“[A]fter firing on the crowd, Taliban fighters went through Christian houses, ransacked them and burned one down. He said they also burned Bibles and beat women on the street. Reports of two execution-style killings of Christians could not be verified.” More on this story. “Pakistan: Taiban-inspired attacks hit Chrisians,” from Compass Direct News, April 27: […]
Archives for April 2009
Iraq: Al-Qaeda “linked” group slays Christians
More on this story. “Archbishop calls killing of Iraqi Christians act of terrorism,” from Gulf News, April 27: Kirkuk: A Christian leader in Kirkuk is calling the murder of three Christians there an act of terrorism. Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako said on Monday that the victims were killed by “terrorists”. On Sunday gunmen waged separate […]
Afghanistan: Airborne chemical attack on girl school; nearly 50 collapse
“Police said they had made no arrests and did not know who was responsible.” Those wacky, anonymous “miscreants” must be at it again. “Girls collapse after suspected poison attack on Afghan school,” by Ben Farmer in Kabul for the Telegraph, April 27: Dozens of girls collapsed and needed hospital attention after a suspected airborne chemical […]
“My Muslim members don’t want you because you are Jewish”
Islamic antisemitism, rooted in many Qur’anic injunctions, notably the charge that the Muslims’ worst enemies will be the Jews (Qur’an 5:82), comes to Britain. “Labour Party embroiled in race row after candidate told she was ‘too white and Jewish’ to be selected,” by Emily Andrews in the Daily Mail, April 27 (thanks to all who […]
Mahmoud Abbas: “A Jewish state, what is that supposed to mean?”
Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state poses temporal and religious problems for Abbas & Co.: Acknowledging and accepting Israel’s Jewish identity disqualifies Muslims’ future claims on the land for negotiation, armed conflict, the claim to a “right of return,” and so forth. Doing so would also acknowledge the historical identity of the region as a […]
Iraq: Jihadists kill 3 from two Christian families in Kirkuk
“The way in which they were attacked looks like an execution. Nothing was stolen from the homes.” “Kirkuk: commando brigade attacks two Christian families, three killed,” from AsiaNews, April 27: Kirkuk (AsiaNews) – Iraqi Christians are again in the sights of the Islamic fundamentalists. At 7:30 yesterday evening in Kirkuk, an armed commando brigade stormed […]
Muslims enraged over FBI’s cutting ties with CAIR
The FBI has finally stopped working, at least for the moment, with the unindicted co-conspirators of CAIR, and so the Detroit News throws them this helpful puff piece. “FBI limits work with Muslim civil rights group amid dispute: Some vow to stop cooperating with agency amid dispute,” by Gregg Krupa for The Detroit News, April […]
Ahmadinejad’s Jew-hatred is common throughout the Islamic world
This is fueled by the fact that the Qur’an teaches that the chief enemies of the Muslims will be the Jews (5:82). Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: “When hatemongering is common currency,” by Barbara Crook in the Ottawa Citizen, April 27 (thanks to Block Ness): The world reacted with outrage at the speech by Iranian […]
Hamas-linked CAIR demands that Florida House Majority Leader to step down for co-hosting an event featuring Geert Wilders
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas jihad terror funding case, and an organization that has had several of its officials convicted of various terrorism-related offenses, as well as one whose co-founder and principal spokesman have made Islamic supremacist statements, is now demanding that an American politician be punished for exercising […]
Taliban: Peace deal with Pakistan “worthless”
That’s been rather obvious all along. And now that their advance into Buner has been halted for the moment, the peace deal has reach the end of its useful life, in accordance with Islamic tradition, of buying the Taliban time at a moment of weakness: “Truces are permissible, not obligatory….Interests that justify making a truce […]
Obama wants to aid Palestinians even with Hamas in power
A roundup of just a few of the highlights since January 20: “¢ Obama’s DHS quietly dropped the term “war on terror.” Janet Napolitano even went so far as to say that she preferred to refer not to acts of “terrorism” but to “man-caused disasters.” “¢ Obama named Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks as […]
BMI air stewardess fired for refusing to fly to Saudi Arabia and walk behind men
“Her letter of dismissal said it was ‘proportionate’ to ask female employees to walk behind men out of respect for Saudi culture.” More dhimmitude from the same airline. “BMI told stewardess to wear Muslim robe,” by Jon Ungoed-Thomas for Times Online, April 26: A BRITISH air stewardess was sacked for refusing to fly to Saudi […]
African jihadis to Britain: Free hate cleric or hostage dies
Just another misunderstood jihadi preacher Though he is Osama bin Laden’s “spiritual representative in Europe,” the jihadi kidnappers insist he is being “unjustly” held: as if kidnappers know the first thing about justice or injustice in the first place. “Free hate cleric or hostage dies,” from Metro.Co.UK, April 26: Islamic militants have threatened to kill […]
Indonesia: Christian priest and his wife murdered, authorities baffled
You never know. Maybe this 64-year-old priest and his 73-year-old wife were involved in something unsavory and dangerous, and paid the price. But Islamic jihadists have attacked Christians in Sulawesi many times in the past, and the couple had deep wounds to their necks — recalling the Qur’an’s directive to “strike at the necks” of […]
Ahmadinejad’s loud UN Jihad and Omar Khayyam’s quatrain: “The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, moves on”¦”
Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative of the Association for World Education (AWE) and World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) to the UN: Two weeks ago, I concluded my comments on Iran’s Stealth Jihad at a UN Meeting with a prediction: What more need be said? One thing, perhaps: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is […]
Fitzgerald: Imran Waheed and Tariq Ramadan
“He [Imran Waheed] went on: ‘There is only one solution to the occupation of Muslim lands, one solution to the cries of the widows and the orphans, one solution to avenge the death of the elderly and the children … fight in the way of Allah those who fight you. Al-Jihad.’ A leaflet available on […]
UK: Judges could be forced to bow to Sharia law
The archbishop of Canterbury’s predictions on sharia law’s “inevitability” in the U.K. keep coming closer to fruition. “EU judges want Sharia law applied in British courts,” from the Daily Mail, April 26: Judges could be forced to bow to Sharia law in some divorce cases heard in Britain. An EU plan calls for family courts […]
Gyms for Saudi women face shut-down over legal technicality
And “no government department wants to take responsibility for the issue, lest they be attacked by conservative Islamic clerics, many of whom oppose sports activities for women.” More on this story. “Gyms for Saudi women face shut-down,” from Middle East Online, April 26: Report dozens of women-only gyms face closure because there is no regulatory […]
Yemen: “There is hardly a mosque sermon that’s free of bigotry. The government’s own political rhetoric marginalizes the Jews”
Islamic Tolerance Alert, and an update on this story. Not surprisingly, this article blames Israel for supposed acts of retribution perpetrated on Yemen’s Jews. That’s odd. Don’t the apologists like to tell us it’s not Judaism that so many modern-day Muslims are against, but Zionism? (Note how politically quiet and acquiescent the Yemeni Jews are […]
“You infidels have to convert to Islam or die”
Islamic Tolerance Alert. But why didn’t they demand the jizya? And why are these fanatical adherents of Islam and proponents of the imposition of Islamic law so thoroughly clueless about what we are constantly told is the true, peaceful nature of Islam? Why are Islam’s foremost Misunderstanders almost invariably the most devout and dedicated believers? […]