A powerful article in today’s Opinion Journal by Anne Bayefsky: “The U.N.’s Dirty Little Secret: The international body refuses to condemn anti-Semitism.” Says Bayefsky: “Last week, the U.N. once again proved itself incapable of rising to the moral challenges embraced in its founding Charter: ‘tolerance,’ ‘the dignity and worth of the human person’ and ‘equal […]
Archives for 2003
Christian Convert Released From Prison
The Barnabas Fund reports that in Egypt on December 3, “police decided to release the last of the 22 converts and their supporters who were arrested between 21 and 24 October in Alexandria. Up until then it seemed that police were determined to make an example of Christian convert from Islam, Mariam Girgis Makar. They […]
Death penalty for Jordanian-American upheld; planned to murder American tourists
Raed Hijazi A military court in Jordan has “upheld a guilty verdict and death sentence for the third time Monday against” Raed Hijazi, “a Jordanian-American convicted of conspiring to carry out poison gas attacks on American and Israeli targets in Jordan three years ago.” So says AP. “Hijazi, wearing a navy blue prison uniform and […]
Canadian Hamas member arrested; planned to hit US targets
A Hamas Rally (AFP) “Israel said on Monday it had arrested a Palestinian with Canadian citizenship on suspicion he planned to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets in North America on behalf of the Islamic militant group Hamas.” This from Reuters. “A statement by the Shin Bet security agency said Jamal Akal, 23, […]
Al-Qaida’s plan to nuke London
WorldNetDaily reports that “Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network plotted to detonate a dirty nuke bomb floated into London on one of its armada of mystery ships, but the plan was foiled by security forces, says an official. “The device was to be delivered on a cargo ship and moored at a dock ready to […]
Blood libel on Syrian TV
In mid-November we told you about a MEMRI report on a Syrian TV series carried on Hizballah’s satellite channel Al-Manar. In the words of Syria’s Daily Times, the series chronicled “the criminal history of Zionism.” Now MEMRI has augmented its original report with a partial transcript of the 20th episode, “which depicts Jews carrying out […]
Jihad in Ohio
The Hardline Movement, according to Aaron at Internet Haganah, who kindly pointed this out to me (thank you very much, Aaron), seems to be aiming to “recruit for jihad ‘revolutionaries’ of all types, who, over time, can be brought into the fold of Islam, inshallah. In other words, all you have to do is share […]
“Jihad Jack” case collapses; is jihad still on for Australia?
Some time ago I wrote an article about Jack “Jihad” Thomas, the Australian convert to Islam who was accused of being an Al-Qaeda terrorist. He had been described as “just an average Aussie,” whose apparent turn to radical Islam took place under mysterious circumstances, but seemed most likely to have stemmed from a religious appeal […]
Egypt: Christian who married Muslim convert captured trying to flee
More of the celebrated Islamic tolerance for other religions comes from Egypt: “A Coptic Christian secretly married to a woman convert from Islam was arrested for the second time last week while trying to leave Egypt for Canada.” This from Compass Direct. “Boulos Farid Rezek-Allah Awad, 31, was stopped at the Libyan border on November […]
Iran radicals beat up reformist
Why don’t more moderate Muslims speak out against terrorism? There are many reasons, but one of them is no doubt physical intimidation. Certainly this is true in other contexts: “A senior reformist Iranian member of parliament close to President Mohammad Khatami was beaten up by Islamic radicals, amid rising factional tension in the country as […]