Another warning to the dhimmis not to get out of line. “Iraq: Terrorists Blast Church,” from Compass Direct: November 10 (Compass Direct News) — Unknown assailants bombed the entrance of a Catholic church in Mosul last week, destroying three sets of doors as well as windows in the church, monastery and guest house. A source […]
Archives for 2006
Karen Armstrong to Lecture on ‘Islam: The Misunderstood Religion’
If I get a chance, I will drop by this talk and ask Ms. Armstrong why it is that there are so many Muslims who apparently misunderstand Islam, and think that it enjoins them to commit acts of violence. How is it that so many Muslims don’t seem to be acquainted with the peaceful religion […]
Ellison won’t appear at CAIR banquet after all
Is Keith Ellison distancing himself from CAIR? Will he deliver a video message to the CAIR banquet? Memo to Ibrahim Hooper: if you need someone to take Ellison’s place, I’m free that day. An update to this story, as well as to this week’s Jihad Watch videoblog at HotAir: “First Muslim Congressman Won’t Address Muslim […]
Man with laptop, cash arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
And oddly enough, he was not a Lutheran from Norway. “Dinssa” is a common surname among Muslims in several parts of Africa. From Associated Press, with thanks to Joe Washburn: DETROIT — A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying $78,883 in cash and a laptop computer containing […]
Jihad Watch on video on CAIR’s Congress
In this week’s Jihad Watch segment at Hot Air, I discuss Pelosi, Conyers, and Ellison, and why CAIR is celebrating an early Chri–uh, an early Winter Holiday.
Dhimmi Carter may lead U.N. investigation of Israel
Dhimmi and Rosalynn Carter with Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer in 1984 — if I met him again, I’d have a few things to tell him Not surprising coming from the UN. “President Carter Could Lead U.N. Investigation of Israel,” by Benny Avni in the New York Sun, with thanks to Ruth King: UNITED NATIONS […]
“Has anyone asked Tony Snow whether people in the president’s inner circle learned lessons from the life of Mohammed”?
Patrick O’Hannigan is right: there is as far as I know no program in the DHS, or State, or the Defense Department, or the CIA or FBI that is devoted to learning what the teachings of Islam and Muhammad reveal about the motives, goals, and strategies of contemporary jihad terrorists — and this is a […]
Iran ‘tried to get uranium by arming Somalia’
Another connection surfaces between Iran and Somalia’s jihadists. By David Blair for the Telegraph: Iran tried to obtain uranium from Somalia in return for supplying weapons to the anarchic country’s Islamist movement, the United Nations said yesterday. A report compiled for the Security Council found that Iran is one of seven countries breaking a UN […]
“It’s unfair to say the current dominant form of Islamic teaching, which is salafi Islam, taught in mosques and universities, is peaceful”
Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: the indomitable Tawfik Hamid here confirms what was acknowledged yesterday by the US Military Academy: that far from being that tiny minority, “radical Islam, sometimes called Salafism, is so deeply embedded in the Arab world that Salafis now constitute a ‘majority or significant portion’ of the Muslim population in the […]
New Pakistani rape laws anger Islamists
This was inevitable. An update to this story by Paul Garwood for Associated Press, with thanks to Kapil: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s lower house of Parliament passed amendments to the country’s rape laws Wednesday, ditching the death penalty for extramarital sex and revising a clause on making victims produce four witnesses to prove rape cases. […]