Archives for 2006

Because it “receives orders from the American administration.” “Al-Qaida threatens to topple Lebanon govt.,” from AP: BEIRUT, Lebanon – Al-Qaida has purportedly issued a statement threatening to topple Lebanon’s “corrupt” Western-backed government, according to a London-based Arabic newspaper Monday. The Al-Hayat newspaper reported that al-Qaida issued the statement from the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr […]

The Wall Street Journal, which should know better but obviously doesn’t, has published a list of five recommended books about Islam (thanks to all who sent this in). Among them: “Muhammad” by Karen Armstrong (HarperCollins, 1992). To understand Islam, one needs to understand the central role played by the Prophet Muhammad in the religion’s creation […]

Much ink flows on the subject of “Bush Senior’s men,” such as James Baker. Bush Senior, of course, is the former President who picked up a cool million for one speech delivered to a grateful Kuwait. (Remember plucky little Kuwait, the country that those awful Iraqis seized, and that it was necessary for the Americans […]

And then this genocidal maniac comes to America and is schmoozed by Brian Williams and Mike Wallace. Their interviews with him will go down in history alongside the puff pieces written about Hitler in Life magazine and elsewhere in the 1930s. From AFP: According to the Iranian media Monday, Iranian President Mahoud Ahmadinejad declared that […]

More jihad in the skies contemplated. “Airports put on high alert after FBI warning,” from the Times of India, : NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: Major airports in the country have been put on high security alert after the US intelligence agency FBI told Indian authorities that US-bound planes from India could be hijacked. In a message, conveyed […]

Sharia in northwest Pakistan. Friend and Ally Update from The Associated Press, : PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Lawmakers from an Islamic coalition ruling Pakistan’s deeply conservative northwest on Monday approved a controversial law to set up a Taliban-style department to suppress vice. The law establishes a unit led by an Islamic cleric to promote virtue and eliminate […]

Tomorrow at 12:30PM I am speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington about issues covered in my new book The Truth About Muhammad. You can watch live at the Heritage site. You’ll find the link here.

“Q is a military man who just returned from Afghanistan, and has also spent considerable time in Iraq. Q is unflappable and unfoolable, and he knows from extensive personal experience what is in the hearts and minds of all too many citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan. Had he heard Hamid Mir’s soothing words, he would […]

The “hudna” that Muslims make with non-Muslims can never be more than temporary, and is entered into only because the Muslim side feels it is too weak to conduct open warfare, and would benefit from a respite from open hostilities. Alternatively, a Muslim polity may enter into a hudna with non-Muslims if it has a […]

“The Council today adopted a regulation laying down rules on information regarding the payer that accompanies transfers of funds for the purposes of prevention, investigation and detection of money laundering and terrorist financing.” — from this press release It is the total amount available to Muslim states and peoples that matters most. The Muslim members […]