Iraq jihad update from AP: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Five car bombs targeted American and Iraqi troops across Baghdad Friday, killing as many as 20 people, and the military said two U.S. Marines had been killed the day before by a roadside bomb near the Jordanian border. In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber hit […]
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UK police head to Cairo after detention of scientist
Uk Police are seeking to question former NC State grad student and Leeds chemistry teacher in Egypt. From the Financial Times: The announcement on Friday of the arrest of an Egyptian scientist in connection with last week’s bombings in London has added a fresh international dimension to the inquiry into the attacks. The UK police […]
Hamas Militants Clash with PA Troops in Gaza
From AP: Gaza City, Gaza Strip “” Militants took control of a Gaza neighbourhood Friday after a shootout with Palestinian troops left two teenagers dead, and Israeli airstrikes killed five militants in a flare-up of violence that threatened an already tattered truce. Palestinian security forces, under pressure to stop attacks against Israel, went on high […]
UK Muslim scholar denied entry to US
News from the UK’s Education Guardian. An internationally renowned British Muslim scholar was this week refused entry to the US with no explanation, it has emerged. Zaki Badawi, head of the Muslim College in London, flew to New York on Wednesday to give a high profile lecture at the city’s Chautauqua Institution. He was denied […]
Leiken: Europe’s Angry Muslims
They are dangerous and committed — and can enter the United States without a visa. So writes Robert S. Leiken in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, with thanks to Mark Krikorian. Fox News and CNN’s Lou Dobbs worry about terrorists stealing across the United States’ border with Mexico concealed among illegal immigrants. The Pentagon […]
Saudi Columnist: Terrorists Mistreat Their Wives and Children
It seems that terrorists are living, or attempting to live, according to Sharia Law. No surprises here for Jihad Watch readers. This comes to us from MEMRI: In a column titled “Women, Children, and Terrorism” in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, columnist Badriyya Al-Bashar describes terrorists’ contemptuous treatment of their wives and children. This […]
Pew Poll: Support for Terror Wanes Among Muslim Publics
A new poll by the Pew Research Center reports on “Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics,” with thanks to Mark Krikorian. Concerns over Islamic extremism, extensive in the West even before this month’s terrorist attacks in London, are shared to a considerable degree by the publics in several predominantly Muslim nations surveyed. […]
Al-Arian Defense, Prosecutors Focus On Meaning Of `Jihad’
Yes, you see, when he shouted “Death to America! Death to Israel!” he meant it as one sad cry against oppression and injustice, don’t you see? And jihad is a spiritual struggle, of course. What’s that? Islamic Jihad murdered Israeli civilians in the name of that jihad, and Al-Arian reacted approvingly? What are you, some […]
Al-Timimi says he’s a “prisoner of conscience”
And he’s right, you know. If his conscience tells him that it’s all right to kill Americans for Islam, what are we to jail him for it? Ignorant, intolerant Islamophobes, that’s what. Al-Timimi update, “US Muslim to appeal life sentence for inciting jihad,” from The Guardian, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Defence lawyers said […]
Pakistan: ‘University of Jihad’ teaches students hate and bigotry
We have been posting about this for some time. From the TimesOnline, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: SPORTING black turbans or skull caps, the young men squat on a carpet in a crowded classroom and listen in silence to a lecture given by a thickly bearded, middle-aged cleric. The students are at the final […]