Just when you thought the British had hit bottom, and couldn’t possibly show more abject dhimmitude, there comes this. Granted that they’re “innocents caught up in the police operation through no fault of their own,” is a four-star hotel really necessary or appropriate? Or is this coming from that ever-present fear of giving offense to […]
Archives for 2006
UK: Jihadists target students
“Britain’s universities have been accused of burying their heads in the sand.” “Radicals Target Students,” from SkyNews, with thanks to Null: A year after the publication of a damning report into Islamic radicalisation among students, Britain’s universities have been accused of burying their heads in the sand. Professor Anthony Glees says many vice-chancellors are still […]
Belgian Police Hold Iranian Who Claimed Bomb Plot
Was there really a plot, or is this an attempt to tie up investigators in a wild goose chase? Or perhaps there is something else going on. From Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph: BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police are holding an Iranian who claimed to be involved in a plot to bomb a passenger […]
Anger in Holland over ‘apartheid’ Islamic hospital
Are separate health facilities inherently unequal (to borrow a phrase from Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka)? From David Rennie in the Telegraph, with thanks to Warren: Plans for a Muslim-only hospital in Holland have sparked a heated debate over its separate all-male and all-female wings, halal food and roster of duty imams. A […]
Berlin opera house reinstates controversial opera
A welcome bit of anti-dhimmitude. I don’t think this kind of staging is necessary or helpful, and certainly it is needlessly insulting of all three figures depicted. But part of living in a civilized society as a civilized person is addressing wrongs peacefully, without either violence or the threat of violence. This show was cancelled […]
Islam: What the West Needs to Know soon to be available on DVD
Quixotic Media’s feature documentary, Islam: What the West Needs to Know, which showed in theatres this summer and features Bat Ye’or, Serge Trifkovic…Abdullah Al-Araby and me, will be released on DVD on October 17. You might be able to get one now from Amazon — click on the picture above. However, it looks as if […]
Spencer on the Redeker death threats at Hotair
Two guys they want dead Today’s Jihad Watch videoblog at Hotair deals with the strange contradictions of the death threats against French philosophy teacher Robert Redeker.
Afghanistan arrests 17 would-be suicide bombers
The notion that girls could be studying subjects unrelated to Islam in school was sufficient to incite these recruits to carry out suicide attacks. Schoolgirl Jihad Update from AP: Security agents have arrested 17 people allegedly trained in Pakistan to launch suicide attacks in Afghanistan, the country’s intelligence agency said. The 17 were detained in […]
Fitzgerald: No hearts or minds will be won in such fashion
Greetings again from [Iraqi location]. I am a daily reader and just wanted to share an experience I had yesterday at a weekly meeting given by the [military] staff to the [military officers]. I arrived in typical fashion, early to get a seat and grab a beverage prior to the rush. When I approached the […]
Baghdad police unit scrapped for helping death squads
Members of this brigade will be “re-trained,” which will simply amount to more training to be exploited for their own purposes. And to add insult to injury, the responsibility for that “re-training” has been placed upon US troops, who must wonder which side of the battlefield they might later see these policemen on. Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad […]