Like father, like son. From CNN, with thanks to tombeth: Speaking to CNN producer Ayman Mohyeldin Tuesday in his apartment in the upper-middle-class Cairo suburb of Giza, Mohamed el-Amir said he would like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings of three London subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus […]
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Jihad group threatens war across Europe
3/11 and 7/7 may have been just previews — indeed, they are certain to be just previews as long as Europe remains in denial about what causes jihad violence. But we will see in a month if these are more empty words, such as we have seen many times before. “Terror Group Threatens War Across […]
It is an open secret that Islamic fundamentalists traditionally find refuge in Great Britain
“Might-have-been suicide bomber makes revealing confessions to London police,” from Pravda, with thanks to Skeetstreet: The “unsuccessful” suicide bomber, Amir Khan (the man conceals his real name) is 18 years old at the moment. His parents arrived in Great Britain from Pakistan. When the young man was offered to become a suicide bomber, he was […]
Dewsbury-born mufti hates British way of life
While we’re hearing about how “Islamic” must never be used to modify the word “terrorism,” and that the 7/7 London bombers just “happened to be Muslim” and presumably could just as easily have been Methodists, the British-born Mufti Zubair Dudha is singing a very different tune. But I trust that Sir Iqbal Sacranie will soon […]
US apologizes to Muslim scholar for denying entry
Zaki Badawi update: the British Muslim cleric can come in after all. (Thanks to Skeetstreet for the link.) This is yet another example of the anti-terror follies I noted some time ago. If they had nothing on Badawi, they shouldn’t have flagged him in the first place. If they did, they shouldn’t be letting him […]
Pressure on British government to ban cleric Qaradawi’s entry
More on Qaradawi’s attempted return to Britain. A spokesman for Blair said, “It is not enough just to condemn. The Muslim community needs to act. Words, while welcome, are not sufficient.” From the Deccan Herald: British politicians are calling on the ruling Labour government to ban the entry into the UK of a radical Muslim […]
Survey counts 25,000 civilian deaths in Iraq
After a lot of speculation on this number, it’s good to finally see some hard facts. Note that of the 25,000 total, only 37%, or approx. 9,250 were caused by coalition forces and of those only 20%, or approx. 1850, were women and children. A far cry from the vague “hundreds of thousands” of civilian […]
Sunnis Drafting Constitution Gunned Down In Iraq
Iraq jihad update from Radio Free Europe: Prague — Three Sunni men connected to the Iraqi National Assembly’s constitutional drafting committee were gunned down outside a Baghdad restaurant today, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq reported. Gunmen shot and killed Mijbal al-Sheikh Issa, Thamir Husayn al-Ubaydi, and Aziz Ibrahim Ilaywi as they left a restaurant in the […]
London Bomb suspect visited mom in Cleveland
More on London suicide bomber Jermaine Lindsay‘s US connections from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, with thanks to JBT. Jermaine Maurice Lindsay was only about 14 the last time he visited his mother in Cleveland… Lindsay was born in Jamaica in 1985…His mother later moved to Cleveland without him. Sources close to the investigation said he […]
Watson: Muslims condemn terror attacks? Really?
DC Watson discusses Muslim condemnations of terror attacks: Well, it appears that all of this remains our fault. Apparently, we just don’t get it. According to the Council on American Islamic Relations, they”ve continued to condemn terror attacks carried out by their fellow Muslims, but we just aren’t hearing them. This issue was again brought […]