Chutzpah alert: I suppose they have completed investigations into their own country’s abuse of non-Muslims and denial of the freedom of conscience, stonings for adultery, flogging of women for violating the dress code, gouging-out of eyes and hanging of teenagers, so they have a bit of time on their hands. From Mehr News Agency, with […]
Archives for 2005
Spencer: Jihad in Europe?
This morning in FrontPage I follow up on this piece by pulling together a bit more of the evidence about what is happening in France (and elsewhere in Europe now). Many news links in the original: Has an intifada begun in France “” an all-out jihad? Are the French facing what is by now, as […]
Pipes: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Under that magnificent Burkean title, recalling an age of Frenchmen both more venal and more noble, Daniel Pipes provides a great deal of important information on the jihad in France in FrontPage (many good links in the original): The rioting by Muslim youth that began Oct. 27 in France to calls of “Allahu Akbar” may […]
Attack on Cruise Liner: Piracy or Terror?
Patrick Goodenough at CNSNews.com assesses the evidence: (CNSNews.com) – Gunmen who attacked a luxury cruise liner off the east coast of Africa may have been terrorists targeting Americans and other Westerners rather than pirates, the Australian government said Monday. An armed gang on two speedboats fired machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade at the Seabourn […]
Saudi Arabia won’t leave quake-affectees alone
Is Saudi Arabia’s intention one of compassion or one of subversion? From Onlinenews.com.PK: [The] people and government of Saudi Arabia equally shares the grief of quake affectees and will stand by them in this critical moment, said deputy Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia Ahmed Bin Abdul Aziz here on Monday. Talking to a group of […]
Arabic Army interpreter from Brooklyn may have aided Iraqi jihad
Then the moderate Muslims over at CAIR and MPAC charge us with “Islamophobia” if we raise questions about the loyalty of Muslims in America. Yet such questions are entirely legitimate, and becoming more urgent. “Interpreter From Brooklyn Accused Of Aiding Iraqi Insurgency,” from AP, with thanks to Cindy: NEW YORK — An Arabic interpreter for […]
Poller: Eurabian Fights
The perspicacious Nidra Poller assesses the prospects for Europe as dhimmitude appears to be dawning for France: PARIS — As the Eurabian Nights’ dream starts exploding in the face of France, mainstream media are counting the number of torched cars and explaining that the rioters suffer from poverty and discrimination. It would seem that Interior […]
Turkey’s Erdogan links French head scarf ban to riots
And he had the audacity, in a country in which persecution of Christians has been an art form and is on the rise again, to scold the French for being intolerant. From Zaman, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The riots in France, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prove the importance of the project […]
Australia foils major attack
From Reuters: SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian authorities believe they have foiled a major terrorist attack, arresting 15 people on Tuesday during raids in the country’s two biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne. The arrests come less than a week after Prime Minister John Howard said Australia received intelligence about a “terrorist threat.” “We believe … […]
Fitzgerald: The legacy of Algérie française: France algérienne
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald considers the question of whether the rioting in France presents a problem that can really be solved by ameliorating the lot of Muslims there, by considering the case of Algeria: From 1830 to 1962 the French ruled in Algeria. They had arrived to finally put paid to the […]