I’ve been nominated for Little Green Footballs’ Anti-Idiotarian of the Year 2006, along with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, John Bolton, Canadian PM Stephen Harper, Australian PM John Howard, Melanie Phillips, Pope Benedict XVI, Mark Steyn, Stuck Mojo, and Wafa Sultan. I don’t really belong on this list — all the other candidates are worthier than I […]
Archives for 2006
Report: Hizballah paying for Qassam rocket attacks
“Hizbullah paying for Kassam attacks,” by Herb Keinon and Yaakov Katz for the Jerusalem Post: Hizbullah is paying Palestinian splinter groups “thousands of dollars” for each Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev, The Jerusalem Post has learned. According to Israeli intelligence information, Hizbullah is smuggling cash into the Gaza Strip and paying “a number […]
Israel lets Egypt ship arms to Fatah — with the blessing of the U.S.
There’s no indicator of cluelessness quite like arming one’s enemy. From the Jerusalem Post: In response to continued violence between the Hamas and Fatah factions in the Palestinian Authority, Israel approved on Wednesday night the transfer of 2,000 automatic rifles, 20,000 ammunition clips and 2 million bullets, to the Fatah security forces in the Gaza […]
Jihad Watch at Hot Air on Goode and Ellison
In this week’s Jihad Watch videoblog at Hot Air, I discuss the Keith Ellison/Virgil Goode Qur’an controversy.
Fitzgerald: A teaching moment
Voting for Keith Ellison was a way for Minnesotans in his district to demonstrate, to themselves and to others, that they were certifiably tolerant, impeccably broad-minded. All the better if it was done without even making a move to find out what might be in the texts, tenets, attitudes, and atmospherics of Islam to cause […]
Fitzgerald: A tribute to King Abdullah
Jordan’s King Abdullah said some time ago that “Islam honors every human being, without distinction of color, race, or religion.” So that whole business of the jizyah, the kharaj, the distinctive garb, the ban on marrying Muslim women, the ban on riding horses, the inability to have one’s testimony against Muslims be considered valid, and […]
Fitzgerald: Moral preening
Those who are criticizing Congressman Virgil Goode these days are engaging in moral preening, without any felt need of responsibility to study carefully both the actual contents of the belief-system too easily assumed to be a “religion” (and therefore, presumably, to be accorded the status of a Good Thing). It is assumed, furthermore, to be […]
Pastors’ convictions for quoting Quran overturned
Good news from Australia about a case we have covered here extensively. Remember, one of the things they were censured for was…reading from the Qur’an. From WorldNetDaily.com, with thanks to all who sent this in: Two Australian pastors who were convicted of “vilifying” Muslims when they quoted from the Quran during a seminar on jihad […]
Jihadists abandon Mogadishu
“Islamic forces abandon Somalia’s capital,” by Salad Duhul for Associated Press: MOGADISHU, Somalia – Clan militiamen poured into the streets of Somalia’s capital Thursday after the Islamic movement that has controlled Mogadishu for months abandoned the city and government forces advanced to within striking distance. Gunfire echoed through the streets and hundreds of gunmen who […]
Tony Blair speaks of “progressive” Qur’an, says “the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking”
Tony Blair strikes again, this time in Foreign Affairs (thanks to Looney Tunes). For him to relate the Qur’an’s delegitimization of Judaism and Christianity as akin to the Protestant Reformation is unsurprising, but his papering over the bloodiness of the conquest of the formerly Christian lands of the Middle East and North Africa, as well […]