Shah Rukh Khan is like many Muslims around the world who see that jihad terrorist acts are being carried out by Muslims in the name of Islam and in reference to Islamic teachings, but because they themselves are nominal and/or cultural Muslims who have no deep acquaintance with the teachings that the terrorists invoke, they […]
Archives for 2008
Mumbai attacks consequence of power struggle in Pakistan?
Between Zardari and the ISI. From “Mumbai: Islamist Terror’s New Modus Operandi,” by Olivier Guitta in Middle East Times, December 1: […] First, regarding the perpetrators, all the signs point to the involvement of the Pakistani terror group and al-Qaida affiliate Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). LeT is in fact a group propped up by Pakistan’s Inter Services […]
MPACUK: “We will no longer be part of the deliberate attempt to keep the public confused on the issue of terrorism”
Is that a promise? Can we get CAIR and the U.S. MPAC to follow suit? (Thanks to Sounder.)
Somali jihadists: “Muslims slaughter animals in this holiday but I call for the Mujahidin (Islamic fighters) to slaughter the Ethiopian soldiers”
Pious allusions applied to the jihad. “Somalia: We Are Not Fighting With Sufis, Says Abu Mansur,” by Ahmednor Mohamed for All-Africa, December 2008: Mogadishu “” The Spokesman of Al-shebab [the “youth”] Islamic movement Sheik Muqtar Robow Ali (Abu Mansur) told Shabelle on Monday that his group is not fighting against Sufi organizations. “We are not […]
Muslims stone Satan
Death to Satan! Now that’s one of Islam’s many “death to [fill-in-the-blank]” lots of infidels can get behind. While Muslims (symbolically) stone Satan today — a (symbolically) good thing, to be sure — it is well to remember that, in Islam, Satan is often depicted as a corporeal entity, who, for instance, eats and drinks […]
Observe sharia law; slaughter a goat
“Uganda: Muslims Advised to Observe Islamic Law During Idd,” by Anthony Bugembe for All-Africa, December 7: Kampala “” AS Muslims celebrate Idd al-Adha today, the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council has urged them to observe the Islamic law (Sharia) and the ritual of slaughtering animals. Sheikh Rajab Kakooza, the director of Sharia, said slaughtering animals for […]
Muslims in India denounce terrorism
A welcome gesture, and there is no reason to doubt its sincerity whatsoever. I hope the demonstrators follow this up by renouncing the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism, and working to establish a basis upon which Muslims can coexist peacefully with non-Muslims as equals on an indefinite basis, without seeking by any means to impose […]
Tulsa highway patrolman subdues armed man who “was praying for Allah to help him carry out his mission”
He thwarted prayers to Allah “I believe he would have loaded up that gun and gone to town because he was praying for Allah to help him carry out his mission.” In a Burger King in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last week. “Trooper honored for subduing man with a gun,” by Tom Lindley for Tulsa World, December […]
Fitzgerald: NATO needs to meet
Surely at this point NATO ministers — NATO without Turkey, or with a Turkish representative who is as secular as they come, and means it — need to discuss the Islamic threat. Or, to put it more truthfully, they need to discuss the threat of Islam to the peoples of Western Europe, to their legal […]
Fitzgerald: What Pakistan is not, and never will be
“Pakistan refuses to hand over suspects to India” — from this news article The Pakistani government of “moderate” Asif Ali Zardari has thus announced it has no intention of handing over any of the those suspected terrorists, now living freely in Pakistan, whose names were given to it, not for the first time, by the […]