But instead of recognizing the jihad threat, homosexual activists in the West are concentrating on a threat they think is much more serious: that of the “Christian Right,” despite the fact that none of their favorite bogeymen — Falwell, Robertson, Dobson — have ever called for their imprisonment. And of course, this is Turkey: Sharia […]
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Harvard prof: “Boston is part of the Islamic world”
In “Good Neighbors” in the Boston Globe, Diana Eck of Harvard University dismisses the David Project’s well-founded accusations against the Islamic Society of Boston and the Boston Redevelopment Authority as obstacles to the neighborliness she so desires, since after all, “Boston is part of the Islamic world.” What does that mean? I’m not sure. I […]
Sending the Mullahs to Bed Without Supper
Andrew C. McCarthy explains what’s wrong with the UN sanctions against Iran in National Review: …In what, moreover, has to be one of the more embarrassing king-has-no-clothes moments, this testament to cravenness came only a day after federal judge Royce C. Lamberth’s painstaking 209-page opinion, describing the Islamic Republic’s orchestration of the 1996 Khobar Towers […]
Fitzgerald: What does Keith Ellison believe?
“On Jan. 4, I will go swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. I’ll place my hand on the Quran…” — from a remark by Keith Ellison quoted in this article Whether or not the Qur’an is actually used in the ceremony hardly matters. What matters is that Keith Ellison believes […]
1st Muslim congressman thrills crowd in Dearborn
Some honest questions for Keith Ellison below. In this article by Niraj Warikoo in the Detroit Free Press (thanks to Twostellas), Ellison is defiant: Speaking in Dearborn late Sunday night, the first Muslim elected to Congress told a cheering crowd of Muslims they should remain steadfast in their faith and push for justice. “You can’t […]
Fitzgerald: Egypt and Sinai
The Egyptians who raise the matter of Eilat are skating on thin ice. For the Sinai, which Egypt has convinced the world is historically part of its domain, was always a corpus separatum. It was regarded as such, and was discussed openly as such by travellers and diplomats, right up until World War I. And […]
Iraq protests at US arrest of Iranian diplomat
Good thing we have a friendly government in Iraq now. Shi’ite Client State Update from Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph: BAGHDAD – Iraq’s president protested on Monday against the arrest by US forces in Iraq of two Iranian diplomats who US officials said were seized in raids against Iranians suspected of planning attacks on […]
Church in Qatar ‘by next Christmas’
Update on this story by Barbara Bibbo’ in GulfNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Doha: Qatar’s first church will be completed before next Christmas, Doha’s parish priest told worshippers last night during the traditional Christmas mass. Addressing more than 2,000 Christian Catholics who flocked to the Doha parish centre, Father Thomas said the liturgy was […]
Soccer scores in Islamic world despite fatwa
Some good news. By Elliott Cappell in the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Sr. Soph: In August of 2005, with the countdown to last summer’s World Cup in Germany underway, three players from a well-known Saudi soccer club abruptly quit the team because of an anonymous fatwa, religious ruling, that led them to believe soccer […]
“There is no other way besides jihad. To stop the holy war means to humiliate ourselves and to become weak”
Al-Libi, who escaped from the Americans in 2005, calls Muslims to continue the jihad. “Reuters: Al Qaeda Summoned for Continuation of Jihad,” from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Kabul. An activist of the international terrorist network Al Qaeda who claims that he managed to escape from US air base in Afghanistan in 2005, […]