Another happy Muslim marriage in Wahhabiland. From Arab News, with thanks to Skeetstreet: DAMMAM – A Saudi man in his fifties locked his wife inside the house storage room for a month because she refused to allow him to marry another wife, Al-Watan reported. The fifty-year-old man went to a family to ask for their […]
Archives for 2005
Navy investigates carrier security breach
Abdoul Masmoud Yessoufou update. From CNN, with thanks to Peter, who notes: “If he’s ‘not a terrorist,’ he has some interesting hobbies.” WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. and British military and law enforcement officials are investigating how a man was able to sneak on board the USS Harry S. Truman last month while the aircraft carrier […]
Sudan suspends publication of daily over blasphemy claim
Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed update. From AP, with thanks to Kaoskntrl: KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 9, 2005 (AP) — Sudanese authorities indefinitely suspended the pro-Islamist Al Wifaq daily for running articles considered blasphemous, the official Sudan Media Center said Monday. The order was issued by Sudan’s press and publications attorney, Yasser Bashir Bukhari, and follows Sunday’s […]
Muslim Brotherhood – of Terrorists
These are the people the US is hinting at playing ball with. From Steven Stalinsky in FrontPage: In recent months there have been multiple reports in Washington that the U.S. may begin a dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood — the world’s most prominent Islamist organization. As the U.S. News & World Report of April 25 […]
Fitzgerald: Are we at war with Islam?
Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald considers the common claim by Muslim leaders that the West is at war with Islam: The more accurate formulation would be: the adherents of Islam, following correctly its tenets, as expressed in the Qur’an and Hadith, and in the example of Muhammad set out in the Sira, have been making war, […]
Spencer vs. Mohammed, Round II
Khaleel Mohammed keeps attacking, and I keep responding. There are two salvos from him and two replies from me in this morning’s FrontPage. As dreary and dispiriting as all this is, it is important reading. Khaleel criticizes me for not supporting moderates like him. Not to support him is to support the jihadists, goes the […]
Iran confirms converting 37 tons of raw uranium into gas
It’s a good thing Islam is a religion of peace, or this might really be a threatening development. From AP, with thanks to Mackie: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran confirmed for the first time Monday that it converted 37 tons of raw uranium into gas, a key step ahead of enrichment, before it suspended all such […]
Jihad in Iraq: Americans fight back
“U.S. Kills 75 Insurgents in Iraqi Offensive,” from Fox News, with thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Rebecca Bynum: BAGHDAD, Iraq “” American troops backed by helicopters and war planes have launched a major offensive against insurgents in a remote desert area near the Syrian border, and about 75 militants were killed in the first […]
Catholic website hacked with jihad message
“Seen as response to comments about new Crusades movie.” From WND, with thanks to Bcarruthers: The website of a Catholic civil rights group was hacked over the weekend, apparently by Islamic extremists. William Donohue, president of the New York City-based Catholic League, said the breach began yesterday, one day after his comments about the controversial […]
How will Pope Benedict deal with Islam?
Joseph D’Hippolito writes on the new Pope and Islam in the Jerusalem Post: Pope Benedict XVI’s installation mass included two indications of a radical change in the Vatican’s strategy toward Islam and Islamist terrorism. In his greeting the new pope welcomed fellow Catholics, other Christians and Jews – but not Muslims. Later, two selected people […]