Bravo, Wolfowitz. From Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Parts of the Islamic world were “big on talking about jihad” but fell short in coming to the rescue of Muslim victims of the tsunami, according to the US Deputy Secretary of Defence, Paul Wolfowitz. Speaking to a Senate hearing about the international response to […]
Archives for 2005
Iranian women protest new US law on headscarves
The U.S. has yet again insulted 1.5 billion Muslims. Somehow executions of children, clampdowns on dissent and death fatwas against people in distant lands don’t seem to insult them. From the Indo-Asian News Service, with thanks to Nicolei: Tehran, Feb 10 : Iranian women’s groups and NGOs are upset over a new US law that […]
More from the Missing the Point Department
Here is a message I received yesterday: assalamualaikum to all jihad that very serious to against christian and jews and i,am very appreciate that.. i hope all force think a new strategy to against them.. This one seems to come from Kuala Lumpur. Lots of Jews out there to worry about. But anyway, here’s a […]
Is the “Greater jihad” really spiritual struggle?
In Onward Muslim Soldiers I detail how prominent jihadist theorists such as Hassan Al-Banna (founder of the Muslim Brotherhood) and Abdullah Azzam (founder of Al-Qaeda) argue that the idea that the “greater jihad” is a spiritual struggle is based on a weak hadith, a false tradition of the Prophet Muhammad, and that jihad is legitimately […]
Lynne Stewart convicted of aiding jihad terrorists
Addled Leftist lawyer guilty of abetting the global jihad. Why did she do it? Check this out: “To rid ourselves of the entrenched, voracious type of capitalism that is in this country that perpetuates sexism and racism, I don’t think that can come nonviolently.” So she thinks that the likes of the jihadist Sheikh Omar […]
Say Islam is a religion of peace, or we’ll kill you
From the Orwellian Department: it’s all because people talk bad about Islam, you see. Evidently if someone points out that Islam is unique among religions in having a doctrine of warfare against unbelievers, it will provoke Muslims into fighting that war, when they wouldn’t have otherwise. Mmm-hmm. “Anti-Islamic rhetoric helps radicalisation,” from Expatica, with thanks […]
The Islamophobia Myth
Here’s one for my man Omid. Kenan Malik in Prospect Magazine (thanks to all who sent this in) tells the truth about Islamophobia: “The charge of ‘Islamophobia’ is all too often used not to highlight racism but to silence critics of Islam, or even Muslims fighting for reform of their communities.” Ten years ago, no […]
Relatives of Slain N.J. Family of Four Speak Out for First Time in Washington, D.C. Press Conference
A press release from the U.S. Copts Association: Relatives of the slain Armanious family of four will speak at their first press conference since the brutal murders on Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. at the National Press Club’s Zenger Room in Washington, D.C. U.S. Copts Association president Michael Meunier will join the Armanious family’s […]
Saudi spokesman: suicide bombers are hellbound (except when they aren’t) — oh, and don’t kill the dhimmis
In this latest taqiyya session coming out of Saudi Arabia, the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdullah Al-Ghaith, explains that suicide bombings fall under the Qur’an’s prohibition of suicide. This is in “Al-Ghaith Denounces Suicide Bombings,” from Arab News, with thanks to Jeff Lastname. […]
Abbas fires security chiefs after truce breached
Oh. Well, then, he must be trustworthy, eh? See here for a more realistic view. From Reuters, with thanks to JJP Mackie: GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has fired three of his top security chiefs after militants punctured a ceasefire he had agreed with Israel by bombarding Jewish settlements in Gaza with mortars. […]