Archives for 2005

I don’t like it either, but the question is: will Muslims in the UK and other Western countries live peacefully in a pluralistic society, without acting unilaterally (or violently) against things of which they disapprove? There are peaceful and orderly ways for them to register their disapproval of such things, and in the UK they […]

I wrote in a recent column that the tsunami was likely to make Muslims in the afflicted areas think that it had come because they weren’t Islamic enough, and thus lead to greater fervor and in due course to more jihad. Here is confirmation of this from Malaysia. “Seeing red over JAWI raid…,” from the […]

All Muslims in Western countries peacefully accept pluralism and have no attachment to Sharia or violent jihad — or so American Muslim advocacy groups would have us believe, on pain of being called “racist” or “Islamophobic.” But alas, reality is different. A Muslim in Toronto recently posted this at the Islamic Forum bulletin boards (thanks […]

Lt. Gen. John H. Vines, who is set to take command of American ground forces in Iraq, has assigned a series of books on Islam to his staff members. Here are comments on Vines’ choices from Jihad Watch Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald: The Reading List of General Vines deserves further detailed study. There are two […]

More from the Nothing Is Sacred Except Jihad Warfare Department: “Algerian rebels kill women in cemetery,” from Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei: ALGIERS (Reuters) – A bomb placed by Islamic rebels exploded at a cemetery south of the Algerian capital, killing three women and injuring five others visiting loved ones during the Muslim Eid al-Adha […]

From the Times Online, with thanks to Jeremy Langton, the deliberate confusion of a historical event with a highly tendentious political assertion: BRITISH Muslims are to boycott this week’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz because they claim it is not racially inclusive and does not commemorate the victims of the Palestinian conflict. Iqbal Sacranie, […]

I don’t usually find much that is useful in the writings of Thomas L. Friedman, but here he seems to be getting an inkling of what is happening in Europe. From “Divided We Stand” in the New York Times, with thanks to Nicolei: I spent Friday morning interviewing two 18-year-old French Muslim girls in the […]

Maybe this has nothing to do with the jihad. But the hostility of Muslims to Christian missionaries is well-established — look at the threats in Indonesia. From Reuters, with thanks to Jeff Lastname: An American Christian pastor has been stabbed in the Algerian capital, prompting security services to investigate any possible link to Islamist rebels. […]

This is a somewhat older story, but it is enormously significant: these are likely to be 4,500 centers to spread the jihad ideology and the idea that Muslims must wage war in order to impose Sharia everywhere they can. The implications for the future of South Asia are obvious. From “Saudis for 4,500 madrasas in […]

Sorry for the late notice. I am just about to go on KSFO Talk Radio 560 out of San Francisco, the David Gold Show. You can listen online at the KSFO site. We’re scheduled to be talking about the murder of the Coptic family in New Jersey.