Indonesia jihad update from Compass Direct, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: May 31 (Compass) “” Two bombs, timed to inflict the greatest possible damage, exploded in a refugee village for Christians in Tentena, Indonesia, on Saturday morning, killing 21 people and injuring 49. The first bomb exploded at around 8:15 a.m., May 28, in […]
Archives for June 2005
Sisters take on scholars in battle for Islam
A profile in The Guardian (thanks to Nicolei) of the Malayasian group Sisters In Islam, whose courageous work I cite in Islam Unveiled: Zainah Anwar is a good Muslim. She is also an outspoken campaigner for women’s rights. To many Muslim men in Malaysia and beyond, these two facts are barely compatible. Since helping to […]
Blast Rocks Checkpoint to Baghdad Airport
Today’s Iraqi jihad update comes from AP, : BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. soldiers have captured a former Saddam Hussein regime spy, the U.S. military said, and a suicide bomber attacked the main checkpoint to Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday, wounding at least seven Iraqis, police said. The explosion, which occurred shortly after 9 a.m., sent […]
Women organisation hail disallowing of Muslim tribunals
Women hail the recent victory over Sharia in Canada. From UNI, with thanks to Jacques: Toronto, May 30 (UNI) Muslim women organisations in Canada have welcomed the Quebec legislature’s decision to disallow Muslim tribunals for family matters in the province and that the laws of the state will apply to all its residents, regardless of […]
Suicide Bomber Strikes Afghan Mosque
A Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban would be a hypocrite in the eyes of the Taliban, and thus licit to be murdered according to Islamic law. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a southern Afghanistan mosque during Wednesday’s funeral for a […]
“I could be joking and smiling and then cutting their throats in the next second”
Tarik Shah, one of the two American citizens recently arrested for plotting to aid Al-Qaeda, emulates the early Muslim Abu Ad-Darda’, who said, “We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.” “Bx. ‘Qaeda’ Man’s Chilling Boast,” from the New York Post, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: May 31, 2005 […]
Thailand: Monk, soldiers injured by bomb near temple in Narathiwat
Another monk murdered in Thailand. Thai jihad update from Bangkok’s The Nation, with thanks to Lek: An elderly Buddhist monk and four soldiers escorting the monk were seriously injured when a remote-controlled bomb exploded as they were leaving a temple in Bacho district of Narathiwat province, early Wednesday, police said. The bomb which was planted […]