Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the Muslim Brotherhood’s resurgence in Egypt, and its wider implications: The Muslim Brotherhood seeks its Total Answer in Islam. The problems it addresses may be those that all countries experience — a ruthless, corrupt, completely worthless regime. In a non-Muslim country, the answer would be Clean Government, […]
Archives for 2005
Jihadists arrested in Tajikistan
I can’t remember the last time we had a Tajik jihad update. Is there any place on earth where the tiny minority of extremists cannot be found? “Extremists detained in Tajikistan,” from Pravda, : Members of the banned Uzbek Islamic Movement were arrested on Monday in the city of Khudzhand in northern Tajikistan. “An Uzbek […]
Egypt’s Islamic opposition wins 19% of seats
OK, so it really is a tiny minority of extremists — just 19%. From AP, : Preliminary results in Egypt’s elections Thursday gave the leading opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, a record 19 percent of parliament, with the ruling party and its allies holding an overwhelming majority after a four-week election with unprecedented political violence. […]
Al-Qaeda Explains Amman Bombings
Here is a helpful post from MEMRI collecting together all the Al-Qaeda communiques about the recent suicide bombing in Amman. Why did they target hotels in Amman? “From these hotels, the Crusaders also operate the bases that they have established on Jordanian soil in order to train cohorts of apostates for the army of the […]
Minneapolis terrorism suspect had sham marriage, authorities say
The phenomenon of sham marriages by jihadists, and real marriages accomplished by seductions of unwitting non-Muslim Western women, has been insufficiently investigated, although horror stories abound. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, : A Minneapolis man accused of lying to authorities in a terrorism investigation is facing three new charges that he paid a U.S. citizen to […]
Bangladesh suicide bombing kills 8
Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Iraq. At least 50 dead. And that’s just this morning. At least 38 by suicide bombing. Good thing Islam is a religion of peace and forbids suicide, or I suppose the death count would be much higher. From CNN, : (CNN) — A suicide bomber has killed eight people and wounded 50 […]
Bomb kills at least 12 in troubled Pakistan region
More ruthless and indiscriminate targeting of civilians by jihadists. From Reuters, : WANA, Pakistan – At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded on Thursday in a market in Pakistan’s troubled tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said. The blast hit a hotel and shops in a market in […]
30 dead in Baghdad bus attack
The jihad in Iraq continues to escalate in advance of the elections, clearly targeting and intending to terrorize innocent civilians. From CNN, : BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A suicide bomber on a bus in Baghdad killed at least 30 people and wounded 25 others Thursday, police said. The bus was packed with passengers traveling home […]
Taheri: Ahmadinejad faces character assassination
Amir Taheri says that the Thug-In-Chief is getting some heat for his religious visions at the UN. From GulfNews, with thanks to XRDC: Did the “Hidden Imam” send a flash signal to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was addressing the United Nations last September? Is the new president assisted by an army of djins […]
Spencer: Jihadism and the Qur’an
My piece about the Oriana Fallaci/Qur’an/Mein Kampf controversy is up today at Front Page: Last week in New York, Oriana Fallaci stated that the Qur’an was the Mein Kampf of the Jihadi movement. She pointed out that Islam’s holy book demands the annihilation or subjugation of the other, and that it wants to substitute totalitarianism […]