More on a story we have posted about before, from MEMRI, with thanks to Mackie: On July 2, 2005, Al-Arabiya TV broadcast a report on an Iranian movement of suicide bombers with the aim of targeting Americans in Iraq and Israel. The volunteers said they wanted to carry out martyrdom operations to liberate Islamic lands […]
Archives for 2005
Fitzgerald: A few things they missed at the New Duranty Times
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald reflects on the editorial choices of the world’s foremost newspaper: “This quote does not appear in today’s New Duranty Times. In fact, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has not been mentioned in its august pages since November 2004.” — from Robert’s comments here No. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has not been in The […]
How Visa System Failed to Flag Lodi Imam
An instructive story from the LA Times, with thanks to all who sent this in: SACRAMENTO “” As Shabbir Ahmed sits in the county jail on immigration charges connected to an FBI terrorism investigation, federal officials are at a loss to explain how a man who publicly demonstrated his rage against the United States and […]
50 Terror Groups Believed to Be in Canada
Longtime Jihad Watch readers will not be surprised to learn that Canada is a terror haven. From AP, with thanks to Ted Robertson: They are from Sri Lanka, Kurdistan and points between and include supporters of some of the best-known Mideast groups, including al-Qaida, authorities say. Osama bin Laden named Canada one of five so-called […]
Pakistani Information Minister: Jihad instrinsic part of Islamic faith
“Jihad intrinsic part of faith, claims Sheikh Rashid,” from ANI, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that Jihad was an integral part of Islamic faith, adding that the faith remained incomplete without Jihad. “Our faith remains incomplete without Jihad,” Online News quoted him as saying. He however […]
“We, as Allah rules to us, will ambush you everywhere, capture you, attack you from everywhere, and liquidate you there, where we find you!”
Note the strong assertion that they will wage war against anyone who opposes imposition of Sharia rule. Jihad in Dagestan update from the Kavkaz Center, with thanks to Anthony: Praise to Allah, the Lord of the worlds! Let each ideologist of the authority of kafirs in Dagestan and the opponents of the establishment of Shariat […]
Polish leader: Iran is gravest threat. New Duranty Times: But hey, women can play golf!
Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz says a nuclear Iran could be “the greatest threat to world peace.” From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Anthony: “There is no doubt that if the real intention of the Iranian authorities is to reach capability to attain nuclear weapons [then] it would be greatest threat to peace not only in this […]
UCC faction fighting divestment drive
“The resolution that calls for Israel to dismantle the separation barrier, but offers no call for an to end the terror attacks against Israelis that made it necessary, is on its face, racist. ‘Anti-Semitic’ is too scientific, too polite a word for that resolution.” Well said. From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Charles: A […]
Importing Terror
Nonie Darwish discusses some implications of the ice cream jihad story in Lodi, California, in FrontPage: There was yet another bust in Lodi, California, of two Muslim religious leaders, father and son Hamid and Umer Hayat. They are alleged to be part of an al-Qaida terrorist cell. Such radical clerics come to the US through […]
Albania: Islam a non-issue in EU bid, says expert
“Albania: Focus – Islam A Non-Issue In EU Bid, Says Expert,” from AKI, with thanks to Anthony: Thessaloniki, 4 July (AKI) – The spotlight on Europe’s southern flank, for many months focused on Turkey’s laboured attempts to join the European Union, has shifted briefly to Albania – where parliamentary elections went off relatively smoothly on […]