More on the Saudi hate material noted in the Freedom House report, from the New York Sun, : Just three miles from the site of the World Trade Center, the government of Saudi Arabia is distributing hate materials expounding an extremist Wahhabi ideology, according to a new report by the Center for Religious Freedom…. The […]
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Muslim commander on trial for Bosnia war massacres
From Breakingnews.ie, with thanks to Twostellas: Bosnian Muslim commander Sefer Halilovic went on trial for murder at the UN war crimes tribunal today for the massacres of dozens of Croat civilians. Halilovic, 53, is the highest-ranking Muslim army official to be tried for alleged crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. He has been accused of […]
Jihadists Claim U.K. Plane Attack
“Terrorists Claim U.K. Plane Attack,” from AP, : BAGHDAD, Iraq “” Britain’s government said Monday that 10 of its military personnel were missing and presumed dead following the downing of a military transport plane north of Baghdad on Iraq’s election day. An Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility for shooting down the plane in an Internet […]
UK: Foreign terror suspect to be granted bail
We should not have to sacrifice our principles and the rule of law in order to defend ourselves against the jihad. But cases like this present a difficult dilemma. If it can be definitively established that he made public threats and was involved with associates of Osama, at very least he should lose his refugee […]
Egyptian court to investigate academic who said Christians are oppressed there
Taking a page from Turkey’s memory-hole treatment of the Armenian genocide, Egypt is about to prosecute Saad Eddin Ibrahim for daring to note that Christians have a tough time there. From Deutsche Presse Agentur, with thanks to Twostellas: CAIRO “” A Cairo court is to investigate claims that a renowned professor of political sociology at […]
“In this day and Age is Jihad Fard [obligatory] on every able bodied Man?”
From Islam Q & A (thanks to Goon) comes this “Ruling on Jihad and kinds of Jihad.” It is quite lengthy and revealing, and accords with traditional Islamic theology on jihad. The different stages of revelations to Muhammad about jihad are explained, concluding with this: After jihad was enjoined upon him, the kaafirs [unbelievers] then […]
Fitzgerald: Iraq a “quagmire”?
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald on why the media’s most commonly-used word for the American presence in Iraq is misapplied: I would never use the word “quagmire” about the American effort in Iraq. Iraq is not Vietnam; there is no quagmire, and many important things have been achieved. To wit: the disruption of […]
Missouri Charity Investigated for Terrorism Ties
From AP, : Washington (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the government to turn over classified information about a Missouri charity accused of ties with terrorism…. His order came yesterday after the Islamic American Relief Agency asked that its assets be unfrozen. The federal government raided the agency’s Columbia headquarters in October, claiming the […]
Detentions ‘stopped terror attack’
This seems quite likely. From the Telegraph, : The controversial policy of detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial was a key tool in preventing Britain from being attacked by al-Qa’eda militants, senior security officials believe. The officials say that the emergency measure, introduced after the September 11 attacks on America, deterred scores of terrorists from […]
Columbia prof: America created violent political Islam inadvertently as part of its Cold War strategy
Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology and School of International Affairs, Columbia University, New York. Here are some salient extracts from his piece called “Inventing political violence” in a publication named Global Agenda, which also boasts Kofi Annan, Karen Armstrong, and Seif al Islam Qaddafi among its authors. (Thanks to […]