Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Archives for 2003

Dhimmitude at the FBI: Jews Need Not Apply to Fight Terror

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The best line in this terrific Front Page piece by Paul Sperry is the last: Shelomo Alfassa, vice president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture in New York, says: “Imagine if during the war against Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt felt that having Jews fight the Nazis might upset the everyday […]

Al-Qaida terrorists to gas U.S. subways?

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“Al-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily.” “‘Al-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological […]

Jihad in the Saudi Embassy in Washington

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MEMRI has an illuminating report about the Islamic Affairs Department (IAD) of the Saudi embassy in Washington: “Officials of the Saudi government working at the IAD in Washington, D.C. and its worldwide offices have been mentioned in media reports in 2002 and 2003 for suspected connections with terrorist activities. During the past week, it was […]

Al-Qaida Has Turkish Members

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Why would a Muslim from secular Turkey leave his job and travel to Chechnya to fight battles against Russian infantry? Because the will to jihad is not born of poverty or desperation; it is not a disguised nationalistic impulse, despite the intimations otherwise in the article below. It is a religious impulse that is born […]

More on Al-Qaeda’s Christian targets

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Paul Marshall offers a useful summation of the evidence that Al-Qaeda targeted Christians, not Muslims, in Riyadh — and of the dangers of glossing over that evidence. “The media,” says Marshall, “seem to equate Arab with Muslim and, along with some in the administration, think that al Qaeda’s war is against Americans and Westerners per […]

Jihad in Chechnya

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Here is a detailed Islamic theological treatise explaining what jihad is and calling upon Muslims to wage jihad in Chechnya. It was prepared by the Shariah Council of State Defense Council of Chechnya, and published as “Jihad and Its Solution Today.” Its use of Islamic sources exactly parallels many other similar instances that I detail […]

Sharia in Canada

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Canadian Muslims are taking steps to set up Sharia law to adjudicate disputes within their own communities. Law Times News reports that “a recent convention of Muslim community leaders” has “elected a 30-member council which will work towards establishing a Darul-Qada (a judicial tribunal), to be known as the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice (Canada).” […]

Dhimmis in California no longer compliant

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The American Middle East Christian Association has staged a public protest against the teaching of Islam in a public school in California: “Hundreds of Christians who fled Egypt to the United States claiming persecution under Islam showed up outside a Southern California middle school yesterday to protest an extra-credit assignment urging students to participate in […]

Anti-dhimmitude from Mark Steyn

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Mark Steyn’s column today addresses the furor over a comic strip that the Council on American Islamic Relations says insults Islam. Steyn, unlike CAIR, manages to keep a more balanced perspective. When asked to speak about the strip in The Media, Steyn declined: “Although I agreed of course that Islamophobic cartooning was the most pressing […]

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