Archives for 2006

You just can’t parody this sort of thing. “Research councils halt Islamist project,” by Debbie Andalo in The Guardian, with thanks to LGF: Research councils today confirmed they have put on hold their involvement in a government-backed project that aimed to identify the growth of Islamist groups around the world. The decision by the Economics […]

Aishah Azmi, probably No one thought to ask what she thought of other elements of Islam while they were awarding her a thousand pounds for her hurt feelings. By Sam Greenhill and Laura Clark in the Daily Mail, with thanks to El Presidente: The Muslim teacher suspended for refusing to work without her veil is […]

This dates from August, and I have a general policy against posting archival material — after all, if I post everything worthy that’s out there, whatever its age, I could spend all day every day doing it and still never catch up. But I have to make an exception for this, as it just was […]

Of course, they are claiming discrimination. “Muslim airport workers lose clearances,” by Jamey Keaten for Associated Press, with thanks to Drew: PARIS – Authorities at Charles de Gaulle airport have stripped several dozen employees “” almost all of them Muslims “” of their security badges in a crackdown against terrorism, a government official said Friday. […]

Here is a simple, direct, clear, and unflinchingly honest introductory text for those who will not believe, and cannot believe, that the Islamic jihad is either deeply rooted within Islam or poses any serious threat to non-Muslims. In Religion of Peace?, Gregory M. Davis, coproducer of the documentary Islam: What the West Needs to Know, […]

Giant Palestinian and Hizballah flags in Karachi Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: when did we ever see 6,000 Shi’ites demonstrating against Osama bin Laden (or…the Ayatollah Khomeini)? But it’s Al-Qods Day, and you know what that means: “Death to Israel! Death to America!” Even short of an anti-Osama rally, why do those who believe that […]

The government of Pakistan does something, a little something, but with a great show for its American benefactors, to counter terrorism in this or that part of Pakistan. At the same time, it makes deals with supporters of the Taliban in Waziristan, and then misrepresents those deals. Meanwhile, in the cities of Pakistan, including Quetta, […]

Much has been made in Washington about so-called “neo-cons” and their presumed connection to the Mearsheimer-Walt fantasm, that “unified Israel lobby.” But the two lobbies that have mattered most in the tarbaby Iraq disaster are the Americans who, instead of seeing Islam as it is, have either cheered for the Shi’a (sometimes without quite realizing […]

“Mahdi Army militiamen have long enjoyed a free rein in Amarah,” the article notes. Sadr’s militia is just making its control official, with little or no expectation of a meaningful response from Nouri al-Maliki’s government. “Shiite militia takes over Iraqi city,” from AP: BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Shiite militia run by the anti-American cleric Muqtada […]

At last the Thug-In-Chief and I agree on something, although no doubt for vastly different reasons: I don’t think the UN Security Council, or anything about this corrupt, feeble, and ideologically compromised institution is legitimate. From Deutsche Presse Agentur, with thanks to Mackie: Teheran (dpa) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that the United […]