Archives for 2005

Today’s Iraqi jihad update, “Insurgents Leave 15 Dead in a Series of Attacks in Iraq,” from the New Duranty Times, : BAGHDAD, Iraq, – Sunni-led insurgents renewed their bloody attacks across Baghdad and outside the capital today, leaving at least 15 people dead and a number wounded, including three children. A roadside bomb in a […]

Kashmir jihad update from Sky News, with thanks to Twostellas. How they can murder schoolchildren and continue to believe in the justice of their cause is beyond me. A grenade has exploded outside a school in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir – wounding up to 25 schoolchildren and parents. The blast hit just as hundreds […]

Jihad Watch Advisory Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the phenomenon of marriage scams and visa fraud — a rampant practice which unfortunately receives little attention: “I was just a stepping stone to a green card,” said one victim of visa fraud. “I married a terrorist. I married somebody who did not like America, who […]

Thirty months for the Bali bombings. That makes Bashir Indonesia’s William Zanzinger. From Reuters, : JAKARTA, May 16 (Reuters) – An Indonesian high court has upheld a two-and-a-half year sentence handed to Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his role in the 2002 Bali blasts that killed 202 people, an official said on Monday. Lawyers […]

So if they make nukes, it’s dhimmi Europe’s fault. From Reuters: TEHRAN – Iran said on Monday it will give the European Union a last chance to salvage a nuclear deal at talks on May 23 before it resumes atomic work which Washington fears is part of a weapons programme. Iran’s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi […]

No surprise here: as I said yesterday, “Newsweek’s belated retraction is unlikely to blunt the force of this as yet another new pretext for jihad.” “Muslims doubt Quran climbdown,” from CNN: KABUL, Afghanistan — Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan were skeptical after a U.S. magazine backed away from a report that U.S. interrogators desecrated copies […]

Learned analysts have long insisted that Uzbekistan was a bastion of Islamic moderation. I have responded the way I always do: by asking how these moderates counter jihadist recruitment. The response: silence or abuse. But it looks as if the answer these learned analysts did not want to give was: they don’t, and they can’t […]

“Oops, we goofed,” says Newsweek. 16 are dead and the jihad knives are being sharpened — Newsweek’s belated retraction is unlikely to blunt the force of this as yet another new pretext for jihad. The pretexts are ever new; only the jihad is constant. Another update on the great Qur’an toilet flushing riots of 2005: […]

Jihad Watch Advisory Board Veep Hugh Fitzgerald reviews Jared Diamond’s Collapse: Jared Diamond’s Collapse is a curious book, one that ignores the influence of ideology — just as his previous book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, was careful not to attribute the success of Western European civilization to such formative influences as Hellenism and Judeo-Christianity, distinguishing […]