On the email list of MuslimConverts.com, a site for British and American Muslims, there was recently an intriguing discussion of the need to restore the khilafah, or caliphate, the Islamic state ruled by a caliph as the successor of Muhammad. (Thanks to Andrea.) Note also the attribution of natural disasters at Allah’s anger at Muslims […]
Archives for 2005
Merryl Wyn Davies: Islam is a religion of peace… But how do we convince you?
A Welsh convert to Islam, Merryl Wyn Davies, wrings her hands in the Sunday Herald, with thanks to Anthony: ON Thursday, a well-rehearsed rescue operation swung into action. In the face of terror, the emergency services knew how to cope. Now the question is: are we as well rehearsed to cope with securing community harmony? […]
Memo to US Military: Be careful! CAIR is watching you!
“U.S. Army struggles to grasp foreign cultures,” from Reuters, with thanks to Sparta: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army plans to train its officers to think like their enemies and better understand foreign cultures after an Army report found that no one could have envisioned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Think like their enemies? Really? […]
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Nigeria: Man faces death for sodomy
From News.Au, with thanks to Two Stellas. A UN human rights expert raised the alarm today over the case of a man who is on death row in northern Nigeria awaiting execution by stoning after a Sharia court found him guilty of sodomy. Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, […]
Bombers may be British born
More on this report, from Timesonline, with thanks to Nicolei. LORD STEVENS, the former Metropolitan police chief who retires earlier this year, said last night that the London bombings were almost certainly masterminded by British-born terrorists. He said last week’s bombers would not fit the stereotype of a fanatic from a village in Afghanistan or […]
Terrorists’ aim is to end western civilisation, says ex-Mossad head
From the Scotsman, with thanks to Two Stellas. THE former head of Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, says we are in the throes of a new world war where the objective of the terrorist is not regime change or territorial gains but despatching western civilisation into history. Efraim Halevy, who recently stepped down as […]
Al Qaeda Sent Bomb Package to Italian Police
From Zaman.com, with thanks to Jeffery Imm and The One Who Must Not Be Named. The Turkish Security General Directorate has disclosed that Al Qaeda had attempted attacks in Italy was formerly prevented, which is one of the possible targets of the terrorist organization. An intelligence report compiled from foreign secret services by the Directorate […]
Rushdie: India and Pakistan’s Code of Dishonor
Salman Rushdie writes in the New Duranty Times, with thanks to all who sent this in. IN honor-and-shame cultures like those of India and Pakistan, male honor resides in the sexual probity of women, and the “shaming” of women dishonors all men. So it is that five men of Pakistan’s powerful Mastoi tribe were disgracefully […]
Dagestan: a new front in Caucasus war
Another jihad front opening up in Russia. Oliver Bullough writes in Dawn, with thanks to Two Stellas. MOSCOW: Take Chechnya’s embattled police force, corrupt government, poor population and violent Islamists, then add dozens of feuding ethnic groups. Welcome to Dagestan, the new front in Russia’s spreading Caucasus war. Unlike the Chechens, who have fought Moscow’s […]