Clash of civilizations update. From the Norwegian Kafir’s Fjordman blogspot: [B]lind people with their guide dogs are finding it increasingly difficult to get a taxi ride, and not just in the capital. In Oslo, Muslims make up such a high percentage of cab drivers that it can be hard to obtain a taxi during Islamic […]
Archives for 2005
Kristine Withers: call for help
Kristine Withers tells her story here. In brief: Kristine Withers claims to have been assaulted by the Islamic Thinkers’ Society, a group she says is likely tied to Al-Muhajiroun, which is a radical Islamic group that is believed to have worked with Al-Qaeda. Read the whole story: instead of prosecuting those whom she says assaulted […]
Interview with Bat Ye’or
From “Triple-pronged Jihad — Military, Economic and Cultural,” an interview with Bat Ye’or by Alyssa A. Lappen, from the American Thinker: Q. Was it intentional that the Euro-Arab Dialogue had these results? A. Of course, on the Arab side, the [intentions and] decisions were very clear from the beginning. The idea was to develop good […]
U.S. to tighten border controls!
By 2008. 2008! Why 2008? Why the wait? From AP, : WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008, part of a tightening of U.S. border controls in an era of terrorist threat, three administration officials said Tuesday. Similarly, Canadians will also have […]
Mandæans still persecuted in Iraq
A message from the Sabian Mandaean Association (thanks to Keith Roderick): The Sabian Mandæan Association has now been advised that Khairi Abdul Sattar Nasir (born 1951) and three (3) other Mandæans were killed by Muslims in Dawra, a suburb of Baghdad, on 2 April 2005 at about 1.00 p.m. The Sabian Mandæan Association has been […]
Indonesia: Cop declared suspect in church blast
I guess it all depends on what the role of Is is. From the Jakarta Post, with thanks to Twostellas: National Police Headquarters has named a senior police officer as a suspect for his alleged role in last December’s church bombings here. Adj. Comr. Is, who serves with the Central Sulawesi Police, was named a […]
A Tribute to Scholar of the House Khaled Abou El Fadl
Devotees of the genre know the pleasure to be derived from reading Hamid Dabashi’s eulogy to Edward Said, with its echoes, for the connoisseur, of Dzhambul’s 1936 “Song About Stalin” — the first verse of which you can find, if you wish, in Ogonyok, No. 14, 14 March 1990. The “Song About Stalin” goes thus […]
“Let everyone who sold his religion and joined this unit know that he will have the same fate”
The jihadists in Iraq and elsewhere continue to base their appeal almost completely on religious grounds. And the rest of the world continues to ignore the implications of this, preferring to pretend that the religious dimension of the present conflict can be ignored or glossed over. “Purported al-Qaida Video Shows Beheading,” from AP, with thanks […]
Eurabia – Europe’s Future?
Bat Ye’or gives a briefing to Middle East Forum (thanks to Rebecca Bynum) on the future of Europe. Europe is undergoing two profound changes. The first is the weakening of Christianity. The second is demographic decline. Presently, across Europe, there are only two-thirds the number of children born necessary to sustain the population. The consequent […]
US Reaching Out to Muslim Brotherhood: Report
From the Say It Ain’t So Department, working in conjunction with the Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas Department. Background here and here and here. From IslamOnline, with thanks to JJP Mackie: CAIRO, The US State Department has drawn up a memo calling for direct and permanent political dialogue with the banned Muslim […]