Showing a fine contempt for the fair dialogue that they claim to be trying to promote, the Council on American Islamic Relations has smeared me in a new press release: The Washington-based council said the growing level of Islamophobic rhetoric in American society prompts some individuals to turn their hate-filled views into violent actions. Just […]
Archives for 2005
Egyptian elections: “Islam is the solution”
State Department and Administration myopia leads to an increase in religious rhetoric in Egypt’s elections. Nice going, folks. “In Egypt vote, Islamist influence grows,” from the Christian Science Monitor, with thanks to Sr. Soph: CAIRO – In electoral districts throughout Egypt, campaign posters reading simply “Islam is the solution,” urge voters to choose Muslim Brotherhood […]
French-fried politics
Bert Prelutsky in WND, with thanks to Ruth King: To me, the worst thing about Muslims, aside from their longing to be returned to the good old days of the eighth century, and to drag the rest of us, kicking and screaming, along with them, is the fact that far too many politically correct imbeciles […]
Fitzgerald: Douce France
We first posted this piece by Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald on dhimmitude in France at Dhimmi Watch in 2004. Over the last two weeks I have had many, many requests to repost it. Normally I don’t like to do such things, for if I start reprinting archived material there could be no […]
Explosions hit hotels in Jordan; 7 dead
Jihad attack in Jordan? Just in from AP: AMMAN, Jordan – Explosions rocked two hotels in the Jordanian capital late Wednesday, killing at least seven people and sending ambulances screaming across downtown. The cause of the explosions was unclear. The first bomb, at 8:50 local time (1:50 p.m. EST), struck the Grand Hyatt, completely shattering […]
Sarkozy orders deportation of foreign rioters
The latest on the Muslim riots in France from AFP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: PARIS, Nov 9 (AFP) – Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday issued orders for non-French rioters convicted in the wave of urban violence to be deported — a measure directed at youths of Arab and African background living in the […]
Go home in the name of Allah, order imams with megaphones
Muslim leaders, defying the well-established fact that the riots in France have nothing to do with Islam, order the rioters to desist in the name of Allah. The mainstream media in the United States obligingly looks the other way. It will be interesting to see if the rioters heed this call after ignoring calls for […]
State Department Spurns Senators On Saudi Arabia
Senate hearings on the Saudi Arabia Accountability Act are on again, but it doesn’t seem as if the State Department is all that enthusiastic. From the New York Sun, with thanks to S.: WASHINGTON – The State Department’s last-minute withdrawal from a Senate hearing yesterday into Saudi Arabia’s sponsorship of terrorism maddened lawmakers and hearing […]
Arrests, injuries as unrest continues across Belgium
From Expatica, : BRUSSELS “” In the third successive night of unrest in Belgium, vandals torched cars, trucks and cellars in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent on Tuesday, while two suspected arsonists were arrested after they were admitted to hospital for burns injuries. Belgian police suspect agitators are committing copy-cat acts to the arson attacks witnessed […]
State of Emergency Begins in France
…with rioters defying it. But look on the bright side: only 617 cars were torched last night. French Impotence Alert from AP, : PARIS “” Rioters defied a state of emergency that took effect Wednesday, as they looted and burned two superstores, set fire to a newspaper office and paralyzed France’s second-largest city’s subway system […]