Archives for 2004

From CP, with thanks to Susan: The Calgary Health Region has placed doors in front of a stained glass portrait of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician, at the Foothills Hospital chapel so that it is no longer visible. A note posted on the doors explains the decision was made because the chapel is a multifaith […]

Ahmed Sattar update. From Newsday, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Morvillo grilled Sattar in Manhattan about his knowledge of the sheik, the Islamic Group and their goals to overthrow the secular Egyptian government. Sattar insisted the Islamic Group sought, “not to overthrow the government, but to replace it.” There’s a […]

This is another illustration of the dangers of whitewashed history: it becomes the foundation for contemporary political action. Here is a columnist in a North Carolina paper saying with a straight face that “we could do far worse…than imitating Spain’s Islamic era at its best.” Oh really? I am confident that Sarah-Ann Smith (a “former […]

Anti-Semitism in Europe is an action of the radical Muslims who wish to remake Europe according to the dictates of the Sharia. Consequently it is everyone’s problem, not just in general as a human rights issue, but as a specific threat to the European polities. From Haaretz, with thanks to Nicolei: David Amar, head of […]

Now here’s a refreshing bit of anti-dhimmitude. From AFP, with thanks to Anthony: BRUSSELS, Dec 13 (AFP) – France wants Turkey to acknowledge the World War One massacre of Armenians during negotiations on its membership of the European Union, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Monday. “It is a request that France will make, to recognise […]

One of the world’s most wanted jihadists. From Reuters, with thanks to Ali Dashti: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan security forces have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar’s personal security chief as he travelled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar, provincial officials have told Reuters. The capture of Toor Mullah Naqibullah Khan, […]

How many more deaths like those of Fortuyn and van Gogh will there be in the Netherlands? From AP, with thanks to Anthony: The last movie by slain Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh — a fictional thriller about the first political killing in the Netherlands — premiered at a screening attended by his family and […]

Layla M update: “Mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in Iran.” From The Independent, with thanks to Anthony: A teenage girl with a mental age of eight is facing the death penalty for prostitution in Iran. The trial comes only four months after the hanging of another mentally ill girl for […]

They banned it because it says Islam spread by force and persecuted Christians. Are the “experts on Islamic history” who commented on the book in Cairo really experts on Islamic history, or on the whitewashing of that history? All this is especially ironic in light of the fact that the New York Times quoted a […]

Of course, the whole world now knows that foreign jihadists have been streaming into Iraq. I gave details of some of this movement even before the war in Onward Muslim Soldiers. But most analysts present these men as largely newly-minted, radicalized by the Iraq war itself, when in fact there is a population of intinerent […]