I said this on the Alan Colmes Show last Friday night and Colmes was appalled. Now Andrew McCarthy says it in National Review (thanks to DC Watson): Radical mosques are the spark lighting the fuse that can kill Americans. That has killed Americans. That will kill more if we let it. Such killing sprees, moreover, […]
Archives for 2005
Fitzgerald: But what have you done for me lately?
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald explores the strange eagerness of dhimmi Western governments to pour money into Muslim countries: I noted in a recent news item that “Afghan and US forces arrested 20 suspected Taleban rebels who were planting bombs at a hydroelectric dam in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, hours before key elections, […]
U.S.: Suicide Bomber Says He Was Kidnapped
It’s certainly a good sign if people can only be convinced by force and threats to go on suicide missions. It would be naive, however, given the large numbers who have signed up for such missions in Iran and Egypt, to dismiss the ideological appeal of such missions because of stories like these. From AP, […]
Afghan heroin tied to terror
This has been going on for some time in Afghanistan; I discuss it in Islam Unveiled. From Rowan Scarborough in the Washington Times, : Insurgents and foreign terrorists in Iraq are being financed in part by the illicit drug trade originating in Afghanistan and passing through Iraq to Europe, congressional and defense sources say. Money […]
EU raises 2005 aid to Palestinians to €280 million
Apparently as a reward for continuing to declare that the destruction of Israel is their ultimate goal, and that Gaza was a major victory along the way. From AP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The European Union announced details of new aid for the Palestinians, raising the 2005 total to $342.8 million on Monday – […]
Finland: “Technical error” leads to omission of part of Hirsi Ali book critical of Muhammad
Nothing to see here. Move along. Nobody here but us technical errors. “Publisher says ‘technical error’ led to omission of part of book critical of Islam,” from Helsingin Sanomat, with thanks to Fjordman: The Finnish translation of a controversial book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born member of the Dutch Parliament, has a passage missing, […]
Eastern and northern Gaza still “˜occupied”: Abbas
Why Gaza looks increasingly like the Sudetenland. Peace In Our Time update from the Jerusalem Post via the Canadian Jewish News, with thanks to waterdragon52. If anyone thought that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza would revive prospects for peace, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas scotched that notion nearly two weeks ago. Full withdrawal to the pre-1967 […]
Muslim Council of Britain launches incident hotline!
At last! A Muslim group in a Western country has set up an anti-terror hotline! Now, finally, peaceful Muslims in Britain will have an easy, anonymous way to give authorities tips about jihadists in their midst, and Muslims will be able to shed once and for all lingering suspicions that more of them in the […]
Boston Globe: “For a variety of reasons, the bigotry and hate in Islam are perilously close to the mainstream”
The readers of the Boston Globe sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn, for their paper sways dizzily from dhimmitude to anti-dhimmitude — attempting to be even-handed, I guess. When evening quickens faintly in the street, wakening the appetites of life in some and to others bringing the Boston Globe, mount the […]
Musharraf says rape easy way to Canada
Good thing Musharraf is so moderate. Imagine what he would say if he were an “extremist.” “Report: Musharraf says rape easy way to Canada,” from Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) — Outrage mounted in Pakistan and abroad on Friday over President Pervez Musharraf’s comment that many Pakistanis felt […]