How ’bout that logic, eh, Robert D. Crane? Anyway, let’s hope that poor kafir Ronald McDonald fares a little better this time. “Anti-Islam Dutch Film: Authorities asked to be alert for potential riots,” from the (Pakistan) Daily Times: ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry has directed provincial home secretaries, police chiefs and the authorities concerned in Islamabad, […]
Archives for January 2008
Jihadists take up to 300 schoolchildren hostage in Pakistan
And once granted safe passage, they took along five children and ten other residents of the town as human shields. “Islamic militants take schoolchildren hostage in Pakistan,” from Indo-Asian News Service: Islamabad, Jan 28 : A group of Islamic militants entered a high school in a town in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) Monday and […]
Yusuf al-Qaradawi to be granted visa for medical treatment in Britain
Just a few questions for al-Qaradawi: First, having previously traveled to France for medical care, why is it that you find yourself dependent on the West for advanced care? Why not Riyadh? Or Cairo, Dubai, or Islamabad? Second, having defended the execution of homosexuals, suppose while you’re getting medical care in the West, a gay […]
Malaysia: Call for end to “body snatchings” as Buddhist family challenges late father’s designation, burial as Muslim
An update on this story. “Malaysia: Buddhist Family In Malaysia Challenges Shariah Court’s Islamic Conversion Ruling,” from the Associated Press: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: An ethnic Chinese Buddhist family was appealing to a Malaysian high court Tuesday (29 Jan), seeking to overturn an Islamic court ruling that found their late father had converted from Buddhism to […]
Female Genital Mutilation: Traditional Taboos at the UN
Report by David G. Littman, Representative of the Association for World Education (AWE) and the World Union of Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) to the UN in Geneva: A recent article on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) that appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (Sara Corbett, “A Cutting Tradition“, January 20, 2008) has prompted us to […]
Something is rotten in the State of the UN Human Rights Council
Report by David G. Littman, in his capacity as representative of the World Union of Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) to the United Nations Office in Geneva: Below is the brief oral statement delivered at the Sixth Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, January 24, for the WUPJ. The speaker was […]
Big news: Indonesia’s largest Muslim group vows to combat misunderstanding of Islam!
We frequently hear from Muslim spokesmen in the West and elsewhere that today’s jihad terrorists have twisted Islam, and have misunderstood its peaceful teachings. We have on many occasions noted the fact that this alleged misunderstanding of Islam is now a worldwide phenomenon, and that misunderstanders of Islam are often Muslim clerics who have devoted […]
Al-Qaeda using children as suicide bombers
Feel the love. “Qaeda using children as suicide bombers: US,” from AFP : BAGHDAD – Al-Qaeda is using children as suicide bombers in Iraq, with at least two attacks in the past week committed by 15-year-olds, a US military commander claimed on Sunday. “We are not sure whether one of these children even knew he […]
“The people of Jordan are with Hamas”
Memo to Robert Leiken of the Nixon Center, who has recommended that the U.S. do business with the Muslim Brotherhood, which he maintains is now a moderate and mainstream (as it is called in this article) organization: read this closely. “Jordanians rally in support of Hamas in Gaza,” by Suleiman al-Khalidi for Reuters (thanks to […]
Another honor killing in Jordan
…where penalties for this sort of killing remain light — on Islamic grounds. “Teenage girl strangled in ‘honour killing,’” from Gulfnews (thanks to Sr. Soph): Jordan: A 17-year-old girl died after being strangled to death by her brother in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Jordanian town of Jerash . He was apparently angered by […]
Iran to US and Europe: If you support Israel, we’ll kill you
And seize your property. But remember: their nuke program is peaceful! “Kayhan Editor Close To Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei: ‘America and Its European Supporters Must Know… That the Price of Supporting [Israel] Will Cost Them the Property and Lives of Their Citizens… If the Heads of Some Islamic States Prevent the Muslim Peoples from Attacking […]
Don’t mess with us, warns Iran
While the Russians continue to aid and abet all this. From The Australian (thanks to Sr. Soph): IRAN Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has warned of “serious consequences” if the UN Security Council adopts fresh sanctions against Iran for its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear work. “If a resolution is passed … it will have serious […]
Turkish PM Erdogan: “We Got The Immorality From The West”
Then why join the EU, Erdogan? “PM Erdogan: ‘We Got The Immorality From The West,’” from the MEMRI Blog (thanks to all who sent this in): In his speech to Turkish graduate students going to study abroad, Erdogan made some controversial remarks that met with strong reactions in Turkey”s mainstream media. Erdogan said, “The poet […]
Spencer: Jihad Watch Offers Questions for Candidates
In Human Events this morning I offer the organizers of the next round of presidential debates a little help. With another Republican presidential slugfest scheduled for Wednesday and the Democrats swinging away again on Thursday, I thought it might be a useful public service to provide some questions for the debate — after all, the […]
Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 13, “The Thunder”
This sura dates, like suras 6, 7, 10, 11, and 12, from late in the Meccan period, the first period of Muhammad’s career as a prophet. Its name comes a phrase in v. 13, “And the thunder exalts with praise of Him.” Its main theme is summed up by v. 1, in which Allah tells […]
Misunderstanders of Islam planned attacks across Europe
An update on this story. “Extremists plotted attacks across Europe, Spanish paper says,” from CNN: MADRID, Spain (CNN) — Suspected Islamic extremists arrested last week in Barcelona were planning al Qaeda-style attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant who “infiltrated” the group, Spain’s El Pais newspaper reports. “If we attack […]
Brooklyn Imam misunderstands Islam, brags about cousin in Al-Qaeda
To impress a woman he wanted to make one of his four wives. In New York. Of course, now they’ve had a serious falling out, such that he calls her “a trashy and lustful woman, a weeping and cursed Jewish woman.” In other words, not the kind of gal you’d want to bring home to […]
Partners for peace: Fatah TV broadcasts daily call for ethnic cleansing of Jews
“My enemy, oh snake! Around the land, you are coiled. You have no choice, oh enemy, but to leave my country” — here is yet another indication that the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas believes that there is nothing it can possibly do to dim the ardor that Bush and Rice feel for it, and […]
Qaddafi’s son waging jihad in Iraq
Or so says a Sunni colonel. “Gadhafi Son May Be Linked to Iraq Attack,” by Muheiddin Rashad for Associated Press (thanks to all who sent this in): BAGHDAD (AP) – A devastating explosion in northern Iraq was spearheaded by foreign fighters under the sponsorship of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the Libyan leader, a security […]
Yemen blocks news portal, not jihadi websites
The estimable Jane Novak has the details over at the Jawa Report.