Archives for 2005

The Rev. Bassam Michael Madany details Turkey’s continued shameful refusal to acknowledge the Armenian genocide: The first well-documented genocide in modern times took place in the Ottoman Empire. Turkey, as a successor state, persists in refusing to acknowledge that genocide almost one hundred years after it had taken place. Not only that, but it pressures […]

“Syria seen stepping up aid to Iraq-bound insurgents,” from the Washington Times, with thanks to Fred: Syrians are increasing assistance to foreign fighters preparing to enter Iraq and kill civilians and U.S. troops, despite months of pressure on Damascus from Washington to crack down on the jihadists. A U.S. official said recent intelligence shows that […]

A number of people have told me that they have been unable to comment today. I can’t comment today either, for that matter. I apologize for the inconvenience. I don’t have the vaguest idea what is wrong, but I am trying to find out in spare minutes here and there. And no, I do not […]

This is what results from terrorist attacks: terror. In the wake of the London bombings, a rash of suspicious package incidents in many places. Suspicious package links thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named: WASHINGTON DC – Several Suspicious Packages Reported Around DC Area Early Thursday at Union Station, a suspicious package was […]

Charles at LGF points out that Britain’s Sun tabloid has a world map showing “terror attacks by Islamic extremists since 1993”: “Evil across our planet.” Here is its lead paragraph: MORE than 4,000 people have died as Islamic terrorism has spread across the world over the last decade. Here we highlight some of the worst […]

The first Blame-the-Jews Alert of the London bombing comes from a young Muslim in Britain via today’s TimesOnline, with thanks to Effractor: Out on Aylward Street, Kadar Duale, 19, and Hussain Amir, 18, both Muslims, both A-level students in nearby Newham, both born in Stepney to families originating in Somalia and Bangladesh respectively, stopped to […]

Is Italy next? From AKI, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: London, 8 July (AKI) – One day after the attacks in London, a leading member of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia has warned that they still have a score to settle with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. The threat, signed by Lewis Atiyallah – well-known […]

Zarqawi had to deny that he was talking with US officials. In any case, now he says he is going to fight the Shi’ites. From zaman.com, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi denied reports of talks between U.S officials and some of the insurgents. He also […]

From Legal Times, with thanks to Skeetstreet: In a recent criminal trial in Virginia, the prosecutor told the jury that the defendant couldn’t be trusted to tell the truth, that he would lie to their faces — all because of his religious beliefs. That’s entirely reasonable. The Qur’an says that “any one who, after accepting […]

Establishing a connection, at least on the level of method, that many were denying yesterday, and lending credence to this Internet claim of responsibility. From the New York Times, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater: LONDON, July 7 – Investigators searching for clues in the attacks here said Thursday that the three bombs used in the […]