From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: ITALY’S justice minister, a member of the right-wing Northern League party, was today accused of fuelling anti-Islamic sentiment in Italy after saying he would fine women wearing the all-covering burka. Roberto Castelli said an Italian law banning the covering of a person’s face in public would be applied to […]
Archives for 2005
“You arrested innocent people, so I kill innocent people”
“You arrested innocent people, so I kill innocent people”? Is that jihadist justice? Note also the beheading: it’s amazing how this practice, which is supposedly completely against Islam (but see Qur’an 47:4), keeps popping up. “Violence rages in Thai south; one decapitated,” from AFP, with thanks to Nicolei: BANGKOK: A man was beheaded and three […]
Jews and Muslims Clash on Controversial Jerusalem Anniversary
From the VOA: Israelis and Palestinians have clashed at a hotly disputed holy site in Jerusalem. The violence was sparked by a controversial anniversary. Israeli police stormed the Mosque of al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, and used stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who threw stones at Jewish visitors. “With spirit and blood, […]
Al-Arian: “the most powerful man in the world in the organization” blamed for more than 100 deaths
This trial is going to be extremely interesting. It’s astonishing, really, if the prosecution’s claims are true, that Al-Arian was able to operate so easily and for so long in America. How many others like him are still at large? “Prosecutor: Al-Arian Key to ‘Terror Cycle,’” from AP, : TAMPA, Fla. “” Sami Al-Arian emerged […]
More addlepated dhimmi lunacy from the State Department
Hair-pulling stupidity and ignorance from the State Department. From “‘Real Men Moisturize’” by Mona Charen at Townhall, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: “Real Men Moisturize.” So begins an article on “Sharp Dressed Men” that appeared in a State Department funded magazine aimed at youth in the Arab world. The magazine, called “Hi” is published […]
U.S. fears Islamic awakening: Ayatollah Khamenei
No, the U.S. doesn’t fear an Islamic awakening. The U.S. is refusing to acknowledge that an Islamic awakening would be anything it would need to fear. The U.S. is tarring with charges of “bigotry” and “racism” anyone who dares point out that people like Khamenei talk this way, and that Islam has a political and […]
Reluctant U.S. shows signs of shift on Hamas
Dhimmitude at the White House update from Reuters, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater: CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) – The Bush administration is showing signs of easing its hard-line approach toward Hamas, in response to the militant group’s rising political clout in the Palestinian territories and appeals for flexibility from European allies, officials and diplomats said. The […]
Jihadist “had a map of Pittsburgh”
From “Terror on trial”, from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, : MADRID, Spain — Two dozen men sit behind bulletproof glass in a new courtroom built to hold the biggest al-Qaida trial Europe has yet seen. In proceedings that began in April, the Spanish National Court is considering whether the accused men belonged to a terrorist cell […]
Fitzgerald: A word for the 9/11 Commission
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald has some advice for the 9/11 Commission: There is a good deal that the Commission members should discuss in public, much that goes beyond this or that dealing with the “terrorist threat.” Above all, the language needs to change — not to reflect reality (that can only happen, […]
CNN tracks mortar strikes
Look at the second paragraph of this story. Who launched that mortar strike? The jihadists? The Iraqi military? U.S. troops? Is the mortar strike in the second paragraph one of the terrorist attacks mentioned in the third? Or was it a response to them? And what about the mortar round in Mosul? Are mortar rounds […]