From the Daily Times of Pakistan: “Rashid says Muslims can’t deny jihadi culture.” “Rashid” is Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad. He “told a Pakistani television channel on Friday that one of the attackers of Thursday’s suicide bomb attack on President Musharraf seemed to be a foreigner. He also said the jihadi culture in Pakistan […]
Archives for 2003
“Blessings for whoever has saved a bullet in order to stick it in a Jew’s head”
MEMRI has published extracts from sermons in Palestinian mosques over the last three years. Anyone wanting real answers to hoary questions such as Why Do They Hate Us? and How Do They See Us? should read this material carefully. Says compiler Steven Stalinsky: “Each Khatib (preacher) is a paid employee of the Palestinian Authority (PA). […]
A Not So Merry Christmas in the Holy Land
David Bedein writes at FrontPage about Christmas in the Palestinian Authority, noting that “this is the first Christmas since the Palestinian Authority adopted an official constitution based on Koranic ‘Sharia’ Law, which means that all Christians who live under the PA are now subject to Islamic Law. “Over the past three years, while attention has […]
Jihad in Tennessee
Yes, there was a militant Muslim organization in Knoxville, Tennessee, that was helping fund jihad in Bosnia and Chechnya in the 1990s, but it’s no longer active. See? Nothing to be concerned about at all. KnoxNews reports that “a former member of a secretive Islamic fundamentalist organization in Knoxville helped funnel money to militant fighters […]
Jihad leader killed
“A military leader of the radical group Islamic Jihad and four other Palestinians were killed on Thursday, and seven people wounded, when Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a car here, Palestinian medical sources said.” This report is from News24.com, with thanks to Jean-Luc. “Islamic Jihad leader Moqbel Hamid was killed when a missile struck […]
Radical Muslims’ sentencing delayed
Did the attack on Maher cause the postponement? “An Egyptian security court has postponed sentencing in the trial of 23 Egyptians and three Britons accused of plotting to oust Arab governments.” So says Al-Jazeera, with thanks to Nicolei. “They stand accused of belonging to and trying to reactivate the banned Islamic Liberation Party, and aiming […]
Palestinian children collect pictures of militants like baseball cards
The tiny minority of extremists, repudiated and despised as they are by the vast majority of Muslims, is printing the faces of its heroes on trading cards. And the kids love ’em: “Palestinian children are collecting cards showing gunmen and soldiers the way American kids trade baseball cards, and some educators are concerned that the […]
Terrorists still plotting
Las Vegas — as a symbol of Western decadence — has surfaced in the past as a target of Islamic terrorism, and now it has come up again: “U.S. government officials said yesterday they believe some of the passengers boarding one of the three Air France flights from Paris to Los Angeles that were canceled […]
Dhimmitude and Bernard Lewis
In connection with scholar Bernard Lewis’s strange misapplication of the Qur’anic verse declaring that there is “no compulsion in religion,” Bassam Madany of Middle East Resources has kindly directed me to his article “ Bernard Lewis on ‘Triumphalist Religions.’” In it, Madany points out that Lewis’s equation of the missionary impulses of Christianity and Islam […]
Muslims warned to leave U.S. cities — again
Evidently American Muslims in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles should keep their bags packed: six weeks after warnings for Muslims to leave those cities were posted on radical Muslim websites, they have appeared again. WorldNetDaily reports that “known al-Qaida affiliated websites are warning Muslims to leave New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles ahead […]