This just in from MEMRI: “The Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat published an interview with Nabil Sahrawi, also known as Abu Ibrahim Mustafa, a leader of the Salafi Group for Da’wa and Fighting in Algeria. This group has been linked with Al-Qa’ida. Prior to publication, the interview, which is Sahrawi’s first, was posted on Islamist websites. “At […]
Archives for January 2004
Homeland Security’s faulty new anti-terror policy
Lorenzo Vidino and Erick Stakelbeck at FrontPage magazine explain why the Department of Homeland Security’s new policy of fingerprinting foreigners from selected countries as they enter the U.S. endangers us all and makes it more likely that a terrorist will be able to enter the country. Why? Because it leaves out several important states where […]
Oslo Muslims recommend polygamy
Although polygamy is illegal in Norway, the Norway Post reports that the Oslo-based Islamic Cultural Centre Norway (ICCN) has recommended the practice. According to the Post, the ICCN (which is supported financially by the Norwegian government) said on its website that polygamy “is advantageous, and ought to be practiced where conditions lend themselves to such […]
Nigerian Imams: polio vaccine is an American plot
Conspiracy theories are rampant in the Muslim world, as I have written about recently. Here’s a new one in Nigeria: “The [polio] virus thrived here in part because of the usual obstacles to better health care: internal political struggles, misspent money, alleged corruption. But an unusual additional factor came into play in the hamlets along […]
Suicide bomber was preparing for attack in Britain
“An Islamic terrorist suspect linked to al-Qa’ida has been arrested after apparently preparing himself for a suicide bombing in Britain.” This from The Australian, with thanks to Nicolei. “The man, an Algerian asylum-seeker, had left suicide notes to his mother and sister warning them that he planned to ‘martyr’ himself. When he was strip-searched, police […]
Pakistan: Protestant pastor shot dead
Non-Muslim populations are always at risk in Islamic countries such as Pakistan, where dhimmitude is still very much alive in the cultural patterns (and, increasingly, laws) of the people. If the dhimmis are perceived to be stepping out of line, their very lives can be forfeit. “A Protestant pastor in Pakistan’s Punjab province was murdered […]
Saudi funds still flow to Al-Qaeda
“Saudi Arabia, the source of most of al-Qaida’s funding prior to Sept. 11, 2001, has frozen only a tiny percentage of the money flowing to Osama bin Laden’s terror network since the biggest terror attack in history, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter.” “According to the […]
Dhimmitude and the Australian authorities
Tim Priest observes in The Australian that significant criminal elements working out of Middle Eastern communities in Australia are able to operate with relative impunity, as the authorities turn a blind eye to the origin and racial nature of their attacks. Why? “To highlight the problems with Middle Eastern communities in Sydney is to tear […]
Terror cells regroup – and now their target is Europe
From The Observer, a look inside the radical Islamic network in Europe (with thanks to Mohamed Ibn Guadi): “They had been watching him for months, aware that his pop star good looks concealed a secret life as one of Europe’s new terrorist kingpins. Finally, on a cold winter dawn, the police moved in. Abderrazak Mahdjoub […]
PA: Paris synagogue attack staged by Jews
In a crazed example of The-Jews-are-responsible-for-all-evil paranoia, according to Palestinian Media Watch (via IMRA), the Palestinian Authority is now blaming Jews for the attack on a Paris synagogue last summer: “One of the common tactics of Palestinian Authority (PA) propaganda is to blame Israel for Palestinian and Arab terrorism. Now a prominent PA newspaper editor […]