Sounds a lot like university students stateside. “Afghanistan: Secret Taleban cells spread lessons of jihad in Kabul University,” by Jeremy Page for the Times, May 27 (thanks to all who sent this in): To his professors and peers at Kabul University, Abdul is the epitome of a model student. The 21-year-old law undergraduate takes copious […]
Archives for May 2008
Fitzgerald: Some key propositions about the war in Iraq
Let me list some of them: 1. The correct definition of “victory” in Iraq should be an outcome that weakens Islam — the Camp of Islam and Jihad — not only in Iraq but elsewhere. There is no other justification for spending two trillion dollars, and enduring 4,300 deaths and tens of thousands of wounded. […]
Arizona: Muslim engineer guilty of illegally accessing nuclear plant computer
I’m sure he only wanted the nuclear information in order to generate electricity. “Iranian engineer guilty in Arizona nuclear plant software case,” from The Associated Press, May 27 (thanks to Sr. Soph): PHOENIX: An Iranian engineer has been convicted of illegally accessing a protected computer to use software he obtained at a former job at […]
Taliban leader: Mistah bin Laden, he dead
The horror, the horror? Nah Is Osama bin Laden dead? Yet? Still? More importantly, does it really matter? It does not. The jihad, as Joe Biden and almost everyone else doesn’t realize, is not a movement organized around a charismatic figure. It is an ideologically driven movement, and that movement will not die with Osama. […]
Iran promises Hamas more weapons, money
Buds In case Hamas can’t seize enough American-made weapons from Fatah, they can always fall back on Iran. The pretext here is the Israel-Syria talks, which makes this even more of a cruel joke, since — as always — the only ones who will be called upon to make any significant concessions will be Israel. […]
Teenage wasteland: Al-Qaeda starts teenage terror cell in Iraq
Rebels with a cause Al-Qaeda forms a youth group, but campfires and archery are not quite what they have in mind. “Iraq: Al-Qaeda creates teenage terror cell, says report,” from AKI, May 27 : Baghdad, 27 May (AKI) – A new al-Qaeda cell has been created for Iraqis under 16 years old, according to a […]
Winning in Iraq for Allah: Alcohol banned in Basra
As the last paragraph shows, this is a reaction to the recent return of alcohol to Basra. A What-Are-We-Fighting-For Sharia Alert from Iraq: “Iraq: Alcohol banned in southern city of Basra,” from AKI, May 22 (thanks to Stlreader): Baghdad, 22 May (AKI) – Alcohol has been banned in the southern Iraqi province of Basra. The […]
UK: Cops tell motorist to remove “racist” England flag from his car
To avoid offending Poles? Come on. It is clear which immigrant group, and the only immigrant group, that this hyper-PC police officer had in mind. “Motorist told flag could be racist,” by Charley Morgan for This Is Wiltshire, May 23 (thanks to The Omega Man): A TEENAGE motorist was told to remove an England flag […]
Iran fights “whores” who “want to destabilise the Islamic Republic”
A noble aspiration for “whores,” or anyone. “Iran: Cleric ‘calls all feminists whores and foreign spies,’” from AKI, May 27 (thanks to all who sent this in): Tehran, 27 May (AKI) – A top Iranian cleric from the northeast, Ayatollah Ahmad Elmalhoda, has reportedly called feminists “whores and foreign spies”. “These whores, clutching a piece […]
Amsterdam police get cheap deals for Qur’an
I am all for non-Muslim officials reading the Qur’an in order to gain more insight into Islam, but I doubt that any genuine insight that they get from reading it will be encouraged by Amsterdam police authorities. Also, I get the impression that this new translation is a whitewash. If any Dutch readers have any […]
Stop the Presses: UN says Iran ignoring its demands to suspend nuke work
As a great philosopher once told me, “Well, duh.” “Iran: Tehran pursuing its nuclear programme, says UN,” from AKI, May 27 (thanks to Twostellas): Tehran, 27 May (AKI) – Iran is ignoring United Nations’ demands that it suspend its uranium enrichment programme, according to the organisation’s nuclear watchdog. “Contrary to the decisions of the (UN) […]
One of the oddest reviews ever
Jihad Watch reader Vince has alerted me to a review of my book The Truth About Muhammad by the respected blogger Gay Patriot. Vince has been kind enough to post my response there, but this review by “Average Gay Joe” was so curiously far from what the book actually says that I thought I’d post […]
“Pray, pray, Allah is great. America is destroyed by a fatal jihadist nuclear strike”
Is it a coded message? An attempt to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60)? Or something more? “Terrorism: New al-Qaeda video calls for nuclear strike,” by Hamza Boccolini for AKI, May 27 (thanks to Sr. Soph): Dubai, 27 May (AKI ) — A new video called “Nuclear Terrorism” has […]
Fitzgerald: Defeating the Jihad by Dividing the Jihadists
The way to divide the Camp of Islam and Jihad is to first identify those pre-existing fissures, large and small, that exist, and to figure out what should, or should not be done, to widen them. I have written many times about what I think are the three main divisions or fissures: 1) The sectarian […]
Fitzgerald: Clarifying my positions
A poster here at Jihad Watch recently made a series of statements in attempted rebuttal of my position, long available here, at the “Articles by Hugh Fitzgerald” link, from early 2004 — a position from which I have not wavered, and which the news that arrives with each passing day convinces me, ever more deeply, […]
Spencer: CAIR’s Continuing Mystery
In Human Events today I discuss the strange circumstances surrounding the departure of Ahmed Bedier from CAIR, and what it all may and may not mean. Joe Kaufman has a better piece on the same issue today at FrontPage, but meanwhile here is mine (links in the original): Some mysterious dealings at the Tampa chapter […]
Churchill predicts “Islamophobia”
“In a very few years, perhaps in a very few months, we shall be confronted with demands with which we shall no doubt be invited to comply. Those demands may affect the surrender of territory or the surrender of liberty. I foresee and foretell that the policy of submission will carry with it restrictions upon […]
Al-Qaeda tells jihadists: Don’t attack Yemeni police; they’re not “tools in the hands of the crusaders”
No kidding. “Al-Qaeda urges attacks on US interests in Yemen,” from Deutsche Presse Agentur, May 26: Sanaa (Yemen), May 26 (DPA) The Al Qaeda terrorist network asked Monday its supporters in Yemen to limit their attacks to “effective” operations against US and foreign interests in the Arab country. In a statement posted on the Islamic […]
Is the price too high?
Last March, scarcely a day after Geert Wilders’s film Fitna was released on LiveLeak, LiveLeak pulled it, explaining: Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been […]
Row in Church of England over call to proselytize Muslims
Why is this controversial? Christianity, like Islam, is a missionary faith. Muslims, as Mohammed Rasheed/Nicky Reilly newly reminds us, are energetically proselytizing among Christians. But no, say the dhimmi bishops, it is not a two-way street. If no coercion is involved, why should anyone object to proselytizing appeals? Close the front door if you don’t […]