Archives for 2007

Outrage. This reminds me of a story from about 1990 or 1991. There was a big Gay Pride march in a major American city. Afterward, I was talking to a couple of Catholic seminarians whose seminary was along the road the marchers used, and they said that marchers had slipped condoms through the mail slot […]

Peace In Our Time! “Abbas’s Government Dismantling Militant Groups: Minister,” from Reuters (thanks to Sr. Soph): RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – The top Palestinian security official said on Saturday his government was dismantling militant groups, including those connected to President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction. The pledge by Interior Minister Abdel-Razak al-Yahya came one day after […]

He wasn’t involved, he says, but he thinks it was great. From Edinburgh Evening News (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): A MILITANT warlord in Pakistan today rejected government claims that he was behind the assassination of former prime minister and popular leader Benazir Bhutto. A spokesman for Baitullah Mehsud, described as the country’s leading al-Qaida […]

A potpourri of charges. “Morocco jails 15 people convicted of terror links,” from Agence France-Presse: RABAT: Morocco’s anti-terrorist tribunal has jailed 15 Islamists for between one and four years in three separate cases on conviction of terrorist activity or connections, the MAP news agency reported Friday. The special court in Sale near Rabat sentenced seven […]

Infiltration. “Muslim pressure,” by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times (scroll down): Pro-Muslim officials at the Pentagon are putting political pressure on one of the U.S. military’s most important specialists on Islamist extremism, according to defense officials. Stephen Coughlin, a specialist on Islamic law on the Joint Staff, met recently with Hasham Islam, Deputy Defense […]

Ali Eteraz at Pajamas Media suggests that if the U.S. would drop Musharraf and support an independent panel investigating the killing of Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistanis would wake up to the evils of political Islam and vote pro-American: An independent panel will likely conclude that it was the terrorists that killed Ms. Bhutto and not […]

In a piece entitled “Who’s Afraid of Benazir Bhutto?” (thanks to James), which seems to be about whether the jihadists or Musharraf killed Bhutto, my old debating partner Dinesh D’Souza revisits the disastrous thesis of his last book: that America’s immoral society has created the global jihad, as a reaction by beleaguered proponents of traditional […]

But the January 8 elections are still on. “Bhutto Killing Blamed On Terror Groups,” from SkyNews (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): The assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whose funeral was held today, has been blamed on al Qaeda and the Taliban. They were accused of the killing by Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz […]

Much better to leave it to a Tiny Minority of Extremists to wield all legislative, executive, and judicial power, eh? This story appears to precede Bhutto’s assassination yesterday, but is nonetheless highly relevant to yesterday’s events. “Taliban leader warns against using religion for electoral gains,” by Iqbal Khattak for the Daily Times: BANNU: A senior […]

A surprisingly good editorial for a mainstream media source — this one is in the Union Leader, “Murder in Pakistan: Hatred all over the world”: SO, THEY don’t hate us for our freedoms, eh? The horrific murder of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s best hope for democratic reform, is almost certainly the work of al-Qaida or al-Qaida-linked […]