They can’t manage to issue one declaring Osama bin Laden a heretic and the jihad ideology un-Islamic. This, they can do. From GulfNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Manama: Sunni and Shiite scholars may soon issue a fatwa banning trade transactions with Israeli businessmen and the purchase of Israeli goods, a pro-Palestine society official has […]
Archives for 2005
Al-Jazeera TV Special: The Israeli Mossad Was Involved in the 9/11 Attacks
Evidently they believe that if they keep repeating the big lie long enough, people will begin to believe it. From MEMRITV, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Following are excerpts from Part 4 of an Al-Jazeera TV special called “The Truth behind 9/11”, which aired on September 30, 2005. […] Anchor: (Muhammad) ‘Atta was sitting in […]
Spencer: “Extreme” and “Moderate” Stonings and Amputations
A few days ago Paul Marshall was interviewed at FrontPage about his concept of “extreme Sharia.” Paul Marshall has done a lot of fine work, but this is a misleading idea; I reply today at FrontPage: Paul Marshall defines Sharia, quite simply and correctly, as “Islamic law.” When asked in a recent FrontPage interview to […]
British mull discarding flag to avoid offending Muslims
One of the reasons why I wrote The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) was to try to counteract the overwhelming assumption that Westerners must be ashamed of our culture and history. This article indicates how widely prevailing that view really is — and how anxious the British are to capitulate to Islam […]
West to blame for linking Islam and terrorism
A seminar held in New Delhi and attended by several prominent Islamic clerics and politicians has decided to blame the West for connecting Islam to terrorism. Of course, the numerous terrorist organizations who constantly invoke Islam in order to justify their daily attacks are blameless, according to India News: Prominent Muslim Clerics and diplomats of […]
E.U. Opens Historic Talks On Membership for Turkey
Austria has dropped its objections. While this is likely to be a done deal from the outset, there is still some hope that Turkey will be rejected, and Europe saved. But that hope is slim. We have spotlighted here since the beginning of Jihad Watch two years ago the many cogent objections to Turkey’s entry […]
Bashir: Bali bombings “scolding from Allah to us all who are not respecting his sharia”
The headline of this story in The Australian (thanks to Eric) is “Bashir condemns Bali bombings.” It is dispiriting to note that some people are so willing, indeed so anxious, to be fooled, that they will take this condemnation at face value — despite the fact that Bashir is in jail for the 2002 Bali […]
Fitzgerald: Taking on jihad — obliquely
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald scans the Bestseller List and discovers some trends: While I am pleased to see Robert Spencer’s book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) on the New York Times Bestseller List, I couldn’t help but notice a few notches above it, and in its 91st week […]
Making a pig’s ear of defending democracy
My own column on this will be coming out in a day or so, but Mark Steyn’s is funnier. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Jeremy: A year and a half ago, I mentioned in this space the Florentine Boar, a famous piece of porcine statuary in Derby that the council had decided not to […]
Oklahoma bomber had jihad material
I have up to now held off saying anything about the suicide bombing in Oklahoma this past weekend, since very little information has come out and none of it indicated that this was anything but the act of a single disturbed individual. But now WND (thanks to all who sent this in) is reporting that […]