Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald provides some background on the expanding jihad in Bangladesh: In 1971 East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) rose in revolt against West Pakistan (now Pakistan). Under General Yahya the Bengalees were ruthlessly suppressed. At their side, working hand in bloody glove with the General’s men, were the so-called “razakars.” These […]
Archives for 2005
Fitzgerald: Muhammad and Aisha
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the nature and significance of Muhammad’s most controversial marriage: Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64: Narrated ‘Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him […]
The Saudi Roots of an Accused Assassin
Joel Mowbray explores some of the neglected implications of the Ahmed Omar Abu Ali case in FrontPage: When a young American, barely into adulthood, coolly explained in a videotaped confession why he decided to join al Qaeda, one thing he said in particular could indicate that the threat we face is both broader and deeper […]
Bangladesh: Next terror frontier?
Overview of the widening jihad in Bangladesh from Rediff, with thanks to “Ayo Gorkhali”: Increasing infiltration across the border. Terrorists sneaking into India. Regular skirmishes with men in uniform on the other side. This is not Pakistan we are talking about. In recent times, another neighbour has swiftly emerged as a major security concern for […]
‘Britishness test’ for imams is abandoned
The second victory for the jihad in Britain in a week. From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Interested: PLANS to force foreign-born imams to take a “Britishness test” were scrapped yesterday in the second climbdown in less than a week on proposals to tighten scrutiny of mosques. The Home Office dropped the idea after opposition […]
Attention WalMart shoppers…
My friend Thomas Woods, author of the superb Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, has notified me that my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) is listed at the tail-end of Wal-Mart’s Top 100 Books of 2005. The book received hardly any published reviews (there were three or four) or other […]
No more Western music, Iran president decrees
Well, maybe he has a point about “Hotel California” and Kenny G. Sharia alert from AP, with thanks to all who sent this in: TEHRAN, Iran – George Michael, Eric Clapton and Kenny G. will no longer be heard on Iranian airwaves after hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree banning Western music from the […]
Australia: No ham for Christmas: Muslim menu for hospital
That Sam I Am! That Sam I Am! I do not like green eggs and ham. Ham is haram, O Sam I Am. (In this instance only, the last syllable of “haram” rhymes with “am.”) (I’m waiting for Green Eggs and Ham II: Sam I Am Comes Back “”- And Is Beheaded.) “No ham for […]
Australia “race” rioter’s mother: he “likes Islam too much”
What is she, some kind of Islamophobe? “Mum’s cocktail of fear,” from the Herald Sun, with thanks to Snowman: THE mother of a Melbourne youth allegedly found on a Sydney bus with two bottles of petrol said she was worried he “likes Islam too much”. Amir Ali Osmanagic’s distraught mother said yesterday she feared he […]
Phares: Spying on American Terrorists
Walid Phares in FrontPage defends some controversial surveillance tactics: “Use their systems, passports, citizenship, laws, traditions, books and media, create internal divisions among them, and inflict defeat on the kuffars [infidels], for in the current balance of power, all we need to do is to use their weaknesses as our strength.” — Abul ala”, comment […]