“Authorities raised the terrorist threat assessment over the weekend after new intelligence indicated that operatives of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, possibly trained and licensed to fly passenger jets, may now be pilots for some foreign airlines, ideally positioning them to carry out suicide attacks, U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday.” This from […]
Archives for 2003
Mideast rife with rumors about American intentions
Last night I completed an article about conspiracy theories running rampant in the Muslim world (watch for it soon), and this morning CBN News has a piece about the same thing. “Rumors and conspiracy theories seem to run rampant through the Arab world. Today, the rumor that may generate the most fear and anger is […]
Jordan: Muslim brother confronts Christian widow, claims her children
“Jordanian police used an outdated arrest warrant two days ago in another foiled attempt to detain Siham Qandah, a Christian widow fighting to retain custody of her two minor children in Jordan.” So says Compass Direct in an update of a story posted here some time ago. But when police in the northern Jordanian town […]
“A Kalashnikov culture has taken birth in our society”
Those are the words of a young Pakistani bemoaning the spread of the jihad ideology in his homeland. (Of course, it’s the Americans’ fault.) This comes from the Calcutta Telegraph. The article asserts that the wind has gone out of the sails of the jihad movement in Pakistan: “The ‘jihad project’, a number of Pakistanis […]
Saddam: Former Leader of the Global Jihad?
This morning, FrontPage magazine’s lead story is my exploration of Saddam’s reasons for getting himself included in the genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad. It could well have been part of an attempt to position himself as the chief of the global jihadist movement, trumping the Taliban’s Mullah Omar as Osama bin Laden’s spiritual leader. The […]
Dhimmitude at Reuters challenged
A letter that was recently sent to Reuters was kindly forwarded to Jihad Watch: “Dear Editor: “Why do you slant the news in favor of terrorists? Why do you call suicidal maniacs driven by the ideology of Jew-hatred and genocide ‘activists’ and ‘freedom fighters’? You know they are funded by Saudi Arabia, Iran and other […]
No peace talks “” or else
“Egypt’s foreign minister, on a peace mission to Israel, was rushed to hospital after being attacked today by Muslims at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.” This from The Scotsman. Why was he attacked? Evidently for holding peace talks with Ariel Sharon: “Ahmed Maher had left talks with Israeli premier Ariel Sharon to pray at […]
A radical Muslim threatens the U.S.
The Yahoo group Daleel Al-Mojahid (Guide for the Jihadi) has gotten attention in the past few months for passing on threats against Americans. Those threats didn’t turn out to be substantive, but the man posting there now offers an oblique excuse: “We promise you a big surprise coming soon which was delayed due to the […]
PA trafficking in Christian holidays
The fundamental hallmark of dhimmi status is the jizya, the special tax that non-Muslims have to pay in Muslim societies. While this tax is still part of the Sharia, it is enforced almost nowhere in the Islamic world today (although radical Muslims are laboring to change that). But the Palestinian Authority has hit on a […]
Iran criticizes France’s “extremist decision”
“Iran on Sunday criticized French President Jacques Chirac’s ‘extremist decision’ to back a ban on Islamic headscarves and other conspicuous religious signs at schools.” This from AFP, with thanks to LGF. It’s amusing to see the government of Iran calling any other entity “extremist,” but it gets worse: “‘We regard this as an extremist decision […]