From Reuters: LAGOS – The United States closed its Nigerian embassy in Abuja and consulate in Lagos on Friday due to a “security incident” which is being investigated by Nigerian police, an embassy spokesman said. A diplomatic source said intelligence indicated that foreign militants posed a specific threat to the U.S. presence in Nigeria, the […]
Archives for June 2005
Jihad Paid For Studies, Feds Say
Sure, they blew up a few people, but they put this guy through school. What capital fellows! More on the Al-Arian case from the Tampa Tribune, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TAMPA – As an international student, job options were severely limited for Sammeeh Hammoudeh. Immigration law severely restricts off-campus work. Before enrolling, he […]
DHS ranks Muslim clerics as “lowest threat”
Dhimmitude at DHS, where political correctness seems to have trumped the evidence — evidence that keeps on being confirmed, as with the Lodi arrests recently. “Service Before Security,” from Paul Sperry in FrontPage, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The good news is U.S. airport traffic is returning to pre-9/11 levels. The bad news is, […]
Witness describes bus bombing in professor’s terrorism trial
Today’s Al-Arian update features Sami finally getting the chance to savor the fruit of his labors up close. (Not, of course, that he had anything to do with this sort of thing. He was just raising money for schools and orphanages, you know, and that “Death to America! Death to Israel!” business was just fiery […]
Pakistan Information Minister “is a mujahid and played a great role in jihad.”
An update on the Pakistani jihadist who is now a member of the government, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. “Rashid had Jihad links: Ex-ISI man,” from the Times of India, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: ISLAMABAD: Former ISI (Inter-State Intelligence) functionary Khawaja Khalid has corroborated Yasin Malik and Mirza Aslam Baig’s assertions that Pakistan Information Minister […]
Top Zarqawi aide captured in Iraq’s Mosul: US
And come to think of it, we haven’t heard a peep out of Zarqawi for while. (Of course, we heard nothing from OBL for a long time too, and then he popped up again.) From AFP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) – A top aide to Al-Qaeda frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi […]
Bangladesh: Government Fails to Act Against Religious Violence
From Reuters, “Bangladesh: Government Fails to Act Against Religious Violence Attacks on Minority Ahmadis Continue Amidst Censorship and Pogroms” with thanks to Skeet Street. The Ahmadis are a sect of Muslims who are considered to be apostates by Sunnis. (KN)–an umbrella group of Sunni Muslim extremists–against the Ahmadiyya community. The KN and other extremist groups […]
Bono shocked by Muslim women’s reaction to breastfeeding
From Breaking News with thanks to Two Stellas. U2 frontman Bono was horrified during a visit to Ethiopia, when he saw local women pelting a breast-feeding aid worker with stones. The American woman was oblivious of the offence she was causing, and had to escape the angry onslaught from female Muslims who had no qualms […]
Saudi Arabia Exempt From Nuke Inspections
From AP, with thanks to Big Sleep. VIENNA, Austria – Board members of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency approved a deal Thursday that exempts Saudi Arabia from nuclear inspections, despite serious misgivings about the arrangement in an era of heightened proliferation fears. Although the Saudis resisted Western pressure to compromise and allow some form of […]
Muslim Schools: A View From The Inside
Yahiya Emerick writes an interesting article in IslamAmerica concerning the attitudes and beliefs of average American Muslims about raising their children in America and the attitudes of the children themselves. Thanks to Designut. “Most parents send their kids here for reasons other than Islam,” lamented the principal of a large Muslim school. “A lot of […]