“Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network has continued to spread, with Iraq becoming a fertile ground for al-Qaeda supporters while anti-terror responses have been weak, a UN-appointed group said.” This from the Sydney Morning Herald. “While the group cited some progress in freezing assets of and banning travels by members of al-Qaeda and the former militants […]
Archives for 2003
American Muslim Woman Sentenced for Role in Taliban Aid
October Martinique Lewis (CNN) “The lone woman among a group of American Muslims who tried to ally themselves with the Taliban was sentenced Monday to three years in prison.” This from AP. “October Martinique Lewis, 26, was convicted of wiring money to her husband and a group of men who tried to cross into Afghanistan […]
Jailed Muslim had many friends in Washington
Abdurahman Alamoudi (IslamOnline.net) Abdurahman Alamoudi was one of the nation’s leading Muslim “moderates.” In former Congressman Paul Findley’s book Silent No More: Confronting America’s False Images of Islam, he praised Alamoudi as an “early pioneer in Muslim political activism”; he didn’t quote, of course, any of Alamoudi’s statements supporting terrorist groups. Findley wasn’t the only […]
Kucinich shills for CAIR
The Dhimmicratic candidate Cementing his status as the nation’s foremost Dhimmicrat, presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich “headlined a fund-raiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group with ties to the Mideast terrorist organization Hamas and an agenda for an Islamic USA.” This from WorldNetDaily, with thanks to dsvochak. CAIR announced its national fund-raising campaign had […]
Tariq Ramadan: reformer or theocrat in disguise?
(Photo: Time magazine) The Boston Globe profiles controversial European Muslim Tariq Ramadan today, just as the Weekly Standard carries a report about his growing influence in France. In Onward Muslim Soldiers I chronicled Ramadan’s studied ambiguity on important questions of the compatibility with Islam and secular democracy. He is continuing to hone his skills in […]
The Decline of France — and the rise of the Islamo-leftist alliance
In Onward Muslim Soldiers I entitled a chapter “Everybody must get stoned: The strange alliance between radical Islam and the post-Sixties Left.” Now Christopher Caldwell in The Weekly Standard shows how rapidly the alliance between the Left and radical Islam is progressing in (where else?) France. A few of Caldwell’s keen observations: “While America believed […]
Global jihad watch: Philippine rebels trained by Indonesian terrorists
Just as foreign jihadists are traveling to Iraq to wage jihad, so “Indonesian militants from the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) network are probably training Filipino guerillas in mountainous areas on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, a top official said yesterday.” This from AFP, with thanks to Nicolei. “Defence Secretary Eduardo Ermita, quoting military intelligence […]
Al-Jazeera under fire for links to terrorism
An Al-Jazeera broadcast shows a man calling for attacks on the US. — REUTERS John R. Bradley, managing editor of Arab News, writes in Straits Times about the notorious Qatari news network Al-Jazeera’s recent troubles: “Even for a news organisation which frequently makes world headlines, the past two months have been a roller-coaster ride for […]
Security alert in Scotland: “Tartan Taliban” questioned, released
Most Americans have heard of John Walker Lindh, the “Marin County Mujahid” who converted to Islam as a teenager and had gone to Afghanistan to join forces with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda by the time he was in his early twenties. Few know that there are many such Westerners — including the Australian Jack Jihad […]
Saudi Columnist: “We Are the Problem and Not America”
Is Saudi Arabia coming to its senses? According to IMRA, “on November 30, 2003, Dr. Muhammad Talal Al-Rasheed, columnist for the English language daily The Saudi Gazette, wrote an article titled ‘Senseless Violence, Senseless Death.’ The article is in reaction to the murder of Saudi Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rasheed of Hail by ‘Islamists’ […]