In the Boston Globe (thanks to Skeetstreet), Jeff Jacoby makes many of the points I made in this article, including scoring National Review’s Paul Marshall for his response to the riots, which is a contender for Dhimmi of the Year Award. But Jacoby goes me one better by skewering the dhimmi reaction of Rice and […]
Archives for 2005
Al-Arian: Jihad on trial
Al-Arian walk watch: will he walk because the very fact that he once had powerful friends indicates that he is not guilty? That would only be true if we could assume that those powerful friends had any real idea of the threat Al-Arian represented, and there is no clear evidence that they did. Al-Arian trial […]
Hard labor sentences for Jordanian honor killers
But the harsh sentences were given not because the judge wanted to set an example for to deter future honor killings, but because the killers did not act in a sudden overflow of anger. No, I am not making this up. From AP, with thanks to Jay.Mac: AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A court issued Jordan’s […]
Iraq: “Leave your jobs within four hours otherwise you will get yourself killed”
Today’s Iraqi jihad update. “Iraqi oil official, 18 others killed,” from Reuters: BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed an Oil Ministry official on Thursday and escalating violence claimed at least 18 more lives, fuelling fears Iraq may be moving towards civil war. The oil official, Ali Hameed, was shot outside his home as he left for work, […]
Suspected Taliban militants kill five Afghans working on US-funded project to end opium farming
“Taliban kill 5 Afghans,” from the Pakistan Daily Times, with thanks to Nicolei: KANDAHAR: Suspected Taliban militants ambushed and killed five Afghans working on a United States-funded project to end opium farming on Wednesday, said senior provincial official Ghulam Muhiddin. The workers were attacked as they drove through Helmand province, said Muhiddin. Two of the […]
Anti-dhimmitude in (gasp) the New York Times!
David Brooks gets it right about the Qur’an toilet murders in, of all places, the New York Times (thanks to Jacques): We’re in the middle of an ideological war against people who want to destroy us, and what have the most powerful people on earth become? Whining media bashers. They’re attacking Newsweek while bending over […]
Fitzgerald: Saving Israel in spite of itself
Jihad Watch Advisory Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald assesses the jihad against Israel: What is surprising about the Jihad against the Infidel state of Israel is how transparent have been the attempts to disguise it for Western audiences, yet how successful those attempts have been, and not only in the outside world, but in Israel […]
What comments are for
Why do I allow comments on this site? Sometimes I wonder, but ultimately it is to allow reasonable people to discuss aspects of the issue at hand, strategize about what to do about it, and make related observations. From time to time this has been notably successful “” particularly thanks to our own Hugh Fitzgerald […]
Phares: The Long-Planned ‘Spontaneous’ Riots
From the insightful and estimable Walid Phares in Frontpage: With one sentence, Newsweek triggered a series of violent intifadas in countries as remote as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and beyond. That’s at least how mainstream media, government officials, and most of the public see it. The truth is more complicated: Islamists had been planning these riots long […]
Fake emails purportedly from me
I just received a form email from Daniel Okrent, Public Editor of the New York Times: Thank you for your comments. Everything sent to this mailbox is read by either me or my associate, Arthur Bovino. If a further reply is appropriate, you will be hearing from us shortly. The only problem is that I […]