Archives for 2005

He sees the weakness of the democracies, just as Osama bin Laden did after the Black Hawk incident, and just as Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s. From Iran Focus, with thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Eric Schwappach: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 24 — Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charted an intransigent course for his […]

Neville, the Gaza peace party is over. “Terror leader: Lull is history,” from Ynet News, with thanks to all who sent this in: The relative lull in Israeli-Palestinian violence “is history,” an Islamic Jihad commander in the Jenin area says in the wake of the killing of the group’s West Bank leader on Sunday, followed […]

I discussed the Taliban’s work in the drug trade in Islam Unveiled; nothing much has changed since then. Haji Baz Mohammad planned to wage jihad against America by means of heroin; now he faces trial in an American court. From the New York Post, with thanks to Jerry Gordon. October 25, 2005 — Meet the […]

As noted here last Friday, Muslim ambassadors from eleven nations were irked about depictions of Muhammad that appeared in a Danish newspaper. But they will get no satisfaction from Danish PM Fogh Rasmussen: Denmark, you see, has this funny little principle called “freedom of speech.” “Muslim ambassadors will not be granted a meeting with the […]

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali doesn’t get to play the torture card. From Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday denied a request by a U.S. citizen, who has been charged with plotting to kill President George W. Bush, to throw out confessions he signed while in […]

Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily update from the Tennessean, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: An Iraqi national living in Nashville who made threats of “going jihad” was sentenced this morning to a 57 months in prison for illegal possession of machine guns and a hand grenade, the U.S. attorney”s office said. Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily agreed to […]

Ostensibly the reasons were because some staff members of various Senators were unprepared, and need to devote their attention to the Harriet Miers hearings. But the hearing has not yet been rescheduled. Here and here are two recent articles I have written on Saudi Arabia that underscore the need for these hearings, and for passage […]

Daniel Pipes makes some cogent and much-needed observations about the spurious phenomenon of “Islamophobia” in FrontPage (many good links in the original): An Islamist group named Hizb ut-Tahrir seeks to bring the world under Islamic law and advocates suicide attacks against Israelis. Facing proscription in Great Britain, it opened a clandestine front operation at British […]

In FrontPage this morning I discuss how a film on Muslim persecution of Coptic Christians spawns Muslim terror against the Copts. The Muslim Brotherhood has threatened to kill the Coptic Pope Shenouda III. A nun was stabbed by a Muslim who burst into a Coptic church shouting “Allah akbar.” Three people were killed as thousands […]

“Islamist Extremist Bakri Sets up College,” from Asharq Alawsat, with thanks to Sr. Soph: London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Islamist extremist Omar Bakri, barred from returning to Britain after leaving for Lebanon last summer, indicated he had set up a college to teach Arabic for foreigners in Beirut . The former leader of al Muhajiroun (the migrants), […]