And other interesting observations from just before the 2003 entry into Iraq. “Saddam suggested $1bn exile,” by Jason Webb in The Scotsman (thanks to Hot Air): SADDAM Hussein was prepared to take $1 billion and go into exile before the Iraq war, George Bush, the United States president, is said to have told José WMaria […]
Archives for September 2007
“The Security Service fears that serious harm will be done to Norwegian Muslims in case of a terror attack in Norway”
Not “The Security Service fears that a jihad terror attack will do serious harm to Norwegians.” The concern is all with an imagined backlash, not with preventing it by heading off a terror attack, and calling upon Muslims in Norway to be active in anti-terror efforts. A translation by Christian of this Norwegian article, “Frykter […]
Fjordman: Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 2
Here is part two of Fjordman’s essay on Islam and the Greek heritage. Part one is here. According to scholar Lynda Shaffer, “Francis Bacon (1561-1626), an early advocate of the empirical method, upon which the scientific revolution was based, attributed Western Europe’s early modern take-off to three things in particular: printing, the compass, and gunpowder. […]
German interior minister cites detonators from Syria, Pakistani operatives in foiled jihad plot
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“Experts” ponder threat posed by Mohamed and Megahed
Mohamed and Megahed Update. This story echoes the recent case in the Netherlands in which a suspect who was ultimately convicted had earlier been acquitted because his plans were too “clumsy and primitive” to be a threat. “Experts Say Explosives In Car Trunk Were Unlikely To Harm Naval Station,” by Elaine Silvestrini for the Tampa […]
Italy: First Islamic bank in Italy to open in 2008
Eurabia Alert. From Adnkronos International: Rome, 26 Sept. (AKI) – The first Islamic bank respecting Koranic law, is slated to be inaugurated next year in Italy, the Union of Arab Banks president, Adnan Yousif, the Association of Italian Banks (ABI) president Corrado Faissola jointly announced Wednesday. The Union of Arab Banks, based in Beirut comprises […]
Cleveland: Meet the new imam, same as the old imam
The imam Fawaz Damra of Cleveland, Ohio, was a master of deception, condemning terrorism while having ties to terror groups. Now it appears that his successor, the Imam Ahmed Alzaree, is cut from the same cloth. Tom Blumer has the details, and the Investigative Project has analysis. Both Blumer and the Investigative Project note Alzaree’s […]
John Esposito to address New Jersey DHS
It’s easy to see why they would feature this Saudi-funded jihad apologist as a speaker: he tells them what they want to hear. Still more fantasy-based analysis: “NJ’S Obscene Invitation,” by Stephen M. Flatow in the New York Post (thanks to all who sent this in): September 26, 2007 — AS the father of a […]
Leader of Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Appointed to Virginia Commission on Immigration
Charles at LGF has the story, and some video of the appointee, Dr. Esam Omeish. This is the same Esam Omeish whom I have debated twice on the Laura Ingraham Show. The first time, he denied that Islamic law mandates death for apostasy. The second time, he acknowledged that he’d be happy to see Sharia […]
Iraq: Shiite female militias ‘kill Sunni Muslim women’
Sunni/Shi’ite Jihad, women’s auxiliary division. From AKI (thanks to Insubria): Baghdad, 25 Sept. (AKI) – A gang of women who are part of the Mahdi army militia, loyal to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, have killed a group of Sunni Muslim women in the al-Washshash district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. This is according […]
Elections in Al-Ontario
Here (thanks to Carolina) is the list of candidates in the Etobicoke North Ontario Provincial Election, 2007. The 3 major political parties (Conservatives, Liberals and NDP) are all running Muslim candidates. Yet Carolina informs me that Etobicoke North doesn’t have a Muslim majority. Evidently, however, they are already a powerful enough bloc to compel all […]
“It’s difficult to remove the tarnish of twisted interpretations of terrorists from what Islam means”
The Los Angeles Times tut-tuts the “ignorance” of Islam that has led Americans to think that it is different from Judaism and Christianity, and encourages violence. Now where could they have gotten crazy ideas like those? Safaa Ibrahim, executive director of the Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is “not surprised. It’s […]
UK official: rewrite British history to include Muslims
If they weren’t there, make it up. “British history ‘needs rewrite,’” by Brian Wheeler for the BBC (thanks to Stephen): British history should be rewritten to make it “more inclusive”, says Trevor Phillips, the head of the new human rights and equality commission. He said Muslims were also part of the national story and “sometimes […]
UK Muslim dentist cut fees for women in Islamic dress
Sharia Dentist Update: this is the same fellow who is charged with refusing to treat a woman unless she was wearing a headscarf. Now it comes out that he gave the hijabbed ones a discount, too. “Dentist cut fees for women in Islamic dress,” from the Manchester Evening News (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair): A MUSLIM […]
Disbarred terror-enabling lawyer Lynne Stewart to teach…legal ethics
You just can’t parody this stuff. “Terrorist Lawyer Lynne Stewart to Teach Legal Ethics,” from Federal Review (thanks to Michelle Malkin): HEMPSTEAD,NY–A disbarred lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists will be teaching at an upcoming law school ethics conference. Lynne Stewart, who was found guilty of conspiring with terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, will be speaking […]
Australian jihadist calls for revolutions, coups to impose Islamic law
“The group is banned in Europe, China and Saudi Arabia, but remains legal in Britain and Australia, actively pushing the idea of a Muslim rule.” “Islamist ‘leader’ wants revolution,” by Natalie O’Brien in The Australian (thanks to Writer Mom): THE mysterious sheik behind the Australian chapter of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has revealed the organisation’s […]
Suspect in Oregon jihad plot extradited to the U.S.
An update on Oussama Kassir, the globetrotting misunderstander of inner spiritual struggles. “Terror suspect in Oregon plot extradited,” by Pat Milton for the Associated Press: NEW YORK – A European terrorism suspect facing charges in the United States planned to set up a camp in Oregon to teach followers how to make bombs, poison people […]
Norwegians giving aid to Qur’an schools in Pakistan
118 of them. Will they welcome the graduates into Norway? “Critics blast Norwegian aid to ‘Koran schools’ in Pakistan,” from Aftenposten (thanks to Fjordman): Norway’s Foreign Ministry has been sending financial aid to controversial religious schools in Pakistan. Researchers and local Pakistani experts want it to stop, as does a conservative politician. Government Minister Erik […]
Playing pretend with Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck does some good reporting about the Islamic jihad threat, but he doggedly plays pretend, assuming repeatedly that Islam is a religion of peace, the Qur’an is a book of peace, etc. What he doesn’t realize is that this doesn’t empower Muslim moderates, as he clearly wants to do — rather, it cuts the […]
Poll: Americans More Negative on Islam
Watch for the cries of “Islamophobia,” without anyone in the mainstream media offering the shadow of a hint that the behavior of Muslims might have something to do with this, and that Muslims have the power to reverse it also, by stopping violence committed in the name of Islam. From The Associated Press (thanks to […]