Fun time’s over, boys and girls Prince Nayef is “casting a shadow over the Kingdom’s tentative reforms.” Including those “modest” moves, such as the hiring of a female minister. If, in fact, he is known for being a “hardliner,” one must ask: since things like Saudi textbooks under the so-called “reformist” king Abdullah still teach […]
Archives for March 2009
China cracks down on jihad in Muslim Western China
Closing Islamic schools and conducting house-to-house searches. The ChiComs, of course, are ruthless against dissent. Their regime is abhorrent in it authoritarianism and brutality, and certainly Western governments should not imitate it in that. At the same time, China is not hamstrung by politically correct niceties preventing it from even recognizing that Islam has a […]
Pakistan: Lahore attack shows “the question related to extremism in the country has not yet been confronted in an adequate manner”
“The entire nation must be united in the fight aimed at uprooting extremism.” Vague language won’t win the war. Politically, it is a useful term — nobody likes “extremism.” But as “moderation” is a uselessly relative construct from a strategic standpoint, “extremism” depends on one’s definition of “moderation.” Thus, even after this brazen attack, Pakistan […]
Pakistan: Jihadists attack police academy, take hundreds hostage
Escalation. “Pakistan: Army fights militants after storming police academy,” from AdnKronos International, March 30: Lahore, 30 March (AKI) – Militants on Monday killed at least 25 people and injured scores of others after attacking a police training academy in the Pakistani city of Lahore using grenades and rifles. Between eight and 14 militants are said […]
Does “Islamophobia” exist? Nope
In “Islamophobia is a fabrication” in the Sydney Morning Herald, March 30 (thanks to JE), Paul Sheehan tells the truth about the manipulative neologism “Islamophobia”: I’ve been considering a request from a post-graduate student who wants to do a thesis on Islamophobia in Australia. She writes: “I am researching the topic Islamophobia, and I am […]
Just like us after all: Islamic supremacists in Somalia ban cigarettes
Better not choose Mogadishu for that major address from a Muslim capital And khat, which has financed jihad activity in other contexts. In any case, maybe this sort of thing is why Nanny State Leftists have such an easy time making common cause with jihadists. “Somali Islamists ban khat and cigarettes,” by Abdulkadir Khalif for […]
Christians inciting Muslims in Morocco!
Horror of horrors! Inciting them to what? To violence? To hatred? To (gasp) creationism? Naaah. They were inciting them to convert to Christianity. And in a land that respects Muhammad’s dictum “If anyone changes his religion, kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57), the free exercise of one’s conscience is a crime. Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate […]
Beware of what you wish for: you might get it
From this afternoon’s Hate Mail Bag: Robert Spencer: Did you ever stop to think that if we had Sharia Law in this nation stupid and evil (bush/cheney for the uninitiated)might not have been able to create the economic horror that resulted from their inept incompetence? You may have a point, sir! Of course they wouldn’t […]
Palestinian authorities disband youth orchestra that played for Holocaust survivors
Speaking of genocide denial, nothing throws a wrench in the works of indoctrination like contact with actual Holocaust survivors. Hence, authorities termed this event the “dangerous” work of “suspicious elements,” alleging threats to the “cultural and national identity of Palestinians.” And all this comes from members and allies of the “moderate,” “pragmatic” Fatah movement. “PA […]
Wanted by International Criminal Court, Sudan’s president gets lavish welcome at Arab League meeting in Qatar
Holocaust denial, Armenian genocide denial, Darfur genocide denial… Say, is anyone else noticing a pattern on the part of Islamic countries? An update on this story. “Sudan’s wanted president welcomed at Arab summit,” by Brian Murphy for the Associated Press, March 29: DOHA, Qatar — Qatar’s leader embraced Sudan’s president in a red-carpet welcome Sunday […]