Lawrence Auster challenges Daniel Pipes’ view of Islam at FrontPage today, and Pipes responds. It is in some spots worthwhile reading, although in many ways they’re talking past each other. My own position on all this I have made clear many times, although it has been rather cravenly misrepresented by those with their own agenda. […]
Archives for 2005
Armanious case on “America’s Most Wanted”
Says the AMW website (thanks to Chris): Hossam Armanious, his wife Amal and their daughters, Sylvia, 15 and Monica, 9 were found murdered in their Jersey City, New Jersey home. They had been tied up, gagged and stabbed to death. Police are trying to determine if this was a hate crime, as the family were […]
Terrorism trial of sheik to begin
…with the prosecution’s hands tied. From AP, : NEW YORK (AP) — A judge earlier this week refused to let federal prosecutors present some of the most potentially damaging evidence against a Yemeni sheik charged with funneling millions of dollars to terrorists. Prosecutors will not be able to present documents allegedly linking Sheik Mohammed Ali […]
“Why don’t you convert to Islam?”
Dawa, Taliban style: this is the story of Zablon Simintov, the last Jew in Afghanistan, from “Afghan Jew Becomes Country’s One and Only” in the Washington Post, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Moreover, the former carpet trader said he had spent years watching Afghanistan’s once vibrant Jewish populace shrink to virtually nothing. The community […]
Hugh Fitzgerald Announces the MESA Nostra Contest, and Makes You An Offer You Can’t Refuse
It’s contest time at Jihad Watch, with our TaqiyyaFest still open for entries, and now a new offer from the Vice President of our Board, Hugh Fitzgerald: Readers of JihadWatch are aware that MESA Nostra is the professional organization in which, in order to become a uomo d”onore, or a donna d”onore for that matter, […]
Somali militia building mosque over cemetery
The other shoe drops in the story of the cemetery desecrated by Somali Muslims. From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: Mogadishu – Somali militiamen on Wednesday began building a mosque over an Italian colonial-era cemetery where they prompted outrage by unearthing hundreds of skeletons last week. The militia, allied with Mogadishu’s Islamic courts, brought in […]
Pakistan: tribal council wants raped doctor killed
In Islam, the emphasis is on purity. The emphasis here is not so much on the fact that this poor woman is a victim, but that she sullies the purity of the community. It is a positive development at least that the PMA official has called for the jirga to be arrested. From the Daily […]
Female Muslim Entertainer Faces Threats
From Fox, with thanks to Richard: LONDON “” It’s not as if her look or her act are that shocking, but her moves have brought the wrath of Islamic fundamentalists upon her. Deepika Thathaal, or Deeyah, was born in Norway of mixed Asian roots. Her father got her into music and has supported her throughout […]
Dutch dhimmitude: Screening of murdered director’s movie pulled at Rotterdam film festival
From AFP, with thanks to Kemaste: THE HAGUE (AFP) – The producers of “Submission”, a film about Islam by the murdered Dutch movie director Theo van Gogh, have cancelled plans to show the film at this week’s Rotterdam film festival due to security fears, organisers said. “The festival will respect the decision by Column Producties,” […]
Tehran’s Killing Fields
A hard-hitting look inside the bloody mullahocracy in Iran from the superb Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi at FrontPage: Given Iran’s incessant foreign policy saber-rattling””including its continued development of nuclear weapons, support for Islamist terrorist groups, and facilitation of the terrorism in Iraq””it’s easy to lose sight of the horrifying domestic situation within the Islamic Republic. The mullahs […]