Archives for 2005

From the Stop-the-Presses Department. Someone should alert Condi Rice to this. Will she listen if our friends and allies the Saudis say it? From Arab News, with thanks to Jeff Lastname: JEDDAH, 10 February 2005 “” Labor Minister Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi thinks extremist teachings, not unemployment, are the root causes of terrorism in Saudi Arabia. […]

Such a rush to dhimmitude in Europe! Astonishing. From AP, : VIENNA, Austria — Iran has contracted to buy hundreds of high-powered rifles from an Austrian firm, the company’s owner said Wednesday. The sale drew an indirect rebuke from the United States, but Austrian government ministries said no laws were broken. Wolfgang Fuerlinger, head of […]

While UK papers are largely given over to an irenic picture of British Muslims happily accepting the nature of society in which they live “” while even the New York Times knows that the jihadists of Al-Muhajiroun was Britain’s largest Muslim group before it went underground “” at least some letter-writers are not so cowed. […]

Sharia alert. Killed for a kiss? That’s even stricter than Indonesia. “Pak actress says fatwa issued against her,” from Mid-day.com, with thanks to Twostellas: Pakistani actress Meera has claimed that she has been getting threatening calls from a religious organisation in Pakistan for her work in a Hindi film. Meera, who is starring in Soni […]

Links and comments from Ali Dashti: Non-dhimmis have been re-elected in Denmark, the first nation in the West to start taking strong measures against Muslim immigration, even before 9/11. They now seem set to continue or strengthen this course. A Coalition supporter, the Danish People’s Party, want more restrictions on the movement of people between […]

Sharia alert: in the Islamic state, there can be no blogging that is perceived to be against Islam. From the LA Times, with thanks to Ali Dashti: TEHRAN “” “Excuse me, Miss, but here in my hand I have a warrant for your arrest,” said a middle-aged man with a few days’ growth of beard. […]

Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer in FrontPage on Condoleeza Rice’s attempts to emulate a great English statesman of the past: Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice seems to have learned the lessons of English history “” but not, unfortunately, those of Churchill or Pitt, but of an older, less lionized figure: Aethelred the Unready. In the […]

The Vice President of the Jihad Watch Board of Advisors, Hugh Fitzgerald, comments on the talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which will resume soon: Within a few days the farce — farce from Israel’s side, but most rewarding for the Arab or “Palestinian” Arab side — will resume. The Israeli leaders, especially Sharon, once […]

“America must fear the nation that does not fear death,” or as a member of the mullahocracy’s ideological twin, Al-Qaeda, put it, “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” From Reuters, with thanks to Shiva: TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran, facing mounting U.S. pressure over its nuclear programme, has promised a “burning hell” for any aggressor […]

“War is deceit,” said the Prophet Muhammad (Sahih Bukhari, IV:52:268-270). He also said that lying was permissible in battle (Sahih Muslim, book 32, no. 6303). If the Israelis had taken into proper account the abundant evidence that the Palestinians take the words of Muhammad quite seriously, they might not have placed much hope these truce […]