Why did Reem Raiyshi become a suicide bomber? She may have had no choice. It seems that her husband caught her en flagrante with a Hamas member “” whereupon he encouraged her to atone for this family dishonor by blowing herself up and taking some Israelis with her. This is atonement a la Hamas, based […]
Archives for January 2004
Pressure mounts on Sudan over girl’s flogging
Is flogging a 16-year-old girl cruel and unusual punishment, or just obedience to the law of God? This is the choice that the Western world increasingly will have to make. In Sudan, the choice has already been made — unless enough unwelcome international attention can be focused upon this case, so that this poor girl […]
Car bomb targets French Muslim leader
Aissa Dermouche was last week appointed prefect of France’s Jura region. Dermouche is an Algerian Muslim whom many Muslims in France despise as a sellout — he supports the headscarf ban. In what seems to be a signal to him — as well as a strong hint of what is likely to be in France’s […]
Muslim Radicalism Flowers in French Town
France has good reason to be concerned about the hijab: it is a visible symbol of a complex system of laws that stand in direct opposition to the ideas of equality of rights and dignity for all. That there are Muslims in France who are already working for the downfall of the French Republic and […]
Egyptian military clashes with Christian Center staff
If dhimmis don’t remember their subservience, they will be made to remember it. A Coptic question has been killed in Egypt in yet another episode of the ongoing campaign of harassment of the indigenous Christians there. The report comes from Compass Direct: An Egyptian Christian was killed and two others seriously injured Monday when another […]
Suicide bombing kills 23 in Iraq
Why would a suicide bomber in Iraq or anywhere else target non-combatants — in this case Defense Department workers? Because Islamic law allows for the killing of civilians, even women and children, if they are viewed as aiding the war effort. This is the justification behind the suicide attacks in buses and restaurants in Israel: […]
Musharraf vows jihad to wipe out terror
Embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has called for a jihad against terror. Doesn’t he know that jihad is just a spiritual struggle to bring the soul into conformity with God’s will? How can he wipe out terror by calling on Pakistanis to try to become more spiritual and avoid temptation? The report comes from Sify […]
U.S. Eyes UAE Banks in Terror Money Probe
Evidently the tiny minority of extremists have a few good friends in international banking. Now banks in the United Arab Emirates are being investigated: Banks in this financial hub of the Arab world remain a key focus in the investigation into terror funding despite moves to tighten reporting rules, freeze accounts and control informal money […]
More Al-Qaeda online terror
Another Al-Qaeda training manual has surfaced online. (You can read about another here.) In it, Al-Qaeda gives further evidence that it has been severely damaged — but that it has by no means given up. This from The Observer, : Al-Qaeda has issued a chilling new call to arms to recruits who remain undetected by […]
Dhimmitude at the movies: Ridley Scott’s new Crusades film “panders to Osama bin Laden”
In my book Onward Muslim Soldiers, a study of global jihad, I spend a chapter debunking the myth of Muslim Spain — the idea that Al-Andalus was in the Middle Ages a beacon of tolerance where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in harmony. I thought this was important to do because the myth of […]