Archives for January 2004

Traditional Islamic law forbids Christians to “display wine or pork” (cf. ‘Umdat as-Salik, o11.4(6)). Modern Shi’ite Muslims in Iraq are applying this to Christians who sell liquor in that country “” as part of larger initiatives to institute Islamic law there. This report is from AP, with thanks to Mary Beth Roderick and FreedomNowNews: By […]

With Islamization comes Arabization. Since Arabic is the language of Allah and of his Qur’an, and the last and greatest Prophet was an Arab, Arab culture tends to spread with the spread of Islam. Islam then teaches that the pre-Islamic culture of any Islamic people is worthless: jahiliya, the pre-Islamic period of ignorance. This has […]

One of the groups that planned the 9/11 attacks operated in Spain, hiding in plain sight by working at ordinary jobs by day and planning terror and mayhem by night. This from AP, : One ran a photocopy shop in a drab Madrid suburb, quietly churning out literature preaching holy war. Another directed real estate […]

The same people who killed Danny Pearl seem now to be trying to kill Pervez Musharraf. Hmmm. Why would that be? Might jihad ideology be at all revelatory of their motives and goals? This from ABC Radio Australia News, with thanks to Jean-Luc: Authorities in Pakistan hope to question an Islamic militant over his group’s […]

“Unsettling Alliance,” a new article by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer on the true dimensions of the threat from jihadist groups, appears in today’s Washington Times.

Philippe Sulmont, an octogenarian French priest, has been fined just under $1,000 for remarks that French authorities have deemed anti-Muslim. The report comes from AFP via Al-Jazeera, with thanks to Susan: A French priest has been fined 800 euros ($990) for describing the Quran as a handbook for the devil. Philippe Sulmont, 82, was found […]

Gimli the dwarf is in hot water with Muslim advocacy groups in Wales for refusing to play Dhimmi the dwarf. Predictably, they are trying to label him a “racist,” as radical Muslims and their apologists always do to anyone who speaks out about the jihadist agenda. None, however, have ever explained what race all Muslims […]

In Iraq, music praising jihad has become a hot item. This from Newsday, with thanks to Jean-Luc: The rhythm, you can almost dance to. The lyrics call for guerrilla war. “America has come and occupied Baghdad,” singer Sabah al-Jenabi croons. “The army and people have weapons and ammunition. Let’s go fight and call out the […]

Mullah Krekar, the Kurdish Islamic leader who now lives in Norway, has both confirmed and denied that he is the leader of the terror group Ansar Al-Islam. But now the CIA seems to have caught him in the act. This from the Telegraph, with thanks to Filtrat and Nicolei: Internet messages sent by an exiled […]

Islamic law forbids dhimmis to proselytize. It also forbids Muslims to convert to another religion. Christian evangelization organizations are thus frequently targets of Islamic radicals. This from AP, : Pakistani police seized a huge cache of explosives and arrested one man in connection with the car bombing of a Christian organization that wounded 15 people. […]