This AP profile of Istanbul suicide bomber Gokhan Elaltuntas says that his path to radicalism began four years before he blew himself up in front of a synagogue, part of what appeared to be a coordinated chain of deadly suicide attacks. The article goes to Bingol, Elaltuntas’s Turkish hometown, to inform us that while devoutly […]
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Jihad at Ohio State
While American soldiers fight and die in Afghanistan and Iraq, students on the home front praise their murderers. During the Third Annual National Student Conference On Palestine Solidarity, held from November 7 to 9 at Ohio State University, “Islamist radicals gathered in America’s heartland to openly call for the destruction of Israel, the overthrow of […]
Dhimmitude in Iraq: Iraqis wrestle with Jewish factor
“When Imam Mahdi al-Jumeili of the small Hudheifa mosque in Baghdad’s Shurti neighborhood met three American officers to resolve a dispute over soldiers entering the grounds of his mosque, his first question to them was ‘are any of you Jews’? When he was satisfied that none were, he allowed the meeting to proceed. Prior to […]
More of the Elder interview with Spencer
Larry Elder’s column today continues his discussion of Islam and jihad with Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, from his November 10. The first part of this partial transcription can be found here.
A ray of hope in Sudan
Charles Jacobs, president of the American Anti-Slavery Group, and John Eibner, assistant to the international president of Christian Solidarity International, report in the Washington Times on a ray of hope in Sudan, where Christians have been enslaved and brutalized by Muslims for years: “For the first time in 20 years, Southern Sudan stands on the […]
Happy thanksgiving
I hope all of you in the U.S. (and anywhere else where you might be observing it) are enjoying a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving. We are sipping champagne in the Jihad Watch headquarters now and thanking God for blessing us in this nation with relative peace and freedom, as difficult as those things are to […]
Al-Qaeda quietly relocates to Algeria
The threat of Islamic terror is global, and cannot be attributed solely to Al-Qaeda. However, there are numerous indications that that organization itself is far from incapacitated, even if its involvement in some recent attacks may have been exaggerated. Middle East Newsline now reports that “Al Qaida operatives have been relocating to the southern Sahara […]
Canada: Sharia’s dhimmi enforcers
This WorldNetDaily report on the possible adoption of Sharia law by the Islamic community in Canada draws on the same source I used for my report on this on Tuesday. However, WND emphasizes one aspect of the report that I had overlooked: if Canadian Muslims adopt Sharia for their internal affairs, enforcement will still be […]
On the job with a Taliban recruiter
Where does the Taliban get recruits? In mosques and madrassas, says this profile of a Taliban recruiter in Pakistan from Asia Times. “Abdul Zahir’s day starts with morning visits to a number of mosques in the Pakistani border area with Afghanistan, where the faithful gather for the first of their five daily prayer sessions. And […]
Radical Islam’s inroads in Indonesia
Endy M. Bayuni of the Jakarta Post offers a clear-eyed assessment of the future of radical Islam and democracy in Indonesia: “Political Islam has been making significant inroads ever since Indonesia embarked on democracy in 1998. To the casual observer, the specter of Islamist political forces overrunning secular parties in democratic elections seems all too […]