For the first time that I know of, the President has spoken openly about the jihadists’ dream of establishing the caliphate. He still spent a lot of time in his speech talking about peaceful Islam, but this is nevertheless a step forward toward reality. “Bush: Militants Seek to Intimidate World,” from AP: WASHINGTON – President […]
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Former CIA head: bin Laden remains powerful
From the AFP: Osama bin Laden is expected to remain in hiding until he stages another attack on the United States, an ex-CIA expert who had tracked the terror mastermind for two decades warned in an interview on Wednesday. “As soon as he hits us in the United States again we’ll see how important he […]
Italian interview with Robert Spencer
Download file Here is a pdf of two pages from today’s issue of the Italian weekly magazine Tempi, which is published together with the daily newspaper il Giornale. It contains material from an interview I did with the journalist Marco Respinti — in Italian, but some may find it of interest.
Student Leader: Hinrichs Not Muslim
The president of OU’s Muslim Student Association says suicide bomber Joel Hinrichs was not a Muslim. Oklahoma suicide update, from ChannelOklahoma, with thanks to Cindy: NORMAN, Okla. — The president of an OU student organization said he believes Joel Henry Hinrichs III was neither a Muslim nor a visitor to local mosques. Ashraf Hussein, the […]
Irish Foreign Minister wants Turkey in the EU
Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern wants to send a signal to “Islam and moderate countries” that the EU is not just a “Christian club.” Because, horror of horrors, the worst thing one could possibly do is form a Christian club, or even one dedicated in a broader sense to Western civilization and values. Islamic clubs […]
Dhimmitude in Holland
A Dutch dhimmitude update from Leveller of the Dutch Disease blog. The links are in Dutch: An elementary school in the Dutch city of Lelystad is going to teach children every week for half an hour about Islam. http://www.dutchdisease.com/blog/index.php?p=2235 Dutch Prime-Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende wishes Dutch Muslims a happy Ramadan. Notice the symbolic Muslim family in […]
Europe: The Manic-Depressive Continent
Here is the fourth in European writer Wolfgang Bruno‘s new series of essays. Everybody experiences ups and downs. The mood swings of people suffering from manic depression are far more extreme than those experienced by average people. Europe is probably the only case where an entire continent suffers from this condition. At the beginning of […]
U.S. companies and Islamic law
Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen explain how, “in their urgent desire to find new markets, Americans have opened the door to Islamist expansionism.” From the Washington Times: It’s time for the United States to limit financial transactions that involve American companies to governance by secular laws. The swelling oil revenues of the Gulf states […]
Hamas’ West Bank battle plan exposed
WND has a revealing story about how Hamas plans to continue the jihad now: JERUSALEM — After declaring Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip a victory for their “resistance operations,” Hamas is now planning to focus attacks on the West Bank, where it will fire rockets and carry out guerrilla operations against nearby Jewish towns […]
Spencer: Britain’s War on Pigs
This morning in FrontPage I discuss the strange disappearance of pigs in Britain — they offend Muslim sensibilities. Pigs are disappearing all over England, but not because of some porcine variant of Mad Cow Disease: rather, the most implacable foe of the swine is turning out to be multiculturalism. The latest assault came in the […]