Osama bin Laden’s family, which has disowned its most famous son, runs one of the five companies that have just been awarded contracts to operate Saudi airports. Osama, of course, has already displayed a taste for air operations. And as this news report notes laconically, “Western intelligence agencies said Al Qaida has been planning to […]
Archives for 2003
“This is Not How We Work Here”
This just in from Sheik Mohammed Omran of Melbourne, Australia: violent jihad is acceptable in Iraq, but not in Australia itself. Why not? As the Sheikh put it to two Abdul Rahman Ayub and Abdul Rahim Ayub, Australia-based leaders of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah in Australia: “This is not how we work here.” What […]
Ramadan: The Month of Jihad
The Christian Science Monitor reports today on a strange phenomenon: the increase in the number of terror attacks since the beginning of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. Why would any Muslim devote his energy to killing people during a period when he should be spending his time increasing his religious fervor? Precisely because jihad is, […]
Dhimmitude at the New York Post
Amir Taheri has written a great deal of worthwhile material, but I can’t add his New York Post piece “No One Speaks For All Muslims” to the list. It’s a classic example of the dhimmitude that whitewashes any blot on the master’s record. To wit: “. . . many commentators in the West, especially in […]
The Vatican Speaks Out Against Dhimmitude
Many (if not most) of you have already seen this at LGF, but I had been planning to put it up already, and it is so significant that I didn’t want to let it go by unremarked. La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine in Rome that enjoys semi-official status in the Catholic Church, has published […]
Louis and Mahathir
Louis Farrakhan is waning in influence these days, but he and his Nation of Islam should not be underestimated: his word still counts for a great deal among many, many Americans. And although neither Sunnis nor Shi’ites consider the Nation of Islam a proper or orthodox Muslim group, Farrakhan finds a great deal to admire […]
Dhimmitude in Germany
Here is a perceptive and illuminating piece from Serge Trifkovic, author of the superb Sword of the Prophet: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam. This is modern Germany, a land too spiritually and culturally exhausted to resist those who openly declare their intent to remake Germany into an Islamic state. What is in store for […]
More on Hizb-ut-Tahrir
At Jihad Watch I just posted information about a remarkable story in which the radical Muslim group Hizb-ut-Tahrir discloses its aims. In the story, this organization shows that the laws of dhimmitude are very much part of the radical Muslim program. This is how non-Muslims would be treated in a Hizb-ut-Tahrir state — and everything […]
A refreshingly honest admission
The Islamic group Hizb-ut-Tahrir has given Forum 18 News Service a remarkably open acknowledgment of radical Muslim goals. It’s all here. Hizb-ut-Tahrir wants to: 1. Restore a worldwide Caliphate, uniting the world under Islamic rule; 2. Ban all faiths apart from Islam, Judaism and Christianity (members of other religions are not listed as “People of […]
Dhimmitude in Italy — and Egypt
Not only has Italy banned the crucifix from a classroom — now they’ve thrown the Pope’s “Jubilee Cross” into the garbage. The classroom crucifix ban accedes to the wishes of “Muslim activist” Adel Smith, who was offended by the thought of his daughter having to gaze in class at a “miniature cadaver.” Smith pressed all […]