Jeffrey Weiss in the Dallas Morning News (thanks to The Frozen Ghost), with reference to dhimmi academic John Esposito, explains that the Qur’an toilet riots are understandable once one realizes what Muslims think of the Qur’an: “It’s not like just knocking down a religious leader or a priest or a rabbi,” said John Esposito, a […]
Archives for 2005
Feds Uncover Alleged Plot to Assassinate Ft. Worth Cop, Federal Agent
From CBS-11 News, with thanks to RSH: Det. Campbell and his wife go to these extraordinary lengths because they and their children have been marked for assassination. A ruthless criminal crime family he spent years investigating and helped break up in 2003 wants them dead. Federal authorities confirm that the Palestinian gang known as the […]
British judge OKs sending terror suspect to U.S.
Babar Ahmad update. From AP, with thanks to Nicolei: LONDON – A judge ruled Tuesday that a British man can be extradited to the United States to face charges of supporting terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans and running a Web site that U.S. authorities say was used to fund terrorists. The United States has promised […]
Palestinians used Bible toilet paper
“Muslims’ desecration of holy book received little notice.” From WND, with thanks to Pam: While Muslims have responded with deadly outrage to the now-retracted report by Newsweek of alleged Quran desecration by U.S. interrogators, there was little outcry three years ago when Islamic terrorists holed up in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity reportedly used the […]
Manji: Do Riots Save Islam’s Honor?
Irshad Manji in the LA Times (thanks to JS): As I write, Muslims worldwide are scheduling demonstrations for the end of this month against those who insult Islam. They’ll peacefully protest not just the possibility of the Koran’s desecration at Guantanamo but the proven torture at Abu Ghraib as well as civil rights violations suffered […]
“Our Sunni faith stipulates that the sword and bullets be the only dialogue between us and worshippers of the cross”
“Iraq’s Qaeda warns Sunnis against constitution,” from Reuters, with thanks to Skeetstreet: DUBAI (Reuters) – Iraq’s al Qaeda blasted calls by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for Sunni Muslims in Iraq to participate in drafting a new constitution, saying those who did would be infidels, according to an Internet statement. Nothing new in such […]
Afghan clerics defer jihad call against U.S.
The bogus story may long resonate, but the jihad is off for now. From Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A group of Afghan Islamic clerics have deferred a call for holy war against the United States over a magazine report that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran after the report […]
Qur’an allegation may long resonate
“Koran Allegation May Long Resonate,” from the Washington Post, with thanks to John Pardon: “The damage cannot be controlled by the belated retraction from Newsweek under U.S. government pressure,” said Qazi Hussain Ahmad, leader of the major Islamic party alliance in Pakistan, who spoke by telephone from Islamabad. “The desecration of the Holy Koran by […]
Fitzgerald: What’s at stake
Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald compiles a short list of what has been put at risk with the rapid Islamization of Europe: Some time ago I observed that “without Europe the West becomes comical” – and was almost immediately asked to explain. Here goes: The British Museum. The Louvre. The Prado. The National Gallery. The Uffizi. […]
CAIR’s Hate Crimes Nonsense
Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha in FrontPage on CAIR’s latest bogus hate crimes report: Should you read Unequal Protection: The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2005, an annual report issued last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), you’ll learn how the Muslim experience in America is worsening. Specifically, the […]