Attentive Jihad Watchers will notice the absence of the banner for the DVD “Islam: What the West Needs to Know,” which had been graciously sandwiched between Robert’s latest book and the picture of Oriana Fallaci, RIP. Never fear! The DVD (which I produced and directed along with Bryan Daly) has been picked up by a […]

Gosh! Really? From AP: THANNAM THIP, Thailand: A shallow river, deep jungles and an old 20-kilometer (12-mile) wall mark the divide not just between Thailand and Malaysia but between Southeast Asia’s Muslim and Buddhist worlds. This ragged stretch of border is being viewed by some as a potential front in the Muslim insurgency wracking southern […]

By P.K. Abdul Ghafour in Arab News: JEDDAH, 11 March 2007 “” A leading Canadian Muslim leader said Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, especially in the West, in spite of a strident smear campaign against the religion and its Prophet. Ibrahim Malabari, director of the Islamic Center in Toronto, said, “There […]

From Nidra Poller for Pajamas Media: The most troubling episode of the French presidential campaign has come and gone without attracting serious attention even in France: Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal willingly participated in “˜a dhimmitude allegiance ceremony.” This was organized by the Collective ACLEFEU at Clichy-sous-bois, which was the kickoff point of the November 2005 […]

From Ariel Cohen in the Washington Times: Vladimir Putin’s visit to Saudi Arabia Feb. 11 was the first ever for any Russian or Soviet leader. Mr. Putin also visited U.S. allies Jordan and Qatar. Coming from Munich, where he delivered his most bellicose anti-American speech, Mr. Putin further delineating a Russian Middle Eastern policy at […]

From our friends at Xinhua: The Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement vowed on Saturday to continue rocket attacks against Israel following reports that residents were leaving the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab told reporters in Gaza quoting the Israeli daily of Maariv that some 54 families were leaving the Israeli […]

From UPI: The U.S. Justice Department is investigating alleged funding of terrorism by wealthy Saudis through the Arab Bank, the Los Angeles Times reports. Israelis and U.S. citizens injured in suicide bombings have also filed lawsuits against the bank in New York. They claim the bank was involved in compensating the families of “martyrs” or […]

From Christian News Wire: Former Sultan Ali El-Shariff comments on Islam and Sudan: “Today Islam is responsible for almost all of the human sufferings from war, persecution, and poverty, particularly in the country of Sudan. “Since the 1983 start of the civil war in the southern Sudan more than 4 million people have been displaced, […]

From the International Herald Tribune: PATTANI, Thailand: Some are already calling it war, a brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost daily bombings, drive-by shootings, arson and beheadings. It is a conflict the government admits it is losing. A harsh crackdown and […]

From AP: A civil rights group asked a judge Friday to find it unconstitutional for the federal government to exclude a prominent Muslim scholar or anyone else from the United States on the grounds that they may have endorsed or espoused terrorism. Another blow for civil liberties in America: “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of […]

From Reuters: AMSTERDAM: The leader of a Dutch anti-immigration party will call for a vote of no-confidence in two Muslim government ministers next week, citing their dual nationality as the issue, a newspaper reported today. Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad the appointment of Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb and Turkish-born […]

By Nadi Abou El-Magd for AP: ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — An Egyptian blogger was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and Egypt’s president, sending a chill through fellow Internet writers who fear a government crackdown. Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, an […]

We may be witnessing something of a public conversion. Last week, I posted an article on JW from Townhall.com by Frank Pastore entitled “Islam Is Not the Enemy!” in which he criticizes those who see Islam and the West as incompatible. I thought it a good example of conventional misunderstanding. I see that it attracted […]

By Julie A. Varughese in the Norwich Bulletin: NORWICH — Sami Ahmed, who left Pakistan for the United States in 1983, began a Friday night Muslim prayer meeting at his house in Greeneville five years ago. At the time, three or four people attended the meetings. Now, between 30 and 40 Muslims meet weekly at […]

From Christian Broadcasting Network: An Albanian Muslim extremist from Kosovo was recently arrested after allegedly plotting to blow up the parliament building in Montenegro. 55-year-old Dodu L. was arrested by Austrian authorities last month while trying to board a flight in Vienna. 12 other ethnic Albanians were reportedly involved in the plot. There is growing […]

by Stephen Brown: The growth of Islam in Europe is challenging deeply-held notions that faith is a private matter which should be banished from public life, a prominent sociologist of religion has told a gathering of European Christian leaders. “We ignore the presence of Islam at our peril,” Professor Grace Davie of the University of […]

Serge Trifkovic of Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad fame has an excellent analysis in Chronicles Magazine of the continued international pressure on Serbia to hand over Kosovo to Albanian Muslims and the terrorist KLA: On February 2, U.N. special envoy Martti Ahtisaari finally unveiled his much-anticipated plan for the final status of the […]

In a recent column at Townhall.com, Frank Pastore ably recapitulates all of the usual mistaken thinking on Islam: Last Monday on the Fox hit “24”, President Wayne Palmer made the point that American Muslims are our best allies in this war against Islamic terrorism. He’s right, but you wouldn’t know it listening to the callers […]

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