Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer discusses Iran’s new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at FrontPage: Not long after Iran’s new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in late June, the allegations started: he was among the jihadists who seized around seventy Americans in the American embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and held them for 444 days […]
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US holding five Americans for waging jihad in Iraq
Now what could have turned their loyalties against their own country? Hmmmm…. “U.S. Holding 5 Americans for Iraq Activity,” from AP, with hearty thanks to Mr. F: WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is holding five U.S. citizens suspected of insurgent activities in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. They were captured separately and don’t appear […]
Bin Laden’s brother: “Osama was more religious than the rest of us”
The implications of that fact have not yet been sufficiently explored. “Yaslam bin Laden: My Brother Osama Is Alive,” from MEMRI TV, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named: The following are excerpts from an interview with Osama bin Laden’s brother Yaslam bin Laden, which was aired by Al-Arabiya TV on July […]
Call for articles
I just received this email: Hello sir, I’m interested in your thoughts on the website www.answering-christianity.com. The author seems to make some of the arguments you have been looking for. I responded: Where? I looked but all I saw were purported refutations of Christianity. What I am looking for is not refutations of Christianity, but […]
New Duranty Times zeroes in on ethnic conflicts in Thailand and Sudan
New Duranty Times? Why do we call the New York Times by that name? Read here and here. Duranty, you see, glossed over Stalin’s Communist genocide in the Ukraine. And the Times is doing it again, missing today’s jihad almost completely — note these two stories from today’s fresh steaming pile of newsprint: Schools in […]
Reviving Islam excoriates Boston imam for his moderation
Over at the top-secret forums of RevivingIslam.com, where they prayed that Allah would allow my blood to spill over their hands, they don’t think very highly of Talaal Eid, the Boston imam who seems to have lost his job for being too moderate. Among his sins: he visited the Pope and prayed for Bush. Okay […]
Amman: Experts discuss “Jihad” and Islam rejection of terrorism and extremism
From Al-Bawaba, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: According to Petra, the third day of the International Islamic Conference was held in Amman on Wednesday. During the day, Dean of the World Institute for Islamic thought and civilization in Malaysia, Dr. Mohamed Hashem Kamali presented a research on “Jihad”. According to Mr. Kamali, Jihad is […]
India: Muslim attack on Hindu temple “defames Islam”
Update on this story. Of course, I’m glad to hear them say this, but I would like to see them convince those who carried out the attack. “Attack provocative, defaming Islam: CM,” from Express India, with thanks to Anthony: Srinagar – Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, People’s Democratic Party president and MP Mehbooba Mufti and […]
Zarqawi declares Iraqi army an enemy of Islam
In line with his arguments that I discussed here. From AP, with thanks to Anthony: BAGHDAD – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, reputed leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, said in an audiotape found on the Internet that the Iraqi army is as great an enemy as the Americans and announced the formation of a new terror command […]
CAIR, Muslims To Call For Celestica Prayer Accommodation
Dude! It worked at Dell! A CAIR press release (thanks to Twostellas): WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 07/05/05 — On Wednesday, July 6, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a news conference in Minneapolis, Minnisoda, to call on Canada-based electronics manufacturer Celestica Inc. to provide reasonable religious accommodation for its Muslim employees. The […]