Archives for 2003

“A bomb attack on the US embassy near here was foiled when a Lebanese man and a Palestinian were arrested as one of them tried to carry explosives into the embassy compound, the Lebanese army said.” So says AFP, with thanks to LGF.) “The incident came just a week after the US State Department renewed […]

Paul Harvey In response to a demand for an apology from the Council on American Islamic Relations, Paul Harvey has issued this statement through an assistant: “Last week [Harvey] told you about bloody cockfights in Iraq and mentioned the relationship between Islam and violence. He says he received several letters from dear friends in the […]

“An Indonesian accused of the bombing of Jakarta’s Marriott hotel has told police the Australian International School and two other sites had been surveyed before the terrorists chose their target.” So says The Australian, with thanks to nicolei. “Forced to reconstruct the plan of the August 5 suicide bomb attack yesterday, Thohir explained that the […]

“The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo in Perrysburg Township yesterday sponsored a four-hour symposium that considered how the media deals with religious issues, diversity, and tolerance.” So says the Toledo Blade, with thanks to nicolei. The article says that “Imam Farooq Aboelzahab, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, said he often […]

“European Muslims,” according to Al-Jazeera, “have criticised the likely omission of all reference to Islam in the upcoming European Union constitution.” European Muslims “argue that Muslim Spain was a beacon to other parts of Europe in the Middle Ages, and was renowned for its advanced society.” This shows how useful the politically correct revisionism about […]

Asia Times recently interviewed a “failed jihadi” “” a former jihad commander in Pakistan who now works as a “medical researcher for a Canadian company.” (Thanks to nicolei.) He left the struggle, he explains, because he realized that he was being used as a pawn by the Pakistani army in its conflict with India. Although […]

Writing in Asia Times, Syed Saleem Shahzad has a provocative thesis about the Riyadh bombings: “The suicide bomb attack at the Muhaya residential compound in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on November 9 in which at least 17 people were killed – most of them foreign Arabs – was neither an episode of global […]

ASSOCIATION FOR WORLD EDUCATION Geneva, Switzerland URGENT APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DAY (10 DECEMBER 2003) To UN Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Islamist and Arab Judeophobia as a Growing Phenomenon of a revived Culture of Hate: The Continuing Use of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Medieval Blood […]