Archives for 2005

But would they have been suspended, or even reprimanded, and would the principal have been shocked, shocked!, if reporters hadn’t discovered this essay to begin with? From The Telegraph, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Two teachers at an Islamic school in Canada who praised a pupil’s essay about killing Jews with hand grenades and […]

The human cost of the paranoia fueled by jihadists. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: KANO, Nigeria — Accusations by Islamic preachers that vaccines are part of an American anti-Islamic plot are threatening efforts to combat a measles epidemic that has killed hundreds of Nigerian children, health workers say. Government officials play down the anti-vaccine […]

From Ynet News, with thanks to Alain: Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations methods: Internet surfers who enter the word “Hamas” in Arabic in the Google search engine, will view, in addition to the search results, an AdWord message that links directly to the website of the organization’s military faction Izz al-Din […]

Tiny minority of extremists update: contrary to this story, the jihad terror group Jemaah Islamiyah will not be banned — apparently because it has too much support among Muslims. From Laksamana.net, with thanks to Chas & Pat: Laksamana.Net – A presidential spokesman has denied claims by a senior security official that Indonesia is planning to […]

Internet jihad update, from Snoozeweek, with thanks to EPG: NewsweekApril 4 issue – Intelligence and law-enforcement agencies are learning that tracking down the operators of Islamic terrorist Web sites is like trying to locate a floating craps game: here today, gone tomorrow. During the past year, investigators in America and Europe watched as a business […]

“How to Influence Muslim Minds and Capture the Arab Hearts” is the title of this piece by Ibtissam Al-Bassam in Arab News (thanks to Skeetstreet), but a better title might be “How to Flatter Muslim Minds and Cater to Arab Hearts.” Dina Powell is going to the Middle East, and when she’s there, she better […]

Thereby legitimizing jihad terror and the ideology that fuels it. But of course, the ideological distinction between them has never been all that sharp in the first place. From China View, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: GAZA, March 28 (Xinhuanet) — The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad (Holy War) may join the […]

Al-Qaeda-linked gang update, from the Washington Times, with thanks to RB: NACO, Ariz. — Members of a violent Central America-based gang have been sent to Arizona to target Minuteman Project volunteers, who will begin a monthlong border vigil this weekend to find and report foreigner sneaking into the United States, project officials say. James Gilchrist, […]

On this the holiest of days for Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Protestant Christians comes an article on the necessity of spreading Islam in the West. “Countering Islamophobia: The Urgency of Da`wah in the West,” from IslamOnline, with thanks to the Norwegian Kafir: USA:”A girl like you should take off this burqa and start getting […]

From the Malaysian Manorama, with thanks to Twostellas: Riyadh: Saudi religious police have destroyed a clandestine makeshift Hindu temple in an old district of Riyadh and deported three worshippers found there, a newspaper reported. Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or religious police, Thursday stumbled across a room […]