Archives for 2007

On Christmas Eve, the Guardian published an odd commentary piece by Ajmal Masroor, the director of Communities in Action. It was odd because Masroor was openly proselytizing for Islam, wondering why former British Prime Minister Tony Blair didn’t convert to Islam rather than to Catholicism. One doesn’t usually see such open proselytizing in a major […]

This could be as big as when Sinatra broke with Capitol and formed the Reprise label: a jihadist website has denounced Al-Jazeera as “the channel of the infidels” and announced that the Elvis of jihad, Osama himself, would be posting his latest on the Net, and presumably bypassing the dinosaur media. Who would have imagined […]

Here, from today’s FrontPage, is my take on the murder of Benazir Bhutto and its chief beneficiaries (news links in the original): Al-Qaeda has claimed credit for the murder on Thursday of Benazir Bhutto: “We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen.” According to an Italian jihadist website, the hit […]

“The suspects were allegedly members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (MIO),” an organization whose founders “aimed to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state under Sharia law.” “Three Tajiks sentenced for preparing attacks: court,” from Agence France-Presse: Dushanbe. Three Tajiks accused of being members of a militant Islamic group were sentenced on Wednesday […]

Rumor has it that a female Muslim journalist and a male Sikh politician might be romantically involved, though they maintain they’re just friends. Either way, they’re spending time alone together. Would she marry a non-Muslim? Would she leave Islam for him? None of the clerics’ business? Oh, but it is. In fact, it’s time for […]

And of course, it might. By Dharmendra Ashwal for AHN: Islamabad, Pakistan (AHN) – Following the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, opposition groups have warned of a civil war in Pakistan. Riaz Malik, of the opposition Pakistan Movement for Justice party (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf), warned, “The impact will be that Pakistan is in more […]

While the jihadists say that Al-Zawahri himself ordered the killing. “U.S. Checking al Qaeda Claim of Killing Bhutto,” by Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & R. Schwartz for ABC’s The Blotter (thanks to James): While al Qaeda is considered by the U.S. to be a likely suspect in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Banazir […]

An update from the Canadian Press, “Pakistan in turmoil over Bhutto’s assassination, Musharraf blames terrorists”: RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s opposition leader and one of the country’s best known politicians, was assassinated Thursday in a stunning suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a rally. The death of the charismatic former […]

The Press Trust of India calls Benazir Bhutto “an uncompromising champion of democracy and a moderate face of Islam.” Al-Guardian, meanwhile, in “Moderniser, moderate, martyr,” seems to assume that everyone will know what Benazir Bhutto was moderate about: In doing so, she presented herself as a moderate, willing to stand up to the Islamist militants […]

Andrew C. McCarthy tells the truth about Pakistan, a truth that eludes the government and the learned analysts, in National Review: A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden. Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States. In Pakistan, though, the […]