I recently received an email that — after the slithery fashion of CAIR and others — tries to hold me responsible for some of the comments here. My responses are interspersed below: Dear Mr. Spencer — I learned about your site from a friend whose views are quite different from mine. He pointed me to […]
Archives for 2006
The “Azzam” Threat: A prelude to Future Jihad in America
Over at the Counterterrorism Blog the ever-insightful Walid Phares has posted a preliminary explanation and analysis of the new videotape from Azzam the American, aka Adam Yehiye Gadahn. A few choice details: The video tape issued by al Qaeda’s “as-sahhab” production, in which Ayman Zawahiri introduces Jihadist Adam Gahdan to the world as a senior […]
New videotape from al-Zawahiri, Gadahn
From AP: “Al-Qaida’s deputy issues new videotape” CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri issued a new videotape Saturday along with a man identified as an American member of the terror network, inviting Americans to convert to Islam. As narrated in the ahadith, Muhammad himself stipulated that the mujahedin invite an enemy to Islam […]
EU gives Iran two more weeks in nuclear standoff
EU to Iran: We’re sorry it had to come to this, but you leave us no choice but to set another deadline. And rest assured we’ve got many more with your name on them … and we’re not afraid to use them. From Reuters: LAPPEENRANTA, Finland (Reuters) – The European Union agreed on Saturday to […]
Hizballah in Venezuela
On the heels of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez’s recent trip Syria, and amid his ongoing vocal support for Iran as well, Hizballah has been found to be working openly in Venezuela, website (hosted by MSN, as well as a Yahoo! Group) and all. From Gateway Pundit: Gustavo Coronel at Venezuela Today has proof that Hezbollah […]
Hizballah organizing children’s militias: “A nation with suicide children is a victorious one.” – Nasrallah deputy
It is appalling — but not surprising in light of their extensive youth propaganda campaign — that Hizballah has assembled militias of boys aged 10 to 15. And these militias are themselves another propaganda tool, being composed of children of shahids (“martyrs”) who will be lionized as the model for all Shi’ite children in Lebanon, […]
Muslim Group: Bush Distorts ‘Islamic’
It wasn’t Bush who was distorting the word “Islamic.” It is all the Islamic terror groups stretching from Indonesia to Europe and North America who are doing so, if what Mattson says is true. If it is true that such groups “misuse and use Islamic concepts and terms to justify their violence,” then Mattson and […]
Christians seek West’s atonement for colonialism
Islam is not mentioned in this story, but it has everything to do with it. The West has been indulging for decades now in an orgy of self-flagellation, such that every man on the street and schoolchild knows that George Washington was just a slaveowner, and that colonialism is responsible for all the ills of […]
Syrian Baath officials say told to buy Golan property
Is Israel planning to give up the Golan Heights, or being pressured to do so? If so, Syrian troops will again stand on the mountaintops and fire down on Israeli farmers below. It would be a political, military, and societal disaster for Israel, and for the larger resistance against the global jihad. Or are the […]
Kyrgyzstan Jihad
From the Christian Science Monitor: “Kyrgyzstan tries to squeeze Islamic extremists in Central Asia ” Authorities say that extremists are trying to set up a base here to overthrow Kyrgyzstan’s secular post-Soviet government, as well as those in neighboring Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and create an Islamic state. But observers say that the government’s harsh methods […]