“The U.S. military is holding 20 people suspected of links Al Qaeda links, the commander of American forces said Tuesday. ‘Currently, we have about 20 who are suspected of being from Al Qaeda,’ L. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told reporters. ‘We are still questioning them’ and have not determined absolutely whether they are members of Usama […]
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Egypt frees radical Muslims
“While the U.S. and its allies are fighting Islamist ideology and terror,” Michael Meunier observes, “Egypt, a supposed Western ally, is drastically undermining their efforts. In an alleged attempt at ‘historic reconciliation,’ President Mubarak has recently released Egypt’s most notorious and dangerous Islamist leaders, along with over 1,000 of their cohorts.” This is bad news […]
More dhimmitude in Britain
Reader Scandinavian infidel last night sent me this story, in which the Muslim Public Affairs Council of the UK calls upon Muslims to protest an illustration in a book: “It has been brought to our attention that a British company has published the above ‘portrait’ of Allah’s last prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him) to […]
Will Britain convert to Islam?
Peter Hitchens, author of The Abolition of Britain, has now written about what could well be the next stage of Britain’s history: Britain as an Islamic society. He explains how Islam is already filling the spiritual void left by the collapse of Christianity there, and that there is no adequate counterweight to its force in […]
AP: It isn’t just Al-Qaeda
“A report released Tuesday said Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network has been largely dismantled, but the threat posed by extremist Muslim terrorists remains high and has grown harder to track.” This just in from AP. I have been saying ever since 9/11 that the threat of radical Islam doesn’t come only from Al-Qaeda, but that […]
What about non-Muslims?
Any sign that Al-Qaeda is growing unpopular in the Muslim world is good news. Still, there is something ghastly about the fact that Muslims are angry because Al-Qaeda attacked “Muslims it considers traitors to the faith.” When we get to the point that the Muslim world is outraged because innocent non-combatants, regardless of their creed, […]
Dhimmitude at Stanford
Another example of the common tactic of labeling any criticism of radical and terrorist Islam as “racist.” At Stanford University, “A group of students began circulating an e-mail petition yesterday asking for the recall of Daily Editor in Chief Ramin Setoodeh, after The Daily decided to continue running a series of controversial advertisements from a […]
Egyptians, not Arabs
I have many close friends who are Lebanese Christians; they politely decline to be designated as “Arabs,” and remind those who call them by that name that they are descendants of the Phoenicians who were in Lebanon long before the Muslim conquerors arrived from Arabia. Now in Egypt there is a movement stemming from similar […]
Amputations in Nigeria
“All is set for the amputation of the limbs of two men convicted by a Sharia court in Zaria. . . . The Kaduna State Grand Khadi, Dr Maccido Ibrahim, who announced this at a Ramadan fast-breaking ceremony at the palace of the Emir of Zauzzau, Dr Shehu Idris, said the judgment signalled the effective […]