Archives for 2006

The restoring of “order” by the Islamic courts in Somalia recalls the Restoration of Order after the supposed chaos and confusion (otherwise known as life itself, so damn messy without the Ordnung of the Totalitarian State) of the Weimar Republic. Watching of sports — strengst verboten. Playing of sports, also haram, unless participation in them […]

CNN astutely notes that the game appears to use the engine and many graphics from id Software’s 1993 landmark title Doom. It may be a simple coincidence or a matter of the availability of the game platform (or that the game designers in question are writing on 1990’s-vintage PCs). But on the other hand, the […]

I received this kind email from a Muslim reader of Jihad Watch recently, and he has just given me permission to publish it on this site. We get so much hate mail in our Jihad Watch mail bags that it is refreshing and humbling to receive a message like this one. Dear Mr. Spencer, I […]

Some Muslims will not be satisfied until the Pope actually becomes a Muslim. The Pope’s first “invitation” to Islam came from Gaza. Now another comes from Qaddafi’s son — who challenges Benedict on the faith-and-reason grounds of the pontiff’s original speech. “Pope asked to convert to Islam,” from AFP, with thanks to Ray: Tripoli – […]

Some Muslims will not be satisfied with the Pope until his apology is sufficiently abject, his dhimmitude sufficiently secured. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: ANKARA, Turkey – Muslims in Turkey, Iraq and the Palestinian territories demanded Tuesday that Pope Benedict XVI make a clear apology for his remarks on Islam, instead of […]

As promised in last week’s Publishers Weekly interview with me, this week’s issue contains “a contrasting view of Muhammad and Islam,” courtesy of Amir Hussain, author of a new introduction to Islam intended for a Christian audience, entitled Oil & Water: Two Faiths, One God. RBL: What do you have to say about author Robert […]

Daniel Pipes hits the nail on the head in the New York Sun: …The head of the Benedictine order, Abbot Notker Wolf, said the pope’s quote was “a blatant allusion to Ahmadinejad,” Reuters reported. Vatican insiders told the London Sunday Times that Benedict “was trying to pre-empt an aggressive letter aimed at the papacy by […]

Srdja Trifkovic eulogizes my late and much-missed friend Oriana Fallaci at Chronicles: Of course she prompted countless howls of rage from coast to coast and from one side of the Atlantic to another, among the degenerates, cowards, masochists, madmen, and villains. (Christopher Hitchens, who is all of the above, has described Fallaci’s work as “a […]

I just got a call from a friend, telling me he was listening to CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper on an Atlanta radio station, and that Hooper named Jihad Watch in complaining about “Islamophobia.” Of course, he has done this in print as well. As I have said before, the idea that we are provoking “Islamophobia” by […]

From “An evening with Ann”¦ and Lynn,” in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, with thanks to Mackie: First, Coulter found herself in the uncharacteristic position of being upstaged by her introducer, Mike Gallagher. He told the audience he was fresh back from an hour-and-45-minute session which President Bush held in the Oval Office Friday afternoon with him […]