Yesterday I wrote about two of the CAIR members who have recently been arrested on suspicion of activities aiding terrorists, and lo and behold, one of them was just sentenced. According to AP, “The former head of an Islamic charity that was accused of having ties to terrorism was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to […]
Archives for 2003
“Terror Attack Against the U.S. with 100,000 Deaths is Imminent”
From MEMRI: “Al-Qal’a (The Fortress) an Islamist Internet forum, posted the first of a two-part interview with a person who introduced himself as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, one of the Al-Qa’ida commanders closest to Osama bin Laden. The interview was conducted in Iraq, south of Faluja. The article notes that Al-Hijazi was surrounded by five masked […]
Germany OKs Terror Suspects’ Extradition
“Germany’s supreme court said Thursday it has approved the extradition of two Yemenis to the United States, where they are wanted on charges of supporting al-Qaida.” “According to papers from a Brooklyn federal court supporting the extradition request that were released in March, [Ali Hassan] al-Moayad told an FBI informant that he supplied $20 million, […]
Mullah Omar: keep up the jihad
Says Reuters: “Unidentified men on a motorbike have handed Reuters an audio cassette purporting to be of supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, two years to the day after his hardline regime fled Kabul.” Says Omar: “I am talking about faith and Islam among the commanders, about those who are not participating in the jihad. […]
CAIR to Bush: Be a good dhimmi
From Fox: “President Bush is willing to pose for pictures with American Muslims and publicly praise Islam, but developing a substantive relationship with the Bush administration will take much more work, say some Muslim-American groups.” Said Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): “We need to see regular, productive, policy-based meetings.” You have […]
Islamic democracy watch
In the New York Times, Noah Feldman asks, “Can a nation be founded on both Islam and democracy without compromising on human rights and equality?” He has high hopes for Afghanistan’s new constitution, although he acknowledges that its provisions about women’s rights are ambiguous. About non-Muslim rights he says: “The provision that makes Islam the […]
Ex-Guantanamo Translator Indicted
A linguist at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for allegedly “gathering, transmitting and losing defense information” that was part of the military’s highly secret operation of interrogating suspected terrorist detainees at the prison camp there. So says an LA Times story. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba’s […]
Sudan: a report on the peace process
Courtesy of Freedom Now News, a report on the ongoing tragedy of the dhimmi populations in Sudan: Red Flags in Sudan: Threats to the Peace Process; Widening Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur by Eric Reeves The massive and growing humanitarian crisis in Darfur Province (northwestern Sudan) is not typically seen in the context of peace negotiations […]
Medved Show
Just in case anyone was planning to tune in today, the scheduled appearance of Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer on the Michael Medved Show, along with Muslim Public Affairs Council Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati, has been rescheduled for Monday, November 17, at 4PM Eastern.
Dhimmitude at the Ford Foundation
According to FrontPage magazine, “American philanthropic organizations have given substantial amounts of money to Palestinian charities over the years, but their dollars may have funded a great deal more than charity. There is reason to believe that some of this money may have gone from philanthropic foundations, through Palestinian NGO’s, into the hands of terrorist […]