Steven R. Watts is “a global management consultant and a Research Fellow and Intercultural Studies Ph.D. candidate at Fuller Theological Seminary.” He is “currently creating risk mitigation strategies for multicultural corporations operating in developing countries. These strategies focus on non-traditional, innovative approaches to sustainable economic development, eradication of poverty and reduction of risk to business […]
Archives for September 2007
German jihad plot suspect on the run in Britain
How he got in, and whatever failure of communication between German and British officials that made this possible should be urgently investigated and corrected. “Germany Terror Plot Suspect On Run in Britain,” from The Times of London: A key suspect in the alleged plot to mount an attack in Germany on the scale of 9/11 […]
McCain: US founded on Christian principles, shouldn’t have Muslim president
This nation was indeed founded on principles that are derived from the Judeo-Christian tradition. The Daily News, predictably, is treating McCain’s remarks as if he were saying that this is a Christian country in some kind of sectarian or exclusionary sense. I hold no brief for McCain, but I doubt that’s what he meant. He […]
Fitzgerald: Every government official, every FBI agent, every DHS bureaucrat should have Raymond Ibrahim’s book
It soon became clear why these particular documents had not been directed to the West. They were theological treatises, revolving around what Islam commands Muslims to do vis-Ã -vis non-Muslims. The documents rarely made mention of all those things “” Zionism, Bush’s “Crusade,” malnourished Iraqi children “” that formed the core of Al Qaeda’s messages to […]
Fitzgerald: Esposito, Georgetown, and the DHS
Possibly the scandal of Esposito can be brought to the attention of the Vatican. Possibly the Vatican can persuade the administration at Georgetown to sever all ties with the “Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.” Esposito would still have his Saudi money and his lecture fees. He would still be lean, mean, jogging […]
Fatah: You’re gay. Hamas: No, you’re gay
Tawdry Accusations Jihad. “Fatah-Hamas mired in tawdry accusations,” by Khaled Abu Toameh for the Jerusalem Post (thanks to Davida): The Hamas-Fatah power struggle has descended into the gutter over the past few days, with both parties trading allegations about the involvement of their members in homosexual relations and adultery. The alleged “sex scandals” are said […]
Detroit: Anti-Jewish, anti-Christian fliers found on cars
The flier said: “Kill Jews and Christians if they don’t believe in Allah and Mohammad.” Those nutty Methodists, at it again. “Anti-Jewish, anti-Christian fliers found on cars,” by Gordon Wilczynski for the Macomb Daily (thanks to MG): Police said anti-Jewish and anti-Christian fliers were found on cars parked in a lot on the northwest corner […]
Politicians on online hit list
No mention here of who made the list or who is on it, but since it is coupled with the threats to Austria and Germany, it seems clearly jihad related. “List of politicians as possible attack targets surfaces in Austria,” from AP (thanks to Joel): Austrian authorities have found a list of politicians circulated online […]
Unindicted co-conspirators honor useful idiots
ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case. “Islamic Group Honors Religious Left,” by Mark D. Tooley for the Christian Post (thanks to DFS): At its recent convention in Chicago, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) honored the National Council of Churches” top interfaith official with its “Interfaith Unity […]
Egypt: Christians suffer from contradictions in legal system, elements of Sharia
Sharia is making life difficult for Christians in the Egyptian secular state. “In Egypt, Religious Freedom or Shariah? Catholics Struggle With Conflicts in Law,” from Zenit (thanks to DFS): CAIRO, Egypt, SEPT. 27, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church says that the contradiction in the legal system embodied in the Egyptian Constitution […]
Has Islamic terrorism arrived on Maldives?
By Philip Sherwell and Ben Leapman in the Telegraph: Fears have been growing in the Maldives that Islamic radicals would bring violence to the Muslim island state. There were concerns that yesterday’s bombers had deliberately targeted foreign tourists — as Islamic terrorists did on the holiday island of Bali in 2002. Despite its reputation as […]
Muzzling in the Name of Islam
Latest from the Washington [bleep]. Here is a good example of the not-completely-wrong sort of writing that does so much to cloud the issue over Islam’s fundamentally hostile and intolerant nature. Here Paul Marshall appears critical of practices in Islamic countries such as repressing speech on the grounds of blasphemy. OK. But the article gives […]
Misunderstanders of Islam kill police captain in Thailand
Ah, if only the West understood Islam better, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen. “Police captain killed in southern ambush,” from the Bangkok Post (thanks to all who sent this in): (BangkokPost.com) – A police captain was killed in Yala province by a group of insurgents on Saturday morning. Pol Cap Toranit Srisuk, 28, was […]
Fitzgerald: Frederick Kagan’s severe mental confusion
Here is an excerpt from Fred Kagan’s recent My Weekly Standard article: The takfiris insist that anyone who obeys a human government is a polytheist and therefore violates the first premise of Islam, the shahada (the assertion that “There is no god but God”), even though Muslims have lived in states with temporal rulers for […]
Misunderstander of Islam kills 30 on Kabul bus
Karzai says this attack was “against humanity, definitely against Islam.” It’s funny how so many Muslims have gotten the opposite impression. Why aren’t there demonstrations against these misunderstanders? Schools teaching against them? “Kabul bus bomber kills 30 troops,” by Bronwen Roberts for AP (thanks to all who sent this in): KABUL (AFP) – A suicide […]
Fitzgerald: How politicians can avoid missteps
RICHMOND, Va. – A member of the state’s Commission of Immigration resigned Thursday, a few hours after Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was told about online videos showing the appointee condemning Israel and advocating “the jihad way.” Kaine learned of the videos from a caller to his live monthly radio program and accepted the resignation of […]
Iran’s Parliament Signs Resolution to Label CIA, Army as ‘Terrorist Organizations’
An update on this story, from the Associated Press: TEHRAN, Iran “” Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution to label the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations.” The move is seen as diplomatic a tit-for-tat after the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s […]
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad Sharia world: Saudi wife divorced for watching male TV host
Sharia Alert from the country of the Two Holy Places: “Wife divorced for watching male TV host,” from the Times of India (thanks to Hot Air): RIYADH: A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday. […]
Dhimmitude and its compensations: Jihadists invite Rosie O’Donnell to Mideast
She would probably accept this invitation sooner than she would accept one from, say, Pat Robertson. “Oh, Rosie! Terrorists invite her to Mideast,” from WorldNetDaily (thanks to Tammy Bruce): Muslim jihadist leaders interviewed for a new book were ecstatic about statements from television talk host Rosie O’Donnell about the war in Iraq and the global […]
New sitcom: Muslims pious and polite, non-Muslims bigoted and stupid
Predictable. “The sitcom ‘Aliens in America’ plays anti-Muslim hostility for laughs,” by Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn for The Associated Press (thanks to Twostellas): A group of Muslim worshippers were gathered for evening prayer inside the Islamic Center of Southern California when Moses Port and David Guarascio arrived. “The fact that we’re here is bigger than anything […]