Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald assesses Iraq’s Constitutional referendum: Democracy in the Western sense requires much more than mere head-counting. It requires the sense of being a citizen of a nation-state, and owing one’s primary allegiance to that nation-state. It requires getting used to the idea, and enshrining in the law, the rights […]
Archives for 2005
Jihad in Seattle?
Of course, everyone who knows him is shocked, shocked! He’s a terrific guy! The most gentle soul in the world! Why, this must all be trumped up! (All this may be true this time, of course, but it would be much more convincing if we didn’t hear it every time someone was arrested on terror […]
Well, I haven’t killed anyone this morning…
From the Jihad Watch Hate Mail Bag: boy i hate to bump into you you must have no creative spirit in your bones your probly part of the worlds problems your probly a crazy ziot jew or crazy fundmentalist crazy christian…to dis jodie foster great new movie… we are at war from people like you […]
Bush Holds Iftar Dinner, Says Muslim Leaders Must Denounce Terrorism
Bush again referred to Qur’an 5:32, “which states that killing an innocent human being is like killing all of humanity, and saving the life of one person is like saving all of humanity,” indicating that he still hasn’t considered the implications of the fact that jihadists contend that no Americans or Israelis are innocent, and […]
With us or against us? Bush meets the enemy
Eric Adler in the New York Press reveals a meeting between President Bush and a legal advisor for the PLO: Diana Buttu has called Israel “the greatest abuser of human rights” in the world, claimed that the Jewish state is worse than South Africa under apartheid and characterized the Oslo peace process as a Zionist […]
The Simpsons convert to Islam
When exported to Muslim lands, various aspects of Western pop culture must be modified in order to accommodate Muslim sensibilities. When Muslims come West, various aspects of Western pop culture must be modified in order to accommodate Muslim sensibilities. Get the picture? “The Simpsons’ Exported to Arabs — Minus Bacon, Beer: Key Aspects of New […]
French say jihadists are recruiting there for attacks in Paris
“One asks himself why a certain number of young French people are in Pakistan in religious schools,” Sarkozy said. One also asks himself why this training for violence and mayhem always seems to take place in religious schools, and I don’t mean the local Methodist Sunday school, and why so few (if any) officials are […]
Afghani principal, district chief shot
Afghan jihad update: a dangerous school principal has been gunned down by the heroic mujahedin! From The MediaLine, with thanks to Kemaste: A school principal was shot to death on Wednesday morning, a day after a district chief was gunned down in Afghanistan’s Kandahar region, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. He said the attackers […]
Denmark: Muslim taxi drivers spy on women hiding from families
It is not so easy for Muslim women in the West to break free of the strictures of Islamic culture and religious law. “Immigrant taxi drivers acting as spies,” from DR Nyheder, with thanks to EPG: The Danish nation-wide organisation of Women’s Crisis Centres, LOKK, claims that a number of taxi drivers with immigrant backgrounds […]
On being “anti-Muslim”
I was recently invited to speak about Islam and terrorism to a group in the Northeast. This afternoon, however, I received a call from a leader of the group; it seems that someone (he wouldn’t tell me who) had told the group that I was “anti-Muslim,” and therefore should not address his organization. He asked […]