“I was dreaming a beautiful dream…” From MEMRITV, with thanks to all who sent this in: Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Safwat Higazi, which aired on Dream2 TV on August 26, 2006: […] When I said what I said, I was dreaming a beautiful dream, which I hope will come true, […]
Archives for 2006
Hizballah moving rockets to Palestinian camps, rebuilding bunkers
Ceasefire Update from YNet News: “Hizbullah moving rockets to Palestinian camps” Hizbullah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials. The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to […]
Intimidating the West, from Rushdie to Benedict
Daniel Pipes has a terrific piece in today’s New York Sun (there entitled “A Look at Islamic Violence,” but it bears the title above at his website.) In it, he notes that “the violence by Muslims responding to comments by the pope fit a pattern that has been building and accelerating since 1989. Six times […]
Islamic group threatens to “physically resist” music classes at Punjab University
Instrumental music is automatically an issue under sharia law due to the dictates of Muhammad. For example: Narrated Abu ‘Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash’ari: that he heard the Prophet saying, “From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and […]
Somali jihadists seize port city, fire on protestors
Somali Jihad Update from AP: “Demonstrations turn violent in Somalia” MOGADISHU, Somalia – Fears of regional conflict soared as angry demonstrations against Somalia’s radical Islamic militia grew Monday into deadly violence in a southern port city, and the militia for the first time acknowledged getting help from foreign Muslims. […] As it has established authority […]
U.S. rejects visa for Tariq Ramadan
“U.S. Rejects Visa for Muslim Scholar,” from AP, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair: NEW YORK – The government has rejected a prominent Muslim scholar’s application to enter the country, contending that he gave support to a terrorist group, but his attorneys allege the U.S. is using charitable donations he made as a pretext for stifling […]
Pakistan: Teenage Christian jailed for blasphemy
More depredations of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. From Compass Direct: A Pakistani Christian jailed last week on suspicion of ripping book pages containing Quranic verses appealed to Punjabi police through his lawyer yesterday (September 21) for his case to be cancelled for lack of evidence. Lawyer Khalil Tahir Sindhu asked Faisalabad city police to throw out […]
Bin Laden lieutenant killed by British troops
A key jihadist who had escaped from the Americans in Afghanistan. From Reuters: BRITISH troops in Iraq said they killed one of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s top global lieutenants, who escaped from a US prison in Afghanistan last year. Omar Faruq was shot dead while resisting arrest during a raid by about 200 British […]
Islamic jurisprudence based on reason and wisdom: clergyman
Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani misrepresents the Pope’s words and speaks of jihad as “effort to save mankind from idolatry” — whether mankind likes it or not, of course. From Iran’s Mehr News Agency, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TEHRAN, Sept. 25 (MNA) — Most Western jurists know that reason and wisdom are the main sources […]
Musharraf: M16 ‘didn’t tell us that 7/7 bombers were in Pakistan’
Musharraf Meltdown Update: “M16 ‘didn’t tell us that 7/7 bombers were in Pakistan,’” from the TimesOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph: PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF of Pakistan says he is angered by the failure of British police and intelligence services to stop young British militants such as the 7/7 suicide bombers visiting his country before staging their […]