Remember Denis MacShane? He’s the British Foreign Office minister who drew the ire of British Muslims last month by urging British Muslims to choose between the “British way” of democratic dialogue and the way of Islamic terrorism. Muslim leaders demanded, and received, several apologies from MacShane, who said: “I apologise to anyone who felt that […]
Archives for 2003
Jihad in Central Asia
In Kyrgyzstan, Hizb-ut-Tahrir is growing: AP profiles Hizb-ut-Tahrir activist Dilyar Jumabayev, beginning with a poster he has displayed outside his house, which says: “All Muslims of the world unite against the infidels.” “‘Through his black beard, Jumabayev shows an easy smile, but his words are vehement. ‘Muslims now realize who their enemies are. The United […]
Dhimmitude in Britain: Eid yes, Christmas no
“A library that banned the display of posters promoting Christmas services for fear of offending other religions hosted a party to celebrate a Muslim festival only days earlier.” This from the Telegraph, with thanks to nicolei. “Church officials in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, were told by the town’s public library last week that their posters could […]
Jihad in China
More evidence of the global reach of the tiny minority of extremists: “China released a wanted list of Muslim separatist groups and individuals on Monday, accusing them of acts of terror and appealing to foreign governments to ban the groups and track down and hand over the wanted individuals.” “One day after the United States […]
Jihad online
I just completed an article about jihadist websites (I’ll let you know when it’s available), and reader Nancy Block has kindly referred me to two more. The sorts of things they say are readily available on the Net, are read by Muslims, and no doubt go a long way in recruiting terrorists. First this morning […]
Dhimmitude at the White House
In a long story about the goings-on at the White House after Saddam was captured, the Washington Post reports that “the administration was so conscious of how the news would play in the Arab world that Bush canceled plans to attend St. John’s Church, an Episcopal congregation in Washington, yesterday morning because he did not […]
“Moderate jihadi” to head Afghan assembly
This just in from Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga: “A former president and moderate Jihadi leader has been elected to head the Afghan constitutional assembly, which is to debate and approve the country’s nation-building document, officials said on Monday.” So says Xinhuanet of China. What on earth is a moderate jihadi? Someone who believes in slaying not […]
September 11 Intelligence Failures
From The Cutting Edge in Australia: “It was not your typical wedding. The guests shouted ‘Jihad! Jihad!’ and sang ‘May a volcano shatter the infidels’. The wedding video, shot in Hamburg in the 1990s, featured many names that would later feature in inquiries into the September 11 attacks. “Evidence of al-Qaeda’s Hamburg cell was one […]
Freed Taliban “seeking revenge”
Saddam has been captured, but the jihad continues. Although the jihadis have received a huge blow, the ideological basis of the global jihad movement, which is not based on the charismatic appeal of any leader but on elements of Islamic theology and law, ensures that the movement will continue. Jihadis fought for Saddam despite his […]
A loss to the cultural inheritance of mankind
The Mandaeans, a still-existing Gnostic sect of ancient origin that Elizabeth Kendall of the World Evangelical Alliance calls the “first cousins to Christians,” are being persecuted by Shiite Muslims in Iraq. Few, of course, have noticed. Five Mandaean houses of worship have been closed by Muslims in Iraq in the past few months. Several fatwas […]