Archives for 2005

More on how democratic openness is unleashing the forces of Islamism in the Muslim world. From AP, “Banned Islamic Group Protests in Egypt” CAIRO, Egypt May 4, 2005 “” Thousands of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamic group, protested across the country Wednesday in an escalation of the opposition campaign demanding political […]

A painter on the George Washington Bridge turns out to be a guy on terror watch lists. From WCBS-TV New York, with thanks to Kemaste: NEW YORK (CBS) A routine traffic stop leads to the arrest of a terror watch list suspect in our area. What’s more, CBS 2 has learned 39-year-old Sami Ibrahim Isa […]

The intrepid fjordman asks, “Is Swedish Democracy Collapsing?” A top Muslim scholar said the Muslim minority in Sweden would abide by Swedish law in confronting a Christian preacher who insulted Prophet Muhammad, urging his fellow Swedish Muslims not to take the law into their own hands or commit any violent acts to avenge the remarks […]

There’s an interesting nugget in a Washington Times article interviewing Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray who provides the following information. “Terrorists will fail, official says,” : …Criminal Division prosecutors and investigators, working with state and local authorities, have disrupted more than 150 terrorist cells and threats from Portland, Ore., to Lackawanna, N.Y., incapacitating more […]

From the UK’s Daily Mirror, : WOMEN suicide bombers wearing exploding bras could strike at airports, police intelligence experts fear. Scotland Yard has sent details of the bombs – which are primed to go off as the wearer is frisked by security staff – to all the major airports, including busy Heathrow and Gatwick. The […]

From the Daily Telegraph, a bit of anti-dhimmitude on the part of writer Christopher Howse. For once, it’s the Brit’s turn to make fun of Hollywood’s dhimmitude. Good show!..pip, pip and all that. On February 11, 1847, the Scala opera house in Milan, its stage fitted out with fantastic arabesque ogees, onion domes and filagree […]

Credit card jihad. From the Detroit News, : DEARBORN — A 41-year-old Dearborn businessman sought to support the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah by collecting at least $600 to send to relatives of suicide bombers, the FBI said Tuesday. FBI agents arrested Nemr Ali Rahal on April 20 at his Dearborn home. They found a videotape […]

“U.S. Government to Deport Area Syrian for ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ Ties, Iraq Guerrilla Warfare Training,” from CBS-11, with thanks to RSH: In a rare public assertion, the U.S. government is citing an Arlington man’s association with a secretive worldwide Muslim organization as grounds to deport him, CBS-11 has learned. An altogether positive development. The Ikhwan — […]