Archives for 2005

From the Seattle Times: BAGHDAD, Iraq “” U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a gunfight “” some by their own hands to possibly avoid capture. The White House said Sunday that it was “highly unlikely” that the terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi […]

An update to this Dhimmi Watch archive. Reported by the Boston.Com News: The enraged mob had already started to scale the walls of the Catholic compound in Sangla Hill when the Rev. Samson Dilawar hurriedly ushered the nuns, teachers, and 23 teenage students to safety. The group crammed into a small upstairs room of the […]

Well yes. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. That pretty much covers it, doesn’t it? Clearly AP‘s weekend headline writer is not first string. U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a gunfight “” some by their own hand to avoid capture. […]

From UPI: Christian students and parents cannot sue a school district because some seventh-graders pretended to be Muslims for a history course, a court has ruled. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the role-playing game was not a religious exercise that violated anybody’s constitutional rights. The court upheld a lower court ruling, saying […]

From Hindustan Times: “Women require a balanced diet, rich in calcium and Vitamin D. Women, particularly after menopause, are at higher risk and should maintain a good diet. They should exercise regularly, or at least take to brisk walking, jogging, dancing or simple weightlifting exercises.” “Along with vitamin-rich food, sunlight too plays an active role […]

Here’s an update on the cartoon flap from Islam Online. The Muslim minority in Denmark will send delegations to a number of Muslim countries to meet with senior officials and prominent scholars on the provocative caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) recently published by Denmark’s main daily. Good. Show those Muslim countries what freedom of the […]

So targeting a Muslim wedding in Jordan is a mistake, but hitting a funeral in Iraq is peachy keen, right Zarqawi? In Baghdad: A suicide bomber detonated his car in a crowd of Shiite mourners north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 36 people and raising the death toll in two days of attacks […]

Another person who found Osama bin Laden “a very nice man.” From Newsday: In his testimony before a military tribunal, Saifullah Paracha said he first met Osama bin Laden, somewhat by happenstance, on a charity mission to Afghanistan in 1999. “He delivered the Koran and said he was a prophet. He said very nice things. […]

The 73-page report, “Paths to Radicalization of Home-Grown Islamic Extremists in Canada,” reveals an increasing number of homegrown Canadian terrorists. From Canada’s National Post: A “secret” intelligence study obtained by the National Post says a “high percentage” of the Canadian Muslims involved in extremist activities were born in Canada, a marked shift from the past […]

Does a spider give control of her web to other arachnids that have contributed nothing towards its creation? The question is absurd for creatures in the insect world, but in the human domain it has become a topic of discussion. To be sure, it is not a controversy concerning the control of a spider’s web, […]