Archives for 2005

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery Publishing) by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer is now available for pre-ordering at Amazon.com. Amazon has it listed as coming out on September 25, but I am told that it will actually be available on August 8. At least as things stand now. The cover […]

From the UK Telegraph, “Restaurant bomb kills four, injures dozens” Four people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a bomb exploded at lunchtime in a Baghdad restaurant. The explosion happened in the Talibiya district in the north of the capital, police said. Earlier, a top government aide was assassinated. Wael Rubaie was […]

It looks like the “American pilot” that Al-Qaida In Iraq claims to have murdered was an Iraqi-American businessman instead. From HomelandSecurityUS.com, “REPORT: Islamic Terrorist Thugs Murder U.S. Pilot in Iraq,” with thanks to KAOSKTRL. 22 May 2005: al Qaeda in Iraq published a statement on Sunday stating that they killed a U.S. pilot they captured. […]

Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid and Michael L. Wise have produced a study on Israeli/Arab demographics, summarized in this Jerusalem Post op-ed, “Battle of numbers: What Demographic time bomb?” Demography is a central issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Conventional wisdom holds that Israel faces a demographic time bomb because the Palestinian Authority’s reported 3.8 million population, […]

Never mind that it probably never happened; more protests are in the offing, from Dawn, “MMA announces plan for anti-US protests,” with thanks to Fanabba. ISLAMABAD – A largely attended anti-US convention on Sunday announced a series of protest demonstrations in the country and across world after observing the May 27 international protest day against […]

From AP, with thanks to OBL r Us. TEHRAN, Iran – All reformists who registered to run in next month’s presidential elections were rejected by Iran’s hard-line constitutional watchdog, which approved only six out of the 1,010 hopefuls, state-run television reported. The announcement Sunday prompted a crisis meeting by reformers, who immediately threatened to boycott […]

Update on the Uzbekistan unrest from the LA Times, “Uzbek Witness Tells of Brutality on Both Sides,” with thanks to Skeet Street. ANDIJON, Uzbekistan “” They called themselves “the Brotherhood.” Devout Muslims and astute businessmen, they grew to include about 200 associates. They ran bakeries, garment and shoe factories, carpentry and leatherwork shops, even a […]

Never mind that it probably never even happened; they want somebody to get the death penalty for it. From AFP, “Saudi scholars want Islamic court to rule on alleged Quran abuse,” with thanks to all who sent this in. RIYADH – Eighteen Saudi Muslim scholars and thinkers demanded Saturday that those involved in the alleged […]

From the Detroit Free Press, “Drug exhibit raises ethnic issues,” with thanks to T. An exhibit on the dangers of drugs and their connections to terrorism did not raise ethnic or religious concerns when it went on display in New York, Dallas and elsewhere. But it has in Detroit. Some members of metro Detroit’s Arab-American […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald comments on the ongoing Hani Ramadan controversy. Hani, Tariq’s brother, defended stoning for adultery in a Paris magazine. “A controversial Muslim scholar who was fired from his teaching job after publicly defending death by stoning has won a second victory in a Geneva court.” “” news item, May […]