Archives for 2005

The state-run Iranian media maintains its harsh rhetoric with ire directed at opposition leader Maryam Rajavi for her condemnation of Mr. Ahmadinejad’s “wipe Israel from the map” speech. From Iran Focus: “Maryam Rajavi has written a letter to the leaders of the European Union, saying that Iran is the enemy of peace, democracy and humanity”, […]

This woman, ordered gang raped by her local village council, has been allowed by the Pakistan government to travel after all. “Rape survivor brings fight here,” from the Chicago Sun-Times: Three years ago, Mukhtar Mai was gang-raped on the order of a village council in her native Pakistan, sparking international outrage when she reported the […]

The outspoken fanaticism of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has begun to hurt Iran’s burgeoning stock market, scaring away billions of dollars in foreign investment. Responding to the complaints of investors and some government officials, Ahmadinejad recently outlined his relatively simple economic reform plan, according to Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 30 — Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses how Arab-ness is in many ways inextricable from Islam — a phenomenon that has had effects even among dhimmi populations. Within Islam, a supposedly universalist religion where all Muslims in the ummah are equal, there is a special place for the Arabs. But how could it be […]

Several people have asked me why I didn’t put up a story yesterday about the blasts in New Delhi that killed 61 people. The answer is that while Indian officials said that the blasts were the work of “terrorists,” they were not specific — and there are terror groups in India that are not jihad […]

Iran is assassinating Iraqi Sunni pilots who were involved in the Iran-Iraq war, so Talabani is offering them safe haven in…Kurdistan, where some of them gassed civilians. “Iran ‘sponsors assassination’ of Sunni pilots who bombed Teheran,” from The Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Iran is backing a Shia insurgent campaign of systematically assassinating former […]

More on Iranian adventurism from Middle East Newsline, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater: TEL AVIV [MENL] — An Iranian-sponsored insurgency group, flushed with significant funding, has established a support network in Israel. Israeli officials said Islamic Jihad has spent tens of thousands of dollars to establish sleeper and support cells in Israel. The officials said […]

Here is fruit of the immigration-without-assimilation policy the French have pursued so thoughtlessly for decades — as detailed in Bat Ye’or’s Eurabia. “A police union spokesman says a Paris suburb is seeing ‘civil war.’” From CNN, with thanks to Fjordman: PARIS, France (Reuters) — Hundreds of French youths fought with police and set cars ablaze […]

When not busy disgracing his nation and his family through his various peccadilloes, the future king of England, Prince Charles, has regularly assumed the position of lead European missionary in the service of the Islamic faith. As he will tell President Bush this week, it is not Islam’s fault that thousands of non-Muslims have been […]

A response to the rocket attacks from Gaza. From AP: BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip – Israeli aircraft and artillery bombarded open areas in northern Gaza on Saturday as part of an intensifying campaign against Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli border areas…. Artillery shells were fired after Palestinian militants sent a homemade Qassam rocket slamming into […]