From our Wishful Thinking Department comes this choice item: “Hindu leaders for ‘fatwa’ against ‘jihad’ in India,” from the Press Trust Of India, January 28 (thanks to Twostellas): A group of Hindu leaders on Wednesday appealed to Islamic religious institutions and scholars to come forward with an appropriate ‘fatwa’ (edict) to declare that Hindus were […]
Archives for January 2009
Saudi “interfaith dialogue” at home: Blogger arrested for leaving Islam and criticizing sharia
Contrast this story with the giant “interfaith” photo-op King Abdullah sponsored in Spain last summer. “Saudi Arabia – Authorities arrest Christian convert,” from Compass Direct News, January 28: LOS ANGELES, January 28 (Compass Direct News) — Five months after the daughter of a member of Saudi Arabia’s religious police was killed for writing online about […]
Escalation: Israel foils Hizballah attack in…Europe
Go back to sleep: it can’t happen here….can it? “Israel foils Hizbullah attack in Europe,” by Yaakov Katz for the Jerusalem Post, January 28 (thanks to Looney Tunes): Israeli intelligence agencies recently succeeded in thwarting a major Hizbullah terror attack against an Israeli target in Europe, Channel 2 reported Wednesday, citing security officials. The attack […]
Yes, they don’t like it when we fight back
Appeasement makes things so much easier, doesn’t it, Mr. West? “Gaza has ‘set back’ anti-terror fight: minister,” from AFP, January 28 (thanks to all who sent this in): LONDON (AFP) — Security and counter-terrorism minister, Alan West, has warned that the conflict in Gaza has set back the government’s attempts to tackle radicalism in Muslim […]
Wednesday Night At The Movies: The Pierre Rehov Film Festival!
Rehov and Spencer at Restoration Weekend 2008 The great filmmaker Pierre Rehov is fighting against the inundation of pro-Hamas propaganda that floods the Internet and the mainstream media. He has created a few clips that illuminate some important aspects of the jihad against Israel, and kindly sent them over just now. Here is a fun […]
Father Zakaria Botros on “The perverse sexual habits of the Prophet” Part III
This being the continuation of Fr Zakaria Botros” examination of Muhammad’s sexual morality (or lack thereof). See here for Part I and Part II. Last we left the Coptic priest, he was reading from hadith reports stating that the prophet of Islam “admired” a 2-3 year old girl (saying that he hoped to live long […]
20 or 30 years ago — and longer
Max Boot dissects an Obama comment from the Al-Arabiya interview, demonstrating that the President doesn’t have the slightest idea what he is talking about when he invokes an era of good relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world as recently as two or three decades ago. Boot says that Obama’s comment reveals his “profound […]
Somali jihadists amputate thief’s hand
“As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is Mighty, Wise.” — Qur’an 5:38. But you really have to know Arabic to understand it, right? You really can’t just take one verse out of context and try […]
Spencer on Wilders: Jailed for an Insult?
I have more to say about the Geert Wilders case in my column this week: “Jailed For An Insult?,” from Human Events, January 28: “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” said Barack Obama to Republican leaders Friday. The new president seems to want to make sure that as few people […]
Thug-In-Chief: Obama “must apologise to the Iranian people and try to repair their past bad acts and the crimes they committed against Iran”
It isn’t enough that Obama has already signaled in numerous ways his readiness to embark on a path of appeasement. Oh, no. Ahmadinejad wants Obama to signal to the world Iran’s hegemony. And this after Iran has been at war with the United States for decades, beginning with the hostage crisis. Why shouldn’t he go […]
British Columbia: Muslim sectarian strife meets field hockey
The headline here reads “Father claims Muslim sons attacked over religion during ball-hockey tourney,” but it fails to note that the attackers were other Muslims. The article also does not mention the sect to which the sons belong — whether Ahmadiyya, or something else — but their father said, “they believe we are non-Muslim. At […]
UK: Jailed Al-Qaeda killer demands female prison guards wear hijabs
He’s recruiting jihadists in prison and demanding that his guards abide by Sharia norms. “Al Qaeda Killer Makes Veils Jibe From Prison Cell,” by Chris Riches in the Daily Express, January 28 (thanks to JH): A MURDERING Al Qaeda terrorist has sparked outrage after threatening legal action under the Human Rights Act unless women prison […]
“Muslims under the leadership of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat ud-Dawa will conquer all South Asia! Nobody can stop us from fighting India!”
Saber-rattling from jihadists in Pakistan. “Pakistan’s Crackdown on Militants Leaves Imams Preaching Jihad,” by James Rupert for Bloomberg, January 28: Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) — A dozen Pakistani policemen stood watch last week outside a Lahore mosque known to be a stronghold of the Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrilla group — while the imam inside preached jihad to thousands […]
Joseph Farah: Beware the “stealth jihad”
Joseph Farah writes in WorldNetDaily: I’ve been studying radical Islam since 1979. I’ve been writing about it since the early 1980s. I’m considered an authoritative expert on the subject by many. I’ve lectured all over the world on the topic in the last 10 years. Yet, I have to tell you, Spencer’s new book has […]
Thailand: “Insurgents” murder Buddhist couple
These “insurgents” were angry and felt the need to “retaliate” for the arrest of their leader by…slaying Buddhists? For the record, nearly 90% of the inhabitants of Pattani, where the murder took place, are Muslims; this may perhaps — just perhaps now — shed some light on, not only the identity of these “insurgents,” but […]
Iran could have ability to build nuclear bomb by 2010
One more year of taqiyya on the one hand, and UN naivete and quibbling on the other, and the Shia state will be prepared to usher in the mahdi — that is, Armageddon: “Iran could have ability to build nuclear bomb by 2010, study warns,” by David Blair for the Telegraph, January 27: Iran will […]
UK: Gaza donations double after appeal screened
More on this story. “Gaza donations double after DEC aid appeal screened,” from Times Online, January 27: Donations to an emergency fund for Gaza doubled overnight after three TV channels broadcast an appeal that the BBC and Sky News have refused to show. Members of the public have now pledged over £1 million to help […]
Pakistan: Taliban bombs and torches more girl-schools; government resigns itself to defeat
Aside from some defiant, but apparently empty, words “the minister said the government could not stop destruction of schools when the area people took up arms and wore suicide jackets to torch and bomb their own schools.” “School burnings in Swat can’t be stopped, says minister,” by Akhtar Amin for the Daily Times, January 27: […]
“By your definition, madame, I am an Islamist”
The UK’s only Muslim peer, Lord Nazir Ahmed, was responsible for the British Parliament’s dhimmi cancellation of a showing of Geert Wilders’ film Fitna. He called the cancellation “a victory for the Muslim community.” And Brian of London has more: Two years ago when I helped organise Bat Ye’or’s visit to the House of Commons […]
Egyptian Muslim cleric airs Holocaust footage, says: “This is what we hope will happen, but, Allah willing, at the hand of the Muslims”
As you read this and/or watch this clip, keep in mind the open calls for genocide against the Jews made by Muslim demonstrators in recent weeks in the U.S. and Europe. “Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari Justifies the Holocaust, Airs Footage, and Declares: ‘This Is What We Hope Will Happen But, Allah Willing, at the Hand […]