Archives for 2006

“One day, my professor even had us act out the five pillars of Islam in class…” — from this article about the teaching of Islam at Butler University This is a dead giveaway. The focus is on what is hardly doctrine, but essentially, for Infidels, the utterly trivial rituals of worship. They are trivial because […]

Vali Nasr (Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations): “We Need Engagement with Iran” No doubt Vali Nasr, the son of a well-known Shi’ite writer and apologist, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, wishes to enroll the Americans in Iraq in order to dampen the Sunni-Shi’a clash. But his perspective is that of a Shi’a, loyal to […]

We were recently told that the renewed French riots spring “in part from anger over entrenched discrimination against immigrants and their French-born children, many of them Muslims from former French colonies in Africa.” And in the same article this as well: “Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, who is considering whether to run for president, said that […]

The difference in Muslim behavior in the U.S., as compared to that demonstrated in Western Europe, is owed primarily to several factors. First, and most important, the Muslim population is a much smaller proportion of the American population — scarcely 1%. And of even that 1%, most of the Muslims are homegrown Black Muslims, whose […]

A Stop-The-Presses Alert from AFP : “UN peacekeepers unlikely to disarm Hezbollah: Russia”: MOSCOW – UN peacekeepers deployed in Lebanon are unlikely to be able to disarm the militant group Hezbollah, as required under UN Security Council Resolution 1701, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday, RIA-Novosti reported. “˜Under the UN mandate, one of […]

Iraqi Jihad Update by Dave Clark for AFP, : BAGHDAD (AFP) – An eerie calm has descended on Baghdad during the weekly day of prayers after a Ramadan of unprecedented bloodshed in Iraq, while US troops scoured the city for a missing soldier. Reports of violence in the war torn capital dropped in the three […]

Sharia Alert from Britain, via GCN, : The leading imam in Manchester, confirms that he thinks the execution of sexually active gay men is justified, the rights group Outrage reported. Arshad Misbahi of the Manchester Central Mosque confirmed his views in a conversation to John Casson, a local psychotherapist. Casson said: “I asked him if […]

This is ironic on so many levels. One is that the EU has discouraged assimilation at the behest of the Arab League and Muslim leaders in Europe since 1973 — see Bat Ye’or’s Eurabia. The other irony is that statements like Straw’s were calls to assimilate — and were greeted only with hostility by Muslim […]

The dhimmis in Belgium are beginning to awaken to the fix they’re in. Still, a large number would happily throw freedom of speech overboard. From Expatica, with thanks to Fjordman: BRUSSELS – More then six citizens in ten fear an increase in religious tensions in Belgium according to a survey by Belgian newspaper Le Soir. […]

Another pretext is fabricated to stir up rage among Muslims, thereby increasing jihad recruitment tallies. From Reuters, : SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan – The Taleban accused NATO forces of genocide on Friday after the latest in a series of civilian combat deaths, and said they would step up already rising suicide attacks. The strict Islamist group’s […]