Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald examines the actual prospects of that ever-elusive unicorn, prothonotary warbler, Loch Ness Monster, Howard Hughes: a reformed Islam. What we expect now of Muslims is so little that we are in danger of exaggeratedly praising that which is not so much a forthright condemnation of Jihad, and the […]
Archives for 2005
Australian pol goes after the ridiculous religious vilification laws! And, uh, makes them stronger
More astounding dhimmitude from Down Under. “More weasel words” by Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun, with thanks to JE: STEVE Bracks has broken the September vow he gave to religious leaders to make his vilification laws less dangerous. Last week, the Premier’s representatives finally revealed what he actually had in mind. Surprise. He will […]
The New Berlin Wall
The New York Times (thanks to JE) has noticed that in Germany, Muslims’ self-imposed (yes, just as in France) lack of integration into mainstream German society has created a separate world — in which women are bought and sold, treated as possessions, and severely limited in fundamental human rights, due to the all-pervasive influence of […]
Israeli-Arab planned to abduct soldiers
Here’s another one about the lack of any clear distinction between peaceful and violent, or moderate and radical, Muslims. Israeli Arab Lenin Altouri, whose parents must have been ideological kin of those of Egyptian official Hitler Tantawi, was ready to work with Hamas. From YnetNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The Tel Aviv District Court […]
Tolerance or Death!
“European culture leaders should smack down fanatical Islamists. Instead, they’re bending over for them.” Livingstone among them. From Bruce Bawer in Reason, with thanks to all who sent this in: It’s been a tough year for freedom of expression in Europe. On November 2, 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was butchered in an Amsterdam […]
Livingstone chooses Muslims over gays
James Kirchick writes in the Yale Daily News (thanks to Charles Jacobs) about how London Mayor Ken Livingstone has chosen to support the jihadist pseudo-moderate Qaradawi in contradiction of his previous support of rights for homosexuals. This article shows why it is so important for Westerners to drop the outmoded language of Left and Right, […]
Wives of terror suspects ‘ready for suicide attacks’
Was Muriel Degauque slated to be just the first of many? Women’s Rights in Islam Alert from Expatica, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: BRUSSELS “” The partners of several suspected terrorists being detained in Belgium are ready to carry out suicide attacks in Morocco, it was reported on Thursday. The claim was made in […]
Oprah Winfrey, Islamic reformer
Concerned about the oppression of women in Islamic societies in general and Saudi Arabia in particular? Don’t be: Oprah is making it all better. Of course, the “identification with Western values” among Saudi women reported here is nothing new. The stories are legion of their shedding their black abayas on airplanes once out of Saudi […]
Obscure al-Qaida Chemist Worries Experts
Chemical Jihad Update. OK, I’ll admit it: I too am somewhat worried by the Obscure Al-Qaeda Chemist (which is not to say that I am going to allow any of these murderous creeps to compel me to live in fear). I mean that I am less worried by him than by other developments: I think […]
Terror suspect extradited after 10 years
Could this be an indication that the British (and French) are really getting serious about fighting Islamic terrorism? From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Twostellas: FRENCH prosecutors got their hands on one of their most wanted terrorist suspects after ten years when Britain extradited Rachid Ramda to Paris last night. Mr Ramda, 35, who is […]