Archives for 2006

And the American media gives him a free pass about his genocidal statements regarding Israel, and the statements by other Iranian leaders threatening to construct nuclear weapons. From DPA: New York – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced the United States and Britain late Tuesday as ‘hegemonic powers’ undermining the UN Security Council’s credibility and effectiveness. […]

And he should know. Agca also called upon the Pope to resign. It seems as if almost everyone in the world, including Western leaders who should know better, wants him to bow before Islamic intimidation in one way or another. From the Evening Standard, with thanks to Mackie: Pope Benedict faces a growing chorus of […]

Because the global jihad is advancing on many fronts, not all involving terrorism or violence, a strong military is not the only thing we need to defeat it. But it is — especially when properly deployed — an indispensable prerequisite. I have been reminded of this while reading Don’t Tread On Me: A 400-Year History […]

By reminding the world of the nun’s murder, the Pope intentionally or unintentionally puts the focus back where it should be: not on those whose words hurt others, which includes all of us at one time or another, but on those who kill because they are hurt by the words of others. From the Telegraph […]

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Classic Islamic law stipulates that Christians may live in peace in Islamic societies as long as they accept second-class status as dhimmis, which involves living within certain limits: not holding authority over Muslims, paying the jizya tax, not building new churches or repairing old ones, and…not insulting Allah or Muhammad. If they believe that a […]

The irony meter has shorted out from overload. From Israel National News, with thanks to Tom: Muslims in Hamas-controlled Gaza have formed an ad hoc terrorist group promising to attack Christian targets to avenge the Pope’s choice of a quotation insinuating that Islam is prone to violence. The group, which calls itself the “Army of […]

I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to notify you before it happened, but I just finished a marathon two-hour segment of the Michael Medved Show, debating Jeff Siddiqui of American Muslims of Puget Sound. You can still catch it in many places, including on a Podcast at Medved’s site.

Where are the human rights advocacy groups on this? From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Shiite militias are encouraging children “” some as young as 6 or 7 “” to hurl stones and gasoline bombs at U.S. convoys, hoping to lure American troops into ambushes or provoke them into shooting […]

Excellent observations from Anne Applebaum in, of all places, the Washington Post : …we can all unite in our support for freedom of speech — surely the pope is allowed to quote from medieval texts — and of the press. And we can also unite, loudly, in our condemnation of violent, unprovoked attacks on churches, […]