She will survive, hey hey: from our “This must be good news if she’s not getting death threats” Department and the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to chappelbaum: Gloria Gaynor will be singing her hit “I Will Survive” in Dubai only nine days after she sang it Monday at a pro-Israel rally in Paris. But in […]
Archives for 2005
UK Muslim: “Women’s Rights” Has No Legitimacy In Islam
[Note from Robert Spencer: Introducing Rebecca Bynum, who has been a huge help to me for several months now as the Jihad Watch news editor. The comments in this piece are hers, and she will be posting other articles from time to time. Welcome, Rebecca!] The jihadist publication Jihad Unspun has published a highly tendentious […]
Spencer on Europe and Pope Benedict XVI
The good folks at FrontPage gave this one the title “Pope Benedict XVI: Enemy of Jihad.” I think that might be a trifle strong. Then again, I hope it isn’t. In choosing Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to succeed Pope John Paul II as Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church has cast a vote for the survival […]
Muslims to Pope Benedict XVI: Welcome. Now, play the dhimmi
A couple of interesting links about the reaction in the Islamic world to the new Pope, courtesy Dr JDJ. First, from Egypt Election Daily News, “New Hope With New Pope”: Arab World Has Welcomed the Election of New Pope Benedict XVI The Arab and Muslim world expressed their cautious hopes that he will bridge the […]
Sina: Is Political Islam Fascism?
Our good friend Ali Sina of Faith Freedom has sent us this article about political Islam. It is a thought-provoking analysis from someone who was born into Islam, raised in an Islamic society, and now, as an ex-Muslim, works to enlighten both questioning Muslims and interested non-Muslims as to the nature of Islam. Also, there […]
“Allah is the only legislator; there is no law but his”
I told you so update from Britain, via AFP (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): LONDON (AFP) – Radical Muslim protesters disrupted a press conference where leaders of Britain’s main Islamic group, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), were discussing the country’s May 5 general election. Some 15 men, most of them in the late teens […]
Jihad comes to Small Town, USA
An enormously important and unfortunately unsurprising piece from Laura Mansfield in WND (thanks to all who sent this in). Mansfield, who speaks Arabic, describes what happened when she sat in on an Arabic-language session in an American mosque. She got an invitation to an English-language session about family values, but arrived early: I checked the […]
Two Saudis on watch list cause KLM flight diversion
An update on this story: “Mystery Flight,” from Newsweek, with thanks to Mediawatch. It’s part of the routine for air travel since 9/11. Fifteen minutes after KLM Flight 685 took off from Amsterdam for Mexico City on April 8, Mexican authorities forwarded the names of all the passengers to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. […]
Pipes: “The Hell of Israel Is Better than the Paradise of Arafat”
Daniel Pipes writes in the spring Middle East Quarterly (thanks to Rebecca Bynum) about the surprising attitudes of Palestinians living in Israel: In the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) elections that took place in January 2005, a significant percentage of Arab Jerusalemites stayed away from the polls out of concern that voting in them might jeopardize their […]
Bangladesh: 50 hurt as Islamic hardliners attack Ahmadiyyas
Some Westerners have pointed to the Ahmadiyyas as peaceful Muslims. That would be great, if the majority of Muslims didn’t think they were heretics. More Muslim violence against the Ahmadiyya community, reported in the Bangladeshi Daily Star, with thanks to Twostellas: “50 hurt as bigots attack Ahmadiyyas in Satkhira.” Religious bigots led by the International […]