While the world media has been consumed with speculation about the health and whereabouts of jihad leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, it has hardly noted at all a challenge he issued just before he was injured. Yet this challenge could in the long run prove to be more potent than the suicide bombings he continues to […]
Archives for 2005
Pipes: The Ugly History of Jihad
Daniel Pipes has an interesting piece in FrontPage today, discussing David Cook’s new book Understanding Jihad, which I have not yet seen. In his review, Pipes succintly sums up the history of the concept of jihad in Islam, showing the hollowness of claims that it has always primarily represented a spiritual struggle: The Koran invites […]
Iraq: When Violence Comes To Campus
Once havens of tolerance, Iraq’s universities are becoming battlefields in an escalating civil war. From Time magazine, with thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Rebecca Bynum: On May 3, when the members of Iraq’s new government were sworn in, Masar Sarhan al-Rubaiyi, 24, a pharmacy undergraduate at the University of Baghdad, decided to throw a […]
Pakistan: Bride gang-raped after wedding
As evidenced by the opposition of Muslim scholars, practices like these are not sanctioned by Islam. But it must be honestly acknowledged, particularly by Islamic reformers in Pakistan and elsewhere, that the devaluation of women in Islam contributes to this kind of thinking. From News 24, with thanks to Skeetstreet: Islamabad – A bride was […]
US to expand anti-terror, oil interests in Africa
From the Taipai Times, with thanks to Counterterrorism Operations: The US is pouring more soldiers and millions more dollars into its anti-terrorism campaign in Africa, including in Algeria and chaotic Nigeria, both oil-rich nations where radical Islam has a following. A new north and west African effort outlined Wednesday in a statement from the US […]
English TV series will glorify polygamy
While untold numbers of Muslim women worldwide live lives of misery in polygamous relationships. “Harem role for Martine,” from the Irish Examiner, with thanks to Susan: Martine McCutcheon has landed a TV role in a new romantic drama about Islam. She will star opposite Art Malik in ITV’s The English Harem. McCutcheon plays a supermarket […]
Phillips: “Where is there the slightest indication that anyone grasps what is going on here?”
The incomparable Melanie Phillips writes in her blog, which is always essential reading, about “Dhimmi Britain” and what ought to be called Stockport Syndrome: Political correctness is turning lethal. Stockport Council is now using resource packs provided by the Muslim Council of Britain to teach schoolchildren about Islam, an initiative which is to be extended […]
Japanese deny ransom sought for old soldiers
Here’s a strange one. Have you heard that the Japanese are looking for a couple of World War II soldiers, both in their mid- to late-eighties, who may still be alive and in the Philippines? Well, some reports have indicated that Islamic jihadists from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have the old men and […]
2 Men, in New York and Florida, Charged in Qaeda Conspiracy
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven. And evidence continues to […]
Abbas: Suicide bomb era may be over
Suicide bombings are happening almost daily in Iraq, but in the place where the practice became internationally famous, we are being assured that it is all over. A Bridge For Sale Alert from the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to JS: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview aired on Sunday that the era […]