Sami Al-Arian walk watch from AP, with thanks to Skeet Street. TAMPA, Fla. – The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group responsible for scores of killings in suicide attacks in Israel, once had 40 percent of its overall leadership operating out of a cell in Tampa, a federal prosecutor said Thursday. The Tampa cell was […]
Archives for 2005
CAIR Distributing Banned Quran
AAH Points to Anti-Jewish Passages from Americans Against Hate, with thanks to Joe Kaufman. Coral Springs, FL – In response to the Newsweek article alleging an incident where a Quran was flushed down a toilet by U.S. interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) has announced that it will be […]
Suicide blast rips through shrine in Pakistan
At least 20 killed during Shiite religious festival near Islamabad, from AP: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A suicide bomber set off explosives Friday in the midst of Shiite Muslims reciting the Quran, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens gathered for a religious festival at a shrine near the capital. The motive was not immediately clear, […]
Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris: “America will be destroyed”
Steve Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, writes in FrontPage, “Incitement Official” Under Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority sermons were filled with incitement, including calls to kill Jews and destroy America. Few in the West at the time understood the danger posed by these religious proclamations; those intimately involved in the peace […]
Hezbollah warns against disarmament
From our Stop the Presses Department and the Washington Times: BENT JBAIL, Lebanon — Hezbollah, the Shi’ite militia that dominates southern Lebanon, used the fifth anniversary of Israel’s troop withdrawal to warn authorities not to try to disarm its fighters. “Any hand that reaches out to our weapons is an Israeli hand that will be […]
Pentagon says detainee retracts Koran allegation
From Reuters: WASHINGTON – The Guantanamo detainee who told an FBI agent in 2002 that U.S. personnel there had flushed a Koran in a toilet retracted his allegation when questioned this month by military investigators, the Pentagon said on Thursday. “We’ve gone back to the detainee who allegedly made the allegation and he has said […]
Dhimmitude at the Christian Science Monitor: Islam not only religion marred by violence
Tom Regan in the Christian Science Monitor Blog (thanks to DC Watson) takes issue with Jeff Jacoby’s Qur’an flushing column, which was remarkably similar to mine, and engages in an extended exercise of the theological equivalence that I have argued against for several years now, and which I believe interferes with effective resistance to the […]
FBI records: Detainees allege Quran abuse
From CNN, with thanks to all who sent this in: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alleged in 2002 that guards mistreated the Quran, according to some of the hundreds of FBI documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU obtained the documents from the FBI […]
Dennin: Terrorism and the Human Rights Community
Michael Dennin of Amnesty International USA explores the human rights community’s strange silence on jihad activity: On January 28, 2005 Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom released its report “Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques,” revealing materials propagated by official Saudi government and religious institutions advocating the murder of apostates and homosexuals, hatred […]
N.C. Pastor Apologizes For Anti-Qur’an Sign
Update on this story. I never liked this guy’s sign: it just feeds the perception that resistance to jihad terrorism is all motivated by bigotry and Christian triumphalism. It helps the appeasers of jihad to think they have the moral high ground. If a mosque had put up a sign saying “The Bible should be […]