Colin Powell hosted an Iftaar dinner (the evening meal to break the day’s Ramadan fast) last night at the State Department. In his address to the gathering, he declared: “I have learned about Islam as a religion of peace and caring, a religion that teaches values we all share, such as tolerance, justice, and respect […]
Archives for 2003
Iran’s jihad in Argentina
According to the Chinese news service Xinhuanet, “A former member of the Iranian espionage services testified Wednesday that his country was behind the 1994 attack on a Jewish center in the Argentinian capital which left 86 dead.” “The attack on a Jewish center building on July 18, 1994 left a total of 86 people dead […]
“O Moderate Muslims, Where Art Thou?”
I take my questions to Dr. Badawi (below, “In search of moderate Muslims”) to a wider forum in a new article, “O Moderate Muslims, Where Art Thou?” at FrontPage this morning.
Al-Jazeera losing its edge?
Asia Times reports that “Aljazeera is coming in for increasing criticism in the Arab world after a spate of embarrassing revelations that suggest it has capitulated to United States pressure and tamed its news coverage.” Exactly how did it tame its coverage? “Aljazeera’s top management chose not to air several Osama bin Laden tapes; pulled […]
“A mentally retarded woman with secular thinking.”
Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi “has been given bodyguards by police following a number of death threats since she returned to Iran last month, a close associate said Wednesday.” Ebadi has no friends in high places. “Gholamreza Hasani, who represents Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in northwestern Iran, has described Ebadi as a ‘mentally retarded […]
Palestinian Incitement to Kill and Hate Americans
While Canada cancels a TV show about Islam because some Muslims believe that its tone, not anything it actually said, will incite people to hatred (see “Dhimmitude in Canada: watch your tone of voice there, buddy” at Dhimmi Watch), many high-placed Palestinian Muslims don’t seem to be worried about their tone at all. IMRA and […]
Dhimmitude in Canada: watch your tone of voice there, buddy
“An American evangelist’s television series on Islam in America was canceled by a Canadian station after the first program because Muslims complained his tone and demeanor was an incitement of hatred,” according to World Net Daily. Program Manager Rob Sheppard wrote “a letter of apology” to the Canadian branch of the Council on American Islamic […]
Islamic terror training center in Paris
According to Joseph Farah of World Net Daily, “France is involved in a massive, emergency investigation of the activities of Islamic terror groups operating inside the country, turning the European nation into a major logistical and operational base.” (Thanks again to LGF.) And why not? If Islamic terrorists could train in Alabama, they can certainly […]
Dhimmitude in Europe
The superb Michael Radu, Senior Fellow and Co-Chair of the Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, here dares to ask the hard questions about the future of European freedom of religion and secularism in the face of increasing Islamic militancy. Radu recounts some of the recent controversies in Europe over […]
Interpreter vs. the US
“U.S. forces apparently launched an airstrike that killed six Afghan civilians, including four children, because they were misled by an Afghan interpreter trying to settle scores, a senior government minister said Tuesday.” Read this story in light of the politically correct don’t-ask-don’t-tell mentality about radical Islam that seems to have pervaded the translation operations among […]