Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald explores the dhimmi blindness of the current Iraqi nation-building policy, and asks some questions of policymakers: “The Iraqi authorities say that they have arrested the leaders of three terror networks operating around Baghdad, two of which were headed by an interior ministry official.” — From this news item […]
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How did we forget that Israel’s story is the story of the West?
Charles Moore asks this pointed and crucially important question of dhimmi government officials and opinion-makers in the Telegraph: Well, some will say, that is the way it is: Israel has abused power, and is reaping the whirlwind. I don’t want to argue today about the rights and wrongs of Israel’s actions, though I think, given […]
Linking Islam to terror ‘will divide civilisations’
Memo to Osama bin Laden, Al-Zarqawi, Abu Bakar Bashir, Omar Bakri, Abu Hamza, Fawaz Damra, Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud, etc. etc. etc.: stop associating Islam with terror. Bahrain doesn’t like it. What’s that? Bahrain’s Al-Mousawi was telling Europeans and other Westerners, not jihadist Muslims, to stop associating Islam with terror? Oh, of course. How could […]
Muslim Brotherhood builds Egyptian Parliamentary bloc
The Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon) was the first modern Islamic terrorist organization. Founded in 1928, it is the the direct forefather of both Hamas and Al-Qaeda. In its Egyptian homeland it has had a checkered history — and is at present banned. Through it all, its goal has always remained the same: to reestablish Sharia […]
Teheran ‘secretly trains’ Chechens to fight in Russia
Here’s one for the neocons who support the Chechen jihad because they prefer to see it as a plucky group of independence fighters poking the big bad Russian bear in the eye: welcome to your alliance with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Of course, the Russians themselves need to wake up, too. Across the board, the governing elites […]
France: Extremism on the rise while intertwining with foreign terror groups
While government officials bicker amongst themselves on how to appease blatant rioters, an insidious infiltration is quietly occurring right under the authorities’ noses. From the Los Angeles Times: PARIS “” Employees set up clandestine prayer areas on the grounds of the Euro Disney resort. Workers for a cargo firm at Charles de Gaulle airport praise […]
No accounting of religion
Three weeks of riots has prompted French prime minister Dominique de Villepin and interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy to fall over each other in an attempt help the “disaffected youths”. From Reuters: “Proclaiming equality before the law is no longer enough: henceforth we also need to promote equality by (using) the law,” Sarkozy wrote in an […]
Minister: “In Pakistan there is complete freedom of speech and expression.”
Apparently, the good minister does not consider this nor this nor this to be stark contradictions to his bold statement. But of course! Violations of Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws are punishable just as violations of laws are in any other “democratic” nation. From the Online – International News Network: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has underlined […]
Iraq seizes booby-trapped toys
Yes, yes, it is they who are the aggrieved and oppressed. I keep forgetting. From SA, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Baghdad – The Iraqi army said on Thursday it had seized a number of booby-trapped children’s dolls, accusing insurgents of using the explosive-filled toys to target children. The dolls were found in a […]
Fitzgerald: Bat Ye’or, scriptwriter
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the EU’s thirst to destroy Israel in light of Bat Ye’or’s predictions: Bat Ye’or is a scholar of Islamic history, and her specialty has been the study of how non-Muslims — Christians and Jews (she does not deal with those parts of Asia, beyond the Middle East, […]