Since 9/11 we have heard again and again that Islamic militants make up only a tiny minority of Muslims worldwide. Most Muslims, we’re told, strongly repudiate terrorism, knowing that it has nothing to do with true, peaceful Islam. Dr. Abdul Hakim Murad, a lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, put it in […]
Archives for 2003
Sorry sorry sorry: MacShane apologizes again
“Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane today made a fresh apology for remarks he planned to make about British Muslims but was later forced to tone down.” So says The Scotsman. “In an article for his local paper the Sheffield Star, the Rotherham MP said he ‘could have chosen some of his words more carefully’. “Mr […]
CAIR, Buffalo News complain over sentencing of Lackawanna Al-Qaeda cell members
The Lackawanna Six (AP/CBS photo) Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR has issued a press release about the sentencing of the “Lackawanna Six,” the Al-Qaeda cell operating in an upstate New York mosque: Sentencing Debate over “Lackawanna Six”? On 02 December, 2003, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), issued a press release (link not available) linking […]
Radical Muslim cleric cleared of treason, jail term cut
“The Jakarta Superior Court has overturned militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir’s treason and sedition conviction, and cut his jail term from four years to three.” This from Straits Times, with thanks to nicolei. Judges said prosecutors failed to prove Bashir had taken part in a plot by the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network to […]
Pakistan to deport six terror suspects
“Pakistan will deport six Indonesian students suspected of having links to terrorism next week, including the brother of a recently detained militant considered to be Al-Qaeda’s point man in Asia, Indonesian officials said yesterday.” This from Straits Times, with thanks to nicolei. “The suspects, all of whom were studying at the Abubakar Islamic University in […]
Jihad in Paris: Jewish pupil beaten up by Muslims
“A Jewish pupil attending a highly rated Paris secondary school was repeatedly beaten up by Muslim fellow pupils.” This from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Alyssa Lappen. “The headmaster filed a lawsuit against the two aggressors. “The 11-year old Jewish boy, whose name was not released, was repetitively verbally abused and beaten by two […]
Jihad warriors trained in rural France
Perhaps attracted by the congenial surroundings, “French Islamist militants, who later spent time in al-Qaida military camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan and went on to became soldiers of the jihad, underwent their first group training exercises in the bucolic surroundings of the forest of Fontainebleau, investigators said yesterday.” This from the Guardian, with thanks to […]
El Fadl denies report, threatens to sue
El Fadl strikes back (PBS photo) The New York Sun (no link, subscription only) reports that Khaled Abou El Fadl, “a Bush administration appointee to the Commission on International Religious Freedom,” is “threatening to sue an Egyptian government magazine over an interview in which he allegedly calls President Bush a religious fundamentalist who is seeking […]
EU envoy: Anti-Muslim sentiment on rise
While the EU has spiked a report on Muslim anti-Semitism, an EU official worries that anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise: “European Union Ambassador Giancarlo Chevallard said Monday that while he can’t say whether there has been an increase in European anti-Semitism, there has definitely been an increase in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab feeling.” This from […]
Dhimmi Carter explains the causes of terrorism
Dhimmi Carter A member of Hamas Dhimmi and Rosalyn Carter with Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer in happier days (1984) Nobel laureate and former President Dhimmi Carter spread more malaise yesterday when he said in Geneva that “the present administration in Washington has been invariably supportive of Israel, and the well-being of the Palestinian people […]