Archives for 2005

Jihad in Oregon: another Aswat update. “Militant Accused of U.S. Terror Camp Plot,” from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: LONDON – A suspected Islamic militant deported to Britain was arrested Sunday on a U.S. warrant accusing him of conspiring to organize a training camp in Oregon to prepare jihad fighters in Afghanistan, police […]

But still no sign that the U.S. will be calling them to account for their double game anytime soon, despite the fact that they need us as much as we need them. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – The U.S. Embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia will be […]

Great reporting from the TimesOnline with thanks to all who sent this in. A more detailed article is here. AN undercover investigation has caught leaders of a radical Islamic group inciting young British Muslims to become terrorists and praising the Tube bombers as “the fantastic four”. A Sunday Times reporter spent two months as a […]

From AFP, with thanks to Two Stellas. BAGHDAD: Iraqi Kurds yesterday rejected suggestions the country should be proclaimed an Islamic state in the new constitution and said there would be no compromise on the incorporation of oil-rich Kirkuk into their autonomous northern region. Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan, assured Kurdish MPs that […]

From The Australian: TEHRAN: Iran has signalled a confrontation with the West by rejecting a European Union offer to help it to build a nuclear energy program in return for scrapping operations that could lead to the production of nuclear weapons. In a terse address to parliament, Iran’s conservative new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that […]

While it seems to be heartening news that a London Imam would ask for police help in controlling Muslim youths, it is also revealing that this moderate Imam apparently had no success in convincing them that their view of Islam was wrong. From CNN, with thanks to I.E. LONDON, England — A leader at a […]

“500 On Terror Hit List,” from Britain’s News of the World, with thanks to Uajeg. FIVE hundred radical Muslim extremists are to be deported by the government, the News of the World can reveal. Immigration officials have already been given a list of names “”compiled by MI5″”and told to begin proceedings. The first could be […]

Undercover reporter Shiv Malik shows us inside the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain. From The Independent, with thanks to SK. Last year, I spent two months investigating Hizb ut-Tahrir, Britain’s – and perhaps the world’s – largest radical Islamic group, which Tony Blair announced last week is to be banned. I expected Hizb […]

From The Independent, with thanks to RB. Historic Mecca, the cradle of Islam, is being buried in an unprecedented onslaught by religious zealots. Almost all of the rich and multi-layered history of the holy city is gone. The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimates that 95 per cent of millennium-old buildings have been demolished in the past […]

We have expressed our differences with Clifford May before, and once again in his latest article, Mr. May succeeds in rousing our collective ire. Lawrence Auster takes on this article at the View from the Right, with thanks to Looney Tunes. Dear Cliff, Your article makes good and welcome points about the actual extremism of […]