Archives for 2006

Abu Hamza al-Muhajer makes his propaganda tape debut. From CNN: (CNN) — The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq urged his followers to kill at least one American in the next two weeks using a sniper rifle, explosive or “whatever the battle may require,” according to an audiotape that aired Thursday on Al-Jazeera. The Arabic […]

My review of Oriana Fallaci’s superb and essential The Force of Reason appears in this week’s Human Events: A common thread runs through some of Oriana Fallaci’s 1970s interviews with world leaders: Golda Meir: “I think the war in the Middle East will go on for many, many years…. Because of the indifference with which […]

This advance review by the editor of the Conservative Book Club, Elizabeth Kantor, of my book The Truth About Muhammad (coming October 9 from Regnery Publishing) appears in “Fall Brings Lineup of Conservative Books” in this week’s Human Events: Robert Spencer outdoes himself in this book””in courage (who else would dare to write a warts-and-all […]

CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper, still unable to find anything in my own writings that he can use to attack me, focuses again on unmoderated comments at this site. “Muslims see a growing media bias” by Jim Ritter in the Chicago Sun-Times, with thanks to all who sent this in: Web sites are especially virulent, Hooper said. […]

Watch for the cascade of condemnations of this act from CAIR and MPAC and the like. But don’t hold your breath. “Sudanese mourn death of editor,” by “Opheera McDoom” of the Hizballah News Agency, aka Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A sea of white-clothed mourners laid Sudanese editor Mohamed Taha to rest […]

Journalists covering the Middle East can be divided into seven groups: 1) Those who are afraid of Muslim threats, express or implied. Long before the Dadullah threats, journalists covering the Arab-Israeli dispute from Gaza or the West Bank were made well aware that they had better play ball; ditto those reporting from southern Lebanon recently. […]

August 1939 Alert from AP, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Iran on Thursday ended its large-scale military exercises by test-firing a 2,000-pound guided bomb, state-run television reported. “It is a flying bomb and can be used as a guided long-range air-to-surface missile,” Gen. Amir Amini, deputy commander of Iran’s air force, told state TV. Amini […]

Robert Spencer’s biography of Muhammad will be available in a few weeks, and galley copies are going out now. It will be fascinating to find out whom The Times and The Post and The Daily Scream will decide to assign the task of reviewing this book on Muhammad. Let’s apotropaically guess: will it be the […]

Black populations have been targetted for Da’wa in many Western countries. Islam is presented as a vehicle of protest and as a vehicle of social justice, replacing Marixsm. It is, of course, neither. Rather, it is a belief-system that encourages slavish submission to “Allah” and “Allah knows best,” and also legitimates slavery, the institution of […]

Eurabia Alert: “Threats halt woman lawyer who fought forced marriages,” from the Telegraph, with thanks to Ruth King: A prominent Berlin lawyer has gone underground after receiving death threats for defending Muslim women who have been forced into marriage. Seyran Ates, 43, a women’s rights advocate, was named Germany’s woman of the year in 2005 […]