Archives for 2006

Nominations are now open for two awards: the American Dhimmi of the Year 2006 and the Dhimmi Internationale 2006. These should, of course, be those who behaved in the past year in the most pusillanimous, abject, and/or suicidally stupid ways in the face of Islamic jihadist bullying and intimidation, peaceful or violent. We will also […]

Here is a special study by Walid Phares entitled “Education versus Jihad,” and published as this month’s cover story of HS Today — the monthly magazine Homeland Security Today. It summarizes Phares’s thoughts on the real battle in America’s War on Terror and the recommendations he makes to the government. In the few hours following […]

Pig races and terror attack count websites are expressions of frustration. The official line is that non-Muslims need not be concerned about mosques in their midst, and indeed, they must not be concerned, because such concern is a manifestation of “ignorance” and “bigotry.” But for many American citizens that just doesn’t compute. They have seen […]

But that will not stop Bush and Baker and Rice from forcing Israel to make more concessions in the hopes of winning that chimerical recognition. From The Guardian Unlimited, with thanks to Kasper: The Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, today said his Hamas-led government will never recognise Israel and will continue to fight for the […]

Here is an extraordinary piece by Bruce S. Thornton, “Holy Wisdom: Why the Pope should call for the return of the Hagia Sophia,” that pinpoints exactly why I have felt so uneasy about the Pope’s trip to Turkey. Many in the West are congratulating Pope Benedict XVI”s recent trip to Turkey, where in the Blue […]

I was recently hearing from some people about what a wonderful sign of Islamic tolerance was the fact that, although there was mob violence, the government was not moving against Playboy in Indonesia. So much for that. I don’t care for Playboy myself, or for anything in its genre. But in a free society, one […]

Five years after Pearl Harbor, the war was over. The Third Reich was kaput. The Japanese were vanquished as well. But five years and counting after 9/11, there is no victory in sight. There is not even much clarity about why we are fighting, or whom we are fighting. Some of the most important victories […]

More jihad against Christians in Iraq from AsiaNews, : Mosul (AsiaNews) — Another leader of the local Christian community in Mosul has been kidnapped and killed: this is the second such crime in the city in less than two months. Meanwhile, from Baghdad, the Chaldean Patriarch has made an urgent appeal for the release of […]

No surprise here. Peace offers are only accepted by jihadists if they can be used as stepping stones to greater concessions or future military victories. But this is a lesson that Western officials refuse to learn. “United Jihad Council attacks Musharraf peace offer,” by Praveen Swami in The Hindu: SRINAGAR: A coalition of terrorist groups […]

Bravo. This is what we need to see, and much more of it. “Muslims oppose vast mosque plan,” by Sean O’Neill in the TimesOnline, with thanks to Fjordman: The architect’s vision is of a 21st-century Alhambra, a place for prayer, education, debate and the celebration of Islamic culture. But the plan to build Europe’s biggest […]