Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update from AFP: “Iraq insurgents blow up Shia mosque, kill seven” BAQUBA, Iraq – Insurgents killed seven people on Monday when they bombed the main Shia mosque of the town of Beni Saad in the restive province of Diyala, north of Baghdad, police said. In a carefully orchestrated attack, six mortars slammed into […]
Archives for 2006
Pakistan gives in to conservatives on rape law
The Quran, that book that no one reads and that only Islamaphobes think will influence society says quote, “[24:13] Only if they produced four witnesses (you may believe them).” From Reuters Pakistan’s ruling party has given in to the demands of religious conservatives opposed to the amendment of Islamic laws that would have taken rape […]
5 years after 9/11, many angry at U.S.
From AP. No further comment necessary.
Robert Spencer at Hot Air
Robert Spencer has a guest piece today at Michelle Malkin’s video blog, Hot Air. He points out that “because of the religious derivation of the ideology that confronts us, analysts are generally reluctant to identify it properly or fully. They think that to speak of its roots would be bigotry or racism. But the jihadists […]
Bin Laden hanged in effigy outside California mosque — while counter-protestors shout “racists go home!”
Now wait a minute. This jihad business is supposed to be coming from a tiny minority of extremists who have hijacked Islam, and who aren’t even true Muslims at all, right? Isn’t that what has been dinned into our ears for five years now, and has been reinforced this week in an avalanche of 9/11 […]
Has Al Qaeda advanced its goals since 9/11?
Some telling points are made in this Christian Science Monitor piece, which characterizes those Al-Qaeda goals thusly: 1. Remove US forces from Saudi Arabia. (In 2001, there were about 4,500 US troops there. Today, about 500 remain.) 2. Remove all foreign armies from all Muslim countries. 3. Destroy Israel and control Jerusalem. 4. Overthrow Arab […]
Nidra Poller on Ralph Peters
Nidra Poller has sent me this superb “Reaction to ‘Islam-Haters: An Enemy Within‘ by Ralph Peters”: A strange reversal operates from beginning to end of Ralph Peters” diatribe against an anonymous horde of “Islam-haters” who, because they are not named, cannot defend themselves. They are faceless and speechless: their statements are not quoted, their books […]
Symposium: 9/11: Five Years Later
That irrepressible pixie Ralph Peters is at it again today, slinging more irresponsible attacks at unnamed foes in a FrontPage Symposium on 9/11 with Tom McInerney, Andy McCarthy, and Jed Babbin. What he says is essentially the same as what he said in his execrable New York Post column, but here Andy McCarthy and FrontPage’s […]
A letter of apology
I get vicious hate mail all the time, and there are falsehoods about me and my positions all over the Internet, as you may gather from some of the questions in my FAQ (“I’ve read that you are a member of Opus Dei”…”Do you think all Muslims are terrorists?”…etc.). But I have never before received […]
Suicide bomber kills 16 in Afghanistan
From AP: KABUL, Afghanistan – In the most brazen attack yet on Kabul’s heavily guarded center, a car bomber rammed into an American Humvee outside the U.S. Embassy on Friday, killing 16 other people, including two U.S. soldiers. It was the Afghan capital’s deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban. A purported […]