We have seen jihadist activity in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Now — Bolivia: “Bolivia’s state news agency said authorities in La Paz detained 16 Muslims on Thursday after a tip-off from French police that some of them were planning to hijack a plane and attack targets in the United States. . . .” This from […]
Archives for 2003
Jihad metaphorical and literal in Australia
We all know that jihad is a spiritual struggle within the soul of the believer, and that if it extends to the battlefield at all, it refers only to self-defense, right? Every day, of course, more evidence comes that large numbers of Muslims around the world don’t think of it this way at all. This […]
Germany mulls Islamic group probe
More evidence of the deep inroads that radical Islam has made in Europe: “Germany’s chief federal prosecutor is considering whether to take over an investigation into an Islamic group suspected of trying to smuggle suicide bombers into Iraq, a spokesman said Thursday. “It follows the arrest of an Iraq at Munich railway station Tuesday and […]
Indonesia: Christians slain during church service
Joko Harmono files this report from Indonesia: Christians slain by Terrorists during Church Service by Joko Harmono POSO, INDONESIA, Nov 30 2003: Tonight, as the congregation in Tabamawo, 120 km (70 miles) east of Poso, sat attentively, taking in the sermon being delivered by their pastor’s wife, Sandra Tengker, two gunmen arrived on motorcycles, coming […]
Jihad and dhimmitude in Paris: the murder of Jews and its coverup
Alyssa Lappen files an alarming report in FrontPage today, detailing the murder of Jews in Paris — and the fact that the major French media outlets considered the news unfit to print. “. . . two Paris Jews were brutally murdered and disfigured–because they were Jewish. A minor tabloid, Le Parisien, reported the grisly events. […]
Malvo sketches depicted “jihad”
One of Malvo’s drawings Hoping to shed light on what they believe was an insane mind, defense attorneys for sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo presented a judge yesterday with dozens of sketches that the teen-ager scribbled in his jail cell while awaiting trial for last fall’s sniper attacks — crimes that Malvo depicted in his […]
Jailhouse Jihad
Recruitment of jihad warriors isn’t just something that goes on in far-off places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Jordan, Egypt, and Paraguay: it has also been going on in the Texas prison system. CBS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth has “uncovered a disturbing half-hour videotape apparently used as a recruitment tool in the Beto One Prison Unit in East […]
Suicide bombers nabbed in mosque; school was targeted
Many Muslims have pointed out since September 11 that Islam forbids killing women, children, and the innocent. Of this there is no doubt, but there is a key distinction: as I explain in Onward Muslim Soldiers, the Shafi’i school of Sunni jurisprudence stipulates that “it is not permissible . . . to kill women and […]
Briton Charged With Helping “Shoe Bomber”
Shoe bomber Richard Reid: did he have help? (AP photo) “A British man arrested last week in southwestern England was charged Wednesday with conspiring with convicted ‘shoe-bomber’ Richard Reid in an explosives plot, police said.” This from AP. “Sajid Badat was charged with three offenses, including that between Sept. 1, 2001, and Nov. 28, 2003, […]
Jihad in Florida: Conference of the Terrorists
While CAIR and other American Muslim advocacy groups try to strong-arm the American public and law enforcement agencies into accepting on faith that all American Muslims are benign, peaceful people, a veritable who’s who of Islamic radicals is planning a conference in Florida. “Some anti-hate groups are outraged that a Saudi cleric who called on […]