In “Creating Islamist phantoms: We dreamed up ‘al-Qaida’: Let’s not do it again with ‘evil ideology,’” Adam Curtis of The Guardian (thanks to Fjordman) posits that “we may not agree with its reactionary vision of the political use of Islam and the pessimistic, anti-progressive beliefs that lie at the heart of Qutb’s teachings, but it […]
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Chirac says Iran must halt nuclear activities
From the International Herald Tribune: Paris – In a stark ultimatum, President Jacques Chirac of France warned Iran on Monday that it would face censure by the United Nations Security Council if it did not reinstate a freeze on sensitive nuclear activities under an agreement reached last November. In his annual speech to France’s ambassadors […]
13 terrorist suspects on trial in Belgium
From Pravda, with thanks to Nicolei. A Brussels judge on Monday sent over a dozen people to trial on charges of aiding and abetting terrorists, including those suspected in last year’s Madrid train bombings. An autumn trial would be the first test for a 2004 law making it a crime to consort with terrorists. Prosecutors […]
Denmark Tries to Act Against Terrorism as Mood in Europe Shifts
Denmark struggles with speech issues. What is sedition? What constitutes incitement? These issues will be paramount in the western world for a long time to come. From the Washington Post, or as Hugh Fitzgerald calls it, the Bandar Beacon, with thanks to Kemaste. COPENHAGEN — Said Mansour, a slightly built man with a bushy beard, […]
Another teenage suicide bomber tries to enter Israel
More of what Charles at LGF aptly terms “Death Cult Child Abuse:” “Another boy-bomber caught at Hawara,” from the Jerusalem Post. And to think there are legions of people who believe that this kind of thing is justified, or that Pat Robertson (who has never blown up anyone to my knowledge) is worse. A 14-year-old […]
Fitzgerald: Why we need reconciliation with France
Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald explains why it’s time to patch it up with France: France’s policies were never quite as intolerable as depicted. Chirac is a crook, DdeV a preener, a poseur, and a poetaster. Nicholas Sarkozy, the unbeatable future president, has his embarrassments with a wayward wife, but when it comes to Islam, he […]
Rushdie: “Any system of ideas that decides…that you cannot discuss it in fundamental terms, that you can’t say that this bit of it is junk, or that bit is oppressive … we are supposed to respect that?”
Occasionally Salman Rushdie says some very sensible things, and here is one occasion of that: he challenges the egregious George Galloway, who would forbid criticism of Islam and honest discussion of the roots of Islamic terror. “Rushdie dismisses Galloway’s claims,” from The Guardian, with thanks to Danielle: Salman Rushdie clashed with George Galloway yesterday in […]
Nocturnal Jihad Watch: Spencer on C-Span Book TV this Sunday
If any of you Jihad Watchers are insomniacs, you may be interested in catching me discussing jihad, dhimmitude, and my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) on C-Span this Sunday, September 4. The C-Span Book TV schedule lists the talk at 1:00 AM EDT and again at 8:30 AM EDT Sunday […]
UK: Jihadists defy deportation threat by urging Islamic war on West
The jihad continues to be preached online in Britain. “Radical websites defy deportation threat by urging Islamic war on West,” from the Telegraph, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Radical websites are continuing to encourage Muslims to fight western nations despite the threat of new legislation. The website of the organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has […]
Islamic school furor in Lodi
Was this madrasa intended to teach violent jihad or not? “Islamic school furor,” from the Sacramento Bee, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Supporters of the center envision a small elementary school that embraces traditional Islamic values, a gathering place for Muslim women who are otherwise sequestered at home, a playground, a library and a […]