the […]
Islamic cleric to “wage jihad” if US attacks Waziristan
Maulana Mohammad Yaseem Naumani threatens to wage an interior spiritual struggle against the Americans, saying that the U.S. has “ruined” Iraq in the name of American interests — an ironic charge in light of all the American efforts to stave off Iraq’s ruin. “Cleric to ‘wage jihad’ if US attacks Waziristan,” by Wajid Ali Wajid […]
Abbas’ Al-Aqsa terror group vows to fight on
Israel keeps on supplying them weapons. Israel continues to talk about withdrawal. Israel offers amnesty to Fatah terrorists. Israel released 250 prisoners, and is considering releasing 600 more. The Fatah response to Olmert’s “goodwill gesture program”? Fight on. “‘The resistance is our choice,’ says Gazan Al Aqsa Brigades leader,” from Ma’an News Agency: Gaza – […]
Bosnian Muslims mark 600 years of Islam in Bosnia
From AP via The Star Online: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Muslims celebrate 600 years of Islam in their nation Saturday with a concert of spiritual music, a prayer for peace, and a gentle reminder to Europe: not all of the continent’s Muslims are of immigrant origin. “Recently we have noticed that Europe is obsessed by […]
Iran’s Khamenei says U.S. and Israel are main foes
Shock horror! Who would have thought it? 1938 Alert from Reuters (thanks to Mackie): TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday the United States and Israel were his country’s main enemies, just days after U.S.-Iranian talks about Iraq’s security. Iran and the United States cut diplomatic ties shortly after Iran’s […]
Fitzgerald: The new survey of Muslim attitudes means nothing
More Muslims reject extremism, survey finds: Support for bombings fell in seven of eight Muslim countries surveyed — the headline to this story This survey means nothing, except insofar as it has the ability to mislead and console the unwary. Why? Suicide bombings are now taking place not against the Americans — who mostly suffer […]
Fitzgerald: Appeal to Muslim self-interest
The seizures at airports in San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston and Baltimore included “wires, switches, pipes or tubes, cell phone components and dense clay-like substances,” including block cheese, the bulletin said. “The unusual nature and increase in number of these improvised items raise concern.” — from this article Much more information should be given out about […]
Fitzgerald: Demography is destiny
Rahul Gupta notes that “the Hindu-Minority population [in Bangladesh] kept on dwindling and now stands at a meager 10.5% of the total population in Bangladesh (1991 census).” By now the total number of non-Muslims is 8% (and that includes Christians and some Buddhists). That must mean that the total number of Hindus in what was […]
Fitzgerald: “Anti-jihad” initiative offers no hope for Infidels
In a prison cell south of Cairo a repentant Egyptian terrorist leader is putting the finishing touches to a remarkable recantation that undermines the Muslim theological basis for violent jihad and is set to generate furious controversy among former comrades still fighting with al-Qaida. [“¦] Their authors are neither secular nor liberal: their self-criticism includes […]
Fitzgerald: “Fanaticism plus Machiavellianism plus brutality equals Islamic Pakistan”
I recently picked up at a book sale a copy of “The Miscellany,” edited by P. Lal, and published in Calcutta. Issue #51 (June 1972), was one of three devoted to the then recently-deceased, at age 41, David McCutchion. An Englishman, David McCutchion was a lover of India, but not of the william-dalrympish sort, that […]