Archives for 2005

UK jihad update. “Police foil gas attack on Commons,” from the TimesOnline, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named: SCOTLAND YARD believes it has thwarted an Al-Qaeda gas attack aimed at ministers and MPs in parliament. The plot, hatched last year, is understood to have been discovered in coded e-mails on computers […]

While the judge isn’t sure whether these men can really be considered dangerous. An update on this story, from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: SACRAMENTO – A federal magistrate questioned whether two Lodi men held on terror-related charges can be considered dangerous, despite prosecutors’ detailing of secret recordings they say provide further evidence […]

Michael Graham explains how and why he was fired by WMAL in Townhall via FrontPage, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The First Amendment and I have been evicted from ABC Radio in Washington, DC. On July 25th, the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded that I be “punished” for my on-air statements regarding Islam and […]

Another story about the horrific practice of female genital mutilation, or FGM, now occuring with alarming frequency in the American fostered democracy of Iraq. The Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations seems to be snuffed out before it was ever lit. From the Washington Times, with thanks to JMP. GERMIAN, Iraq – Set on the arid, pebble-strewn plain southeast of […]

Jihad Watch Readers will not be surprised at this, but the folks in the White House and State Department probably are. The Guardian gains rare access to Iraqi town and finds it fully in control of ‘mujahideen’ (with thanks to Rudolf) The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. […]

From the The Age, with thanks to Lee. KURDISH politicians negotiating a draft constitution have criticised the US ambassador to Iraq for allegedly pushing them to accept too great a role for Islamic law in the US drive to complete the charter on time. Although a Sunni delegate made similar charges, US officials declined to […]

Here is an interesting profile of London’s dhimmi mayor “Red” Ken Livingstone, whom Hugh Fitzgerald has pilloried before in these pages. From Haaretz, with thanks to Sr. Soph. Ken Livingstone was born in Stratham, in south London, in June 1945, one month after the end of World War II. “I grew up in a world […]

It is probably just a matter of time before we see high profile kidnappings in Europe as are described as being planned here. From UPI, . An Algerian terrorist group is calling on fellow extremists to track and strike government and civilian compatriots in France. In an Internet message, the Salafist Group for Preaching and […]

Imagine, a prominent cleric! We’re shocked, shocked! From the Khaleej Times, . DHAKA – A prominent cleric in Bangladesh was arrested on Monday for his alleged role in the August 17 bomb attacks across the country which killed two people and injured 200, officials said. The cleric, identified as Maulana Fariduddin Mahfuz, was arrested at […]

Most of the world is just hearing about this, but if you have been reading Jihad Watch you would know that there has been no change on this point since late July. Another I told you so update: “Iraq draft says laws must conform to Islam -text,” from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: […]