Al-Qaeda against the hypocrites of the Musharraf regime. At least so says Gulf Daily News. “Rocket plot uncovered”: ISLAMABAD: A group said to be affiliated with Al Qaeda, planned rocket attacks on Islamabad from its sanctuary in the country’s tribal lands near the Afghan border, it was revealed yesterday. Pakistani security agencies arrested three suspects […]
Archives for 2006
“Salafist [fundamentalist] Islam is the dominant version of the religion and is taught in almost every Islamic university in the world”
In “Hot for martyrdom” in the National Post (thanks to Barbara), Michael Coren speaks to the courageous Tawfik Hamid. Hamid makes many important points that we have made here on numerous occasions, accompanied by some insights you should not miss. Dr. Tawfik Hamid doesn’t tell people where he lives. Not the street, not the city, […]
“We know that America never favours Islamic movements anywhere in the world and such statements are part of an incorrect Zionist-inherited ideology”
America is lying about the Somali jihadists, says Mukhtar Robow, and of course it is the Zionists’ fault. “Islamists reject US terrorism warning,” by Mustafa Haji Abdinur for IOL: Mogadishu – Somalia’s powerful Islamic movement on Friday rejected as “baseless” United States allegations that its supreme leader had authorised suicide attacks in neighbouring Kenya and […]
Bush envoy confirms backdown on Darfur peace force
Where the US does take action against jihadist activity, it is all too inclined to shoot itself in the foot by settling for half-measures, or backing down from a decisive — and winnable — confrontation: One will recall, for example, the “cease-fire” at Tora Bora which allowed bin Laden to escape, the unwillingness to neutralize […]
Saudi court sentences rape victim to 90 lashes
More proving my points here. From the DPA, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair: A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married. The sentence was passed at the end of a trial in […]
‘I only buy and sell weapons for al-Qaeda’
Abdullah Khadr, the most visible exponent of what has been dubbed “Canada’s Al-Qaeda family,” details his relationship with the organization. By Colin Freeze in the Globe and Mail, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Asked by the Mounties if he were part of al-Qaeda, Abdullah Khadr responded, “No, I only buy and sell weapons for […]
India: Rape victim driven out of village
As I explained here, in the Islamic world all too often the onus falls upon the victim of rape. “Rape victim driven out of village by panchayat,” from ZeeNews, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Behrampur, Nov 03: In a virtual repeat of the Imrana case, a mother of four has been driven out of […]
Fitzgerald: Egypt, Gaza and Israel
The benefits of that “Peace Treaty” (i.e., Camp David Accords) between Egypt and Israel have been tangible and possibly permanent for Egypt, while they have been transitory or illusory, or sometimes both, for Israel. The same “peace” would have obtained without that disastrous treaty, for the same inhibiting factor — the IDF — would have […]
Paris airport strike planned over Muslim workers row
An update to this story from AFP, : PARIS, Nov 3, 2006 (AFP) – Unions at Paris’s main airport said Friday they plan to call for a strike over the withdrawal of security badges from scores of airport workers, mostly Muslims, denouncing it as discrimination. Officials said Thursday that 72 workers at the Charles de […]
Future Terrorism: Mutant Jihads
The Fall 2006 edition of the Journal of International Security Affairs contains an insightful article by Walid Phares, “Future Terrorism: Mutant Jihads.” Walid Phares, of course, is the author of an excellent book of analysis, Future Jihad. Both the article and the book, at greater length, provide an assessment of the jihad threat worldwide as […]