The Myth of Islamic Tolerance, an essay collection edited by Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, is now available. Here is what it says on the book jacket: This enlightening collection of essays by some of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic social history focuses on the pervasive legal and cultural oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic […]
Archives for 2005
Down syndrome youth used as suicide bomber
From The Age, with thanks to Nicolei: Amar was 19, but he had the mind of a four-year-old. This handicap didn’t stop the insurgency’s hard men as they strapped explosives to his chest and guided him to a voting centre in suburban Al-Askan. And before yesterday’s sunrise in Baghdad, his grieving parents loaded his broken […]
Iraqis With Fake Passports Detained In Mexico
“Steven Yohanan Kurkis”: that’s a name a Christian, not a Muslim, would have. Is he a dhimmi Christian aiding the jihad? A recent Muslim convert? Or just an Iraqi Christian trying to enter the country for other reasons? From AP, with thanks to Jeff Lastname: SAN DIEGO — Two Iraqis have been charged with immigration […]
Germany: Bonn Koran school under renewed pressure
Infants-to-teens jihad. From DPA, with thanks to Jeff Lastname: BONN – A Koran school in the German city of Bonn has come under renewed official pressure with the revelation that a staff member’s son-in-law supported al-Qaeda and was planning to blow himself up in a terrorist attack in Iraq. The infants-to-teens King Fahd Academy narrowly […]
Museum removes erotic art after Muslim anger
One thing is certain (cf. the Brooklyn museum that was exhibiting a portrait of the Virgin Mary pelted with dung a few years ago, and many other cases): if Christians had complained, the museum would have cried “censorship” and kept the exhibit up. From Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: STOCKHOLM (Reuters) […]
Moroccan linked to Madrid bombings arrested
What’s that? Europe’s problem is racism, you say? From Expatica, : MADRID-Moroccan national Rachid Bendouda was arrested in connection with the 11 March terrorist attacks in the Spanish capital. Some witnesses said they had seen Bendouada on the eve of the attacks in downtown Madrid with Abdennabi Kounjaa, alias “Abdala”, one of the suspects in […]
Al-Moayad boasts that he was Osama bin Laden’s spiritual adviser
Al-Moayad update. “Code Words for ‘Terror,’” from the New York Post, : February 3, 2005 — Brooklyn jurors on the terror-financing case of a Yemeni sheik yesterday viewed secret tapes of him huddling with an assistant “” allegedly to create code words for weapons and ammunition. Not knowing his German hotel room was wired, Sheik […]
Suspected al-Qaeda chief arrested in Brussels raid
Not that Europe has any immigration problem. Certainly not. From Expatica, with thanks to Kemaste: BRUSSELS — A Moroccan man suspected of helping to mastermind last year’s deadly train bombings in Madrid has been arrested in Brussels. Twenty-eight-year-old Youssef Belhadj was arrested in Molenbeek on Tuesday after the Spanish police issued an international arrest warrant […]
We’re going to do it again, says man behind Beslan bloodbath
Just in case you thought that the horrors of Beslan had wrought in them a change of heart. Note also more testimony to the general uselessness of the “terrorist” designation. From the Times Online, with thanks to Jeff Norris: THE Chechen rebel leader who masterminded the Beslan school siege last autumn plans more such operations, […]
Northeastern Prof Shahid Alam slimes Jihad Watch, LGF again
Shahid Alam is the Northeastern University professor who compared the 9/11 hijackers to the Founding Fathers, and then falsely accused Jihad Watch, LGF and others of orchestrating “attacks — many of them death threats” against him. In a piece at FrontPage a while ago I explained why his remarks were objectionable. But the good professor […]