Despite numerous threats, and a new one for Ramadan repeated at the end of this Arab News article, we haven’t seen Al-Qaeda pulling off a major operation on US soil since 9/11. Thank God; but complacency would be dangerous. Eight years elapsed between the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the successful 2001 attack. And […]
Archives for 2003
Saudi Arabia: Fighting Smears with Dhimmitude
Arab News this morning informs us that in an address to senior military commanders, Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan, “second deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, has denounced what he called a smear campaign against Islam and the Kingdom and said it was an outpouring of jealousy of its resources and Islam.” “We are […]
Answering the Call to Jihad
“Across Europe and the Middle East,” says the New York Times, “young militant Muslim men are answering a call issued by Osama bin Laden and other extremists, and leaving home to join the fight against the American-led occupation in Iraq, according to senior counterterrorism officials based in six countries.” Wait a minute. Don’t these “young […]
“I know Who Doesn’t Want Iraq To Be Free”
Louis Sako, Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Kirkuk in Iraq, has spoken out about the situation in his homeland. Bishop Sako is one of the five Christians on the 200-member panel now working on Iraq’s new constitution. But outside forces, he says, are making their job more difficult: “Iraq as an engine of democracy does not […]
Rod Dreher on ISNA
Rod Dreher reports in the Dallas Morning News about a most revealing interview with Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Dreher asked Syeed a question about ISNA’s ties to extremists. He writes: “Dr. Syeed’s revealing reaction – he said that my query reminded him of ‘Nazism’ and […]
New Issue of “Voice of Jihad”
The Middle East Media Research Institute reports on a new issue of Al-Qaeda’s online magazine, “Voice of Jihad.” “Our number one enemy,” this issue tells us, “is the Jews and the Christians, and we must free ourselves to invest all our efforts until we annihilate them – and we are able do this if Allah […]
Turkey: Attackers critically injure Turkish Christian
Compass Direct reports today that Yakup Cindilli, a Turkish convert to Christianity, is in a coma after receiving a savage beating from members of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), a political party which “has historically linked its platform with an Islamic-tinged version of nationalism.” Cindilli’s offense? According to the Turkish paper Milliyet, Cindilli and a […]
Hillary Blasts PA for Teaching Hate
I have always said that the struggle against jihad terror and dhimmitude is not a conservative or liberal issue; it is a human rights issue. Any person of good will who believes in the equality of rights and dignity of all people — women as well as men, non-Muslims as well as Muslims — should […]
Two new pieces
Check out this morning a Symposium on Muslim Anti-Semitism at Front Page, featuring Bat Ye’or, Walid Phares, Kenneth Timmerman, and me. Also there today is a piece on the new statement on Islam from La Civiltá Cattolica, about which I wrote here yesterday.
Dhimmitude at the VOA
The Voice of America was once a key component of America’s ideological struggle against Communism. But against a new threat it seems to be having trouble summoning the requisite backbone. In this interview with the author of a new book on terrorism, the author explains why she profiled Christian cultists and Jewish militants in a […]