ABC News, home of America Held Hostage Day XXX, and Iran get together at Starbucks and talk about how great things are going since they broke up. From ABC News: Although it was turned into a museum long ago, TV cameras have rarely been allowed in. But it recently was renovated, which may explain why […]
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Terrorist Outfits Broken in Pakistan, Musharraf Says
Well, I hate terrorism and like alliances against terrorism, especially with Muslim nations who are trying to keep their own jihad terrorists in check. So why is it that when Musharraf says this, a little voice in my head echoes, “Good new, comrades! Steel production is up, and has exceeded quota according to the five […]
Dutch expel fourth imam in anti-terror offensive
Anti-dhimmitude in Holland. Why aren’t other countries doing more of this? From Expatica, with thanks to Nicolei: AMSTERDAM “” A cleric from a Rotterdam mosque has become the fourth imam to be ordered out of the Netherlands, it has been reported. The fourth man was brought to an airport on Thursday, the biggest selling daily […]
Texas: Three admit trying to sell immigration documents to Iranians
Three capitalists sell the rope by which they will be hanged. “Three admit trying to sell documents to Iranians,” from the Brownsville Herald, with thanks to Kemaste: February 24, 2005 “” Three members of an alleged ring accused of attempting to sell fake immigration documents to Iranian nationals pleaded guilty in federal court to various […]
Al-Qaradhawi at Solidarity Conference: ‘I Hope to Die a Virtuous Death Like a Jihad Warrior, with the Head Severed from the Body’
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi continues to prove his reputation as a “reformist.” A new MEMRI report (thanks to Nicolei) on this aging child prodigy, this darling of the Islamic Society of Boston: “When I was only nine, the people of my village gave me the title ‘sheikh [who teaches] the Koran and religious science.’ I have […]
The Muslim Brotherhood Connection to Bush Assassination Plot
Rusty Shackleford over at the Jawa Report (thanks to Nicolei) has some very interesting additional information about the Bush assassination plot: “Did Omar and Faten Ali and know of their sons jihadism?” The jihadi connection only gets deeper. From this NY Times article (ht: Katherine) we learn that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the man indicted […]
Pakistan: Christian jailed for insulting Koran
The Sharia is not in force anywhere except Saudi Arabia and Iran, you’ll hear. Christians enjoy rights equal to those of Muslims in other Muslim countries, you’ll hear. Then why are there so many stories like this one? From IOL.ie, with thanks to Nicolei: A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced a Christian man to […]
Philippines: Officials: Arrested JI suspects planned to bomb church, airport, malls
Jihad in the Philippines update. The Philippines, you may recall, is one of those places that was left off a list of countries with “serious extremist movements,” recently drawn up by a putative Islamic expert. From AP, with thanks to Nicolei: MANILA — Officers have arrested four suspected members of al-Qaida-linked terror groups who were […]
Last night’s event
Last night I spoke in Beverly Hills, California as part of a panel with Bat Ye’or, the pioneering scholar of dhimmitude, and Rafael Israeli, author of the magnificent Islamikaze, a study of the ethos of suicide bombing. It was a great evening. Bat Ye’or spoke with her usual fire and precision about the Islamization of […]
Turkish Prime Minister’s Lawsuits Draw Cartoonists’ Ire
Let them into the EU! Note that Kart has drawn Erdogan’s ire (that’s right: he has irked the Turk) by noting the encroachment of Islam into public life in this secular state. From the LA Times, with thanks to Nicolei: ANKARA, Turkey “” This nation’s best-known political cartoonists gathered in Istanbul on Wednesday to protest […]