Archives for November 2007

Sharia Alert from the Caucasus: “Chechen leader: Head scarves for women,” by Musa Sadulayev for Associated Press (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair): GROZNY, Russia (AP) — The president of Chechnya has called for all women to cover their heads with scarves, the latest in a series of his unofficial orders toughening social customs for women in […]

Motivated by a desire to “promote terrorism.” “11 years for refusing to testify to grand jury in Hamas funding case,” from The Associated Press (thanks to all who sent this in): CHICAGO: A former professor accused of taking part in a Palestinian terrorist network was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Wednesday for […]

Naive Kids Update: Ahmed Mohamed promotes an alternative to jihad/martyrdom bombings. Instead of killing yourself in the process of taking out a crowd of infidels, you see, you use a remote-controlled device to kill the infidels only. What a concept! “‘Martyrdom’ Detonator Video Details Revealed In Case,” by Elaine Silvestrini for The Tampa Tribune (thanks […]

She hurt their feelings The Muslims are blaming the Communists, but the Reds deny the charge, and after all, we have seen rioting before after someone “hurt Muslim sentiments.” “Army deployed after Calcutta riot,” from the BBC (thanks to Visvas): Troops have been deployed in the Indian city of Calcutta after protests over a controversial […]

Score one for the forces of intimidation and terror-enabling. “Bias suit against US Airways upheld,” by Audrey Hudson in the Washington Times: A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by a group of imams against US Airways and a Minneapolis airport can proceed. U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery said in a 41-page opinion […]

Jed Babbin, the editor of Human Events, for which I write a weekly column, contacted me yesterday evening to tell me he had received a call from a Washington Post reporter, Perry Bacon, asking him about a column I wrote eight months ago entitled “Our First Muslim President?” — about, of course, Barack Obama. Apparently […]

Now, everyone knows CAIR is a neutral civil rights organization that is scrupulous about telling the truth. Never mind that CAIR’s spokesman Ibrahim Hooper has defamed me on national television, or that the organization’s website even featured a link, for a time, to a tissue of lies about me and Jihad Watch penned by a […]

Looks as if it is. And it is, of course, because of the government’s politically correct eagerness to hire Muslims, to show that the war on terror is not anti-Islam or anti-Muslim. And because no one in the government is studying the jihadist ideology, no one has the faintest idea how to screen applicants for […]

How could they not defend it? They’re just applying Islamic law. “Saudi defends verdict against gang-rape victim,” from Reuters (thanks to John): RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia defended on Tuesday a court’s decision to sentence a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes of the whip, after the United States described the verdict as “astonishing”. […]

As the human rights lawyers descend upon Manitoba to take up Hagar Outbih’s case, Kathy Shaidle puts the whole thing in perspective: Stories like this one make the news more frequently these days. I don’t get it. Muslim reps always say, “No one is making me wear a headscarf. It is an expression of modesty”, […]

“As order slides, Palestinian women face honor killings,” by Ilene R. Prusher for the Christian Science Monitor: QALQILYA, WEST BANK – All the women in the family say Wafa Wahdan was wonderful. But her sisters-in-law add that they noticed a few little things. She had changed the way she dressed in the past year to […]

There is no doubt whatsoever that he is right about the double standard. By Mike Collett-White for Reuters (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair): LONDON (Reuters) – A Christian activist sought on Tuesday to use blasphemy laws to prosecute a top BBC executive over the broadcaster’s decision to screen “Jerry Springer-The Opera,” a musical many Christians found […]

“New Islamist Video Threatens Germany, Austria,” from Deutsche Welle: German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has said his government is taking seriously a new threat contained in an Islamist video demanding that Germany and Austria pull their troops out of Afghanistan. In the video received by the Austrian broadcasting corporation ORF on Tuesday, Nov. 20, a […]

“Graft thwarts effort to win over jihadists,” by Mark Forbes for the Sydney Morning Herald: Official efforts to seduce jailed Indonesian terrorists with money and privileges are being undermined by corruption and rival efforts from new Islamic gangs. In this battle for hearts and minds, controversial “deradicalisation” tactics behind prison walls – including senior police […]

Barry Rubin in the Jerusalem Post articulates a widespread malady among the Western intelligentsia: The idea that poverty, relative backwardness, violence and instability must be caused by external circumstances is ingrained in much of the Western intelligentsia. It contributes to a tendency to apologize for those regimes and radical groups that are the main cause […]

CAIR seems to be following a risky course here. Conyers himself may be pliant, but if there are hearings, some information may come out that CAIR doesn’t want to see coming out. “CAIR seeks removal of label in terrorism case,” by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times (thanks to all who sent this in): The […]

What would you do if the FBI mistakenly took you for a terror suspect? If Jerry Wynn were a Muslim, this case would be splashed on front pages everywhere, and the ACLU and CAIR would be all over it. As it is, he is alone. Annie Jacobsen reports.

Jihadist schadenfreude Google quickly pulled the video of my talk at Dartmouth, although it did not meet any of their criteria for deletion of offensive material; meanwhile, this racist and genocidal (watch it to the very end) video was posted five months ago and seems to be just fine with them. And now Youssef al-Khattab, […]

James “Yusuf” Yee, a Muslim chaplain in the U.S. military, was the focus of a Keystone Kops investigation a few years ago, when he was accused of carrying classified documents out of Guantanamo, and then prosecutors weren’t sure they were classified, and finally they dropped the whole thing. Yee then began touring around complaining of […]

Misunderstanders of Islam can even be imams, and they’re rather thick on the ground these days. Memo to Ibrahim Hooper and Salam Al-Marayati: the peacefulness of your religion, which you so loudly insist upon in the West, seems to be awfully hard for some of your coreligionists to grasp. What say you call for the […]