Because he wanted to hear Khatami’s views, he said. From Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush personally signed off on a visa allowing former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami to visit the United States because he wanted to hear his views, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Khatami, Iran’s president from 1997 to 2005, is […]
Archives for 2006
Saudi schoolbooks still in dispute five years after 9/11
Denial and dissimulation from the Saudis, broadcast with dismal credulity from AFP: RIYADH (AFP) – The September 11 attacks in which 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia triggered a torrent of US accusations that the Muslim kingdom’s education system was fostering Islamic extremism. Five years on the debate continues. Saudi educators […]
Muslim panel answers questions from readers
A taqiyya-fest from the Gwinnett Daily Post (thanks to Twostellas): A lot of your questions concerned the Muslim view of women. M. J. O”Rourke of Savannah asked: “What do Muslims believe about the rights of women?” Soumaya Khalifa, the female member of the group, said women enjoy special status. “A woman cannot be married off […]
“America is not Islamaphobic, it really just doesn’t understand the religion at all”
Newsbusters (thanks to Doc Washburn) reports in –ABC Blames Bush, ‘Ignorant’ Americans for ‘Islamaphobia’” on an ABC 9/11 segment blaming Bush and ignorance for “Islamophobia.” No hint, of course, that maybe continuing acts of Islamic terrorism might be fueling this “Islamophobia.” America, you ignorant Islamaphobes! Alright, maybe it’s not all your fault. Your anti-Muslim attitudes […]
More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip
And no attempt — no attempt — is being made to determine whether or not these Muslims adhere to the jihad ideology. Neither by immigration officials or by the New Duranty Times (from which this comes, with thanks to Erick Stakelbeck). No one quoted in the article gives any hint of being anything but entranced […]
Families Of Kidnapped Persian Jews Sue Khatami In US Court
Some welcome anti-dhimmitude at CAIR’s Khatami bash Saturday night. “Families Of Kidnapped Persian Jews Sue Khatami In US Court: Law suit alleges visiting Iranian implemented anti-Semitic policy of torture and imprisonment,” a press release, with thanks to Looney Tunes: NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Seven Jewish-Iranian families have filed suit in an American federal […]
Some people — I’m not gonna say who —
Some people — naming no names, of course — are smearing and denigrating anti-jihad activists, and thereby revealing…that they secretly endorse the jihad agenda, are no different from Al-Qaeda itself, and would behead us all if they had half a chance! The above paragraph is, of course, a parody of Ralph Peters’ vicious, cowardly, and […]
Fjordman: Why we cannot rely on moderate Muslims
The superb European essayist Fjordman has a must-read essay over at Gates of Vienna. Some of his points are confirmed by the new allegations about Alija Izetbegovic.
Bosnian Muslim President Izetbgovic linked to Al-Qaeda
Alija Izetbegovic, who led Bosnia from 1990 to 2000, died in 2003, hailed worldwide as a moderate Muslim leader. In my book Onward Muslim Soldiers, I discussed his 1970 Islamic Declaration, which got him jailed by the Communists, and which he was widely believed to have repudiated, or if not actually repudiated, then at least […]
Report: 3 Spanish Muslims Recruited for Jihad Every Month
Lorenzo Vidino in the Counterterrorism Blog reports on a Spanish news story: Today the Spanish newspaper El Periodico published an interesting report based on extensive interviews with Spanish counterterrorism officials. According to the report, each month an average of 3 Spanish Muslims are recruited by jihadi networks either for suicide bombings in Iraq or for […]