Archives for 2005

Liquor store jihad update from the San Francisco Chronicle, with thanks to DC Watson: Oakland police arrested two men on felony charges of vandalizing two West Oakland corner markets in attacks in which several men in suits and bow ties demanded that the outlets stop selling liquor to African Americans. Both suspects are affiliated with […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald examines how enlightenment has always come to Islamic nations: If democracy is on the march in a Muslim country, there will always be more primitives in the population than the enlightened. If the Bush Administration, or others waiting in the wings, would carefully analyze where any moral progress […]

An update on this story from AP, : NEW YORK (AP) — A Washington, D.C., cab driver, a Florida doctor and a Bronx jazz musician have pleaded not guilty to charges they conspired to help terrorist organizations. Taxi driver Mahmud Faruq Brent, of Gwynn Oak, Md., smiled and waved at family members and friends before […]

Islamic tolerance alert from Iran. “Iran: Convert stabbed to death,” from Compass Direct, with thanks to all who sent this in: November 28 (Compass) — An Iranian convert to Christianity was kidnapped last week from his home in northeastern Iran and stabbed to death, his bleeding body thrown in front of his home a few […]

This is in accord with Qur’an 5:33, which is, of course, just one verse away from President Bush’s favorite Qur’an verse (and probably the only one he has ever read), 5:32. 5:33 says this: “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through […]

Many people have asked me to repost my article about Oriana Fallaci’s address in New York City Monday night — or at least a link to it. In case you missed it, the article is here. I am told that she has no plans to publish her address from that night, so this article may […]

And why not? Phyllis Chesler is not Catholic, but Jewish; however, her article “How Afghan Captivity Shaped My Feminism,” an excerpt from her superb new book The Death of Feminism, shows in riveting detail what happens all too often when non-Muslim women marry Muslim men (observant Muslim women, of course, are forbidden to marry non-Muslim […]

Sarkozy’s immigration policies here are on a continuum with his “one law for all Frenchmen” policy that so enflamed the rioters. This could be France’s last hope — but much, much more needs to be done. “France: Interior Minister Aims for 25,000 Expulsions in 2006,” from AKI, with thanks to JE: Paris, 30 Nov. (AKI) […]

Eurabia Update: more on the Belgian female convert to Islam who blew herself up in Iraq. “Militants linked to woman suicide bomber held in raids,” from the Telegraph, with thanks to Interested: Police in Belgium and France yesterday arrested 15 suspected militants believed to be linked to a Belgian woman who carried out a suicide […]

We have heard this sort of thing many, many times before. What we have not seen is an actual Islamic theological argument proving from Islamic sources that jihad is primarily peaceful, not violent. Will these officials come up with it? Maybe they will — but notice that while this article refers to “true” and “false” […]