Archives for 2004

In FrontPage, Daniel Pipes comments on the significance of the Boim case: Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when a U.S. district court found three Muslim organizations and one individual, mostly based in the Chicago area, guilty of funding Hamas and fined them an astonishing $156 million (U.S.)…. Third, as the Boims’ lawyer, […]

A revealing look inside the soon-to-be newest member of the EU. From AP, with thanks to Anthony: ISTANBUL, Turkey – It’s the sort of scene that rattles Turkey’s Western-looking establishment: angry demonstrators raising fists for Islam and waving posters supporting Chechen separatists, the Iraq insurgency and hard-line Palestinian factions such as Hamas. “Islamic resistance will […]

Attempts to disrupt the election continue. They will no doubt continue after the election as well. Attempting to establish democracy in Iraq is a dubious enterprise, as I have long noted; not because the Iraqis are somehow less capable of it than other people, as the President has occasionally charged his opponents on this issue […]

And why? Because the French don’t have the courage to say that the threat they face comes from the Muslim jihadists who want to make France over into an Islamic state. They don’t have the courage to say that Islam contains within itself something that is qualitatively different from Christianity, Judaism, and all other religions, […]

Important reflections on the Christian communities of the Middle East from Habib Malik, one of the most superbly insightful commentators on the scene today. From Lebanon’s Daily Star, with thanks to Ted Robertson and Dagald Walker: Christian communities native to the Middle East are passing through turbulent times. In Egypt, where the Copts constitute the […]

In mid-November I posted about a story from California’s Paradise Post about an ex-Muslim who now calls himself Mujahid-El-Masih, who was quoted as saying that “the main theme of jihad is the murdering of Christians and Jews.” I also posted about the furious reaction from CAIR, in which post I noted that “the Qur’an actually […]

From the German Welt, translated for Jihad Watch: Berlin. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who is linked to Al-Qaeda, has allegedly announced a “mega” assault which would exceed 9/11 — according to a follower, the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” says. The Berlin newspaper has information that has been provided by Fathala F., who has been also interrogated by […]