An important message from Patrick Poole updating this story: The Dayton Daily News has been walking back their coverage of the so-called mosque incident this weekend. The initial article on Saturday was “Chemical irritant empties Islamic Society of Greater Dayton’s mosque”: http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/09/27/ddn092608evacweb.html Then on Sunday the story was “Islamic Society baffled by incident at worship […]
Archives for September 2008
Illinois mall jihadist gets 35 years in prison, man
He said: “I swear by Allah, man … I’m down to live for the cause and die for the cause, man.” I wonder if he is down to serve 35 years in the slammer, man. He also said, “I just want to smoke a judge.” He’ll have to settle for Marlboro Lights. Talib Abu Salam […]
Islamophobic terrorists attack Ohio mosque! No, wait…
I first encountered Aziz Poonawalla during my exchanges with the frothing psychopath Dean Esmay, as he is a contributor to his blog. Poonawalla and I have had several unpleasant exchanges, which are as tedious to reread as they were to go through, and in which I was not in every case terribly impressed with his […]
“But don’t you think that the real problem is not Islam but Islamophobia?”
At Pajamas Media today the superb Bruce Bawer asks the question, “Who’s Sleeping More Deeply “” Europe or America?”: […] Make no mistake: if Europeans are, on average, more aware than Americans of the realities of Islam, it’s no thanks to their media but rather because they can see with their own eyes what’s going […]
In midst of fire-fight with US warship, Somali “pirates” celebrate Eid al-Fitr
And use their plunder to fund the land jihad. “US official: 3 pirates may be dead in shootout,” by Mohamed Olad Hassan for AP, September 30 (thanks to Jeremy): Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense […]
Bombs kill five in India
In “areas wracked by Hindu-Muslim tensions.” “Five killed in India bomb blasts,” from AFP, September 30 (thanks to JE): Five people were killed and 25 others injured today in two suspected bomb attacks in the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, Indian media reported. Three people were killed and at least 12 others hurt […]
Melanie Phillips: “The leaders of the democracies are…burying their heads in the sand”
Strache: A limp-handed Nazi salute? The perceptive and courageous Melanie Phillips here discusses a phenomenon that Hugh and I have discussed at Jihad Watch several times over the years: that the mainstream parties in Europe are either mute or complicit in the face of the threat of the Islamization of the continent, and have thus […]
Professor says Obsession film “smells” and is “pure propaganda”
If this “conflict-resolution” professor deems the Obsession film “pure propaganda,” at least one Middle East history professor thinks otherwise. Wonder who knows more? More on this story. “Obsession smells: It’s propaganda, professor argues, by Tom H. Hastings for Oregon Live, September 29: Many who subscribed to The Sunday Oregonian received, unbidden, a copy of Wayne […]
Al-Qaeda preparing to blow Atlantis back into the water
Infidel stronghold on Muslim land “Symbol of decadence” — not to mention Disney characters (who, accordingly are liable to receive death fatwas) — must go. “Al-Qaeda planning to bomb Atlantis,” by Dylan Bowman for Arabian Business, September 29: The Atlantis hotel’s grand opening party is at the centre of a terrorism scare after British spies […]
The hardest thing to explain
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” — Ayn Rand (thanks to Vee)
Nigeria: Rep urges Muslims to emulate Muhammad
Sunna Alert. Not to worry, however, as the particular Sunna being evoked seems to be that of Mecca, when Muhammad (ostensibly) sought only to live and let live. “Rep Urges Muslims to Emulate Prophet Mohammed,” by Usman Bello for AllAfrica, September 30: A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Philip Tanimu Aduda, has urged […]
Syrian bombing investigation: Wait, maybe it wasn’t the Zionists…
Whoops. One shouldn’t expect much in the way of apologies from the Syrian media or Foreign Ministry for the rush to judgment. An update on this story. “Syria says radical Islam behind Damascus blast,” by Ali Waked for YNet News, September 29: An initial investigation into Saturday’s fatal attack in Damascus revealed that a radical […]
Kenya: “Islamists” attack church in northern town in effort to seize land for mosque
Here is an exceptionally detailed Islamic Tolerance Alert, and also a case study in the limitations on the usefulness of the term “Islamist.” The mainstream media uses it in some settings to describe proponents of Islam as a political platform (for example, in Turkey) who are not at the moment employing or endorsing open warfare; […]
Fort Dix Jihad Update
More on this story. “Jury selection starts in Fort Dix plot case; judge hopes to find 18 jurors from pool of 1,500,” by Geoff Mulvihill for AP, September 29: CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) _ Jury selection began Monday in the federal trial of five men accused of planning an attack on Fort Dix. Lawyers were expected […]
Does Islam Justify Honor Killings?
Supna Zaidi, the assistant director of Islamist Watch and daughter of my dear and much-missed friend the late Tashbih Sayyed, considers this question in an article of the same name at Pajamas Media (September 27): Sandela Kanwal wanted a divorce for unknown reasons. Maybe her husband in Chicago was a wife-beater. Maybe she just didn’t […]
Spencer interview with Le blog drzz
What’s a drzz? Annika of the French-language blog drzz recently interviewed me, and the interview, in French, is now posted there. And here is an English translation of the interview: ANNIKA: Fundamentalist Islam claims to find its roots in the Koran, therefore the holy book itself could be said to harbor directives irreconcilable with democratic […]
Jihadist excoriates Zardari for “flirting” with Palin
So…You come here often? No Fun In Islam* Alert: “Fatwa against Zardari for ‘flirting’ with Palin,” from NDTV, September 29 (thanks to PRCS): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari seems to be heading towards fresh trouble as the prayer leader of the Lal Masjid in the heart of Islamabad has issued a fatwa against him. Maulana […]
The Hijab as aphrodisiac
Not “a symbol of oppression” but “a representation of culture and choice” Naomi Wolf, self-styled infidel-defender-of-the-hijab seems to be influencing other infidel women about the wonders of Islamic wear. The problem, however, is when non-Muslims, as this writer, begin conflating the logic for wearing the hijab with everything else Islamic. “Modesty in dress has real […]
Muslim Obsession interviewee throws Obsession under the bus, calls it “Satanic”
The audacity of BS Khaleel Mohammed, a professor at San Diego State University and a popular “moderate Muslim,” goes around the country reassuring Jewish audiences by telling them that in the Qur’an Allah gives the land of Israel to the Jews. And it does say that. One key verse is 5:21, which promises Israel to […]
Sheikh Qaradawi: Shia are Heretics
Muslim reformer The so-called “reformist” sheikh continues demonstrating that his views are as traditional as only Sunnism can be: “Egyptian sheik’s outburst against Shiites roils Mideast,” by Jeffrey Fleishman for the LA Times, September 27: Sunni cleric Yusuf Qaradawi calls Shiites heretics trying to invade Sunni nations, tapping into anti-Iran anxieties. Shiites express dismay at […]