These are the people to whom Hamid Karzai is extending a hand of reconciliation. “Taliban unveils hardline Afghan constitution,” by Isambard Wilkinson and Ashraf Ali in the Telegraph (thanks to all who sent this in): The Taliban has published a shadow Afghan constitution outlining an alternative hardline government to that of President Hamid Karzai. The […]
Archives for September 2007
Afghan president offers Taliban a place in government for peace deal
Surrender. From The Associated Press (thanks to all who sent this in): KABUL, Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai offered Saturday to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar for peace talks and give the militants a high position in a government ministry as a way to end the rising insurgency in Afghanistan. Reiterating a call for […]
Fitzgerald: The head of Norway’s security service: “a bit stupid,” yes, but not as regards “diversity”
“We are unexperienced and a bit stupid as regards diversity and a multicultural population, says head of Security Service Jørn Holme to nrknyheter.no.” “We confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is after all a very particular form of Islam. I believe many Norwegians mix it up completely.” — from this news article A “bit stupid as […]
US Army recovers bodies of tortured, murdered Sunni couple in Baghdad
But remember: it is not the perpetrators, but we who report on this sort of thing who are the “haters.” “US army recovers bodies of murdered Sunni couple in Baghdad”s Adhamiyah,” from the Kuwait News Agency (thanks to Twostellas): BAGHDAD, Sept 28 (KUNA) — The bodies of a murdered Sunni Iraqi police lieutenant and his […]
Fitzgerald: Seven Questions for Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia
1. At independence, Malaysia (or, as it was then known, Malaya) did not have a Muslim majority. There has been a steady rise in the percentage of Muslims, compared to the indigenous tribes, the Hindus, and the Chinese. What explains this demographic shift? 2. Singapore broke off from Malaysia and established a separate state. What […]
New York City cabbies lose court battle over “anti-Muslim” GPS
What does this have to do with jihad? Here’s what, from “Taxi ‘Fear’ Hike,” by Jeremy Olshan for in the New York Post, September 4: September 4, 2007 — Fear and paranoia are driving the taxi strike planned for tomorrow and Thursday, industry sources said yesterday. The global-positioning systems being installed in all 13,000 cabs […]
Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Myths
Alan Dershowitz in FrontPage: In his speeches, most especially the one at Columbia University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeats two myths about the Holocaust. The first every reasonable person knows is a total lie: namely that the Holocaust did not occur. The second myth, however, is one that escapes critical attention for the most part, because many […]
FBI reaching out to jihadist-linked group
More suicidal politically correct short-sightedness. By Bill Gertz in the Washington Times (thanks to all who sent this in): The FBI is cooperating with a U.S. Muslim group recently linked to global extremists and is asking the group to provide “cultural training” for its special agents, according to a Senate Judiciary Committee report. The FBI’s […]
Algeria: Jihadists kill 6 security force officers
“War is deceit“: “Three local guards were killed Thursday after attackers set up a false roadblock in Tadmait…” “6 Algerian security force officers killed in attacks by Islamic militants,” from The Associated Press (thanks to Twostellas): ALGIERS, Algeria: Six members of Algeria’s security forces were killed in violence by a militant group that claims to […]
Will the 12th Imam cause war with Iran?
Con Coughlin discusses the Thug-In-Chief’s apocalyptic beliefs in the Telegraph (thanks to all who sent this in): Not since the prime minister of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada presented an address claiming that UFOs posed a mortal threat to the future of mankind has the United Nations been treated to such a bizarre spectacle. […]