Archives for 2008

Their surprise is entirely warranted, with Olmert still in power. In any case, their victimology mill is already grinding into high gear. Watch for staged photos of civilians being hit, coming soon from all the wire services. “Hamas source: IDF strike unexpected: Organization admits Air Force offensive in Gaza caught its people off guard since […]

Bosnia is flooded with Wahhabis and Saudi money, mosques and madrasas are springing up everywhere, women are in hijabs — but no worries. Bosnia is a secular, moderate Muslim country and will stay that way, and you better not dare to take too much notice of its rapid descent into jihadist fanaticism, unless you want […]

Caroline Glick sums up the festive week (thanks to Tommy): Both Iran and its Hamas proxy in Gaza have been busy this Christmas week showing Christendom just what they think of it. But no one seemed to have noticed. On Tuesday Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Sharia criminal code for the […]

A spokesman for the mosque insists the conference organizers are just using their facilities. But no one seems perturbed enough about this “misunderstanding” and “hijacking” of Islam to cancel the conference or appearances by speakers like Anwar al-Awlaki and others named below. The full schedule of festivities can be found here. “Muslim groups ‘linked to […]

In other words, India is controlled by infidels who have no right under Islamic law to do so; the partition was just an act of reclaiming some of the land for its rightful owners. More wild historical revisionism and incitement below. “Pak textbooks build hate culture against India,” by Arif Mohammed Khan for the Times […]

“Officials of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front denied that its forces had tried to attack civilians. Eid Kabalu, a spokesman for the front, instead blamed the military for stepping up its offensives in the past several days.” Of course. Fighting back against jihadist aggression is always a “provocation.” “Fighting flares in southern Philippines,” by Charles […]

That elephant is, of course, Qur’an 4:34, which states: “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for […]

They were able to reach the armory and get weapons: Costly incompetence at best, collaboration at worst. “Qaeda “˜emirs” flee in deadly Iraq jailbreak,” from Agence France-Presse, December 26: RAMADI, Iraq – A local Al-Qaeda chief known as “˜Imad the killer” escaped in a pre-dawn breakout from an Iraqi police station on Friday, triggering a […]

The “Shebab” — that is, “the youth” — are now in control of 80% of Somalia. If the youth of any civilization are that civilization’s future, and if wherever one looks, Islam’s youth are the most militant in their views, tenaciously upholding the doctrine of jihad, what does this bode for the future of Islam […]

The Masked Armies of Allah Collateral damage of the jihad. “Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza,” by Ibrahim Barzak for the Associated Press, December 26, thanks to JCB: Gaza Strip — A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern […]

Doing a little light reading today, I came across this: “The truth is that Western civilization is rotten through and through and only continues because of the absence of its rightful heirs, namely the Muslims, who have themselves forgotten their deen [religion] and failed to take their divinely appointed task of re-establishing Allah’s guidance for […]

Projection and belligerence from the practiced practitioners of the double game. “Pakistan troops move to Indian borders,” by Sajjad Malik for the Daily Times, December 26: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan troops were deployed on Thursday to protect vital points along the Line of Control in Kashmir and the international border with India, defence sources told Daily Times. […]

The always acute and perceptive David Yerushalmi of SANE sent me the following message about Jacob Laksin’s review of my book Stealth Jihad, and my response to that review. Dear Mr. Spencer: I saw your response to Jacob Laksin’s Pajamas Media Book Review and was sufficiently curious to take a look at it. Your response, […]

Barbarity upon barbarity from those who style themselves as the warriors of the one true God. “Terrorists sexually Humiliated guests before killing them,” by Santosh Mishra for the Mumbai Mirror, December 25 (thanks to all who sent this in): Disturbing photographs made available to this newspapers by police sources indicate that several of the guests […]

When a Jordanian soldier shot and killed Israeli third-graders who had come from their school to visit a “Peace Garden” planted on both sides of the Israel-Jordan border, he was described as “insane.” When an Egyptian soldier, on the other side of Israel, opened fire on a group of Israeli tourists and killed men, women, […]

“The enemy is in a state of confusion and doesn’t know what to do” — from this article, quoting Hamas If the “enemy” is Israel, the statement is true. And it is just as true if the “enemy” is not Israel alone, but all the Infidel states, and their conventional, ill-informed, whistling-in-the-dark political and media […]

Ehud Olmert said this week to the people of Gaza: “Don’t let Hamas, which is acting against the values of Islam, put you in danger. Stop them. Stop your enemies and ours.” Olmert did not have to say that Islam explains the endless hostility toward Israel. That would be asking too much, and at this […]

Carl Ernst is the one who pushed on unwitting colleagues the notion that incoming freshmen to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill should be forced to read that comically bowdlerized version of the Qur’an, Michael Sells’ Approaching the Qur’an: The Lyrical Suras. Carl Ernst is also the one who schemed to have Omid […]

“You got jihad books in my explosives!” “You got explosives in my jihad books!” But they don’t mix well. “Bangladeshi Police Seize Explosives, Books on Jihad in Raid,” from the Associated Press, December 25: DHAKA, Bangladesh “” Police in northern Bangladesh arrested three suspected militants tied to a banned Islamic group and seized a large […]

The historical presence of non-Muslims in lands currently controlled by Muslims is obvious, but often overlooked. And the fact of their presence is crucial in answering the skewed or nearsighted historical narratives that inform many a discussion on foreign policy: It can be employed to highlight the double standards that exist with respect to Islamic […]