Archives for 2005

The Vice President of the Jihad Watch Board of Advisors, Hugh Fitzgerald, on ongoing persecution and discrimination against non-Muslims in the Islamic world: The kidnapping of Christian girls by Muslim Arabs and Kurds in Iraq in the last few years — and the suicide of at least one Assyrian girl following rape by her Kurdish […]

A new essay by Wolfgang Bruno: The always eminent writer and historian Victor Davis Hanson compares modern Europe to the Middle Earth of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic “The Lord of the Rings”, recently turned into one of the most successful movie trilogies in history by New Zealand director Peter Jackson. Like the inhabitants of Tolkien’s imaginary […]

“The leader of Bilal Mosque group says comments by the agent in charge in Oregon have set back fence-mending.” So now even to suggest that jihadists are operating somewhere is “anti-Muslim.” Needless to say, such an attitude makes adequate defense against the jihad absolutely impossible. From The Oregonian, with thanks to Michelle: A prominent Portland-area […]

Australian human rights activist Mark Durie has some important observations about the Australian religious vilification case: In December of 2004, Judge Michael Higgins, presiding at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, found Pastors Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah guilty of inciting religious hatred against Victorian Muslims. This was a historic case, the first finding of […]

“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). Several Muslims have objected to my citing of such passages, and others such as Qur’an 47:4, in connection with cases that do not involve a hot war. These things are […]

Wait a minute. I thought CAIR told us that families involved in jihad was an idea “not based on any reality of what we are going through.” I sure hope Ibrahim Hooper will explain this one for us. What’s that, Ibrahim? More “Islamophobia”? Ah. I should have guessed. From AP, : MADRID, Spain “” Spanish […]

Four Iraqi National Guard members kidnapped. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The militants on a tape obtained by Associated Press Television News say that they’re planning to “punish” the men for being traitors against their own people…. Although the speaker says a group called “Battalions of Holy Jihad in Iraq” is holding […]

Meanwhile, in new developments on the DOWN WITH THE AMERICA front, Iran is planning to build more nuclear plants. Peaceful ones, of course. From WND, : Iran’s Parliament is currently studying proposals on the construction of 20 new nuclear power plants and rejects American and European concerns Tehran is secretly building a nuclear arsenal, said […]

A friend recently sent me the above form, which dates from 1982 but nevertheless sums up attitudes that still prevail in Iran and elsewhere in the Islamic world. At the time he was working for a company that maintained an international directory of hotels. He sent forms to the hotels so that they could update […]

One of the most courageous public figures of our age, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali ex-Muslim member of the Dutch parliament, has a new weblog (thanks to Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi for the link). Scroll down and you will see some material in English. If the free world survives the jihadist challenge, Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be […]