We’ve heard this kind of talk before, but will changing school textbooks actually help discourage jihad or change the traditional interpretations of Islamic law? From the International Herald Tribune, with thanks to Skeet Street. AMMAN, Jordan By Middle Eastern standards, Jordanian schoolbooks are relatively free of bombast. But some textbooks used here to teach Islamic […]
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Iraq: Policeman turns suicide bomber
From AFP, with thanks to Skeet Street. A former Iraqi police commando blew himself up in a failed attempt to assassinate the leader of the anti-insurgent Wolf Brigade, killing three policemen, the Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, said. The bomber walked into the unit’s headquarters in Baghdad on Saturday and detonated a belt hidden under his […]
Website Hacked & Obliterated
Could be Cyber-Terror. “Joy Junction Web Site Hacked And Obliterated, Shelter Director Suspects Terrorist Activity” From ANS with thanks to Nicolei. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Long time Albuquerque resident Jeremy Reynalds is best known for his work with Joy Junction, the shelter for homeless families he founded in 1986 and continues to direct. However, there’s another […]
Cutthroat! Terror plan for Citigroup
Details of a plan targeting New York’s financial institutions from the New York Daily News, with thanks to T. A terrorism plot that sparked last summer’s Orange Alert envisioned turning the Citigroup Center into “cutthroat shrapnel,” according to a report yesterday. In reconnaissance plans, accused terrorist Dhiren Barot, currently jailed in Britain, called the building […]
With Eye on Terrorists, US Trains With West African Forces
Our military is making an effort to stem the tide of jihadists flowing out of Africa into Iraq and elsewhere. From CNS News, with thanks to Nicolei. Nairobi, Kenya – United States Marines and Special Forces are in West Africa for counter-terrorism training with 3,000 African troops amid concerns that terrorists have regrouped in the […]
Novak: Yemen’s Reformers Verses the Pact of Evil
Jane Novak writes about jihad and corruption in Yemen in World Press: In the remote country of Yemen, a determined and heroic democracy movement battles an alliance of Al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein’s generals, and a corrupt regime that wields all the tools of the state. The terrorists are operating on the proceeds from gunrunning and […]
Muslim in Nazareth takes on Holocaust
From the Washington Times, with thanks to D. NAZARETH, Israel — No one talked to him at a recent family wedding, Khaled Mahameed says. Neighbors curse him at the supermarket. A relative accuses him of unwittingly playing into Israel’s hands. The reason: This Israeli Muslim has embarked on a lonely mission to teach his fellow […]
A word from a student of Omid Safi
I have received a most indignant email from a young lady purporting to be a student of the illustrious Dr. Omid Safi of Colgate University. Given the rather sorry state of its grammar and syntax, I rather hope that it doesn’t actually come from someone who sits at the feet of the great Safi himself, […]
Islamic jihadist tries to blow up Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi
Jihad in India update from The Pioneer, “IGI intact; hats off to alert cop,” with thanks to Fanabba: An alert head constable of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) saved the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Sunday night from being blown apart after he intercepted and checked a truck carrying 10.5 kg of white […]
Chicago Trib: “The visitors call the dead ‘martyrs’ and the U.S. forces who killed them ‘infidels.’ But they mean that in the nicest way”
Yes, they hate you and want to kill you, but very nicely. Dhimmi absurdity from “Afghans seek cures at shrine for Al Qaeda” in the Chicago Tribune, with thanks to LH: NEAR KHOST, Afghanistan — Some men want to walk without crutches, and some women want to get pregnant. A few Romeos stand in front […]