We are supposed to believe what these two say about Islam, while what they say about me is demonstrably false. It doesn’t speak well for their trustworthiness. Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir wrote this about me: “Robert Spencer claimed that Islam is a violent religion, which orders Muslims to kill all the Jews and Christians…” I […]
Archives for 2006
The 751 No-Go Zones of France
How bad has it gotten in France? Daniel Pipes answers: They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. They are conveniently listed on one long webpage, complete with street demarcations and map delineations. […]
A Profiling In Courage
I fully expect US Airways to cave, but I do agree that so far they have been courageous. An editorial from Investor’s Business Daily (thanks to Looney Tunes): Homeland Security: Kudos to US Airways. Risking fines and a boycott, it did the right thing this week by removing a group of Muslim men from a […]
Electronic jihad’s cyber soldiers
Internet Jihad Update from AFP, with thanks to DP: PARIS — They neither carry weapons nor lay ambushes for soldiers in Iraq or in Afghanistan. But thousands of radical Islamists are waging a different kind of war from behind their computers, called “electronic jihad.” These radical Islamic sites have sprung up over the past few […]
Discover Islam — in the words of Muslims themselves
Kamala has a terrific and detailed post comparing the Islamic apologetic group Discover Islam’s statements about Islam (found on posters meant to proselytize non-Muslims) to what Muslims themselves say about the same topic in other contexts. Every bit of it is well worth reading and keeping for future reference. Here is a small sampling: The […]
Benedict XVI meets with president of Cyprus at Vatican
May it lead to his speaking against these crimes. From The Associated Press, with thanks to Looney Tunes: VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI held a private audience Friday with Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos, who gave the pontiff an album of photographs of destroyed churches in northern Cyprus under the Turkish occupation. After Benedict welcomed the […]
Grandmother commits first Hamas suicide attack in two years
Hamas can now boast of having the Grandmother from Hell, along with the Mother from Hell. “Grandmother in first Hamas suicide attack in two years,” by Mahmud Hams for AFP: JABALIYA, Gaza Strip (AFP) – A Palestinian grandmother blew herself up in the Gaza Strip, lightly wounding three Israeli soldiers, in the first suicide attack […]
String of bombings kills more than 150 in Sadr City
Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update. “150 die in deadliest attack of Iraq war” by Thomas Wagner for The Associated Press: BAGHDAD, Iraq – In the deadliest attack since the beginning of the Iraq war, suspected Sunni-Arab militants used three suicide car bombs and two mortar rounds on the capital’s Shiite Sadr City slum to kill at least […]
Sleeping Beauty Eyes Wide Open
On this Thanksgiving Day, Nidra Poller recalls a notorious Halloween incident: OK, it was Halloween, but the incident didn’t occur in the heart of a black forest. University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann stood next to a shahid and didn’t see anything wrong with the photo-op. The shahid, who claims to have meant no harm, […]
Happy Thanksgiving
In this sixth (or 1385th, depending on your starting point) year of the defense against the global jihad, it is easy to succumb to a certain bleakness. After all, the fog of disinformation, misinformation, and willful ignorance is extraordinarily thick, and it is only by chance and accident pierced through here and there. The government […]