If you are in the Toronto area, please go: Please join this peaceful Christian demonstration in Downtown Toronto on Saturday. When: THIS COMING SATURDAY January 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM Where: 2 meeting places… 11:30 AM – Yonge & Dundas Square (Corner of Yonge & Dundas St.) or… you may want to park and join […]
Archives for January 2010
Italian foreign minister: “Let’s ask ourselves if covering one’s face isn’t the first sign of refusal to integrate and closing oneself off… from the host community and its traditions”
Indeed. The face veil in its various forms is the most visible symbol of an ideology that wants nothing to do with equality and integration. “Italy: Foreign minister rejects face veil,” from AdnKronos International, January 27: Florence, 27 Jan. (AKI) – Italy’s foreign minister Franco Frattini on Wednesday voiced his opposition to the face veil. […]
The Left, Islam, hate and projection
In “Nothing To Fear: Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe” by John R. Bowen in the Boston Review‘s January/February 2010 edition (thanks to Quasimodo), there appears this paragraph: Europe’s anti-Islam sentiment may be expressed most visibly in memoirs because Europeans have been reticent to condemn Islam–or religion more generally–outright. Americans, however, seem to prefer a less […]
Spencer: Opening the Door to a Stealth Jihadist
In Human Events today I discuss the opening of America’s doors to the slick and crafty Tariq Ramadan: Five years after being barred from the U.S. for making charitable contributions to a group that sent those contributions to the jihad terror group Hamas, internationally renowned Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, often mislabeled “the Muslim Martin Luther,” […]
Iraq: Sunni jihadis open fire on buses full of Iranian pilgrims, killing two people
I told you that Sunnis and Shia would be at each other’s throats in Iraq. Hugh told you repeatedly, eloquently, and with substantial documentation from history and theology. But of course Hugh and I are just greasy Islamophobes — what do we know? We were confidently assured by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza that Sunni/Shia […]
France: Muslims attack mosque of imam who supports burqa ban
Muhammad mandated that a woman cover everything but her face and hands, not cover her face with a sack, and so a good case can actually be made on the grounds of the Qur’an and Sunnah that the burqa is un-Islamic. Nonetheless, this “liberal” imam has received death threats from other Muslims for backing the […]
Cultural showdown ahead? UK Muslim polygamist charged with bigamy
This case could become a test case for the clash of cultures in Britain. Will British law bend to Sharia and allow polygamy on an open and legal basis instead of winking at it and tolerating it as it largely does now? Or will it draw the line and say that one law applies to […]
France: Burqa “contrary to the values of the republic”
The panel’s report is promising, but only a first step. An update on this story. “France MPs’ report backs Muslim face veil ban,” from BBC News, January 26: A French parliamentary committee has recommended a partial ban on women wearing Islamic face veils. The committee’s near 200-page report has proposed a ban in hospitals, schools, […]
Christian in Egypt: “They try to kill us”
“They are constantly under threat, always on the run because they converted to Christianity in a largely Muslim country.” But…but…I thought it was only greasy Islamophobes who believed that Islam mandated death for apostates! Michael Kruse, call your office! Meredith “Hijab” Heagney, get plane reservations for Cairo! M. Cherif Bassiouni, book a lecture tour! Misunderstanders […]
Moderate Muslim head of UK TV channel held on terror claims
The division between “moderates” and “radicals” is a matter of imposed terminology and wishful thinking on the part of Western non-Muslim analysts. In Islamic communities there exists no such distinction, such that even the head of a Muslim TV channel in the UK — a man whom authorities undoubtedly assume is a stalwart “moderate” — […]
Arab, Muslim groups meet with Attorney General to protest the profiling that is not taking place
There is no profiling. The 2003 guidelines don’t establish anything close to actual profiling of Arabs or Muslims. Eighty-year-old grandmothers from Iowa get as much scrutiny in airports as young Muslim Arab males. But the AAI, the ADC and MPAC, true to their constant practice of attempt to impede every effective anti-terror measure, are trying […]
Obama sends Gitmo inmate to Switzerland
In case the jihad in Switzerland needs a boost. After all, more and more inmates from Gitmo are returning to the jihad — and what was done there in any case to prevent that eventuality? Nothing whatsoever. “U.S. sends Uzbek from Guantanamo prison to Switzerland,” from Reuters, January 26 (thanks to Maxwell): WASHINGTON (Reuters) – […]
Malaysian government: Court allowed publication of book on women in Islam, but you shouldn’t read it
If you do, you might be troubled by the truth. An update on this story. “Stay Away From Book On Muslim Women, Muslims Advised,” from Bernama, January 26 (thanks to Twostellas): PUTRAJAYA, Jan 26 (Bernama) — The book “Muslim Women and The Challenge of Islamic Extremism” can create doubt and disharmony among the people in […]
New report says that Erdogan encourages antisemitism
No surprise here. Erdogan is a believing Muslim. He knows that the worst enemies of the Muslims are the Jews — the Qur’an says so (5:82). “Israel-Turkey; Report, Erdogan Encourages Anti-Semitism,” from ANSAmed, January 26 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – JERUSALEM, JANUARY 26 – Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan “indirectly incites and encourages anti-Semitism” in […]
Grenade launcher, weapons cache seized in New Jersey hotel room from man with “Middle Eastern headdress” — FBI says no terrorism link
“Investigators also found Middle Eastern red and white traditional headdress, Forrest said.” That would suggest that this guy is either a jihadi or a jihadi wannabe. But when the FBI says there is no “terrorism link,” they mean essentially that they did not find an Al-Qaeda membership card in his wallet. Is he a Muslim? […]
Jihad/martyrdom bombing in Iraq kills 17, a day after jihadists killed 36
Those who crowed that “the surge worked” were always working from a superficial understanding of the jihad imperative, and now the superficiality of their analysis is being revealed. “Iraq suicide attack kills at least 17, many police,” from Reuters, January 26 (thanks to all who sent this in): BAGHDAD (Jan 26, 2010): A suicide blast […]
And people actually get paid for this: report says that Al-Qaeda still wants to use WMD’s against U.S.
A work of genius! How could these learned analysts have possibly discovered such a thing! This is on a par with their other brilliant discoveries: poverty causes terrorism, Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been Hijacked By A Tiny Minority of Extremists, etc. etc. “Report says Al-Qaeda still aims to use weapons of […]
Great news: 6000 more Somalis coming to the U.S. in 2010!
Refugee Resettlement Watch ably sums up the problem with this below: “On top of that, in many cities around the world, the Somali diaspora is producing jihadist fighters.” Among those cities, of course, is Minneapolis. And despite all this, there is still no sign whatsoever that immigration officials are even interested in the jihadist sentiments […]
Muslim points finger like gun and curses jury at trial of MIT-trained jihadist
But I’m sure he meant it in a peaceful way. Aafia Siddiqui Trial Update: “‘Terror ma’ trial ‘cursed,’” by Bruce Golding for the New York Post, January 26 (thanks to Ruth King): Two jurors were excused from the “terror mom” trial yesterday after they saw a spectator point his fingers like a gun and silently […]
Dennis Prager offers reason and common sense to CAIR tool and libelblogger Charles Johnson, the New York Times Idiotarian of the Year
A fascinating letter in its entirety. Key sections: Dear Charles: As you know, over the years, I was so impressed with your near-daily documentation of developments in the Islamist world that I twice had you on my national radio show — both times face to face in my studio. And you, in turn, periodically cited […]