Victorious Originally AP reported that “Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said after they arrested her Tuesday.” Now, apparently, that policy is out the window, and court officials are in full retreat before the specter of being accused of “racism” and “bigotry.” An update on this […]
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Spencer: Muslims in the U.S. convicted of jihad, Muslim leaders furious — at the government
In the featured article at FrontPage today, “Shilling for the Ft. Dix Six,” I discuss the Fort Dix verdict and the reaction to it: The Fort Dix jihad plotters are guilty, and Muslim spokesmen in America are outraged — not at the plotters who have ostensibly “hijacked” their religion, but at the officials who secured […]
FBI: Madoff scandal is so large, we had to shift agents away from counterterrorism ops
Hey, thanks, Bernie Priorities. “Synagogue of $ufferers: Bernie’s Scam Hits Elite Temple,” by Stefanie Cohen and Kelly Magee for the New York Post, December 21 (thanks to Joel): […] Meanwhile, the FBI admitted that the Madoff scandal had grown so large that it was forced to shift agents from counterterrorism operations to the alleged swindler’s […]
Iran: 80-year-old bride needs father’s permission to marry
But he abandoned her when she was two, and no one knows for certain whether he is alive or dead. Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic: “Bride, 80, blocked until dad says yes,” by Robert Tait in the Guardian via The Age, December 21: AFTER a life of spinsterhood, Setareh, an 80-year-old Iranian, assumed she […]
Iraqi Christians flee jihadists, take refuge in monastery
“They told me I should become a Muslim like the other Shias in that area. They held my hands in the fire and beat me with sticks and rifle butts calling me an infidel.” The jizya is also being collected, as per Qur’an 9:29. Islamic Tolerance Alert: “Iraqi Christians flee gunmen for sanctuary of monastery,” […]
Muslims on Fort Dix jihadists: They wuz framed!
It was all a joke, says Mohamed Younes! Of course! When Mohamad Shnewer was in a particularly joking mood back in 2006, he showed a fellow plotter who turned out to be a government informant some DVD files: some featured Osama bin Laden calling Muslims to wage jihad warfare, and others contained the last will […]
“Lies are attributed to the motives of the soon to be founding fathers of the United Islamic States”
It isn’t often that the day’s headlines answer the day’s offerings from the Hate Mail Bag, but so it was today. First, the hate mail: “Of course, he is exercised about “attempts to equate Islam with terrorism” by non-Muslims, who make this equation simply by reporting accurately on the terrorists’ own stated justifications for their […]
Yemeni Jew-Killer: Jews must “either convert to Islam or leave Yemen, or I would kill them”
Jews be warned Will he be punished — especially considering Islam’s prophet said, “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims” (Sahih Muslim, book 19, no. 4366)? More on this story. “Killer of Jew says Yemeni minority should convert to Islam,” from AFP, December 22: […]
Five found guilty in Fort Dix jihad plot
They were found guilty of conspiring to kill soldiers. So much for the defense’s insistence that they were “all talk.” “Five found guilty of plotting to kill Fort Dix soldiers,” from CNN, December 22 (thanks to Doc Washburn): (CNN) — A jury has found five men guilty of conspiring to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, […]
Chertoff: “What we’re confronting is an ideological conflict with an extremist world view that I don’t think is an accurate representative of Islam, but uses the language or hijacks Islam for an extremist agenda”
The spectral Chertoff The same old tired line from the same old tired Chertoff, even as he eases out the door. Consider: while Muslim and non-Muslim spokesmen have spilled oceans of ink since 9/11 asserting that Islam condemns “terrorism” and the killing of “innocents,” without defining what is meant by either term, no one has […]