Evidently the jihadis in Thailand are not targeting just the government. That they would target a solitary Buddhist monk can likely be explained by the traditional ideology of jihad and dhimmitude, which holds the lives of “idolaters” forfeit. This from Reuters, with thanks to Susan: A Buddhist monk was killed with a sword in southern […]
Archives for January 2004
French Muslim attacked Jewish neighbors
A Muslim in France who threw stones and shouted slurs at his Jewish neighbors has been given a six-month sentence. This from Expatica, with thanks to Susan: A 24 year-old French Muslim was sent to jail for six months Thursday after being convicted of an anti-Semitic assault on a neighbouring Jewish family. Rabah Zehani threw […]
Powell: clean up the madrassas
Secretary of State Colin Powell has asked Islamic governments to clean up their schools: “if they are just going to take their young people and put them in these madrases, these schools that do nothing but indoctrinate them in the worst aspects of a religion, then they are shorting themselves, they are leaving themselves back […]
“I will make you Muslim and you will bear a Muslim child”
WND reports on what is unfortunately a common story: a Christian girl in Pakistan has been abducted by Muslims who are likely to force her to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim. This happens all too frequently in Egypt and other Muslim countries as well. Christians in Pakistan fear a 14-year-old girl kidnapped by […]
“They don’t accept that the days of jihad are over”
Time Asia contains an interesting report on the radical Islamic group Jaish-e-Muhammad, which is now waging jihad on their former patron Pervez Musharraf. In the half-hour before Mohammed Jamil ended his life, he was a busy man. As he sat in a pickup truck loaded with C4 plastic explosives, he made and received no fewer […]
Supporters of Cleveland imam charge scapegoating
Cleveland Muslim leader Fawaz Damra, who has been arrested on suspicion of concealing ties to terrorist groups, has been forced to take a paid leave of absence by the Islamic Center of Cleveland “” although the Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes one local man there as saying that Damra enjoys the support of eighty to ninety […]
Gimli battles the race card
A few observations from Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer on how Muslim advocacy groups use charges of racism against any and all critics “” including John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli the Dwarf in Lord of the Rings “” can be found in “Gimli Battles the Race Card” at FrontPage magazine today.
Minnesota Resident Charged With Helping Al Qaeda
A Canadian Muslim who lives in Minnesota has been charged with aiding Al Qaeda. This from AP: A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charged a Minnesota man with conspiracy to provide material support to the Al Qaeda terrorist network. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 30, a Canadian citizen of Somali descent, was arrested in Minneapolis last month as […]
Muslim Christian convert wins asylum
An Iranian emigre who converted to Christianity has received asylum in Germany by convincing Germany courts that he would be persecuted in his homeland. After all, it is against Islamic law to convert to another religion from Islam. This from Expatica, with thanks to Susan: A court in Germany has upheld the right to political […]
Thailand Terror
Stephen Brown in FrontPage has an excellent summation of recent jihad activity in Thailand: It is the “weak underbelly” in Southeast Asia’s War on Terror. That is how one observer has described Thailand’s five Muslim provinces, located in the country”s southern panhandle next to Malaysia, where a bloody outburst of Islamist terrorism has already occurred […]