Archives for 2006

Soon he will be free to resume his jihad. From The Observer, with thanks to JE: An Islamic cleric who influenced at least one of the 7 July bombers and whose videos may have been seen by several of the terror suspects arrested earlier this month, is to be freed from prison in weeks. Sheikh […]

“Asians,” of course, is UK mediaspeak for Muslims. These Muslim passengers don’t seem to have been up to anything more than speaking Arabic, and no doubt all sorts of opprobrium is now going to rain down on the passengers’ heads: cries of ingrained “Islamophobia,” and calls by Muslim leaders and their willing Leftist stooges for […]

Islamic Tolerance Alert. “Two Chaldean Priests Kidnapped in Baghdad,” (the second has since been released) from Compass Direct: August 17 (Compass Direct News) – Iraqi church leaders issued appeals today for the release of a Chaldean Catholic priest kidnapped in southeast Baghdad yesterday morning. In an e-mailed statement, Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk Louis Sako called […]

So what good, then, is the ceasefire? None at all, of course. Peace In Our Time Update from the UN, with thanks to IMRA: Unofficial transcript of press encounter with Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown at UN Headquarters 18 August 2006 – Deputy Secretary-General: I just want to say a few remarks first, and then […]

Just a reminder that CSpan Q&A will feature my interview with CSpan’s Brian Lamb tomorrow night at 8PM and 11PM EDT. This is the famous pre-refuted interview: Akbar Ahmed already replied last week. More about that here. Meanwhile, I’m told that this morning on CSpan’s Washington Journal, CAIR’s Nihad Awad told people that I say […]

The Hamilton Spectator has published an excerpt from The al-Qaeda Reader, translated by Raymond Ibrahim and with an introduction by Victor Davis Hanson. The book will be published in early 2007 by Doubleday. The paper, meanwhile, assures us: “Radical Muslims claim to be acting out the words of God, Moderate Muslims have competing interpretations.” Unfortunately, […]

Another peek inside Pakistan’s jihad factories — mixed with some of the usual mainstream media twaddle, but still containing some useful information. “Welcome to the ‘jihad factory.’ It’s still in production: SONYA FATAH meets Islamic firebrand Sami ul-Haq on his home turf — the school where he trained most of the top Taliban,” from the […]

A poster at Jihad Watch recently wrote: “Once upon a time I lived in the NE. The anti Israel bias of the Boston Globe turned me into a Boston Herald customer. The Globe had more than one op-ed columnist weighing in against Israel. HDS Greenway was the worst.” Was, and is. Though he is officially […]

Franck Salameh, who teaches Arabic studies at Boston College, writes about the marginalization of non-Muslim Arabic-speaking people, as well as of non-Arab Muslims, and the erasure of Israel, at Middlebury College’s highly politicized Arabic Summer School. From RealClearPolitics: At Middlebury College’s Arabic Summer School, where I recently taught Arabic, students were exposed to more than […]

The jihad takes many forms. From AP: A former grocery store owner already facing three years in prison for aiding a terrorist group got 14 months tacked onto his sentence Friday for swindling a government social welfare program out of $1.4 million (€1.1 million). Hatem Fariz, 33, must serve a total of 51 months in […]