Archives for 2005

From The Scotsman, with thanks to Kemaste: BRITAIN closed its embassy in Yemen yesterday due to security concerns and warned that “terrorists” were in the final stages of planning attacks against Western targets in the Arab state. “The British embassy will be closed on 5 January in response to specific security concerns,” an embassy advisory […]

All Things Considered, January 7, 2005 · “Jihad” is one of the few Arabic words used in English. It means “spiritual struggle,” but many Muslims have pointed out that “jihad” is almost always used in English in the context of terrorism, even though the actual meaning is broader. Commentator Anisa Mehdi would like to propose […]

One state in “moderate” Malaysia takes a decisive step toward political Islam. From New Straits Times, with thanks to RG99: From politicians to imams. That is the role all the 30 Umno State Assemblymen and the 24 division heads in Perak have been directed to play. They will now assume the role of imams when […]

Thanks to the many people who have sent me this craven appeal from British Energy Minister Mike O’Brien, trying to woo back Muslim votes that the Labour Party is likely to have lost over the Iraq War. In it, notes one of the people who kindly sent it in, Peter C.: “Mr O’Brien describes the […]

I think (I hope) the problem is fixed now, but if you sent any email to director@jihadwatch.org between midnight and 10AM EST, it did not arrive. Please resend. I apologize for the inconvenience.

From AFP, “Philippines arrests militants over plot to bomb Catholic procession,” with thanks to Nicolei: MANILA : Philippines police arrested 16 Islamic militants planning to carry out suicide bombings on a Roman Catholic procession in the capital this weekend. The suspects, including three women, were detained after police raided a Muslim library in downtown Manila. […]

This story discusses a different group from the one featured here. From AP, with thanks to 88vulcan: BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — An extremist Islamic group with links to al Qaeda has set up relief operations in Aceh province on Sumatra island, raising concerns that international relief workers will become terrorist targets as in Iraq. Amid […]

Apparently just to remind the dhimmis who is in charge. Let them into the EU! From AFP, with thanks to Anthony. ISTANBUL (AFP) — Turkish nationalists chanting slogans and waving the flag of an extreme right-wing party Thursday tried to disrupt a Greek Orthodox religious ceremony here called the benediction of the waters of the […]

A surprisingly good piece on the rapid advance of Eurabia in US News, with thanks to all who sent this in: BERLIN–Told that she couldn’t sit in on religion classes for the Muslim students at Rixdorfer Elementary School, Marion Berning went into the classroom anyway on the pretext of fixing a window. What she found […]

Here is an article from the French journal 20 Minutes, translated by David Russell. Russell explains that it “concerns a controversy in a public school in a town outside of Lyon. Muslim pupils at the (public) school were refusing to eat meat that was not halal. The municipality responded that students who couldn’t accept that […]