Archives for 2005

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the moderate Muslims in general and the moderation of the Hashemite rulers of Jordan in particular: In the aftermath of the Al-Qaeda bombings in Amman one hears, yet again, about the moderate rulers of Jordan, the Hashemites. In this case as in all others, the phrase “moderate […]

Zarqawi has not won any hearts and minds in Amman. From CNN, with thanks to Kemaste: AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) — Three terror bombings that killed at least 56 people in Jordan’s capital sparked furious protests against al Qaeda on Thursday after a Web site carried a claim that the group was behind the attacks. Jordanians […]

Did three A-Q members recently cross into the U.S. from Mexico? More evidence of why the border issue is a national security issue from WorldNetDaily.com, : WASHINGTON — In announcing the introduction of legislation aimed at preventing illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses yesterday, a North Carolina Republican member of the House of Representatives casually […]

Mark Durie, a human rights activist in Australia, recently replied to an Islamic spokesmen who discounted the deep-rooted incitements to violence in Islamic theology and law. I have many times received the same kind of brutally intemperate response that Sookhdeo receives here from Aly — instead of a thoughtful engagement of the points raised, a […]

Dr. Walid Phares ably explains the attacks in Jordan in FrontPage. While he is absolutely right that Jordan represents a more moderate form of Islam than that of the Saudis, the Jordanians still have some ways to go to come up to the universal norms of human rights. After every jihadist terror attack or violent […]

An insightful piece on the media reluctance to call the rioters in France what they are. From the Washington Times, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The rioters who have burned out neighborhoods in cities across France for a fortnight are overwhelmingly of North African and Arab ancestry, overwhelmingly young, overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly cut off […]

Hard times for the Rumpled Academic. From the New York Sun: TAMPA, Fla. – A defense attorney for a former college professor on trial for his alleged leadership role in a terrorist group conceded in court yesterday that his client lied to the press and immigration authorities in what the lawyer described as an effort […]

Anti-dhimmitude in Hillsborough County. A follow-up to this story from Local6.com: TAMPA, Fla. — The local school board reinstated Good Friday, Easter Monday and Yom Kippur as school holidays after getting more than 3,500 e-mails from around the country criticizing its earlier decision to eliminate them rather than add a Muslim holiday. The Hillsborough County […]

Misunderstanders of Islam at it again, this time in Jordan. Motive? Well, it seems that “the tyrant of Jordan has made the backyard garden for the enemy of the religion — Jews and crusaders.” You may have missed Richard Coeur De Lion’s last expedition into Jordan, but A-Q is on the case. “Al-Qaida Claims Credit […]

D. C. Watson offers some interesting quotes related to the recent CAIR/JW controversy: Bigot: One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. On November 8, 2005, the Council on American Islamic Relations posted a column on their website entitled: “CA Synagogue That Hosted […]