Some unsurprising news from IndiaWeb, “NWFP cleric prays for Osama’s well being, as Pak cracks whip on jihad,” with thanks to Skeetstreet. Even as Pakistan gets pat on the back from the Bush administration for capturing Abu Farraj Al Libbi, clerics in Pakistan’s NWFP are praying for the well being of terror mastermind Osama bin […]
Archives for 2005
Bruno: The Clash of Fascisms
A continuation of this thought-provoking essay from Wolfgang Bruno: Historian Bat Ye’or fears that it may already be too late to save Europe from Islam, and that the continent will be transformed into Eurabia. Should this come to pass, Eurabia will either slowly decline into just another overpopulated Islamic failure, or it will be used […]
Islamic Jihad kills “collaborator”
From AP via Haaretz, “Islamic Jihad kills Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel,” with thanks to Skeetstreet. Militants from the Islamic Jihad on Saturday killed a Palestinian youth suspected of collaborating with Israeli intelligence, the group said. The body of the 18-year-old youth, identified as Rami al-Malakh, was found outside his village near the West […]
Novak: Jihad in Yemen
The indefatigable Jane Novak of Armies of Liberation kindly brings us this update on the jihad in Yemen: The Jihad in Yemen takes the form of the state attacking its Shia minority. There have been indications that aspects of the Yemeni government, in collusion with some leadership in the opposition Islamic Islah party, are close […]
Shi’a vs Sunni in Ramadi
A very interesting story on the rise of militias in Iraq from the Washington Post, “To the Dismay of Local Sunnis, Shiites Arrive to Police Ramadi” RAMADI, Iraq – At a checkpoint on a bridge into this volatile Sunni Muslim city, an Iraqi platoon frisked a row of men and rummaged through their cars and […]
Fitzgerald: What should we do?
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald assesses the current scene and makes some foreign policy recommendations: “I would blow myself up if I can’t feed my kids.” — from this article The Egyptian government is corrupt. Egyptian leaders batten on the $2 billion in American aid, not to mention whatever they manage to wheedle […]
New York: City Bridge-Photo Terror Suspect Nabbed
“City Bridge-Photo Terror Suspect Nabbed,” from the New York Post, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: May 5, 2005 — A New York ringleader of a Pakistani-based terrorist group — who was seen taking pictures last year of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges — was arrested yesterday for allegedly lying on his immigration papers about […]
Terror Suspect Gets Invitation To Have Dinner With President
Shouldn’t Bush be trying to avoid even the appearance of impropriety? From WFTV.com’s “News of the Strange,” with thanks to EPG: HARTFORD, Conn. — A year after federal agents raided his home in a terrorism investigation, Muslim businessman Syed Maswood is lucky to get on an airplane without being detained and searched. But that didn’t […]
Pakistan: Jihadis destroy music shops
From ANI, “NWFP jihadis destroy music shops in Miranshah” Islamabad – Just days after militants in Pakistan’s NWFP’s North Waziristan Agency distributed leaflets warning the local populace of closing down their music and video shops, a bomb destroyed three music and video shops in Miranshah. The explosion also partially damaged seven other shops in the […]
Egyptian Journalist Calls Muslim Liberals in the West Apostates
The Egyptian journalist Rim Azmi speaks out against Muslim reformers. “Egyptian Journalist on Muslim Liberals in the West: ‘Muslims in Name, Apostates in Fact,’” from MEMRI: “They aren’t Westerners and they have not attained this honor in the eyes of the West, however, the West embraced them, not out of love for them, but rather […]