A strange episode in Texas: a Middle Eastern man was photographing a chemical site. When confronted by a guard, he pulled a gun and fired. While FBI, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs, the U.S. Coast Guard, state police and local law enforcement sources are publicly downplaying terrorism fears in the shooting of a guard […]
Archives for January 2004
Pakistan’s unkept promise: The untamed madrasas
More in the International Herald Tribune about how Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan has failed to stop Islamic radicalism in the Muslim schools. (Thanks to “Allah.”) Addressing a joint session of the Pakistan Parliament this month, President Pervez Musharraf appealed to the Pakistani people to “wage a jihad against extremism” and said his government “would ensure […]
Canadian terror suspect confirmed dead in Pakistan
International jihad news: a Canadian citizen who went to Afghanistan to wage jihad has been confirmed dead. This from AP, with thanks to Jean-Luc: Pakistani authorities have confirmed that Egyptian-born Canadian citizen Ahmed Said Khadr was killed during a raid last year against suspected terrorists in the country’s tense border region, officials said today. Khadr […]
Dhimmitude in San Antonio
Sarwat Husain of the San Antonio chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) insists that “Islam is compatible with tolerance, democracy, personal rights and equality before the law.” Characteristically for CAIR, she intolerantly tars courageous and decent men such as Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson as bigots — but she never acknowledges that […]
Is France on the way to becoming an Islamic state?
Barbara Amiel in the Telegraph frames the hijab debate in France in the same way that I framed it here last week: “The question is not whether French and Muslims can co-exist with each other so long as Muslim schoolgirls are bareheaded. Rather, it is the fundamental question of whether Muslim groups will become part […]
Islamisation, Extremism and the Christians of Pakistan
A World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty News & Analysis from WEA RLC Principal Researcher and Writer, Elizabeth Kendal. Thanks to FreedomNow News: QUID PRO QUO On 6 June 2003, the WEA RLC produced a News & Analysis posting entitled “Pakistan: Islamisation or dictatorship or both?” That posting examined the relationship between Pakistan’s President Musharraf and […]
Nigeria: Muslim fundamentalist uprising raises fears of terrorism
A report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on the upsurge of Islamic radicalism in Nigeria. When a student-led Islamic sect launched an armed uprising last month with the aim of setting up a Taliban-style Muslim state in northern Nigeria, the authorities were swift to quell the insurrection. However, political analysts […]
Iraqi Christians targeted for working with Americans
A chilling story from the Washington Post on how Christians in Iraq who work with American forces there are being targeted for murder. The article says nothing about the larger-scale targeting of Iraqi Christians whether they are working for Americans or not, but it is refreshing to see the major media take any notice of […]
Osama: “One of the world’s largest heroin dealers”
In Islam Unveiled I discuss how the Taliban’s involvement in drug trafficking was consistent with the group’s theology: in line with the sharp distinction in the Qur’an and Islamic tradition between believers and unbelievers, since the buyers were non-Muslims they had no problem selling the product. Now, because of the success of American efforts to […]
Islamic scholar: women driving cars is a sinful thing
Al-Qarni More Wahhabi follies: a Saudi cleric is under fire for giving people the impression that he was in favor of allowing women to drive cars. This rarified silliness is only worthy of note because Saudi Wahhabism has been spread all over the world via Saudi oil billions. It is a significant presence among Muslims […]