Keeping hate alive. “4,000 women rally against anti-Islam film,” from Agence France Presse (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): KARACHI: Thousands of women rallied here Saturday to protest against reprinting of blasphemous cartoons in some 17 Danish newspapers and an anti-Islam Dutch film, witnesses said. The women shouted “death to Denmark and death to Netherlands,” as […]
Archives for April 2008
Bank of Israel website hacked: “Listen to me Jews – you are a nation whose fate has been decreed and sooner or later you will lose the war”
The hacker spoke about “Jews” and “Muslims,” and said that Jerusalem (Al-Quds) belonged to the Muslims. Now why would he frame as a religious conflict something that everyone knows is a nationalist struggle over land? “‘Muslims’ hack into Bank of Israel site,” from the Jerusalem Post (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): The Bank of Israel […]
Honor killing in Iraq: Father murders 17-year-old girl for loving British soldier
“You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws. The father has very good contacts inside the Basra government and it wasn’t hard for him to be released and what he did to be forgotten.” “Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier,” by Sadie Gray in The Independent […]
Joint Chiefs chairman says Iranian aid to Basra jihadists “very, very visible in ways that we hadn’t seen before”
“A U.S. official told The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity that weapons captured in Basra were Iranian-made and had ‘recent manufacturing dates’ on them.” 1938 Alert. “Iranian arms aid ‘visible’ in Basra,” by Sara A. Carter for The Washington Times: The top U.S. military officer yesterday said Iranian aid to Iraqi insurgents became […]
Why did Hamas offer a 10-year truce?
The other night on his CNN TV show Glenn Beck had this exchange with the novelist Joel Rosenberg about the Hamas offer of a ten-year truce: BECK: Nowhere. All right. Yesterday we talked a little bit about Jimmy Carter and, you know, his fun games with Hamas. And we ran out of time. And I […]
Pakistani Senate condemns Motoons, Fitna, urges UN to take “all necessary legal, political and administrative steps to curb this trend”
Free Speech Death Watch Update: “Senate condemns blasphemous cartoons, anti-Islam film,” by Iftikhar A. Khan for Dawn (thanks to Twostellas): ISLAMABAD, April 25: The Senate on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the publication of blasphemous cartoons in some European countries and the release of an anti-Islam documentary by a Dutch parliamentarian. It urged the […]
Fjordman: Socratic Dialogue vs. Islamic Dialogue
The European essayist Fjordman, whose work we have featured many times here, contributes this new Jihad Watch exclusive essay exploring more of the differences between Western and Islamic culture: First of all I’d like to encourage people to republish the essay The Funny Side of Islam: Muhammad and the Hadith, which I have published at […]
New Jersey Imam is member of Hamas
What has he been preaching to those among whom he is “popular”? What effect has that preaching had on those people? What are they doing? Does anyone know? Does anyone care? “Muslim cleric fighting deportation linked to terror group,” from AP (thanks to Marked Manner): NEWARK (AP) — When he faces an immigration judge in […]
Fitzgerald: Questions Jimmy Carter was not asked
Jimmy Carter has exhibited, and did exhibit at Camp David, an antipathy to Israel, a cruel indifference to the past that every Jewish Israeli carries around within him. These were dead giveaways of the classic antisemite. Yet some are now horrified by his meeting with Hamas, as if all this were something new. Carter has […]
Fitzgerald: Criminality or jihad?
“I think this is just criminality, fair and square. We should just call them criminals. You want to call them terrorist criminals, fine,” he said. “But adding the word ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islamic’ certainly doesn’t help our cause as Americans. It’s counterproductive. It paints an entire community of believers, 1.2 billion in total, in a very […]
Fitzgerald: Qur’anic science
“A prominent cleric, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, said modern science had at last provided evidence that Mecca was the true centre of the Earth; proof, he said, of the greatness of the Muslim “qibla” – the Arabic word for the direction Muslims turn to when they pray….The meeting in Qatar is part of a popular trend […]
Fitzgerald: Mosques in the West
A Jihad Watch poster recently asked incredulously, “There’s a mosque in The Hague?” Yes, there is a mosque in The Hague. And all over Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, and in Paris and Marseilles and Lyons and Toulouse, in London and Manchester and Birmingham and Leeds, in Rome and in Milan, in Berlin and Hamburg and Frankfurt, […]
U.N.: Iraqi children recruited for jihad, suicide attacks
The U.N. official “called on religious, political, military and community leaders to send one clear message to Iraqi children: ‘Stay out of violence and go back to school’.” But another question comes to mind: Where are the parents, and what are they doing to encourage or hinder their children from following this path? “Iraqi children […]
Muslim Woman in Pennsylvania Admits Jealous Murder of Bigamous Husband
Myra Morton Update. From the Associated Press: NORRISTOWN, Penn. “” A Muslim woman pleaded guilty Friday to third-degree murder for killing her bigamist husband in August, hours before he was to leave for Morocco to visit his new, second wife. Myra Morton, 48, was upset about the marriage and her husband’s plans to have children […]
Man has Al-Qaeda links — Canadian visa? No problem
Dudley, we hardly knew ye How did he get a visa? Have steps been taken to ensure that this kind of thing doesn’t happen again? What do you think? “Man linked to al-Qaeda able to get Canadian visa,” from the CBC (thanks to Cindy): CALGARY (CBC) – A man suspected of having links to al-Qaeda […]
Navy-contracted vessel fires warning shots on possibly Iranian boats in Persian Gulf
1938 Alert. “Navy-Contracted Vessel Fires Warning Shots on Fast Boats in Persian Gulf,” from FOXNews : A vessel contracted by the Navy in the Persian Gulf fired warning shots Thursday on two fast boats believed to be of Iranian origin. In a story first reported by FOX News, Navy officials said the Westward Venture fired […]
Al-Sadr calls on Iraqi security forces to fight U.S. troops
Given the number that deserted in earlier clashes between Iraqi government forces and Sadr’s jihadists, there are all too likely some who will try to carry out this order. And this is Sadr trying to show his “peaceful” side. “Al-Sadr threatens ‘open war’ on ‘occupiers,’ not Iraq,” from CNN: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Shiite cleric […]
Virginia jihadist gets 15 years — again
Courtroom Jihad: he is tying up time, personnel, and resources by continuing to appeal this sentence. He got fifteen years the first time, now he has gotten fifteen years again, and probably he will get fifteen years the next time also. But the kuffar system will be that much more overburdened. “Man gets same prison […]
Remember this the next time someone says, “The Bible is violent, too”
“Wherever you see a man who gives someone else’s corruption, someone else’s prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.” — John Jay Chapman
Dinesh D’Souza embraces John Esposito
Thus far the conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza, who claims that American liberals provoked the 9/11 attacks by exporting decadent American pop culture into the Islamic world, has cited only one authority of Islam to buttress his peculiar and fact-free claims about the nature and magnitude of Islamic jihadism and Islamic supremacism: Bernard Lewis. But now […]