Archives for 2005

Daniel Pipes responds in FrontPage to a silly New Republic piece minimizing jihadist activity in the US. Many good links in the original: “It’s startling,” proclaims Spencer Ackerman in a New Republic cover story dated today, “how few American Muslim extremists there actually are.” The article, “Religious Protection: Why American Muslims haven’t turned to terrorism,” […]

I will probably wrap up the voting this afternoon or thereabouts. Vote here for American Dhimmi of the Year 2005. Vote here for Dhimmi Internationale 2005. Vote here for Anti-Dhimmi Internationale 2005. Vote here for American Anti-Dhimmi of the Year 2005.

Joel Mowbray details the reaction in the American Muslim community to the acquittal of the Rumpled Academic, and recounts the salient points of why he should still be regarded with suspicion. From FrontPage: When former college professor””and alleged terrorist””Sami al-Arian was unexpectedly acquitted Tuesday on eight counts and received a hung jury on the other […]

In “United in condemnation, divided over the causes” in the Sydney Morning Herald, Malcolm Kerr says the beach fights were touched off by “Middle Eastern” gangs intimidating people in Cronulla: But the Liberal MP for Cronulla, Malcolm Kerr, said the people of Cronulla were tired of being intimidated by gangs with Middle Eastern backgrounds. The […]

The media is uniformly portraying it as a racial issue — and there are definite racial overtones. The Australian gangs chant about “Lebs,” and the news reports say they are targeting “men of Middle Eastern appearance.” The “men of Middle Eastern appearance,” for their part, started the whole thing with attacks on lifeguards. Here is […]

“The politics of the sword” brings joy to the heart of Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed. Note that the only moral compass he has is the idea that what is good for the cause of jihad is good, and what isn’t isn’t — not any absolute moral standard. This phenomenon I discuss in my book The […]

The Tehran Times heaps scorn on the UN’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, in accord with the attitude of Iran’s Thug-in-Chief, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The United Nations General Assembly has voted to designate January 27 as international Holocaust Remembrance Day. The UN resolution to commemorate Jews who lost their lives in Europe during the Second World War […]

This is part of a larger pattern of appropriating the history and heritage of non-Muslim peoples, which is rooted in assertions such as “Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was true in Faith, and bowed his will to Allah’s (Which is Islam), and he joined not gods with Allah” (Qur’an […]

Journalist Irfan Husain describes the horrors of forced conversions in this report from the SouthAsia Network: MEET Sanno Amra and his wife Champa: a middle-aged Hindu couple. They live in a small, simple but spotlessly clean home in Karachi’s Punjab Colony. Until six weeks ago, they lived with their five children, reasonably content with their […]

All is forgiven for the instrument of terror used in the classic jihad against East Timor in the 1990s. From the AP: SYDNEY – Australian forces will resume training exercises with Indonesia’s Kopassus elite commando force next year, Defense Minister Robert Hill said Sunday. The maneuvers will be the first since Canberra suspended joint training […]