Archives for 2006

Expect CAIR to denounce this. And don’t tell me, “Well, CAIR is an American group, you see, so you can’t expect them to denounce atrocities committed outside America.” That might have held water before they denounced the ban on headscarves in Tunisia, but it doesn’t anymore. If they can denounce that, they can denounce this. […]

The jihad against Israel continues without let-up, while Abbas struts and postures. From Xinhua: A Palestinian home-made rocket landed in an open area near “a strategic site” in the south of Israel’s coastal city of Ashkelon, Israeli Radio quoted Israeli army sources on Monday. The rocket, fired from northern Gaza Strip, caused slight damages, said […]

Brigitte Gabriel’s review of my new book this morning puts me in mind of her superb new book, which is not to be missed. Because They Hate is her own harrowing — beyond harrowing — story, the story of her childhood in Lebanon, when jihadists sowed mayhem and destruction, keeping the Christian population in terror […]

The courageous president of the American Congress for Truth, Brigitte Gabriel — one of the most passionate and riveting speakers I have ever had the privilege to hear — has written this review of my new book The Truth About Muhammad in FrontPage this morning: “Freedom of inquiry and speech, the quest for truth, should […]

What kind of threats had to be made to Musharraf to get him to agree to this? An AP story by Habibullah Khan: KHAR, Pakistan – Pakistani troops backed by missile-firing helicopters destroyed a purported al-Qaida-linked training facility in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border Monday, officials said. At least 20 people were […]

First Iran, now Turkey. Sharia Alert. “Women-only park plan causes stir in secular Turkey,” from Reuters: ISTANBUL: Strong reaction to a plan for a women-only park in Istanbul has focused attention on the divisions between Turkey”s secularists and supporters of the ruling AK Party, which has its roots in political Islam. Critics of the plan […]

There was a time when the British were made of sterner stuff. “British troops hide from bombers,” by Michael Smith in the TimesOnline, : BRITISH troops in the two main towns in the southern Afghan province of Helmand have been forced to stay in their barracks by the threat of Taliban suicide bombers. The decision […]

Imagine! Two new books shed light on the Prophet of Islam! The Boston Globe has a review of both: The path of the prophet Two new works seek to uncover the man who was Muhammad By Ilan Stavans | October 29, 2006 Muhammad By Eliot Weinberger Verso, 64 pp., $10.95 Muhammad: A Prophet for Our […]

Al-Hilali Update. Tanveer Ahmed says in The Australian what I get called “Islamophobic” for saying. Is it true if a Muslim says it, but “Islamophobia” if a non-Muslim says it? As long as Muslims view their religion as sitting above history and culture – with the Koran as the literal word of God, which in […]

Women need only “cover their head and a little of their face.” There now, don’t you feel better? “Islam against Talibani veil: Sadiq,” by M Hasan in the Hindustan Times: SENIOR VICE-CHAIRMAN of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and renowned Islamic scholar Dr Kalbe Sadiq today announced that Islam was against “˜Talibani Purdah […]