Is Europe awakening to how severely it is threatened? “Dutch Voters Seen Losing Interest in EU,” from the Washington Post, with thanks to JS: AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Are the Dutch tired of Europe? That will be the real question on June 1, when the Netherlands holds its referendum on the European constitution, just three days […]
Archives for 2005
Anti-dhimmitude in Chicago: Jury Finds Chicago Suburb That Discouraged Plans for Mosque Didn’t Violate Muslims’ Rights
“Jury: City Didn’t Violate Muslims’ Rights,” from AP, with thanks to The Frozen Ghost: May 22, 2005 – A federal jury has found that a Chicago suburb didn’t violate the civil rights of a Muslim group that claims city officials conspired to foil its plans to turn a vacant church into a mosque and school. […]
Saudi newspaper: US working on plan to protect Europe from Islamization
Anti-dhimmitude from US officialdom? Hard to believe, but here it is: “Saudi paper: U.S. studies Islam in Europe,” from UPI, with thanks to Skeetstreet: The semi-official daily al-Watan quoted an unidentified Dutch political source as saying the initiative was drawn up by a team of 15 political experts, security, science and social advisers, and led […]
UC Davis: Islam Awareness Week to dispel stereotypes, educate campus
Will they mention that non-Muslims are not allowed, on pain of death, to get anywhere near the actual Kaabah? Somehow I doubt it. From the California Aggie, with thanks to Skeetstreet: For the first event for Islam Awareness Week, the Muslim Student Association at UC Davis created a replica of the Kaabah in Mecca on […]
“you still have time to repent and stop helping the cause of satan a instead of helpin the true religion of god to conquer the universe”
From this morning’s Hate Mail Bag, more refreshing candor from another Muslim who does not bother to conceal that Islam has expansionist designs on the rest of the world: Do you know that the religion of Adam, Noah, Moses and Jesus was Islam. the almighty is forgiving, you still have time to repent and stop […]
Peace is hopeless if the aim of the Palestinians is total victory
As I have long argued. From Barry Rubin in Lebanon’s Daily Star, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The central question of the Arab-Israeli – or at least the Israeli-Palestinian – conflict is whether it is a “normal” struggle over territory or an existential battle set by religion, identit, and other factors much less susceptible […]
Dangerous liaisons: covert ”love affair” between Russia and Hizballah
“Dangerous liaisons: covert ”love affair” between Russia and Hezbollah,” from Michel Elbaz at Axisglobe.com: Since the tragedy of 9/11, the President of the Russian Federation has never missed an opportunity to remind the Western world that his country was the first one to stage a war against global terrorism. Translated from the “Kremlin language” it […]
Terrorists’ backgrounds defy conventional wisdom
Of course, if CNN had been reading Jihad Watch, they would have known this long ago. Search the archives here and you will find stories going back to the beginning about Sageman’s and other studies establishing that jihadists are generally better educated and wealthier than their peers. From the Stop the Presses Department, via CNN: […]
Al-Jazeera: Jacoby pushes “the limits of cultural insensitivity to downright insult”
In “Newsweek Story: Missing the Woods for the Trees,” American Muslim columnist Ramzy Baroud fumes about Jeff Jacoby’s Qur’an flushing column, which was remarkably similar to one I wrote a day earlier. From Aljazeera.net via Arab News, with thanks to Skeetstreet: Jeff Jacoby, a columnist for the Boston Globe, chose to push the limits of […]
Fitzgerald: Four Things Around and About Al-Jazeera
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald offers some recommendations on how to deal with Al-Jazeera, and what the American media presence in the Middle East should be like: 1) The kid-gloves treatment of Qatar is based on the smiles of the al-Thani ruler — what is he called now? Prince? King? These sheiks of […]