Note the hostile reaction of the mayor and State Security to Fraihi’s report. Why is that? What is it about this that makes them feel threatened? It is that it shakes their stifling orthodoxy that Islam is a religion of peace and Europeans need not be concerned about the growing Muslim populations. “Journalist defends report […]
Archives for 2005
8-year-old suicide bomber?
“8-year-old killed in Kashmir school blast,” from the Times of India, with thanks to Twostellas: SRINAGAR: An eight-year-old was killed and six other students of Nadihal high school were injured in a grenade blast in the school compound in Bandipore, Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Friday. The victim, identified as Moshin Sarwar, was killed […]
Bomb at Shiite Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan kills 24
While Pakistan flexes its nuclear muscles, jihad violence there continues. From the Canadian Press, with thanks to Twostellas: QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – A bomb exploded Saturday as Shiite Muslims congregated at a shrine in a remote town in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 24 people and wounding 16, police said. Thousands of worshippers were at […]
Pakistan Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile
From Reuters, with thanks to RB: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan Saturday successfully test-fired a long-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, the latest in a series of tests in one of the world’s flashpoints. “Today, we carried out a successful test-firing of the indigenously developed Shaheen II missile,” a military official told Reuters. The missile could travel up […]
Lebanon’s President Urges Talks After Car Bomb
Update on this story. From Reuters, with thanks to RB: BEIRUT, Lebanon’s pro-Syrian president invited anti-Syrian opposition and loyalist politicians to begin immediate talks on Saturday, hours after a car bomb raised fresh fears of a return to the country’s violent past. The blast wounded several people in a Christian suburb of eastern Beirut, gutting […]
Briton killed in Qatar theatre car bomb
This is the same explosion in which Natasha Tynes almost perished. From The Telegraph with thanks to Granny Weatherwax: A car bomb in Doha which demolished a theatre leaving one Briton dead and up to 50 people injured, may be the work of al-Qa’eda, investigators believe. Jonathan Adams died when an explosion rocked the building […]
Female-led U.S. service irks Muslims in Mideast
Woman leads Muslim prayer service update. It seems that Muslims in the Middle East are up in arms, so to speak, about a prayer service held in New York — because a woman led it. From AP, with thanks to Scaramouche: CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Muslims in the Middle East yesterday angrily denounced a mixed-gender […]
US missionaries released in Dubai
From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: DUBAI: Two US missionaries detained in Dubai on suspicion of distributing Christian compact discs and Bibles in the Muslim Gulf emirate have returned to the United States, a local newspaper said. A US embassy official confirmed the report but declined to give details, citing the US privacy act. The […]
Iraq’s Jaafari aims for Sharia rule
Another I told you so update. It is very much within the realm of possibility that the U.S. has toppled Saddam Hussein and stayed in Iraq for all this time only to see the creation of another Sharia state there. This would not and could not have happened if the Administration and the State Department […]
“Only last week I was in a cab and the driver was listening to a speech encouraging people to go to Jihad across the globe”
The Jordanian journalist Natasha Tynes (thanks to JS), now based in Qatar, was recently uncomfortably close to a jihadist explosion in Doha — not that she was much surprised: The borders for GCC (Gulf Countries) members are open, any GCC resident can move freely. I hate to sound judgmental but the signs were here. Religious […]