Archives for 2006

The implications of this article are astounding. On the one hand we’re told again and again and again that only a Tiny Minority of Extremistsâ„¢ holds to the jihad ideology, and that most Muslims (like Azzam Tamimi, for example?) abhor violence and reject today’s global jihad. Yet while everyone takes this for granted, no one […]

Evidently, it’s only “terrorism” when it’s directed against the Indonesian President. First, there’s “Indonesian President urges vigilance against terrorism,” from AFP, with thanks to DFS: JAKARTA – Islamic extremists, led by a fugitive Malaysian, are still planning attacks in Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned Wednesday. “In 2006, so far we can be thankful because […]

“Islamic fascists”? Never mind. Oh, and in other news: to avoid offending Germans, President Roosevelt has announced that he is dropping all reference to the “National Socialist German Workers Party,” and will henceforth refer not to our war against the Nazis, but to our war against “individuals that would like to kill innocent Americans to […]

Azzam Tamimi of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London is a frequent guest on talk shows, and he spreads the predictable soothing syrup about how most Muslims abhor violence, etc. But when he speaks to Muslim audiences, he sings a different tune. How different? Dan Sytman (thanks to LGF), cohost of “Sytman & […]

In “West alone is not threatened,” Kanchan Gupta in The Pioneer reminds us that the jihad is not only against the West: It’s difficult to fault US President George Bush for being obnoxiously upfront and brutally honest while describing the jihadis and their cohorts who planned “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” by blowing up […]

I am scheduled to be on the Mike Reagan Show tonight. I expect we’ll be discussing some of the recent headlines.

Diana West over at Michelle Malkin’s site has penned an extraordinarily kind and generous summation of the circumstances surrounding my pre-refuted interview for C-Span, which will air in its entirety this coming Sunday at 8 and 11PM, after already having been refuted by Akbar Ahmed, the Chair of Islamic Studies at American University. The full […]

Curious assertion and retraction about a disturbance on a flight from London. Where did anyone get the idea that this material existed? Why was this confirmed and then retracted? “Flight diverted to Boston over passenger disturbance,” from AP, with thanks to Amber: BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — Fighter jets escorted a London-to-Washington, D.C., flight to Boston’s […]

What Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali thinks of as “Islamic radicalism” is older than he realizes; it didn’t begin with Ibn Taymiyya, as the great jihad conquests that created the heart of what we think of as the Islamic world took place before the birth of that famous Islamic jurist; in fact, “Islamic radicalism” is as old […]

Eurabia Alert from AKI, with thanks to S.: Rome, 14 August (AKI) – Italian police investigating the suspected ‘honour killing’ of a 20-year-old Pakistani woman are looking for her father and two other male relatives – a brother-in-law and an uncle – in connection with the murder. The body of the woman, Hina Saleem, was […]