An interesting perspective from Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe: THE PRINCE of Wales was at the White House last week, hoping, the Daily Telegraph reported, ”to convince President Bush of the merits of Islam . . . because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since Sept. 11, 2001.” […]
Archives for 2005
Fitzgerald: Dhimmis out of Washington
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the wrongheadedness of the current establishment approach to Islam and terrorism: The most acute criticism of Bush and Rice and Company comes not from the silly who oppose them for being too tough, but from those who have taken their true measure: self-satisfied, obstinate, ignorant of Islam […]
Fine words cannot disguise it: the clash of civilisations is real
So says Michael Burleigh in the Times (thanks to William): AMSTERDAM”S Linnaeusstraat is a bleak place to die. Lined with budget stores and overshadowed by a railway bridge, it is largely populated by Muslim immigrants. On November 3 last year, the film-maker Theo van Gogh halted his bike in the cycle lane. The anti-clerical van […]
Bin Laden wants whites
No surprise here. From the UK’s Sun tabloid, with thanks to Bryce: AL-QAEDA are recruiting WHITE terrorists to attack the West, it was revealed yesterday. Osama Bin Laden’s fanatics reckon they can avoid detection more easily. Six websites with known links to al-Qaeda are carrying recruiting appeals and terrorist training manuals in ENGLISH.
Al-Aqsa: We identify with Iranian remark
No surprise here. From Ynet News, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the Fatah’s military wing, expressed in a leaflet published Sunday its identification with the remark of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called to “wipe Israel off the map.” The Palestinian news agency Maan reported that in the leaflet, the Brigades […]
She has a dream: the Marseillaise in Arabic
A salve, or a grenade? From AFP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: PARIS – Farida Verhaeghe-Amiri believes, with missionary zeal, that the Arabic version she has penned and recorded of France’s national anthem, La Marseillaise, will be a salve on the open wounds of French society. With dozens of ghetto-like enclaves in Paris” suburbs “” […]
Steyn: Wake up, Europe, you’ve a war on your hands
Mark Steyn issues a call to Europe in the Chicago Sun-Times (thanks to Bryce): Ever since 9/11, I’ve been gloomily predicting the European powder keg’s about to go up. ”By 2010 we’ll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,” I wrote in Canada’s Western Standard back in February. Silly […]
Manila earmarks more funds for improving madrassa curriculum
“The madrassa curriculum is being standardised by the country”s Department of Education.” Now that’s interesting. Will they make sure that no material pertaining to political Islam appears? From GulfNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The House of Representatives in the Philippines has allocated 100 million pesos (Dh6.6 million) for teaching materials for madrassas, or Muslim […]
French urban violence worsens: 1,300 cars torched, 300 arrests
French riots update from AFP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: PARIS (AFP) – Arsonists torched 1,300 cars and police arrested 300 people across France as the urban violence which has rocked the country for 10 nights reached a new peak. Police deployed helicopters and stepped up their arrests of youths responsible for the street violence, […]
Iran to convert more uranium
There is an old Persian proverb, Esfahān nesf-e jahan — Isfahan is half the world. Maybe it will soon destroy the other half. From AFP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said that it will convert new consignments of uranium at its plant outside the central city of Isfahan, in defiance of […]