Archives for 2006

I am in Norfolk, Virginia, today, where I led a half-day workshop on the sources of the jihad ideology for the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Eid Mubarak from Al-Qaeda! “Islamist Holiday Video Calls for Jihad and Slaughter of ‘Crusaders,’” from MEMRI: This ten-minute video (http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=M4-006&ak=null ), titled “Rise Up,” was posted on Islamist websites on October 22, 2006, and was described as “a gift for ‘Eid Al-Fitr.” Produced by an individual identified as “Abu Osama” (whose real identity is unknown), […]

“The reaction from Muslims is to recede further and further into a sense of victimhood.” And that’s the problem. If European Muslims would take some responsibility for what their coreligionists have done in the name of Islam, and show some sincerity in working against jihad terrorism, they would find themselves not quite so put-upon. By […]

In revenge for the invasion of Afghanistan. But 9/11, of course, preceded that invasion, and provoked it. So 9/11 was in revenge for something else. And if the West keeps daring to resist the mujahedin, they will find more pretexts for revenge. The only way we could take away their thirst for revenge would be […]

“We weren’t isolated growing up. We were part of the culture,” says Hala Kotb. “Religion was important, but not so much that you’d have to cover your head or if you don’t pray five times a day, that’s it – nothing like that. There were a lot more progressive attitudes.” That is a big contrast […]

It could have been Osama bin Laden himself, for all authorities knew or cared. Keystone Kops Alert from Eurabia, via the Copenhagen Post, with thanks to Fjordman: A reporter from daily newspaper B.T. dressed in a burka was able to pass through at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport without being asked to reveal her face to security […]

Part II of the Shire Network News podcast interview with me about The Truth About Muhammad is now available here. And part I is here. The media blackout on this book, despite its status as a New York Times Bestseller, is near-total. But after all, that is what the Internet is for. Meanwhile, near-total is […]

Ethiopia plays a special role, as a Christian kingdom, in both the history of Islam and the history of Christianity. Because of an event that supposedly took place during Muhammad’s lifetime, when many dozens of his followers found refuge from enemies in Ethiopia, a refuge freely offered by the Negus, Ethiopia was given a special […]

In “Islam’s Useful Idiots,” in The American Thinker, Alyssa A. Lappen discusses the barring of Kamal Helbawy from the US, and the reaction to it (many news links in the original): The international press cried foul on October 19 after the U.S. denied a visa to a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader. Newsweek, Reuters, ABC News, […]

In the Twelver Shi’ism that is the official religion of Iran (and is also held by Hizballah’s Nasrallah), the Imam Mahdi, the Imam-i Zaman, the Twelfth Imam, will emerge from his thousand-year occultation at a time of immense crisis and persecution for the Muslims, and will make war against the enemies of Islam, and Islamize […]