Archives for 2005

I am quoted in this WND article, “Radical Islam blamed for French rioting: Muslims ‘scorn’ Europe’s ways, ‘conspire to take it over,’” saying a lot of things I have never said; I think they have mixed up my article on the French riots with someone else’s. But anyway, the statements of Tancredo and Pipes are […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the failures at the top in strife-ridden France: The large-scale presence of Muslims in France, as in other countries of Western Europe, has resulted for Infidels in a world that is far less pleasant, far more expensive, and far more physically insecure than it would be without […]

Anti-dhimmitude from Julie Burchill in the TimesOnline, with thanks to John: It is said that one of Charles Windsor’s aims during his tour of the United States is to make the country more understanding towards Islam, a religion in which he has shown an inordinate interest for many years now. This would be the poor, […]

Neither one made mention of the indications — even to dismiss them –that Islam may well have a large role to play in the riots. “French Imams Distance Islam From Paris Riots,” from IslamOnline, with thanks to all who sent this in: PARIS, November 5, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) — Imams in the Paris suburban region of […]

I guess it’s time for a War Against Youth. “Rioting Spreads From Paris Across France,” from AP: AUBERVILLIERS, France – Marauding youths torched nearly 900 vehicles, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from Paris suburbs to towns around France, police said Saturday. Authorities arrested more than […]

“A call to hate and to prayer,” from The Australian, with thanks to Scaramouche: It’s October 21, the middle of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, and Sheik Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud, who has been living in Australia since the mid-1990s, stands on a platform at the front of the room reading his sermon in Arabic. […]

It Can’t Happen Here Update from CNN, : LONDON, England (CNN) — Three men suspected of involvement in terrorism have appeared in a British court, charged with an array of offenses from fund-raising to conspiracy to murder. Waseem Mughal and Younis Tsouli, both 22, and Tariq al-Daour, 19, spoke only to confirm their names and […]

Gender equality update: “Rebels Dressed as Women Attack Iraqi Police Station,” from the New York Times, with thanks to Sr. Soph: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 5 – Insurgent attacks across central Iraq, including one in which the guerrillas disguised themselves as women, left at least 16 dead on Friday as Shiite Arabs across the country […]

Cliff May wisely recommends that we take the threats of Iran’s Thug-In-Chief seriously: Call it Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Mein Kampf moment. Eighty years ago, Adolf Hitler published an autobiography-cum-manifesto. Its title translates as “My Struggle.” In it, Hitler talked of his desire for revenge against France, the German nation’s need to control more land, and the […]

A useful analysis of the France riots from Olivier Guitta in the Weekly Standard (thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater): THE FRENCH USE THE EUPHEMISM “quartiers sensibles”–sensitive neighborhoods–for the troubled, predominantly Arab and African working-class suburbs of Paris and other cities that increasingly resemble a ticking bomb at the heart of their society. One such sensitive neighborhood […]