William Saletan makes some useful observations in Slate (thanks to EPG): The terror talk and the compass points are just two of the patterns in al-Qaida’s post-attack messages. A third is the pairing of Iraq with Afghanistan. A fourth is the punishment theme, which deflects blame from them to us. But the most telling pattern […]
Archives for 2005
Holland: No monument for Theo van Gogh
News from Cid Martel: No monument for Theo van Gogh, from Fok: There will be no monument for Theo van Gogh where he was killed. Council member Martin Verbeet (social-democrat) says such a monument could lead to provocations and unrest in the neighbourhood. They would like to remember him every year but the emphasis then […]
Belgian prof: ‘Muslims feel discriminated against’
Some interesting observations from Cid Martel: Here’s some more disingenuous claptrap, this time coming from Belgian professor (international politics) and “˜terror-expert” Rik Coolsaet. Rik is working at the University of Gent and he is the director of the Royal Institute for International Relations. This is from an interview he gave with the PC Dutch newspaper […]
Kallstrom: Tighten Borders to Prevent London Repeat
Some common sense from the former NY security chief, likely to go unheeded. From Newsmax, with thanks to Anthony: Former New York State security czar James Kallstrom is urging U.S. officials to tighten up the borders and strengthen identification procedures in the wake of today’s al-Qaida bombings in London. “We need more support on a […]
Australian Arabic Council: The West is losing the war on terror
“The West fights a losing battle,” from The Age, with thanks to OBL r us: The war on terror was being lost and Australia was next in line as a terrorist target, according to the Australian Arabic Council, a secular group claiming to be a voice of the Arab world in Australia. While there was […]
London Attacks and Uzbekistan Riots Backed by the Same Forces
I got some heat here and there for observing that the Uzbekistan riots of awhile back had a jihadist element: didn’t I know Karimov was a bloody dictator? Sure — but that doesn’t mean that anyone who opposes him is therefore pure as the driven snow. Here is an interesting report from Axisglobe, with thanks […]
Moore: “If they really, truly think that the words ‘Islam’ and ‘terrorism’ must not be linked, then we have little hope of catching the killers, of understanding how the terrorism works, or of preventing new atrocities”
Charles Moore tells the truth in The Telegraph: “Where is the Gandhi of Islam?,” with thanks to Daryl: …Yet there seems to me to be a radical disjunction between our heroic capacity to deal with the immediate effects of terrorism and our collective refusal to confront what lies behind it. The effects of this disjunction […]
Lebanese Daily Star: Why the bombings in London are not the work of ‘Islamic’ terrorists
A classic dhimmi editorial from the Daily Star, with thanks to Designnut: When asked whether the simultaneous bombings across London yesterday were the work of Islamic terrorists, London’s metropolitan police commissioner responded that there was not enough information yet to point fingers, but that the culprits certainly were not Islamic terrorists, because Islam and terrorism […]
Switzerland didn’t get invaded by the Nazis, either
Robert Fisk, predictably enough, recommends dhimmitude in the face of the London bombings. “The reality of this barbaric bombing,” from The Independent, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named: If we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won’t come to us? “If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin […]
Iranian cleric: US and Israel are “parents” of Al-Qaeda
Kashani is having it both ways. America and Israel created Al-Qaeda, he says, but now, “thanks Allah, it is now taking good care of ourselves.” From Al-Bawaba, with thanks to KB: Interim Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani said on Friday that, “Al-Qaeda is the illegitimate child of the United States and Israel.” […]