Archives for 2006

Keith Ellison wins. Background — including troubling questions and associations — here. “Minnesota sends first Muslim to Congress -media,” from Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: MINNEAPOLIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Voters elected a black Democrat as the first Muslim in Congress on Tuesday after a race in which he advocated quick […]

Whenever an Infidel quotes the Qur’an, Muslim apologists say he is quoting it “out of context.” This “context” business was early identified by Ibn Warraq as one of the rhetorical smokescreens put up by those Muslim apologists. Indeed, it is almost as much a favorite as that “if you don’t know Arabic, you can’t comment […]

Now wait a minute. Just a week ago Ahmed Yousef, “a senior adviser to the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya,” published an op-ed in the New York Times calling for a truce between Hamas and Israel. It is clear in that essay that Yousef is unaware of any truce already being in effect. And now […]

KUWAIT CITY – Kuwait’s parliament voted Tuesday to sever diplomatic ties with Denmark over the controversial cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad and to spend about $50 million to defend the prophet’s image in the West. — from this article This is Kuwait. Plucky little Kuwait, brave little Kuwait, Kuwait the Soft, Kuwait the Victim, Kuwait the […]

Today at FrontPage I discuss Sharia in Iraq. (News links in the original.) Shouting “Allahu akbar” and looking furious, Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to hang. Celebrations broke out anew in Baghdad, reminiscent of the heady days in 2003 when the Saddam statue was toppled; however, in the old dictator’s native Tikrit, marchers cried, “We […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank – A new report paints an alarming picture of the abuse of women in the Palestinian territories, with police, courts and government agencies failing to treat violence such as rape and beatings as a crime. The New York-based Human Rights Watch cited practices such as rape victims being forced to marry assailants […]

Transferring money from Syria. “Israel says it uncovered Jihad women’s network,” from AFP: JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s internal security service has said it had uncovered a cell of six Palestinian women who were members of the radical Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank and were responsible for a funneling money to it. “During August […]

You must remember this. — Old Popular Song The most celebrated movie in American history is Casablanca. That 1942 film stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick, an American living in the once-exotic city which, like the rest of Morocco, was still under French rule. He owns a nightclub, Rick’s Café Américain, where gambling and drinking and […]

Here is an address given by Bat Ye’or, the pioneering scholar of dhimmitude, at Paul Gerhardt Church in Munich, Germany, at Christian Solidarity International’s 29th Annual Meeting, which was held from November 2 to November 4, 2006. Ladies and Gentlemen It is for me a great honour to be invited by CSI, an organization that […]

In the previous post I noted that I have not been able to find Muslims who will discuss in any serious fashion the elements of Islam that give rise to violence and fanaticism, and what can done about them. This is despite the fact that I’ve discussed these issues with, among others, Jaafar Siddiqui and […]