Archives for 2006

Two centuries before the current American foreign policy, or before there was Zionism, or “Iraq” and “Palestine” to blame, long before “poverty” was pulled up as a root-cause, and the why-do-they-hate-us brigade not only did not exist, but would have been impossible to call into being, Muslims in West Africa were on the Jihad warpath. […]

“Hello from Fjordman. I will run a multipart essay over the coming few weeks where I will explore whether Islam is compatible with democracy. This is published in cooperation with the Gates of Vienna blog. The various parts will be published at Jihad Watch first, and then the full essay will be republished at the […]

Hanif Malik, an Islamic leader in Britain, said some time ago: “Yes, everyone agrees the Muslim leaders must be more pro-active in fighting radical thought. But it’s just empty words when Muslims feel the world is against them.” The world is against them? One may be able to swallow this if one does not dwell […]

There is no chance Turkey will be admitted to the E.U. Some of the many reasons for this are located in the fact that Turkey let the murderer of Don Andrea Santoro, the priest murdered on February 7, 2006, get off lightly. And the Turkish authorities did nothing to publicize, throughout Turkey, exactly what it […]

Mahdi Bray is very slick, but the truth is not on his side in the USAirways/Imam Rage controversy, and Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham don’t let him get away with anything in this interview (from Hotair). I have never heard him sound so rattled. May it happen many, many times in the future — as […]

By Michael Ramirez at Investors.com.

This is the sort of tortured thinking that leads some otherwise perfectly sane American analyists to maintain that if we all pretend that Islam is peaceful, it will make it so. After all, Bardakoglu is affirming the other side of this coin: speaking about what within Islam gives rise to violence will only “encourage those […]

Reform or go to jail. Hey, whatever works. From The Associated Press, with thanks to Twostellas: LAHORE, Pakistan: Police detained three hard-line lawmakers Thursday in an attempt to block a protest in eastern Pakistan against recent changes to the country’s Islamic rape laws, witnesses and officials said. A six-party coalition of Islamic groups, the Mutahida […]

Surprising EU anti-dhimmitude. By Constant Brand for Associated Press: BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Commission’s executive body on Wednesday recommended partially suspending European Union membership talks with Turkey to protest Ankara’s continued refusal to open its ports to Cyprus. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the proposed suspension “unacceptable” and said his country would […]

Marisol caught the same things I note here, but I thought they deserved emphasis in their own thread: Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, said: When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withold yourself from […]