Countering stereotypes by hijacking someone else’s website. From the Evening Mail, with thanks to Twostellas: CATHOLICS logging onto a Barrow church website were diverted onto a site run by a Muslim organisation. St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, on Michaelson Road, Barrow Island, keeps abreast of 21st century technology by having its own website. But anyone […]
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Taxpayers fund Islamic center
More on this case from WorldNetDaily: An announcement that the U.S. Marine base at Quantico, Va., has refurbished a building to be used as a prayer room for Muslim soldiers and civilians on base is a “bad signal,” one critic has concluded. The Marines announced earlier this summer that one of the buildings on the […]
Fitzgerald: A tribute to Peter Bergen and Lawrence Wright
Peter Bergen, consistently miscomprehending Islam — go back and check the record of rich embarrassment — is hardly alone. All sorts of writers on Bin Laden or on Al Qaeda purvey inside dopesterism and piquant details about Bin Laden’s wives (including the one who ordered lingerie and ran around in a track suit, no doubt […]
Annan: Disarming Hizballah not “direct mandate of the UN,” Israel threatens to resume war
If the UN has no direct mandate, but can only “help” disarm Hizballah (and Siniora and Nasrallah have reportedly agreed this won’t happen), then the blue berets that do go in will only be an internationalized set of human shields for Hizballah to hide behind. By deploying them willingly in that atmosphere, the UN will […]
UK Muslims: Give us Sharia, special holidays, and more — or else
Or else more of us will become jihadists. In a sane world, it would be Muslim leaders who would be reassuring the British government that they would redouble efforts to root terrorists out of their midst. “Muslims call for special bank holidays,” from the Daily Mail, with thanks to Designnut: Muslim leaders summoned to talks […]
Egypt: Copts lose homes, freedom over spurious murder charge
Islamic Tolerance Alert from Egypt: “Egypt: Copts Lose Homes, Freedom Over Murder Charge: Months after mosque calls for attack on Christians, victims of riot still awaiting justice,” from Compass Direct: August 14 (Compass Direct News) — Families of five jailed Christians have lost their homes northeast of Cairo after authorities persuaded them to turn over […]
UN peacekeepers begin work in Lebanon, remembering who is in charge
The caption to this AP photo (thanks to Bill) reads: Backdropped by a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, United Nations peacekeepers from France sit atop their armoured personnel carrier in the outskirts of the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006….(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Quite an auspicious beginning, wouldn’t you say?
UK cops collar another jihad suspect
“Police Arrest New Bomb Suspect,” from SBS World News Australia, with thanks to JE: British police have arrested another suspect in connection with the alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners from London to the United States. A total of 24 people are now being held in custody in Britain. Scotland Yard alleges suspected Islamic […]
Iran was behind Hizballah-Israel war
In “Exclusive: Iran was behind Hezbollah-Israel war,” Iran Focus (thanks to JE) makes the case: London, Aug. 16 — Iran masterminded the July 12 attack on an Israeli military squad by the Lebanese militia Hezbollah which ignited a major military offensive against the group by the Jewish state, Iran Focus has learnt. A well-placed source […]
Iran says it won’t back down over nuke schemes
The Hizballah News Agency, aka Reuters, titled this one “Iran says won’t back down over atomic rights,” but I think that “rights” thing might be just a bit too strong. TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran would not yield to Western pressure to give up its home-grown nuclear technology. His […]