Archives for 2005

From the UK’s Sun tabloid (thanks to Twostellas): MEDDLING cricket chiefs could ban the anthem Jerusalem from England’s home Test series against Pakistan next year in case it offends Muslims. The English and Wales Cricket Board are worried about the words building the holy city “in England’s green and pleasant land”. Why? Muslims should hardly […]

I am on the left, and the great human rights defender Natan Sharansky is on the right, in Jerusalem, November 20, 2005. And what are the two books Sharansky is holding?

The EU has agreed to fight the jihad in tandem with Muslim Mediterranean states. Well, not exactly. They have agreed to fight “terrorism.” But no one can quite agree on what that is. And no one dares ask how committed the Islamic countries will be to helping Europeans resist the jihad. All this will, I […]

I wonder if they will be making sure that every juror believes that Islam is a religion of peace. From AP, with thanks to Sheik Yer’mami: WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors want to know the religious beliefs and practices of potential jurors who will decide whether the only person charged in the United States in the […]

In FrontPage this morning I expand upon my initial observations on my recent trip to Israel: Israel has become the world’s new South Africa: the villain du jour, the universal oppressor, the whipping-boy of the United Nations. Its foes have even applied the South African concept of apartheid to its policies. The global Left eagerly […]

Meet the new Europe, same as the old Europe. Note that this call was not just for destroying the Jewish State and rendering the Jews dhimmis. It was for killing them — probably because they would be considered kuffar harbi: unbelievers at war with Islam. And this cassette, containing the call, was not sold furtively […]

1938 update from AP, with thanks to Mackie: VIENNA, Austria “” Top Iranian officials met less than two months ago to weigh whether to restart their country’s uranium enrichment program — a possible pathway to nuclear arms, according to a confidential report cited by diplomats Friday. The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because […]

I haven’t wanted to do this, but I have been requested now to do so, as there is an ongoing partisan rumble in the comments field that detracts from what we are trying to do here as much as do the intemperate comments CAIR tried to hang me with (although I didn’t write them) and […]

Fjordman profiles those who are asking this question and answering in the affirmative, arguing that criticism of Islam is equal to Nazi antisemitism, and then explains why the analogy is faulty on so many levels. A sampling: If criticism of Islam causes Muslims to behave badly, then what has 2,000 years of persecution done to […]

Dutch dhimmitude galloping ahead. “Hague imam did no wrong, says OM,” from Expatica, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: AMSTERDAM — The Public Prosecutor’s Office (Openbaar Ministerie) is not taking legal action against Sheikh Fawaz, an imam at the ‘As Soennah’ mosque in The Hague, a spokesman said on Thursday. MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali (VVD) […]