Archives for 2006

In “Peter Craven: Even moderates go berserk” in The Australian (thanks to Warren), Craven recounts a taxicab trip that reminds me of a cab ride I took some time ago with a Wahhabi driver who assured me blandly that innocent people should not have been killed in the Cartoon Rage riots — only the cartoonists […]

As I travel around the country and give talks trying to raise awareness of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, the question I am most often asked is, “What can we do? What can I, as a private citizen, do to help defeat the global jihad?” There are as many answers to that […]

This decision upholds a ruling from July, which cited a lack of evidence that the men intended to carry out attacks inside Yemen. In a trial allegedly meant to demonstrate Yemen’s sincerity as an ally in the “War on Terror,” the presiding judge in that case refused to find fault with the fact that several […]

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali dares to challenge the manipulative public stance of Muslims in the UK. By Christopher Morgan in the TimesOnline, : THE Church of England’s only Asian bishop, whose father converted from Islam, has criticised many Muslims for their “dual psychology”, in which they desire both “victimhood and domination”. In the most outspoken critique […]

The Iranians are hoping this won’t mean that the Iran-Iraq war will not be discussed in court — which would be a chance for them to advance their cause of establishing a Shi’ite Arab client state in Iraq. From AP: Tehran, Nov. 5(AP): Iranian officials praised Sunday’s death sentence against ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein […]

The soldiers being trained in Iraq are unable or unwilling to be members of the “Iraqi” army or “Iraqi” police. They cannot be relied on, cannot be trusted, to fight alongside the American troops who are now doing almost all of the real fighting. (The Iraqis, of various kinds, have been great at kidnapping and […]

“I think it is unheard of that a highly placed diplomat in Oslo can have such a lack of respect for Norwegian democracy and Parliament.” Unheard of now perhaps, but it will become more common as Iran continues to try to press Europe into accepting elements of dhimmi status — blasphemy laws came first, and […]

There will be more and more of this in Western countries in the future, as immigrants from Islamic countries continue to flow in. “Girls mutilated for ‘tradition,’” from The Sunday Telegraph: AT least 50 women who have undergone painful and illegal female circumcision have been treated at two Sydney hospitals in the past year. Health […]

Here is one Australian who is not going to take it. By Mary Papadakis for AAP, with thanks to DFS: A MELBOURNE grandmother has accused Muslim cleric Sheik Taj el-Din el-Hilaly of inciting racial hatred and of sexual discrimination. Elaine Davidson made her complaint against the “divisive” mufti to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity […]

And the old hypocrite shouted, “Allahu akbar.” Amid predictions that sectarian strife will now increase. “Saddam, 2 others sentenced to death,” by Hamza Hendawi for Associated Press: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single town, as […]