And yet more Muhammad cartoon fallout. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Thousands of Muslims have taken to the streets in protest at the caricatures, the newspaper that published them has received death threats and two of its cartoonists have been forced into hiding. Jyllands-Posten, Denmark’s leading daily, defied Islam’s ban on images […]
Archives for 2005
Fitzgerald: As American as apple pie?
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses loyalty to the umma and loyalty to the United States in light of the recent case involving Muslims praying in a restricted area at a football game: “I’m as American as apple pie…” — a Muslim in America, under suspicion, from this news item This self-confident assertion, […]
Fiery riots spread beyond Paris
French Muslim riot update from CNN, with thanks to Bryce: PARIS, France (CNN) — Rioting erupted for an eighth straight night in the impoverished suburbs of Paris, with angry youths setting fire to a school, a bus depot, two textile warehouses and hundreds of vehicles. Although the unrest Thursday and early Friday was less intense […]
Holland: Shot fired at window of Rita Verdonk’s ministerial office
1938 update from Expatica, with thanks to Cindy: AMSTERDAM “” A shot was fired recently at the window of the office used by Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk. She was not there at the time. Weapons experts attached to the Defence Ministry think the shot was fired at the office in the Justice Ministry […]
Egypt discontinues dialogue with Denmark on human rights and discrimination because of cartoon dispute
The Muhammad cartoon controversy just keeps growing. From the Copenhagen Post, with thanks to Fjordman: A Danish newspaper’s decision to print cartoons of Muslim prophet Mohammed have caused a diplomatic crisis between Denmark and Egypt, national broadcaster DR reported on Thursday. Egypt’s ambassador in Libanon, Hussein Darrar, told news service AFP that Egypt had decided […]
Spencer: Paris Burning
In FrontPage this morning I survey the rioting in France, its causes, and why it will probably not be addressed properly by French authorities (many links in the original): Riots have now continued for eight days in and around Paris. Thursday night, November 3, Muslim rioters burned 315 cars. In the previous week, they torched […]
Rioting in French suburbs ‘well organized’
So says Sarkozy, via the Drudge Report: French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday that the riots in several Paris suburbs over the previous night were “not spontaneous” but rather “well organized.” “What we saw in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis overnight was not spontaneous, it was perfectly organized. We are looking into by whom and […]
French rioters continue to prove multiculturalist relativism a dismal failure
“Rioting Spreads to 20 Towns Around Paris” (from AP) as rioters shoot at police and firefighters. As LaShawn Barber says, the whole thing has been caused by “lax immigration policies, prostration to the god of multiculturalism, and the refusal to fight fire with fire.” AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France Nov 3, 2005 “” Rampaging youths shot at police […]
Muslim rioting in Denmark — worst riots in years
“Several days of Muslim Riots in Denmark (Not only in France),” a translation of this Jyllands Posten piece from Free Republic (thanks to Shiva): For several nights in a row, there has been the worst riots in Ã…rhus for many years. “This land belongs to us“, declared the young rioters. Another arson attack took place […]
Fitzgerald: On integrating Muslims in the West
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the little-noted difficulties involved in integrating Muslim populations in Western countries: On an NPR station I heard a very smooth-talking Muslim from Holland, like Hirsi Ali only in that she is, apparently, also a member of the Dutch Parliament, speak about how there is “fear on both […]