The fearless Charles Jacobs of the David Project and the American Anti-Slavery Group skewers Columbia’s dhimmitude in the Columbia Spectator (thanks to Ted Robertson): The Dirks Committee, created by Columbia’s administration to investigate student complaints of harassment by anti-Israel faculty, was supposed to spread sand on the MEALAC fire. Instead it threw gasoline. On Friday, […]
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Juror Blasts Lynne Stewart as Traitor
It’s gratifying to find someone willing to enunciate unpopular truths in this effete and fearful age. From the New York Post, : Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart is a traitor to humanity who got what she deserved when she was found guilty of promoting terrorism, one of her jurors told The Post. Juror No. 8, who […]
American Contractor Kidnapped in Iraq
Still more attacks and kidnapping in Iraq, with an American victim this time. From VOA News, : Insurgents in Iraq launched a wave of suicide attacks against U.S. forces and kidnapped an American contractor Monday. A spokesman for the U.S. embassy says the contractor was abducted near Baghdad. Earlier, suicide bombers blew up three vehicles […]
Hizballah seeks legitimacy
The Party of Allah attempts a makeover. “Hezbollah Seeks Legitimacy,” from AP, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum: BEIRUT, Lebanon – As its Syrian backers leave Lebanon, Hezbollah is seeking to transform its image domestically and in the West – from guerrilla group condemned as terrorist by the United States to political party respected for playing […]
Phillips: Academic Inti-fad-a
The indomitable Melanie Phillips writes in Frontpage (thanks to Rebecca Bynum) about the academic “Inti-fad-a” in Britain: In his book Intellectuals, the British author Paul Johnson wrote: “The worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas.” If anyone had ever told British academics that there would come a time when they would punish […]
Jihadist killed in Algeria clash
Algerian jihad update. “Gunman killed in Algeria clash,” from UPI, : Algiers, Algeria — Algerian troops clashed with Muslim fundamentalist gunmen in southern Algeria, killing one while the rest managed to escape, reports said Monday. The daily al-Khabar quoted security forces as saying an army patrol, which had spent two days searching for a group […]
Dutch question why US refused entry to KLM plane
From the Dutch Expatica, : AMSTERDAM – Dutch justice authorities and opposition Labour MPs are raising serious questions after an incident in which a KLM plane on a direct flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City was refused entry to US airspace. A KLM spokesman said on Sunday morning the plane with 278 passengers left from […]
U.S.-Iraqi Raid Nets Suspected Insurgents, but the kidnappings and killings continue
From AP, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum: About 500 members of Iraq’s police and army swept through buildings in the Rashid neighborhood along with a “couple hundred” American soldiers, detaining 65 suspected militants, said Lt. Col. Clifford Kent of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division…. In the western town of Qaim, witnesses said insurgents hit […]
Iraq’s Sufis Form Jihad Squadrons To Carry Out Resistance Activities
Here is another one for the Islamic apologists who claim that Sufism is a peaceful, pluralistic, and tolerant form of Islam. From the jihadist site Jihad Unspun, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: While Sufism is often discounted as “Islam-lite” and their practices described as mystical, it appears that the Qadiri order that has long […]
Bruno: Dinosaur in the Age of Mammals
A provocative new essay by Wolfgang Bruno. I’m not sure I agree with every point; for one thing, I’m sure I am not as sanguine as he is, given the oil billions that continue to stream into the Middle East, but he makes many points well worth considering: Tariq Ramadan, the famed “moderate” Muslim who […]