They could have flagged his visa — twice. “U.S. Failed to Catch Suspect’s Active Visa: Exclusive: 2 State Dept. Checks Before Alleged Terror Attack Didn’t Discover Abdulmutallab had Active Visa Allowing Entry,” by Armen Keteyian for CBS News, December 28 (thanks to Benedict): CBS News has learned the State Department system designed to keep track […]
Archives for 2009
Flight 253 jihadist radicalized in London; “I’ve felt for a long time that if radical Sharia law comes to the rest of the world it will start on the streets of London”
“There’s a Mecca that Muslims should visit, and the mecca of jihad that is London.” “Was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab radicalized in London?,” by Robert Marquand and Ben Quinn in the Christian Science Monitor, December 28 (thanks to James): For young Muslims especially, London is a city like no other. It is a mecca for jobs […]
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for Flight 253 attack
Confirming what the evidence has indicated so far. Note the claim that this attack was in retaliation for recent strikes in Yemen. It seems much more likely that this was in the works for quite some time, and the attack would have taken place on Christmas in any event. Jihadists will find any convenient grievance […]
Life inside the world’s biggest concentration camp
Oh, the humanity! I can hardly stand to look at these photos of the suffering people in Gaza. Behold the fruit (ahem) of the evil Zionist oppression! Israel Matzav has the photos, and many more. UPDATE: The original source of the photos is the excellent Tom Gross Media site (scroll down), which I highly recommend […]
“We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God”
Not that this has anything to do with Islam! “Abdulmutallab: More Like Me In Yemen: Accused Northwest Bomber Says More Bombers On the Way; Al Qaeda Promises to Hit Americans,” by Brian Ross and Richard Esposito for ABC News, December 28 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): American officials have cause to worry there may be more […]
Iran: “This is the month of blood, Yazid will fall”
Yazid was the killer of Hussein, the son of Ali, whose death the Shi’ites lament on Ashura. That the Iranian crowds would be chanting this suggests that this is a Shi’ite vs. Shi’ite affair — Sharia adherents battling other Sharia adherents and jockeying for the mantle of Islamic purity. Given Iran’s flirtation with secularism under […]
Two “Middle Eastern” men detained after acting suspiciously on flight to Phoenix, CAIR leaps into action
Since apparently nothing was found on these guys, this one has already become a pretext for CAIR cries of “Islamophobia.” In CAIR’s “American Muslim News Briefs” was an item entitled “AIR: Plane Incidents in Ariz., Mich. Raise Profiling Concerns.” It noted that “in Arizona, two ‘Middle Eastern’ men were removed from a US Airways flight […]
“One flight attendant asked him what he had had in his pocket, and he replied, ‘Explosive device'”
Now wait a minute. What happened to all those signs in airports everywhere, warning people not to joke about security issues, and that such jokes will be taken seriously? If the plane was already in flight at the time Abdulmutallab said this, the flight attendant should at least have made sure that he was closely […]
Dearborn Muslims plan to protest Flight 253 jihadist to show Islam is peaceful
For years I have pointed out that there have been no protests in the Islamic world against those who have supposedly hijacked their religion, except when the jihadis kill other Muslims. There have been protests against cartoons of Muhammad, and statements of the Pope, but not against the jihadists. So this one bears watching. It […]
Malaysia: Muslims angered over halal version of Chinese pork soup
They might get the idea that it’s all right to eat pork, you see. Characteristic anger and intransigence in this Sharia Alert from modern, moderate Malaysia: “Malaysia – Anger over pork mixed with Halal meat,” from Meat Trade News Daily, December 27 (thanks to Walter): A Malaysian government-backed campaign to popularise a well-known ethnic Chinese […]