As I have long noted, any secular, democratic or republican or semi-democratic government in the Islamic world — indeed, any government that does not fully implement Sharia — faces mounting pressure from forces that believe that no non-Sharia government has any legitimacy at all. And that is true even in the country that is most […]
Archives for 2006
You run from police…You accidentally get electrocuted while hiding from police at an electrical substation…You get a monument built in your honor!
A breathtaking apex of French dhimmitude. No wonder the French “youths” are growing bolder and more assertive: they see that the French have no will to resist whatsoever, and reward those who engage in criminal activity. “Peace Gesture: French Unveil Monument to Boys Who Fled Police,” from Gateway Pundit, with thanks to LGF: You run […]
Egypt moves 5000 security personnel to Gaza border
Tensions rising. From the Jerusalem Post, : Egypt on Saturday deployed no less than 5,000 security personnel on the Gaza border, news agencies reported. Officials in Cairo said the move came in response to reports that Israel planned to intensify action to weed out smuggling tunnels, including bombing them from the air.
Sheik Hilali praises Iraq jihadists
Yes, the “women are like uncovered meat” Sheikh. By Richard Kerbaj in The Australian, with thanks to LGF: TAJ Din al-Hilali has praised militant jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling them men of the highest order for fighting against coalition forces – which include Australian soldiers – to “liberate” their homelands. In an interview on […]
Fitzgerald: Walk back the cat
Walk back the cat. Walk the cat all the way back to the real problem, which is not the nauseating speech given by Rice, wildly inaccurate and wrong in its every phrase, wrong in its diseased sympathy, wrong in its implied geopolitical calculation. Whoever crafted this speech with and for her (was Philip Zelikow now […]
Britain’s Deputy PM praises Malaysian “tolerance” as a model for UK
The good news is, this has not been well received. The bad news is, he’s Deputy Prime Minister. “Prescott heaps praise on ‘tolerant’ Malaysia, despite its crumbling human rights,” by Ben Leapman and Jonathan Wynne-Jones for the Telegraph: He has been lampooned as a lost soul, bumbling around the Far East with his retinue of […]
“Moderate” Australian Islamic group: women can’t refuse sex
There should be nothing surprising about this. It is in line with Muhammad’s words: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed (i.e. to have sexual relation) and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4:54:460) “Women can’t refuse,” from the Sydney Morning Herald, […]
Rice’s dangerous delusions
In “Palestinian ‘humiliation’?” in the Washington Times (thanks to Doc Washburn), Joel Mowbray speaks truth to power about Condoleeza Rice’s appalling myopia and inability or refusal to confront the reality of the jihad ideology: In a keynote speech earlier this month to the American Task Force on Palestine, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sounded very […]
Morocco arrests 14 in “˜terror plot”
Morocco’s relatively reformist leadership is, by virtue of its reformist tendencies, not sufficiently Islamic. And so it must be fought. From Reuters, with thanks to DFS: RABAT: Moroccan authorities are holding 14 people suspected of belonging to a regional radical Islamist group linked to Al Qaeda, government officials said yesterday. The 14 suspects had planned […]
Fitzgerald: The jig is up — or it will be
In a statement regarding the Minneapolis Shari”a taxicab dispute that recently came to Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs from the Muslim Brotherhood, “Dr. Habib described the cabbies” position as ‘absurd’ and added ‘Muslims must respect and comply with the laws and regulations of the countries they live in and be a good example for […]