Archives for 2005

From the I-told-you-so Department: Business Week‘s article (thanks to Jerry Gordon) is subtitled “Iraq’s new government may be more influenced by Islam than the U.S. hoped.” The article quotes Juan Cole, the University of Michigan prof and a leader of MESA Nostra, or the Saidist intellectual straitjacket that strangles free inquiry about Middle East issues […]

“Call for military anti-terror guards,” from Expatica, with thanks to JS: AMSTERDAM “” Amsterdam police commissioner Bernard Welten has said the army should be called in to guard buildings in the city from terrorists. Welten said there were 125 locations currently under extra police surveillance in Amsterdam to prevent possible terror attacks. The capital’s police […]

I have received thousands of variations of a hate email I received this morning, and that’s why I put it up: regular readers of Jihad Watch will be familiar with all the arguments here also, as they have been made so many, many times. These arguments are so often made that it is clear that […]

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Remember, there is no end to jihad. From Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei: BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hizbollah called on the Lebanese to help “bury” a United Nations resolution demanding the Islamic group disarm and its Syrian backers quit Lebanon, and predicted it would not succeed without their support. The Shi’ite Muslim group’s remarks late on […]

I just got an email (from a coward with a false email address) with that in the subject line. The body of the message, however, merely quotes Carl Ernst’s guilt-by-association attack against me by attacking my publishers, which I disposed of a few days ago in speaking about Omid Safi, who also linked to Ernst’s […]

Here is an important article about a prominent dhimmi from Joseph D’Hippolito in FrontPage (thanks to all who sent this in): The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Irineos I, and his former spokesman, Father Atallah Hanna, have used even more virulent rhetoric in their own collaborationist campaign. That rhetoric includes supporting suicide bombing, charging the […]

Zawahiri, like all jihadists and jihad theorists such as Sayyid Qutb and Syed Abul Ala Maududi, equates freedom with Sharia. While it’s jarring to Western sensibilities to equate a legal system that mandates discrimination against women and non-Muslims with freedom, it’s perfectly understandable from Zawahiri’s perspective: Sharia, he believes, is the law of Allah, and […]

Bakery jihad. Remember, Islamic law forbids the killing of innocent people, but innocence is in the eye of the beholder. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing 13 and injuring more than 40, a police official and witnesses […]

And a Chechen, and a Sudanese. In Onward Muslim Soldiers I discuss the phenomenon of jihadists moving from country to country to catch the latest jihad. From the World Tribune, : Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib said in Baghdad last week that security forces recently arrested four terrorists who tried to attack a polling place […]