From Bloomberg: Benjamin Netanyahu, the former finance minister who resigned to protest Israel’s pullout from the Gaza Strip, said today he plans to run against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and replace him as leader of the ruling Likud party. Netanyahu’s announcement came a day after the Likud set a two- day meeting of its […]
Archives for August 2005
Al-Arian jury puts trial in doubt
A few days ago I wrote in a column that Al-Arian’s supporters would not be laughing for long. However, this is a group that knows well how to play the system, and they will play this for all it’s worth and then some. Al-Arian walk watch, from the St. Petersburg Times, with thanks to the […]
Spencer on radio and TV today
Discussing jihad, dhimmitude, and my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades): 10:30 AM EDT: Radio: WIBA “Outside the Box with Mitch Henck” 11:00 AM EDT: TV: CBN News with Erick Stakelbeck 12:35 PM EDT: Radio: “G. Gordon Liddy Show” (Nationally Syndicated) 1:00 PM EDT: Radio: “Dennis Prager Show” (Nationally Syndicated) — […]
More TV means less Koran, say Muslims
Many, many times people have told me that I need not be concerned about the global jihad, because the jihad ideology will ultimately bow before Big Macs and Britney Spears. But I am not so sure that American pop culture is really all-conquering, and even less sure that it should be — there are ideological […]
Dhimmitude at the Guardian: political Islam is ok, as long as there’s no terrorism
In “Creating Islamist phantoms: We dreamed up ‘al-Qaida’: Let’s not do it again with ‘evil ideology,’” Adam Curtis of The Guardian (thanks to Fjordman) posits that “we may not agree with its reactionary vision of the political use of Islam and the pessimistic, anti-progressive beliefs that lie at the heart of Qutb’s teachings, but it […]
Chirac says Iran must halt nuclear activities
From the International Herald Tribune: Paris – In a stark ultimatum, President Jacques Chirac of France warned Iran on Monday that it would face censure by the United Nations Security Council if it did not reinstate a freeze on sensitive nuclear activities under an agreement reached last November. In his annual speech to France’s ambassadors […]
13 terrorist suspects on trial in Belgium
From Pravda, with thanks to Nicolei. A Brussels judge on Monday sent over a dozen people to trial on charges of aiding and abetting terrorists, including those suspected in last year’s Madrid train bombings. An autumn trial would be the first test for a 2004 law making it a crime to consort with terrorists. Prosecutors […]
Denmark Tries to Act Against Terrorism as Mood in Europe Shifts
Denmark struggles with speech issues. What is sedition? What constitutes incitement? These issues will be paramount in the western world for a long time to come. From the Washington Post, or as Hugh Fitzgerald calls it, the Bandar Beacon, with thanks to Kemaste. COPENHAGEN — Said Mansour, a slightly built man with a bushy beard, […]
Another teenage suicide bomber tries to enter Israel
More of what Charles at LGF aptly terms “Death Cult Child Abuse:” “Another boy-bomber caught at Hawara,” from the Jerusalem Post. And to think there are legions of people who believe that this kind of thing is justified, or that Pat Robertson (who has never blown up anyone to my knowledge) is worse. A 14-year-old […]
Fitzgerald: Why we need reconciliation with France
Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald explains why it’s time to patch it up with France: France’s policies were never quite as intolerable as depicted. Chirac is a crook, DdeV a preener, a poseur, and a poetaster. Nicholas Sarkozy, the unbeatable future president, has his embarrassments with a wayward wife, but when it comes to Islam, he […]