Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald has some advice for the 9/11 Commission: There is a good deal that the Commission members should discuss in public, much that goes beyond this or that dealing with the “terrorist threat.” Above all, the language needs to change — not to reflect reality (that can only happen, […]
Archives for June 2005
CNN tracks mortar strikes
Look at the second paragraph of this story. Who launched that mortar strike? The jihadists? The Iraqi military? U.S. troops? Is the mortar strike in the second paragraph one of the terrorist attacks mentioned in the third? Or was it a response to them? And what about the mortar round in Mosul? Are mortar rounds […]
Turkish columnist: “Hitler did not do enough to these Jews”
A Let Them Into the EU update: “Antisemitism in the Turkish Media (Part III): Targeting Turkey’s Jewish Citizens,” from MEMRI, with thanks to a tea-loving snail: Columnist Fahri Guven wrote in the Islamist daily Milli Gazete:(4) “[“¦] The Ottomans saved the Jews from the hands of Christians, who murdered them along with the Muslims in […]
Praying to Allah in Mexico: Islam Is Gaining a Foothold in Chiapas
This article is illuminating of what is attractive about Islam to new converts in the West — and about how the media still doesn’t know how to ask the right questions to get to the heart of what may be problematic about such conversions. We posted about this in January. Now here is more, from […]
“It’s going to be bloody. It’s going to be horrible. It’s going to scare the hell out of this jury”
Al-Arian update: “Shock and Awe Are Forecast in Terror Case,” from the New York Sun, : TAMPA, Fla. – The most significant terrorism trial since the September 11, 2001, attacks is set to open this morning in federal court here as a jury begins hearing the case of four men accused of running the American […]
Members of Sept. 11 Panel Press for Information on Terror Risk
These guys should just read Jihad Watch. Then they wouldn’t need to press for information about what the jihad terrorists are doing. It’s right here. From the New Duranty Times: WASHINGTON, June 5 – Members of the Sept. 11 commission, fearing that the Bush administration and Congress will never act on some of their recommendations, […]
Canned Libbi update
An update on the Al-Libbi saga from AP: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan “” Pakistan has handed over to the United States senior al-Qaida suspect Abu Farraj al-Libbi, who was wanted for two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an official said Monday. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani confirmed a reported comment by Musharraf published […]
“The core message for us here in America is it’s going to be very, very tough to convince the Pakistanis to go after bin Laden”
From “Al Qaeda Clashes Caught on Tape,” from ABC News: June 3, 2005 “” Never-before-seen propaganda videos obtained by ABC News showcase the intensely violent fighting and unique difficulties that surround the hunt for Osama bin Laden in the remote tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. It is a view from al Qaeda’s side of the […]
PA: Abbas to execute 50 who collaborated with Israel
Israel has released hundreds of prisoners. Where is the reciprocity? And as if this weren’t enough, Bush is leaning toward working with Hamas. “Israel works to prevent PA execution of 50 collaborators,” from Haaretz, with thanks to a tea-loving snail: Israel has gone to great lengths to prevent the Palestinian Authority from executing approximately 50 […]
Fitzgerald: Columbia Teaches “Hate”
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald writes in FrontPage about Columbia prof Gil Anidjar, teacher of “Hate”: Gil Anidjar is an Assistant Professor at Columbia, with his primary responsibility the teaching of Comparative Literature — but there is a lot of comparison, and very little literature, in his writing. He offers two Comparative Literature […]