Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, and there is little or no quality control, it is essentially worthless as a reference tool. To take just one example, as I have noted here before, my bio there is full of irrelevancy, ad hominem attacks, and unsubstantiated claims about inaccuracy in my work. But that is no surprise, […]
Archives for 2006
Pete Townshend: I was a Muslim in a previous life
Maybe Pete was a Muslim AND a woman He says it here. Of course, this is the man who once said, “I know what it’s like to be a woman, because I am a woman.” But this claim is not so farfetched. As Allahpundit notes at Hot Air: “The signs were there if you paid […]
Iran Expands Uranium Enrichment Program
With these fingers I will press the sacred nuclear buttons of jihad Ahmadinejadization Alert by Ali Akbar Dareini for AP, with thanks to James: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran has begun installing 3,000 centrifuges in an expansion of its uranium enrichment program that brings the Islamic nation significantly closer to large-scale production of nuclear fuel, […]
Iranian fox offers to help US withdraw from Iraqi henhouse
“We are in a position to help by all means for the stability of Iraq.” Oh, I’m sure you are. “Iran offers to help US withdraw from Iraq,” from AP, : …Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said US troops were responsible for at least half the violence tearing apart Iraq and that their departure would pay […]
Fitzgerald: No opting-out
There should be, and can be, no opting-out of the global jihad war being waged against us. But let it not be a war fought by the stolidly unimaginative, who believe war is only a matter of bombs, tanks and guns (though those are often necessary), and among whom there is little place for intelligence […]
Afghan jihadists gun down five, including two female teachers
Because female teachers offend Allah. “Militants gundown five including two Afghan female teachers,” from AFP, : ASADABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) – Taliban militants barged into a house in a troubled eastern Afghan province and shot dead five members of the same family, including two female teachers, police said. The killings happened in Narang district, Kunar province, […]
Reporter on Chicago mall jihadist: jihad “not an easy term to define”
Last night I was on Alan Colmes’ radio show. Colmes has me on, of course, hoping that I will play Washington Generals to his Harlem Globetrotters, but I do what I can in between his multitudinous interruptions. Last night he asked me about Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef, aka Derrick Shareef. Colmes said he considered […]
You can swim, but you have to wear Muslim dress
Everybody into the pool! A UK leisure center is under fire for setting aside Muslims-only swim time. And it is ironic indeed in a country that consistently treats Islam as a race; imagine the outcry over a whites-only swim time. By Jaya Narain in the Daily Mail, with thanks to all who sent this in: […]
Veiled Muslim to give Christmas message on UK TV
Joyeux Noel But some are not happy with this new expression of the utter decay of British culture. “C4 attacked for Muslim message,” by Colin Robertson in The Sun, with thanks to all who sent this in: CHANNEL 4 was blasted last night after revealing its Christmas Day message will be delivered by a British […]
Fitzgerald: The folly of the Iraq Study Group
The Iraq Study Group brings us nothing but another kind of folly. It states the obvious, that “we are losing in Iraq” by which it means that, given the Bush Administration’s definition of “winning” (which apparently the Iraq Study Group is too unimaginative to question), then we, who are failing to achieve what would thereby […]