Archives for 2005

Arnaud de Borchgrave in UPI, : WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Much like Nazi and Soviet sympathizers in the 20th century, al-Qaida enjoys a movement of worldwide groupies whose common link is hatred of America. Their principal objective is to clip the eagle’s talons. They now get together once a year in Porto Allegre in […]

How long do you think this will last? Search the archives here and you will see how PA TV has been filled with incitements to murder and genocide. “Abbas demands TV shed violent visuals,” from the Washington Times, with thanks to EPG: JERUSALEM “” Newly elected President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered Palestinian television to cleanse […]

“French Fighters Captured with Iraqi Terrorists,” from Newsmax.com, : U.S. forces are holding three French nationals who were captured in Iraq fighting alongside insurgents loyal to terrorist kingpin Abu Musab al Zarqawi – a development that could complicate attempts to thaw relations between France and America…. “Two of them have admitted they came to make […]

The same sort of thing happened in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Islam covers every aspect of life, say apologists. This article shows how that can become totalitarian, destructive, and murderous. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Umm Ali says militants killed her son last month for the most unlikely of reasons: He […]

Good thing they’re a democracy now, eh? From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: AIN KAWA, Iraq – For the Toma brothers, life was getting more precarious by the day. One of them had survived two shootings. Their cousin had been murdered. A CD of beheadings named them as American agents. “Long Live Saddam Hussein” and […]

The Comparative Defense Studies Program, The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and The Middle East Institute of Columbia University host: “Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Symbiosis and the Estrangement from America” by Bat Ye’or Bat Ye’or, born in Egypt, is a British citizen living in Switzerland since 1960. She is a renowned expert on the […]

For a variety of reasons I had not planned to publish any response to Stephen Schwartz’s Weekly Standard article touting Sufism as peaceful and tolerant. However, many people have emailed it to me, and I am seeing it pop up here and there as a sign of hope. I am all for hope, but I […]

I was going to add “Taqiyya alert” to the title of this piece, but this one tends more to kitman. Taqiyya is the Islamic concept of religious deception; kitman is a related Islamic concept that is more akin to mental reservation. For the author of this piece, Nourah Abdul Aziz Al-Khereiji, isn’t saying anything that […]

At Stand With Us is a six-minute video of Amir Abdel Malik Ali (thanks to Kemaste for the link). I have debated Abdel Malik Ali on Pax-TV’s Faith Under Fire. (The debate will be rerun on February 26.) UC-Irvine, of course, is the home of Mark LeVine, with whom I have also had words. He […]

And what of the other 184,000? From AP, : SACRAMENTO – The terrorist believed to have flown a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, obtained a California driver’s license without providing the required Social Security number for identification, officials are acknowledging for the first time. Nawaf M.S. Alhazmi then used that license […]