Archives for June 2005

You remember Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali. “Iraq: Australian Cleric Sees Hostage Footage,” from AKI, : Baghdad – Australia’s leading Muslim cleric, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, who is trying to secure the release of an Australian engineer in Iraq, is reported to have seen recent film footage of the hostage, Douglas Wood. Sheik al-Halili told the […]

“Algerian Islamist group claims Mauritania attack,” from AFP, with thanks to Twostellas: NOUAKCHOTT – An Algerian Islamic group said to be linked to the Al-Qaeda network claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 15 people on a military base in Mauritania, in a statement on its website. “This operation was staged to avenge our brothers […]

From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: ITALY’S justice minister, a member of the right-wing Northern League party, was today accused of fuelling anti-Islamic sentiment in Italy after saying he would fine women wearing the all-covering burka. Roberto Castelli said an Italian law banning the covering of a person’s face in public would be applied to […]

“You arrested innocent people, so I kill innocent people”? Is that jihadist justice? Note also the beheading: it’s amazing how this practice, which is supposedly completely against Islam (but see Qur’an 47:4), keeps popping up. “Violence rages in Thai south; one decapitated,” from AFP, with thanks to Nicolei: BANGKOK: A man was beheaded and three […]

From the VOA: Israelis and Palestinians have clashed at a hotly disputed holy site in Jerusalem. The violence was sparked by a controversial anniversary. Israeli police stormed the Mosque of al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, and used stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who threw stones at Jewish visitors. “With spirit and blood, […]

This trial is going to be extremely interesting. It’s astonishing, really, if the prosecution’s claims are true, that Al-Arian was able to operate so easily and for so long in America. How many others like him are still at large? “Prosecutor: Al-Arian Key to ‘Terror Cycle,’” from AP, : TAMPA, Fla. “” Sami Al-Arian emerged […]

Hair-pulling stupidity and ignorance from the State Department. From “‘Real Men Moisturize’” by Mona Charen at Townhall, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: “Real Men Moisturize.” So begins an article on “Sharp Dressed Men” that appeared in a State Department funded magazine aimed at youth in the Arab world. The magazine, called “Hi” is published […]

No, the U.S. doesn’t fear an Islamic awakening. The U.S. is refusing to acknowledge that an Islamic awakening would be anything it would need to fear. The U.S. is tarring with charges of “bigotry” and “racism” anyone who dares point out that people like Khamenei talk this way, and that Islam has a political and […]

Dhimmitude at the White House update from Reuters, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater: CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) – The Bush administration is showing signs of easing its hard-line approach toward Hamas, in response to the militant group’s rising political clout in the Palestinian territories and appeals for flexibility from European allies, officials and diplomats said. The […]

From “Terror on trial”, from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, : MADRID, Spain — Two dozen men sit behind bulletproof glass in a new courtroom built to hold the biggest al-Qaida trial Europe has yet seen. In proceedings that began in April, the Spanish National Court is considering whether the accused men belonged to a terrorist cell […]