Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad update, from 1010 WINS: NEW YORK Lawyers for Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, a Yemini sheik charged with raising money for terrorism said American officials canceled visas this week for four men who were expected to become defense witnesses when testimony was set to begin. Al-Moayad and his aide Mohammed Mohsen Yahya […]
Archives for 2005
Traveling email follies
I am on the road this week, giving a few talks on Islam and jihad. Unfortunately, the email program on my laptop has the strange habit of not listing the sender or return address of incoming emails. I can’t do anything about this right now, so please accept my apologies: I can’t answer your emails […]
German Church Organizes Know-Islam Exhibition
It’s too bad they couldn’t get Metin Kaplan to speak about jihad. From IslamOnline, with thanks to the French Resistant: BERLIN, January 10 (IslamOnline.net) — The Protestant Lutheran Church in the northwestern German city of Hannover is organizing an exhibition to acquaint the Germans with Islam and enhance the integration of the Muslim community into […]
“Please Australia, move your feet from Indonesia as soon as your humanitarian work is done. They should not corrupt Islamic sharia law in force in Aceh”
Australian troops giving tsunami aid will not be armed — and have been warned to get out fast before they pollute Islamic Aceh. “Downer: We won’t arm Diggers,” from News.com.au, with thanks to the Informed Christian: ARMING Australian troops helping with the tsunami relief effort in Indonesia could increase the risk of rebel attacks on […]
Philippines: Bombs, guns in raid ‘planted,’ says Muslim group
It has been awhile since we have seen this naked an attempt on the part of a jihadist group to get non-Muslims to deny what is before their very eyes. This group of Muslim converts in the Philippines says, Why, Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims revere Christ! How could we have had […]
Deciphering Mahmoud Abbas
Daniel Pipes at FrontPage provides more evidence that Mahmoud Abbas is just another jihadist (as if this weren’t enough, but given the wilful ignorance of so many today, I know it isn’t). There’s some puzzlement about Mahmoud Abbas, the new chairman of the Palestinian Authority. Does he accept Israel’s existence or want to destroy it? […]
Spencer: Colin, Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
My latest at FrontPage: Colin Powell hopes that the aid that the United States is giving to countries hit by the tsunami will turn the tide of anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world. Speaking from Banda Aceh, Indonesia on NBC’s Nightly News, he said that he thought American aid to Indonesia would “show to the […]
Omar Bakri calls British Muslims to wage jihad
Nor does he mean a “spiritual struggle.” Search for Bakri in the archives here and you will see that this is really nothing new for him. Note also his declaration that British moderate Muslims are not true Muslims: variations of this statement form a cornerstone of jihadist recruitment efforts, and are virtually impossible for moderates […]
PA TV Sermons: Tsunami caused by Jews and America, Palestinians long for destruction of Israel, USA
From Palestinian Media Watch, with thanks to Anthony: Sheik Ibrahim Madiras Friday sermon, PA TV Jan. 7, 2005: “The Muslim remembers, how the Jews corrupted the land… Oh Muslims! The Jews are Jews. Their character and custom are the corruption and destruction of this land. We keep warning you: the Jews are a cancer that […]
Abu Mazen: Little Jihad is Over, Big Jihad Starts
Of course, this “little jihad” and “big jihad” talk recalls the concepts of jihad akbar (greater jihad) and jihad asghar (lesser jihad) — the idea that the spiritual struggle within the soul is the greater jihad, with the lesser jihad being warfare. Of course, 20th century Muslim theorists revered by jihadists today, such as Hassan […]