Archives for 2005

Rumpled Academic update: “FBI: Prof. helped kin of terrorists,” from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TAMPA – Sami Al-Arian sent money to relatives of Palestinian terrorists who were convicted in an attack at an Israeli military camp that killed three people, according to financial records introduced Wednesday in the former professor’s terrorism-support trial. […]

Sharia alert from IranFocus, with thanks to Fjordman: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 — Women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code will be flogged immediately, prosecutor’s offices in provincial centres announced on Tuesday. In the central Iranian city of Shahin-Shahr, the prosecutor’s office posted huge notices on billboards and shop windows warning women that dress […]

“The Home Secretary is calling for more EU action against Islamic radicals, but critics say he should examine his own poor record.” From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph: CHARLES CLARKE was criticised yesterday for talking tough on terrorism to the EU, but failing to order the deportation of extremist clerics from Britain. The […]

“Embassies draw up ‘warning list’ of unwelcome radicals,” from The Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph: British embassies around the world have drawn up a list of the 100 radicals not welcome in the UK, Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary has announced. If any of them attempt to enter the UK, their application will be […]

A cautionary tale about Sharia arbitration courts in Canada. From the Globe and Mail, with thanks to Scaramouche: For months, a Muslim woman living in Toronto tried to wring a divorce out of her local imam. Under sharia law, her husband had to consent to the divorce– even though he had abandoned the family four […]

Jihadist Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammad says that it’s time for Muslims to quite Britain. Maybe it is, but I suspect that there are still a few jihadists in Britain who may believe that victory is within their grasp. “Cleric banned from U.K. slams Britain’s ‘evil ideology’ of government,” from AFP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald exposes the silly fallacies of a recent Wall Street Journal piece that proclaimed that “America’s Muslims tend to be role models both as Americans and as Muslims.” This WSJ article is, from first to last, ridiculous. Let’s start with the first. What exactly is a “role model”? Someone […]

I expect that we will be discussing jihad, dhimmitude, and my new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades): 8:40 AM EDT: WCRA Morning Show 10:05 AM EDT: WDUN “The Martha Zoller Show” Listen online here You can also listen today my interview with Paul Schiffer, complete with The Mysterious Yelping Dog, […]

“War is deceit,” said the Prophet Muhammad. Nuradin Abdi update from AP, with thanks to DC Watson: COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mental health experts who examined a Somali man accused of plotting to bomb a shopping mall have concluded he was faking when he became a wild-eyed defendant who tapped his head on a table, mumbled […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald explores some of the implications of the recent meeting between an Israeli diplomat and one from Pakistan: implications which so far continue to be largely ignored by the intelligentsia, leaving us all that much more vulnerable. The meeting between a single Pakistani diplomat, and a single Israeli diplomat […]