Common sense amid Pope Rage from the last non-dhimmi Prime Minister of Spain. From EITB, with thanks to DRK: Muslims should apologize for occupying Spain for 800 years and a U.N.-backed program to encourage dialogue between them and West is stupid, former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar has said. Aznar made his comments Friday […]
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Jammu and Kashmir: Women ordered to don burka
Sharia Alert from the Kashmir jihadists. From the PTI, with thanks to all who sent this in: Jammu: In a move that will once again create a fear psychosis among womenfolk in Rajouri district, a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen area commander on Saturday threatened them to follow the Islamic dress code of wearing a burka and a veil […]
Lebanese Christian leader: War was disaster, Hizballah must disarm
Tens of thousands turn out in defiance of Hizballah and its Syrian and Iranian sponsors. From Haaretz: “Lebanese Christian leader: War was disaster, Hezbollah must disarm” BEIRUT – A Lebanese Christian leader said Sunday that Hezbollah’s war with Israel was a disaster for Lebanon and rapped the Shi’ite Muslim group for rejecting calls to lay […]
Egypt bans European papers for comments on Islam
After all, an insulted populace couldn’t possibly exercise self-control, once offended. From Reuters: CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has banned editions of two French and German newspapers, Le Figaro and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, because of articles deemed insulting to Islam, the state news agency MENA said on Sunday. Under a decree issued by Information Minister […]
Fitzgerald: Four questions in search of an answer
“We should also encourage the moderate leaders in the Muslim world — and they’re the majority — to distance themselves from this extremism…” — from Jose Manuel Barroso’s comment Four Questions and No Answer: 1. Define “moderate leaders.” 2. Tell us how you know they are in “the majority.” 3. Tell us why the attacks […]
Up to 80 per cent of women in Pakistan’s jails are charged under rules that penalise rape victims
This is a result of Muhammad’s exoneration of his favorite wife, Aisha, who was suspected of adultery. Allah gave him a revelation requiring four male witnesses to establish such a crime: “And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony – They […]
Afghan officers arrested for smuggling weapons to Taliban: report
Why does this sort of thing happen? Because the question of whether or not these officers adhered to the ideology of jihad and the subjugation of infidels is something that the Americans wouldn’t care, and the Afghans wouldn’t dare, to ask about. From the PakTribune, : KABUL: Several Afghan officers were detained for trafficking weapons […]
House intel committee chair warns of jihadists home-grown in Europe, puzzles over lack of al Qaeda links
There are two noteworthy components to this story. One is that the US government has expressed particular concern about home-grown jihadists in the West. The other is how the notion of al Qaeda as the source of jihad ideology puts blinders on the policymakers overseeing the “War on Terror.” In fact, Rep. Hoekstra appears to […]
One in 10 Muslims ‘ignore terror’
Nine out of then would contact police. That’s good news. It’s also good to see that two-thirds note the British Muslim community’s failure to root out “extremists” as one factor involved in the continuing threat of jihad terror attacks. Now what are those nine out of ten doing about the tenth? From The Guardian, with […]
Bin Laden not dead again
Update to this story: “Spies reject “˜Bin Laden is dead” claim,” from the TimesOnline, with thanks to all who sent this in: PRESIDENT Jacques Chirac ordered an investigation last night into the leaking of a French intelligence report that suggested Osama Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader, may have died from typhoid in Pakistan last month. […]