But obviously there can be, Sir Iqbal: it not only happened in Britain on July 7, but in Iraq almost daily, in New York on 9/11, in Madrid on 3/11, and on and on. Your words are comforting to jittery Westerners, as are those of many other self-styled Muslim reformers. But what exactly are you […]
Archives for 2005
Sunnis in Britain Condemn London Bombings
Good. Now let’s see some action commensurate with this — particularly, energetic efforts to root out jihadists from among Muslims in Britain, and to turn them over to the authorities. Oh, and while you’re at it, a definitive renunciation of any intention, now or in the future, to turn Britain into a Sharia state would […]
Was jihad invented in the 1930s?
Is the Islamic jihad ideology newly minted? It’s easy to be misled into thinking so, given the jihadist propensity to explain their actions as defensive responses to non-Muslim provocations. A fresh example comes from B. Raman in Asia Times: he associates the radicalization of Britain’s Muslim youth of Pakistani origin with British and U.S. actions […]
UK Defense Secretary John Reid: Britain would not have been safer if it stayed out of Afghanistan and Iraq
At last someone sounds a common sense note amid the calls for appeasement. “UK Said at Risk for Backing War on Terror,” from AP, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named: Britain’s close alliance with the United States has put it at particular risk of terrorist attack, two leading think tanks said […]
Australia: jihad books sold openly
Of course, they’re also sold openly in the United States and other Western countries. “Secret books of hate on sale,” from AAP, with thanks to all who sent this in: BOOKS endorsed by Osama bin Laden and discussing the effectiveness of suicide bombings are on sale in Australian bookstores – and authorities say they are […]
Iraq ‘made Britain vulnerable’
From News 24: London – British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under fresh pressure on Monday for supporting the war in Iraq after a respected think-tank linked the invasion to Britain’s worst terrorist attack, in which at least 55 people died. The comments – rejected by the government – came as interior minister Charles Clarke […]
Lappen: Libel Wars
I had begun to write an article on this case, but have been delayed by travel and various unavoidable matters; this morning when I saw Alyssa A. Lappen’s piece in FrontPage I saw that the job had been done better than I could have done it. Introducing British libel tourism: When billionaire sheik Khalid Salim […]
‘EU may be ready to help Iran build N-reactors’
From IranMania: LONDON – European nations negotiating with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme may be ready to help build nuclear reactors and supply them with fuel, Iranian negotiator Hossein Moussavian said. He told the official IRNA agency that a proposal promised by Britain, France and Germany by August and aimed at resolving the crisis […]
Blasts greet tough Thai law in south
From AP via The Standard: Small bombs injured five people Sunday in continuing violence in Thailand’s Muslim-dominated south, as a much-criticized new decree came into effect giving Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra authoritarian powers to fight the ongoing insurgency. About 900 people have died in drive-by shootings and bombings in the southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat […]
Pakistan: All 17 militants killed in gunbattle from Kazakhstan
From China Daily: The Pakistani military said that 17 militants gunned down near the Afghan border were all from Kazakhstan and included women and teenage youths. “We now believe the entire group was from Kazakhstan,” military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told AFP on Monday. He said the authorities recovered four passports and some documents […]