What natural right does a man with this kind of record have to enter Canada? “Terrorist returns: Peter MacKay urges Ottawa to consider revoking citizenship,” from the National Post, with thanks to Martin: TORONTO – One of Canada’s most notorious terrorist leaders has returned home to Montreal after serving four years in a French prison […]
Archives for 2005
Afghani women face misery in Nuristan
Sharia alert: this is what results from Qur’an 4:34, which sanctions wife-beating, and Islam’s easy divorce. From IRIN, with thanks to Twostellas: NURISTAN, 24 February (IRIN) – The wooden hut of Zulaikha, a 45-year-old midwife, remains the only ray of hope for destitute women in the Nuristan valley, in northeastern Nuristan province. Dozens of women […]
Sharon Says Abbas Must ‘Wipe Out’ Militant Groups
For a long time in Israel it has looked as if one side was determined to make concessions in exchange for peace, despite the other side’s manifest inability and likely unwillingness to secure peace in exchange for those concessions or any other. But here at last Sharon strikes a different, non-dhimmi pose. From Reuters, with […]
Key lieutenants who controlled access to Zarqawi are captured
Will they lead to the lair of the mastermind? From the World Tribune, with thanks to Nicolei: “Abu Qutaybah was responsible for determining who, when and how terrorist network leaders would meet with Al Zarqawi,” the government said in a statement on Feb. 25. Al Duleimi was a “key lieutenant for the Zarqawi network, arranging […]
Anti-dhimmitude: Germany shuts down Holocaust-denying jihadist paper
It had a circulation of 10,000 from among that distressingly large tiny minority of extremists. “Germany shuts down Islamist newspaper,” from DPA, with thanks to Jeff Lastname: BERLIN – Germany closed down on Friday a Turkish-language Islamist daily newspaper that has denied the Holocaust. Interior Minister Otto Schily put a banning order on the Yeni […]
Iraqi students protest day off on Jewish Sabbath
A day off on a dhimmi holiday? No way! And don’t miss the part about the hand grenade: they don’t even do that at Evander Childs, a famously lethal school located in my old haunts in the Bronx. “Iraqi students protest day off on Jewish Sabbath,” from AP, with thanks to Charles Martel: It’s not […]
Ecce Libano
Louis-Noel Harfouche Bar-Levannon is a member of the Knights Templar and an astute, witty, and absolutely fearless Lebanese non-Arab. He has started a new blog, Ecce Libano. Don’t miss his incisive and illuminating explanation of Lebanese identity, “Why I Am Not Arab” — particularly relevant after the Hariri murder. Bravo, Louis! Let us hear more […]
ATC Announces Return to Internet
From a press release by the Anti-Terrorism Coalition: The ATC is now back after having been down since January 11, 2005, when terrorists struck their hosting companies Super Verticals, Yahoo and the ATC websites. “After the 1-11 Attacks the ATC Leadership decided not to return until high security could be assured and today we have […]
More Dutch Plan to Emigrate as Muslim Influx Tips Scales
Could reality be creeping up even on the media elite? This New York Times story (thanks to Nicolei) about Dutch emigration mentions social tensions, “Islamic militants,” and rising crime, but not racism or intolerance. AMSTERDAM – Paul Hiltemann had already noticed a darkening mood in the Netherlands. He runs an agency for people wanting to […]
“There are a billion plus Muslims in the Arab world, 90 percent of whom support Hamas”
Tiny minority of extremists update. Dr. Bernard Haykel is a professor of Islamic Studies at New York University. In a mostly pointless New York Times story (thanks to rgans) about discussions over the meaning of jihad at the Al-Moayad trial, “Defense in Terror Trial Paints a Rosier Picture of ‘Jihad,’” he says this: “There are […]