Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update from Reuters: “Ramadan bomb kills 34 in Iraq” BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A bomb killed 34 people in Baghdad’s Sadr City Shi’ite slum on Saturday as Iraq’s minority Sunnis began the fasting month of Ramadan, which U.S. commanders said might see a rise in sectarian bloodshed. The bomb — most likely a car […]
Archives for 2006
EU Commission President disappointed at lack of EU support for Pope
“The problem is not the statements of the Pope but the reaction of the extremists.” It’s amazing that this simple bit of common sense has dawned on so few people, and even more amazing that one of them is the European Commission President. Surprising anti-dhimmitude from Jose Manuel Barroso: “Barroso disappointed at lack of EU […]
Feds seek to block Oregon spying case
More fallout of the politicizing of the resistance to jihad. Courtroom Jihad Update from AP: PORTLAND, Ore. – U.S. Justice Department lawyers filed an appeal Friday aimed at blocking a lawsuit by a former Islamic charity that has challenged a Bush administration secret surveillance program. U.S. District Judge Garr M. King ruled earlier this month […]
Somalia: Jihad registration office to open in Mogadishu
Jihad registration. If this catches on worldwide, it will give Western officials something new to do: just as now they assure us that this or that incident had nothing to do with terrorism on the basis of the perpetrator not being a known member of Al-Qaeda or some other terrorist group, so then they will […]
Ramadan “” month of prayer for Muslims, of “holy war” for extremists
Every year now since Jihad Watch began in October 2003 we have chronicled how jihad violence increases during Ramadan, which was characterized last year by the jihadist site Jihad Unspun as a time of “battles of glory and victories over the unbelievers.” Ramadan this year, for all too many, offers similar glories — particularly since […]
Churches attacked in Gaza, W. Bank
More violence in service of the proposition that Islam is peaceful. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Palestinian police guarding a church in Nablus exchanged fire with assailants and chased them away early Saturday, witnesses said. Shortly after midnight, the sound of heavy gun fire was heard outside the Roman Catholic Church in […]
Fitzgerald: Why should we pay for their placards?
Pakistani protesters shout slogans to condemn Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks about Islam which hurt the sentiments of Muslims, Friday, Sept. 22, 2006 in Lahore, Pakistan. Protests continued to demand that Pope apologize fully for his remarks on Islam and violence. Placard on right reads ‘Enemy of Islam, down with the illiterate Pope.’ — […]
Indianapolis: Police find chemicals, al-Qaida literature in north side apartment
This too has nothing to do with terrorism — by which authorities mean that Joseph Bagley has no known ties to Al-Qaeda. And no doubt he doesn’t — if he was indeed up to no good, it looks as if he was most likely a lone (and probably non-Muslim) nut who admired Al-Qaeda for its […]
Trucking jihad?
A plot to obtain commercial licenses to haul hazardous materials. Hmmm. “15 charged in driver’s license conspiracy,” from The Kansas City Star, with thanks to DL: Operators of truck driving schools in Kansas City and southern Missouri conspired to help more than 70 Somali and Bosnian nationals illegally obtain commercial licenses, federal prosecutors alleged Thursday. […]
Second Assyrian Christian Killed in Retaliation for Pope’s Remarks
More murderous Pope Rage. From AINA, with thanks to all who sent this in: Baghdad (AINA) — Sources at Baghdad’s Yarmouk Hospital announced on Saturday the death of a second Assyrian Christian who fell victim to multiple stab wounds at the Assyrian market in the Doura District. His murder comes a day after the attack […]