Islamic Bomb Update. “Pakistan rejects report on N-help to Saudis,” from AFP: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected as “fabricated” a German magazine report that said Saudi Arabia was working secretly on a nuclear programme with help from Pakistani experts. “It is a fabricated story and motivated by vicious intentions,” Foreign Office Spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said. […]
Archives for 2006
Thousands of Iranians protest outside US ex-embassy
Oh yes, that’s right, I remember now: there has indeed been a jihad against America since at least 1979. From AFP, : TEHERAN – Thousands of Iranian young people gathered outside the former US embassy in Teheran Saturday to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the seizure of the building by Islamic radicals. The demonstrators, mainly […]
Seven killed in Thai jihad
Faster, Surayud! Implement Sharia faster! Apparently his intention to capitulate to the jihadists has not satisfied them. “Seven shot dead in Thailand’s restive south,” from AFP, : YALA, Thailand (AFP) – Seven people have been killed in a spate of shootings in Thailand’s restive Muslim-majority south despite fresh government efforts to bring peace to the […]
Pakistan’s MMA warns of jihad against US if killings not stopped
What? You mean there isn’t already a jihad against the U.S.? From the IRNA, with thanks to James: The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal warned it would wage a jihad against the United States and the West if their killings of innocent Muslims across the globe did not stop even as thousands rallied against the Bajur killings here […]
Pakistani Taliban jihadists behead Islamic cleric
Why would they do this? Did they convert to Christianity and read the Book of Joshua, which at least one brilliant observer has told us is “more violent” than the Qur’an? No, they beheaded him because they believed he was an “American spy,” and thus worthy of being classed with the unbelievers and beheaded in […]
Yemeni president “walks a fine line between confronting the more hard-core religious sector of Yemen and alienating a traditional Islamist power base”
Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: the president of Yemen can’t be too tough on terrorism, or he risks losing power altogether in a country where Osama bin Laden is a matinee idol and John Walker Lindh went to learn Arabic. “Mysterious Yemen treads fine line on terror,” by Omar Karmi for The Age, with thanks […]
Netherlands: Court reverses deportation of jihadist imam
“There was insufficient evidence that he was undermining state security.” Did anyone ask him if he thought Sharia should ultimately be imposed in the Netherlands? “Court Reverses Deportation Of Radical Imam,” from NIS News Bulletin, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair: AMSTERDAM, 03/11/06 – Aliens Affairs Minister Rita Verdonk unlawfully deported a radical Imam from the […]
UK: Muslim ‘wanted new 9/11’
On trial for inciting murder during Cartoon Rage protests. “Muslim ‘wanted new 9/11,’” from The Sun: A MUSLIM accused of inciting murder during a protest wanted a new 9/11 across Europe, a court heard yesterday. Mizanur Rahman, 23, was also said to have called for the “indiscriminate killing” of American and British troops in Iraq […]
Race for the Islamic Bomb
The move “follows the failure by the West to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.” “Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear,” by Richard Beeston for the TimesOnline, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were […]
Prince Charles misrepresented by Kuwaiti News Agency
Yesterday I posted a Kuwaiti News Agency report that claimed of Prince Charles: “He said that clash of civilizations could be averted by following the teaching of Islam and Quraan.” Here (thanks to Jean) is what he really said. You will nowhere find the sentiments expressed in the KUNA report. I apologize for passing on […]