The Malaysian Muslim political party known as PAS is going out of its way to reassure everyone — nervous non Muslims especially — that its plans for the eventual implementation of hudud law in Malaysia (or parts thereof) are nothing, absolutely nothing to worry about. In fact, this PAS devotion to Islamic law is causing […]
Archives for September 2011
Spencer: Useful Idiots” Stockholm Syndrome
These particular useful idiots are the hikers that Iran just freed from captivity. My column in FrontPage this morning: Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the leftist American hikers who unwittingly ventured across the Iran/Iraq border and were convicted of espionage and imprisoned for two years in Iran, have been freed — and at a press […]
Spencer: A Palestinian State Will Not Bring Peace
It isn’t even really intended to bring peace. My Human Events column this morning: Millions around the world believe that when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the United Nations Friday for admission of Palestine as an independent state, he was setting the stage for a new era of peace in the […]
Islam — A (Jewish-) Christian Sect? (Part I)
Islam — A (Jewish-) Christian Sect? A short history-of-dogma examination By Peter Bruns Translated by Anonymous Translation edited by Ibn Warraq The question of whether it is allowable to even inquire into Islam in the context of a Christian history of dogma was already posed by Adolf Harnack in his Leipzig dissertation from the year […]
Turkey’s list of Israeli military personnel involved in flotilla raid reportedly a sham
Earlier, Turkey had threatened to attempt to prosecute the personnel on this list for “torture and premeditated murder.” They have been caught in a bluff, having claimed they got their information from IDF soldiers who opposed the raid, but this report says the names were “from previous lists that were published on anti-Israeli websites following […]
U.K.: Six Muslims accused of plotting jihadist suicide attack; two trained in Pakistan and made “martyrdom videos”
More about the seriousness of this case continues to emerge, in an update on this story. “Six remanded over ‘suicide bomb plot’,” from BBC News, September 26: Six men have appeared in court charged with terrorism offences including a suspected suicide bombing campaign. The six, all from Birmingham, appeared at West London Magistrates’ Court. Irfan […]
Al Jazeera journalist admits to being Hamas operative
Samer Allawi “offered to use his position as a reporter to promote Hamas interests,” and “traveled to Qatar and met with additional Al Jazeera reporters, who the Shin Bet said were Hamas operatives, and discussed the possibility of using their position to advance Hamas by criticizing the US military in Afghanistan.” How many more operatives […]
Gratitude: Libya’s National Transitional Council declares Lockerbie case closed, will not release evidence that could lead to others being charged
This is the same NTC which refused to extradite Megrahi, who took a timely turn for the worse by the end of August as Tripoli fell, at which time he was said to be “comatose and near death.” These are but signs of things to come in future dealings with the NTC, whose members have […]
Afghan jihadist employed by CIA murders American at Kabul CIA office
As I have said many times in the context of many similar incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no reliable way to distinguish a peaceful Muslim from a jihadist. This is yet more fruit of the unwillingness to make even a cursory attempt to take that fact into account. And every few weeks (the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: When Muslims Are More “˜Radical” than Islamists
Earlier on PJM (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discussed some of the differences — and similarities — between Muslims and “Islamists”: What are the differences between the traditional Muslim and the so-called “Islamist”? As words dealing with Islam continue to morph and multiply, it is important to differentiate, for there are real, if subtle, differences. A recent […]
Sharif El-Gamal, the man behind the Islamic supremacist Ground Zero Mosque, has an extensive criminal past
The other night I watched a British documentary about the Ground Zero mosque controversy (for which I was interviewed, and in which I appear) that portrayed Sharif El-Gamal as a good-hearted schlub who was trying to do a good deed and ended up getting beset by cynical sharpies like Pamela Geller and me. Anything about […]
Ibn Warraq: Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam and the Koran
Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam and the Koran by Ibn Warraq Professor Peter Bruns of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Bamberg, Germany), provides a very useful, critical survey of recent research on Islamic origins, but from an important dogma-critical perspective. He reminds us that not only Günter Lüling and Christoph Luxenberg’s pioneering philological approach, but also […]
Pakistan: 50 Islamic scholars issue fatwa for jihad against U.S., order Muslims to stop calling America a “super power”
The term “aggression” used in the fatwa is vague, and likely to be deliberately so: all hell can break loose at a time and place of their choosing. “Fatwa for Jihad against America,” from The Nation, September 26: LAHORE — As many as 50 religious scholars associated with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), a conglomerate […]
Leftist Useful Idiots rally around Islamic supremacist thugs who shouted down Israeli ambassador
Leftists have a taste for authoritarianism. Every time the hard Left has been in power, the freedom of speech is destroyed. Thus it is not surprising that these Leftist Useful Idiots would be idolizing thugs who are enemies of the freedom of speech. “Supporters rally around the ‘Irvine 11’ at town hall event,” by Nicole […]
Pakistan rally: “Shut up, America!”
Our friend and ally Pakistan is holding anti-American rallies. From Reuters (thanks to Maxwell): Girls hold placards while standing on a U.S. flag during an anti-U.S. rally in Hyderabad, Pakistan, September 25, 2011. REUTERS/Akram Shahid “Go America Go.” Heh. Good advice. We should go, and leave the Pakistani jihadists to their own devices, without American […]
Red Cross abets jihad, hides Hamas jihadist in Jerusalem office
For this, international authorities ought to condemn the Red Cross. But they won’t. “Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker in Jerusalem,” by Daniella Cheslow for the Associated Press, September 26 (thanks to Maxwell): JERUSALEM (AP) “” Undercover Israeli police officers on Monday arrested a Hamas lawmaker who had been hiding in the Red Cross’ office in east […]
Spencer: Women Can Vote in Saudi Arabia ““ So What?
In FrontPage this morning I discuss the big news for women’s rights out of the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has announced that women will have the right to vote in the next Saudi elections. Pardon me if I am underwhelmed. Women will be able to vote in Saudi […]
U.K.: Failed 7/21 jihadist of “highest possible risk to the public” is already out of jail, but can’t be deported
He helped fellow jihadists who were going to kill themselves in an act of murder. He seems to be just a bit selective about how and when he cares about “human rights” and personal safety, and that is because of the double standard that is part and parcel of jihadist rationalizations about killing civilians: it […]
U.K.: Six Muslims charged with “terrorism offenses,” including a “suspected suicide bombing campaign”
An update on this story. “Six charged with terrorism offences,” from BBC News, September 25: Six men have been charged with terrorism offences, including a suspected suicide bombing campaign, West Midlands Police have said. Four of the men were charged with preparing for an act of terrorism in the UK, and two with failing to […]
Afghanistan: CIA station in Kabul reportedly attacked
The fact alone that the location has been publicized as a CIA station suggests a problem. “Afghan attack: Gunfire heard at Kabul ‘CIA station’,” from BBC News, September 25: Gunfire and a blast have been heard from a compound said to house the CIA station in the Afghan capital Kabul. A US official confirmed there […]