Archives for 2006

Sheikh Qaradawi has been praised as a “reformist” by Islamic “expert” John Esposito. From Middle East Online, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: CAIRO – Prominent Islamist preacher Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi has called for a holy war against Israel, an Egyptian newspaper reported Wednesday. “Muslims must carry out jihad to liberate all the land of […]

Honesty and realism, i.e., anti-dhimmitude, from Charles Chaput, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Denver (thanks to Uncle Jeff): …Catholics who do know history may remember the following: Islam has embraced armed military expansion for religious purposes since its earliest decades. In contrast, Christianity struggled in its divided attitudes toward military force and state power for its […]

In the featured article at FrontPage this morning I explain why profiling is necessary, albeit imperfect (news links in the original): To profile or not to profile? Some recent suspicious incidents involving mass purchase of cell phones by Middle Eastern men have given this debate a new urgency. On Tuesday, terrorism charges were dropped against […]

Before visiting a mosque, please google the phrase “taqiyya and tu-quoque” and arm yourself with knowledge. Be prepared to ask — sweetly, in an Infidel-Wants-to-Know Mode — about Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha when she was nine, about the assassinations of Asma bint Marwan and others, about the massacre of the inoffensive Jewish farmers of the […]

With this kind of hardware — including Katyusha rockets and mortar shells — the Shi’ites of southern Iraq and their Iranian backers were gearing up for something big: A war for secession? From Iran Focus: Baghdad, Aug. 16 – An array of weapons made in Iran were discovered in Iraq’s southern port city of Um […]

Somali Jihad Update from AFP: “Somali Islamists seize key port, claim new government defections” MOGADISHU (AFP) – Islamist courts controlling much of southern Somalia seized a key central port and said at least 100 government troops had defected to their side, in new blows to the weak administration. Hundreds of fighters loyal to the Supreme […]

More persecution in Egypt. “Christian Cobbler Knifed for Offhand Comment: Muslim fanatic with criminal record admits intention to kill him and “˜all infidels,– from Compass Direct: August 15 (Compass Direct News) — A Muslim ex-convict stabbed and killed a Christian cobbler northeast of Cairo in June, confessing that he had planned to murder him because […]

A Boston Globe reporter sent out a request that turned up on the Islamic Society of Boston/Muslim American Society email list. A moderator of that list sent it on with the comment: “very interesting opportunity and it is IMPORTANT to get positive pieces about Muslims out in the media so do consider volunteering.” The Globe […]

More crowing. It’s interesting to contrast Khamenei’s open avowal of the religious aspect of this conflict, calling it a “victory for Islam,” with George Bush’s ridiculous haste to abandon his already belated and inadequate characterization of this war as a conflict with “Islamic fascism.” CAIR doesn’t call on Khamenei (or Zawahiri, or any other mujahid) […]

Still photographs of their meeting have circulated for years. Here is video, via LGF. Just so you remember, amid the fog of Leftist/Jihadist rhetoric, who the real Nazi symapthizers are.