It is clear that the nature of Islamic terrorism will call for some new legal formulations. They haven’t been found yet. From AP, : LONDON, England (AP) — Britain’s highest court has ruled that the government cannot detain terror suspects indefinitely without trial. Nine Law Lords ruled on Thursday in favor of a group of […]
Archives for 2004
Spencer: “Islamophobia” and the Reality of Islamic Terror
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer writes in FrontPage today about the UN’s “Islamophobia” seminar: Last week Kofi Annan presided over a UN seminar on “Islamophobia,” explaining with a straight face: “When the world is compelled to coin a new term to take account of increasingly widespread bigotry — that is a sad and troubling development. […]
Report: Canada Security Net Full of Holes
And remember: Canada is a haven for terrorists, by the admission of Canadian officials. From AP, : TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s security net is full of holes, with most border crossings guarded by a lone staffer and airport security so lax that missing security badges and uniforms recently turned up for sale on eBay. A […]
For the record: My exchange with Mark LeVine
On December 7, I wrote an article in FrontPage about the Chomskyite/Saidist scholar Mark LeVine of the University of California at Irvine. LeVine replied a few days later; I first saw his reply when it was posted here in a comments field. I replied there before I knew that LeVine’s reply had appeared on Juan […]
British Muslim leader comes out for censorship
Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain, a foremost “moderate” leader, has written this Telegraph piece (thanks to Miss Moneypenney) defending Britain’s new religious hatred law. Sacranie begins by recounting the flap over Charles Moore’s discussion (and dismissal) of the possibility that Islam’s prophet Muhammad was a pedophile. Then he argues that the new […]
Islamophobia’s Big Day at the UN
A report on the UN’s Islamophobia seminar from Alexander Joffe of Campus Watch at FrontPage: The United Nations has a justly deserved reputation for catering to extremists of every sort and for entertaining not only extremism but distortion as part of its everyday fabric. Nowhere was this more on display than at the recent seminar […]
Malmø: Swedish preschool classes to get education in Arabic only?
Malmø update. From the Swedish Sydsvenskan, with thanks to Ali Dashti, who summarizes the article thusly: The ruling Swedish Socialist party is planning a proposal in which the city of Malmø will start preschool classes where all the education given is in Arabic. The idea is that once immigrant children learn the language of their […]
New York Times: “Qaddafi’s Modern-Sounding Son Is a Riddle to the West”
The New York Times (thanks to Ali Dashti) is puzzled by Seif el-Islam Qaddafi: TRIPOLI, Libya, Dec. 13 – Seif el-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son of this country’s idiosyncratic leader, was just 14 in 1986 when American bombs destroyed his home and killed his 4-year-old sister. Despite that harsh experience he has emerged in the past […]
Turkey will not apologise for Armenian genocide
“They are just trying to make us angry. It is their last chance to cause trouble against us.” This sneering article puts “genocide” in quotes and presents it all as something “historians believe,” but it isn’t really a disputed question for any honest person. See, for example, The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict […]
Wales: “Racists in Vicious Anti-Mosque Fight”
Here is an illustration of Emanuele Ottolenghi’s prediction that in Europe, “freedom will be curtailed to protect intolerant cultures and communities. Citizens will grow increasingly alienated from this state of affairs. They will vent their frustration by supporting extremist political groups, or by taking justice into their own hands and unleashing violence against the minorities […]