Wonder if any of this money will — somehow or other — find its way to the jihadists, as part of the “financial jihad” (jihad al-mal)? “UAE to give $1bn to Pakistan,” from the Daily Times, November 28 : ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has agreed to provide $1 billion to Pakistan to help […]
Archives for November 2008
Al-Qaeda top dog to U.S.: Avoid financial meltdown by converting to Islam
Man with a solution Al-Zawahiri invites us to accept Islam, which Muhammad the prophet of Islam stipulates as the first step when meeting the unbelievers, before going to war with them (cf. Sahih Muslim 4294). But of course, he and his ilk are already at war with us; his statement here merely reveals yet again […]
Zawahiri continues pontificating, predicting, and predicating
Evidencing that al-Qaeda’s Internet problems have been, at least for now, solved. “Zawahiri blames global financial crisis on 9/11 in latest al-Qaeda video,” by Ben Farmer for the Telegraph, November 28: Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has said in a new internet video that the international financial crisis is the result of a US war on […]
Rabbi and wife among dead hostages at Jewish Center in Mumbai
How many more such outrages, how many more wanton murders of innocent people, will the non-Muslim world endure before it wakes up? How many more iterations of “It’s Just a Tiny Minority of Extremists” and “What About the Crusades?” and “Speaking About Jihad Violence is Islamophobia and Bigotry” must we endure before the mainstream media […]
Five hostages found dead at Mumbai Jewish center; standoff continues at Taj Hotel
More on this story. “Five hostages killed in Jewish center, chaos at hotel,” from CNN, November 28: MUMBAI, India (CNN) — The bodies of five hostages have been found at a Jewish center in Mumbai, according to reports, but fighting still rages at a hotel in the city two days after terrorists launched a series […]
Dhimmi shrinks harpoon Obama’s choice for CIA director
“Of all the pleasant surprises in the president-elect’s appointments, John Brennan might have been the best.” And that’s almost certainly why he was torpedoed. “Shrinks And Spooks,” from Investor’s Business Daily, November 26 (thanks to DFS): Some 200 “psychologists and allies” on Monday sent an open letter to President-elect Obama calling on him to reject […]
Mumbai jihadists freed Turkish hostages because they were Muslims
Who are the attackers in Mumbai? According to AFP, they’re “militants” and “extremists.” According to the Press Trust of India, they’re “terrorists.” According to the Indian Foreign Minister, they’re backed by “elements in Pakistan.” AP speaks of “suspected Muslim militants,” and the Jerusalem Post dares to write about “Islamic terrorists,” but in general in the […]
Two Mumbai gunmen were British
Britain, exporter of jihadists. Will this revelation lead to any searching questions about what is being taught in mosques in Britain? Will it lead to any public discussion about immigration and assimilation, or about British values and Sharia? Somehow I doubt it. “Mumbai gunmen ‘were BRITISH’: Indian authorities say two of arrested militants are from […]
Debate: Islam — Threat or Not? Part 3
This is the third part of last summer’s FreedomFest 2008 debate between Professor Daniel Peterson and me on the topic of “Islam: Threat or Not?” It is the second part of my opening remarks, which turned somewhat unexpectedly into a response to Dr. Peterson’s opening remarks. You can see Part 1 here and Part 2 […]
Pakistan warns India: Don’t “destroy all the goodwill” by linking us to Mumbai jihad attacks
What goodwill? “Pakistan warns India against attack accusations: Says linking it to Mumbai terrorism would ‘destroy all the goodwill,’” from AP, November 27 (thanks to Chaza): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan warned India against accusing of it links to the Mumbai terror attacks Thursday, saying doing so would “destroy all the goodwill” between the two nuclear-armed […]
Fitzgerald: The Mumbai jihadist link to Al-Qaeda, and why it misses the point
“Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism specialist with the Swedish National Defense College, said there are “˜very strong suspicions” that the coordinated Mumbai attacks have a link to al-Qaida….” — from this news article Yes, yes. We have all heard the solemn discussions about whether or not the “Deccan Mujahideen” is a new group, or an old […]
“A kind of slow motion, under the radar attack on America”
New book by a “surprisingly mild-mannered” author Kathy Shaidle is a great warrior of free speech in Canada, where that fundamental right is already largely lost — as she chronicles in her book The Tyranny of Nice (which she wrote with Pete Vere). The book is “excellent, superb, rollicking, harrowing, much needed,” as I told […]
Islamophobe says, “Child marriage in Islam is permissible. In the Koran there is no specific age of marriage” — no, wait, it was an Islamic cleric
There is not only the lack of a minimum age for marriage in the Qur’an, but also the permission for child marriage implied by the permission granted to divorce prepubescent girls (Qur’an 65:4), and of course, Muhammad’s own example in marrying Aisha at the age of 6 and consummating the marriage when she was 9. […]
Mumbai: Indian forces besiege Jewish Center held by jihadists
More on this story. “URGENT: Indian Forces Assault Besieged Jewish Center in Mumbai,” from AP, November 27: MUMBAI, India “” Security forces assaulted a Jewish center in Mumbai where Muslim militants were believed holed up with possible hostages Friday, with black-clad commandos dropping from a Indian helicopter as sharpshooters opened fire on the five-story building. […]
Pakistan involvement in Mumbai jihad attacks?
It wouldn’t be a huge surprise. “Indian forces arrest militants, including Pakistani,” from News.com.au, November 28 (thanks to JE): INDIAN security forces have arrested three militants, including a Pakistani national, inside a Mumbai hotel attacked by a group of gunmen. Quoting official sources, the Press Trust of India news agency reported the arrests were made […]
Fighting erupts at Mumbai Jewish center seized by jihadists
Gunshots were audible on CNN-IBN’s coverage, which went dark moments later, at least on the internet feed. “Fighting reported at Mumbai Jewish center,” from CNN, November 27: MUMBAI, India (CNN) — Fighting broke out early Friday between government soldiers in a helicopter and gunmen holed up inside a Jewish center where two or three gunmen […]
Australian prof: Hindus responsible for Mumbai attacks
More lunacy re the Mumbai jihad attacks — this time from the Muslim Victimology Department. Marika Vicziany is a Professor of South Asian Studies at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. She isn’t saying that the Hindus mounted the attacks, but that they’re revenge attacks for Hindu mistreatment of Muslims. “Australian killed in Mumbai terror attacks,” […]
Saudi funded Mumbai jihadists?
Surprise, surprise: a possible Saudi connection to the Mumbai massacre. Are the “Indian Mujahideen” and the “Deccan Mujahideen” one and the same, or related in some way? Not necessarily, but that there would be a Saudi hand in the jihad in India at all is both unsurprising and something that bears further investigation. A September […]
Mumbai jihadists: “We urge the Indian government to return stolen Muslim lands”
Any land that once belonged to the Dar al-Islam belongs to it by right forever, at least as far as Islamic jihadists are concerned, and so this strange demand is not all that surprising. “Mumbai hostage rescue raids continue,” from AP, November 26 (thanks to Israel Matzav): […] The terrorists issued a first statement saying, […]
Muslim Brotherhood: The Jews and Hindus attacked Mumbai, not Islamic jihadists
Amaresh Misra, conspiracy fantasist It was all a Mossad conspiracy, doncha know. The Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that is dedicated in its own words to “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that […]