Jihad Watch Board Veep Hugh Fitzgerald writes in FrontPage about Columbia acadhimmi Lisa Anderson: A faculty member at Columbia since 1986, Lisa Anderson is described in her biography as “one of this country’s most eminent scholars of the Middle East and North Africa.” But Anderson is the author of one book, The State and Social […]
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Spencer: Crusading Against History
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer in FrontPage on the movie Kingdom of Heaven: “It’s not like a stupid Hollywood movie,” said French actress Eva Green about the English director Sir Ridley Scott’s Crusades flick, Kingdom of Heaven. That’s true. It’s, like, a stupid English movie. The Crusades are hot, and Ridley Scott (director of Alien) […]
Pipes: Hamas vs. the United States
Daniel Pipes writes in FrontPage (thanks to EPG) on the possibility of a Hamas attack in the United States: Potentially violent Hamas operatives in the United States have already turned up. “¢ In November 2003, the Israelis arrested Jamal Akkal, 23, a Canadian immigrant of Palestinian origins and a year later, he pleaded guilty to […]
PA Media and Universities Promote Terrorism, Hatred, and Jihad
From the Stop the Presses Department, via Israel National News, with thanks to Kemaste: Despite Abbas’ well-polished image as a moderate, his administration has been presiding over an incessant campaign of incitement against Israel that spans the media and university centers. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah controlled press has been at the forefront of […]
Thailand: can you hear me now?
“Wireless: In Thailand, on the trail of cellphone terrorists,” from the International Herald Tribune, with thanks to EPG: BANGKOK – For years, Thai authorities acted as if international terrorism was someone else’s problem, even after bomb attacks in Bali, Jakarta and Manila brutally exposed the threat to the region. Suddenly, the government has changed tack, […]
Another story about the making of a jihad terrorist
An update on this story and more about how poverty (well, at least when mixed thoroughly with Islam) causes terrorism. “Leader of School Singing Group turns to Terror after facing Mother’s Death and Poverty,” from AP, with thanks to EPG: SHUBRA EL-KHEIMA, Egypt – Once the cheerful leader of a school singing group, Ehab Yousri […]
Would-be suicide bomber arrested: 19-year-old Islamic Jihad terrorist reportedly planning several attacks
From WND, : Israel yesterday arrested a would-be suicide bomber in a town recently handed over to the Palestinian Authority, highlighting the continued violation by Palestinian terror organizations of a cease-fire agreement signed in February, security sources say. The Israeli Defense Forces arrested Mohammed Ghanem, a 19-year-old Islamic Jihad terrorist reportedly planning several suicide bombings […]
Armenia’s Tears
Alyssa Lappen interviews the foremost expert on the Armenian genocide, Vahakn Dadrian, at FrontPage: April 24, 2005 marked the 90th “anniversary” of the Armenian genocide. With the purpose of decapitating the Armenian community, on April 24, 1915, Turkish Interior Minister Mehmed Talaat ordered the arrest of all Armenian political and community leaders suspected of opposing […]
Indonesia: Islamic court sentences 7 gamblers to flogging
Sharia Alert from AFP, with thanks to Twostellas: BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – An Islamic sharia court in the staunchly-Muslim Indonesian province of Aceh has sentenced seven men to a public lashing for petty gambling offences, a report said Sunday. The seven men from Pulo Kiton village in Bireuen district protested the verdict, with one of […]
Jihadists in Iraq step up attacks
“130 dead since Thursday in Iraq,” from AP, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum: BAGHDAD, Iraq – A car bomb exploded in an upscale shopping district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least six Iraqis and setting fire to an apartment building, in a surge of violence that has left at least 130 people dead since […]