The omission of that name holds true as well. This report, however, is not about roses, but more about thorns. The Bangkok Post reports this prickly issue concerning jihad semantics. The military has given the green light for the reopening of the Jihad Wittaya ponoh, a school in Pattani closed down four months ago due […]
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Jihad wrecks southern Thailand’s economy
The constant barrage of bombings, murders and intimidation carried out by jihadists in southern Thailand has virtually destroyed the regional economy. Hardly an economic powerhouse to begin with, the region’s inhabitants, most of whom are Muslims, now struggle to eke out simple sustenance while exposed to death threats made by local Islamic insurgents. Read about […]
Jihadist violence on the rise in Indonesia
Indonesia has long been recognized as a nation ripe for fundamentalist violence, due in part to the actions of several Islamist/Wahhabist groups. In recent months, these organizations have stepped up their violent campaigns against Christians and Westerners, while also increasing the number of attacks against fellow Muslims, actions which threaten Indonesia’s delicate religious and ethnic […]
Canada is not exempt to terror
Or to jihad. Jeremy Loome states the obvious — which needs to be stated and restated — in the Ottawa Sun (thanks to Kemaste): The picture is not pretty: a border that is wide open, citizenship that can be both bought and paid for — or merely stolen — with ease, terrorists who can recruit […]
Hamlet Made a Muslim Prince in Post 9/11 Adaptation
This is nothing new. Many years ago, in another lifetime and long, long before 9/11, I myself played Sir Toby Belch in a production of Twelfth Night that made everyone Muslim and set the whole thing in the Ottoman court, notwithstanding how preposterous that made the story line. But that one was just a case […]
Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections illegitimate?
That’s what Egyptian doctor-turned-terrorist, Ayman al-Zawahiri, claims. From Aljazeera.Net Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has dismissed the legitimacy of Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections in a new tape broadcast by Aljazeera. In the tape, al-Zawahiri played down US accomplishments in Afghanistan, saying it had just managed to move the Taliban government from Kabul to the mountains and […]
Defense tries to raise doubts in Al-Arian case
In this latest Rumpled Academic Update, the defense tries to prove that Al-Arian was just that: a Rumpled Academic, just as Nicholas Kristof dubbed him, and nothing more. They’re arguing that he was editing what I believe has been alleged to have been a solicitation for money for the families of suicide bombers only in […]
Palestinians and peace?
Former Israeli envoy Zalman Shoval sums up the Gaza disaster in the Washington Times (thanks to Sr. Soph): By the evening of September 11 the last Israelis had left Gaza — the final chapter in Israel’s “unilateral disengagement” from an area which Jewish settlers had turned from a barren wasteland into a blooming oasis. A […]
White House opposes resolutions citing Turkey for genocide
More dhimmitude from Washington. Some are saying, in the wake of Musharraf’s speech to the American Jewish Congress last Saturday, that it is unwise to challenge those who invoke Islam’s fabled magnificent history of tolerance and peaceful coexistence (which Musharraf invoked, and called for). It is best to pretend that such things did happen, they […]
New Arabic-speaking US envoy to Israel vows to work on Hebrew
Here’s a clear sign of which way the wind is blowing among the dhimmis in official Washington. From AFP, with thanks to Fjordman: JERUSALEM (AFP) – The new US ambassador to Tel Aviv has admitted that he knows little about Israel and speaks Arabic rather than Hebrew. “I am not familiar with Israel, but I […]