About time. From the New York Times, : LONDON, Jan. 24 – In nightly sermons broadcast on the Internet, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, a 46-year-old Syrian-born cleric, has urged young Muslim men all over the world to support the Iraq insurgency on the front line of “the global jihad,” investigators say. In an amazing display […]
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“If they preach that there ought to be absolutely no jihad (holy war), they would lose credibility and support among their followers”
Can Islam reform? Despite my respect for some of those making the attempt, I have expressed my doubts many times. This story illustrates one reason why: the jihad ideology that fuels violence by Muslims against non-Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere is not only not the province of a tiny minority of extremists, but is so […]
Sharansky: PA promotes genocide
Natan Sharansky says that nothing has changed with the coming of Abbas. All this is a manifestation of the jihad ideology that teaches that, in the words of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, “the Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will […]
A note on the Armanious case
At Jihad Watch we have received a large number of inquiries, both sober and frenzied, about the Coptic family found murdered in Jersey City last week. As is well known, the Copts in Jersey City and elsewhere have many suspicions about this crime. But when they have voiced these suspicions, they have been frequently denounced […]
Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi was Captured, Then Released
Could this possibly be true? Unfortunately, given the shifting and shadowy nature of loyalties among Iraqi officials, it most certainly could. From VOANews, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum: A suicide bomber from Saudi Arabia, who survived a failed attempt to blow up the Jordanian mission Baghdad in December, alleges that Iraqi police may have captured, […]
UK: Police spent £900,000 to give Hamza street pulpit
That’s almost two million dollars. I have no problem with their spending money to have people there to monitor what he was saying, but that doesn’t seem to be what it was spent for. From the Times Online, with thanks to all who sent this in: The Metropolitan Police has disclosed, after a successful Freedom […]
Religious Surge Alarms Secular Syrians
This article shows the self-contradiction of the position that still prevails in the mainstream media: if the jihadists are really a tiny minority of extremists whose understanding of Islam is rejected by the great majority, then why should anyone be concerned about an Islamic revival in Syria? But this article is closer to the truth: […]
Fitzgerald: On the commanded and prohibited in Islam
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald considers the implications of the possibility that the charges are true that the Armanious family murders were religiously motivated: To understand better what is not only past in Islam, but also passing and, most importantly, to come, members of the security services in the Western world should learn […]
“He has said that he acquired this nom de guerre while waging jihad in Afghanistan and that he was now going to bring about the Talibanization of his part of Bangladesh”
In Onward Muslim Soldiers I discuss the phenomenon of jihad fighters traveling from one country to another to fight in the latest jihad. It appears from this New York Times story, “The Next Islamist Revolution?” (thanks to Nicolei), that the latest stop is Bangladesh. Last spring, Bangla Bhai, whose followers probably number around 10,000, decided […]
US to back crackdown on Muslim separatists in Philippines
The schizophrenia in American foreign policy continues, but this is a positive step. From AFP, with thanks to Twostellas: MANILA – The United States will back President Gloria Arroyo in the fight against breakaway Muslim militant groups threatening fragile peace talks in the southern Philippines, its envoy to Manila said on Monday. US ambassador Francis […]