According to a statement from the Saudi Press Agency (courtesy IMRA), the Islamic Centers in Saudi embassies are not closing down — contrary to a Washington Post report. The Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance, Sheikh Saleh Bin Abdulaziz Bin Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh, “replying to a question on the Washington Post newspaper’s […]
Archives for 2003
Crouch: Ashcroft is wrong to stop checking out Muslims
(New York Daily News photo) Stanley Crouch strongly criticizes the ending of registration of visitors from Muslim countries in the New York Daily News: “Since 9/11, I have been supportive of every homeland security measure used to single out for close scrutiny those with Islamic backgrounds and those from Islamic countries. I supported measures like […]
Terror groups mull: Is it OK to kill Muslims, too?
“Southeast Asian radicals” — radical Muslims, that is, not Maoists — “are divided over the wisdom of attacking hotels, nightclubs and other ‘soft targets’ where Muslims may be killed alongside Westerners — an internal split that could weaken the terrorist enterprise, authorities told The Associated Press.” This is because a Muslim must not kill another […]
Peeling Columbia’s Middle East Mask
By Jerry Gordon and Alyssa A. Lappen An anti-American geyser erupted December 5 at a daylong Columbia University conference, entitled “US Imperialism in the 21st Century.” The university’s Center for Comparative Literature and Society and co sponsored the event with its controversial Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures program to honor MEALC founder, the […]
Grover Norquist and radical Islam
Grover Norquist (Christian Science Monitor) Frank Gaffney has written in FrontPage magazine an article that is much needed and long overdue: “A Troubling Influence,” about the extensive ties that conservative activist Grover Norquist has with radical Islamic elements. This is a lengthy and exhaustively documented piece about a man who has stood as a singular […]
Somali Muslim Journalist on the Detrimental Effects of Wahhabism on His Country
Says MEMRI: “On November 21, 2003, Somali journalist Bashir Goth wrote an extensive article detailing how Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi Islam has corrupted the Islam of his native Somalia.” He calls Wahhabism an “alien, perverted version of Islam that depends on punctilious manners more than it depends on deep-rooted faith. A strange uniformity… has crept into […]
Jordan : Courts stall justice for Christian widow
Siham Qandah and her children Compass Direct reports on the face of tolerant Islam in enlightened, moderate Jordan: Siham Qandah, a Jordanian Christian woman, is fighting for the custody of her two children against her estranged brother, a convert to Islam who has won a court ruling giving him permission to take the children and […]
Dhimmitude in the US Army: No Jews needed?
Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin carries a disquieting story about Refael and Margaret Chaiken, who were discharged for attending services for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. It’s behind a paid subscription so I can’t link to it, but it is nonetheless worth noting. Although “army regulations require accommodation of religious practices,” the […]
Is North America Hamas’s Next Battleground?
As noted here yesterday, one of the world’s most violent terrorist organizations is targeting Jews overseas. Tonight the Chief Reporter for Canada’s National Post, Stewart Bell, will discuss startling revelations about Palestinian terrorist groups that are bringing their war to the North American Continent. You can hear Bell on the Tovia Singer Show, Tuesday, December […]
Senegalese imam: bin Laden “a great man, a great strategist, a great Muslim”
Mamour Fall and family (Photo thanks to LGF) “I know bin Laden. People want me to insult him and I will not do it. He is a great man, a great strategist, a great Muslim, and that is what interests us and not the fact that he is accused of killing people.” These are statements […]