Archives for 2005

In FrontPage this morning I discuss the mosque-checking brouhaha. Many news links in the original: New revelations that federal officials are checking mosques for radiation levels has the Council on American Islamic Relations in an uproar. CAIR”s Ibrahim Hooper fumed: “This creates the appearance that Muslims are targeted simply for being Muslims. I don’t think […]

Islamic tolerance alert from Malaysia. Remember: the traditional penalty for someone who leaves Islam is death, so in a certain sense Kamariah Ali, a member of the late lamented Giant Teapot sect, is getting off easy. “ASIAN LIVES: Malaysian woman’s lonely campaign for religious freedom,” from AFP, with thanks to Hutchrun: KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 […]

This is, of course, just what we need — if it is done sincerely and thoroughly. If and only if. But the jury is still very much out as to whether it will go to the core of the problem: the jihad teachings in the Qur’an, Hadith, Sira, and fiqh. More on this story from […]

Iranian Shi’ite expansionism update from The Australian, with thanks to JE: BAGHDAD: Voting results from Iraq’s election show that Sunnis, who ran Saddam Hussein’s security apparatus, have been all but expunged from the nation’s police and military. The New York Times has reported that in contrast to the remarkable surge in Sunni participation in the […]

What Alice Miles says about Britain applies equally well to other places — including the U.S., if the current pressure ends up stopping the monitoring of mosques for radiation for good (some reports indicate that the program has already ended). From the Times Online, with thanks to JE: The current confusion, combined with unspecific, but […]

Background that is pertinent to this story. Jamie Glazov of FrontPage interviews David Keyes, author of “Al-Qaeda Infiltration of Gaza: A Post-Disengagement Assessment”: Frontpage Interview’s guest today is David Keyes, who assisted a former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. and specialized on terrorism at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He recently returned from the […]

“Gunmen from the ruling Palestinian movement Fatah traded fire with police and shut election offices.” The impulse to civil war in Gaza comes from those who wish to establish a Sharia state there; Abbas and Fatah represent the last confused (because already diluted beyond recognition) manifestation of the secular Arab nationalist impulse, with Arafat already […]

Shari’a alert from the AP: A Malaysian court on Wednesday rejected a Hindu widow’s claim over the body of her husband, who Islamic authorities say converted to Islam last year and should be buried as a Muslim. The ruling by the High Court threatens to blow up into a rare interracial and religious dispute in […]

One appendage shy of human form has not dulled a Taliban commander’s cognisance of jihad. From the AP: In an interview late on Sunday, the commander, Mullah Dadullah, ruled out any reconciliation with the US-backed government of President Hamid Karzai and claimed the country’s new parliament — its first in more than 30 years, inaugurated […]

In support of this article posted at Jihad Watch back in August, Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) has stated their goal of a unified Islamic world. “We strongly support unity among Islamic nations”, the Majlis Speaker said, adding that such unity was critical in preserving the interests of the nations. Of course the “interests” of the Iranian […]