Syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock (thanks to Mackie) notes the hypocrisy of the ongoing Qur’an-abuse controversies: Associated Press reports, among others, document how militant Islamists treat Shiite shrines with all the deference the SS showed synagogues in the 1940s. “¢ June 1, 2005: A suicide bomber blasted the funeral of Mullah Abdul Fayaz, a moderate cleric, […]
Archives for 2005
The Women’s Role in Jihad Against the Enemy
More peace and tolerance from inside those password-protected Muslim forums, from the SITE Institute, : June 28, 2005 A message posted to a password-protected al-Qaeda affiliated forum, which contains a section concerning women and the Muslim family, titled: “To You, My Muslim Sister: The Women’s Role in Jihad Against the Enemy,” seeks to motivate Muslim […]
Spencer: “Yes, I am a Terrorist”
No, no, it is not I who am a terrorist — it’s a quote from Time’s proto-suicide bomber, Marwan Abu Ubeida. Here is this week’s column in FrontPage: “Yes, I am a terrorist. Write that down: I admit I am a terrorist. [The Qur’an] says it is the duty of Muslims to bring terror to […]
New York Imam Ahmad Dwidar: In 1995, I Heard Sermons Calling on Muslims to March on the White House and Turn It into the Muslim House
A bit more about that “totalitarian ideology” the President referred to tonight, from an interview with the imam of the Islamic Center in New York, Dr. Ahmad Dwidar. From MEMRI-TV, with thanks to Carolyn: Dwidar: In 1995 I heard some sermons, saying that Muslims should march on the White House from some of the mosques. […]
Fitzgerald: First Thoughts On the Bush Speech
The President is speaking about Iraq, and Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald has some initial impressions: I have been watching someone on television positively hallucinating about “winning” some “war on terror” by sticking it out in a country called “Iraq” where there are citizens who think of themselves as “Iraqis” and who are […]
Tolerance and tolerance
Last week I spoke at the New York Tolerance Center about “The True Nature of the Jihad Threat.” News of death threats I have received somehow found their way to the New York Police Department, which — unbeknownst to me until I arrived at the venue — dispatched its “Hercules Team” to ward off any […]
Is Allah God?
In FrontPage today, Daniel Pipes takes up a question that has often been considered by commenters here: is the Allah of Islam the same as the God of the Bible? This is not just a matter for theological wrangling; the policy implications of the question begin to come clear along the middle and particularly at […]
Watson: CAIR”s Amended Motion against Anti-CAIR
DC Watson points out some intriguing new developments in CAIR’s suit against the intrepid Andrew Whitehead and Anti-CAIR: March 31, 2004, Virginia Beach, Virginia: the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) files a civil lawsuit against Andrew Whitehead, the founder of Anti-CAIR (ACAIR), a gutsy organization whose purpose has been to inform the people of […]
Lodi Mosque fires imam
But have they fired the ideology that led to his subversive actions and arrest? From the News-Sentinel, with thanks to PRCS: Leaders of the Lodi Mosque have voted to fire Shabbir Ahmed, the imam who has been arrested on immigration charges and accused of supporting the Taliban. “He will not return to our mosque,” said […]
UK: Muslim woman ‘followed husband’s orders’ and abducted children
Sharia alert from the UK — not as the law of the land, but as a matter of individual observance. From EDP24, with thanks to Anthony: A Muslim woman alleged to have been recruited to help abduct five children from Norfolk and take them to Libya told a court yesterday that she had only gone […]