The last meeting-place of the League of Nations, whose successor is just as useless David G. Littman in the Assembly Hall where Haile Selassie appealed to the free world for help against fascism in 1936 After speaking at the Vienna Forum in Austria on May 8, I traveled to Geneva, where through the kind offices […]
Archives for May 2010
India: Government afraid to hang jihadist for fear of reprisal attacks from other jihadists
Thus proving who is in control. “Delhi CM fears trouble if Afzal is hanged,” from CNN-IBN, May 19 (thanks to Slothy): New Delhi: Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition has been sent back by the Delhi government on Wednesday to Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Khanna with the Delhi government fearing ant-social [sic] elements may try […]
Pakistan: Thousands rally against Facebook because of Everybody Draw Muhammad Day
Note the threats on some of the signs above. Islamic War On Free Speech Alert, and an update on this story. “Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook,” by Babar Dogar for Associated Press, May 19 (thanks to Maxwell): LAHORE, Pakistan – Pakistan’s government ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook on Wednesday amid anger […]
Fitzgerald: The Tale of Hamid Mir
(L-R): Robert Spencer, Harvey Kushner, Hamid Mir, 2006 The other day at JW we learned more about Hamid Mir, a prominent figure in Pakistani broadcast journalism. The source was an article in The Daily Times, a Pakistani paper, fittingly titled: “Hamid Mir’s terrifying indiscretions.” That article spoke of “a shocking audiotape of a conversation […]
“While we wouldn’t dare say ‘boo’ to a Muslim here, Christians are persecuted in a Muslim country”
Double standard ably skewered: “While we wouldn’t dare say ‘boo’ to a Muslim here, Christians are persecuted in a Muslim country,” by Cristina Odone in the Telegraph, May 18. After detailing some of the stories of the persecution of Christians in Iraq — stories that were posted along with other, similar ones, at Jihad Watch […]
Two anti al-Qaeda imams brutally slaughtered in Iraq
Why we see so few Muslims speaking out in any truly honest or effective way against the jihad terrorists, chapter 162: “Anti-Qaeda Sunni imams slaughtered in Iraq: military,” from AFP, May 18 (thanks to Benedict): BAQUBA, Iraq — Two Sunni Arab imams were brutally killed on Monday in Iraq, including one who was decapitated and […]
Muslims arrested in Sweden for plot to kill Motoonist are Kosovar Albanians
Don’t they know that all Muslims in Kosovo are moderate, peace-loving pro-American Religion of Peacers? And that only greasy Islamophobes think otherwise? Perhaps these brothers are Islamophobic Muslims… Julia Gorin has a translation of a Swedish article on this: “Sweden: Suspects in Vilks attack are two brothers,” from Republican Riot, May 19: The 21 and […]
Acid attacks for family “honor” on the rise in UK
Gee, I wonder why? The full article (not reproduced below) hastens to assure us that Buddhists in Cambodia and Christians in Uganda do this sort of thing too, but that doesn’t account for the rise in such attacks in Britain. Buddhists aren’t streaming into the U.K. from Cambodia, or Christians from Uganda, are they? The […]
Blood For Oil Update: Our Blood, Their Oil
China and Turkey buy up Iraqi oil fields. Is this what we fought for in Iraq — to secure an oil supply for the Chinese and rapidly-Islamizing Turkey? “CNOOC Seals Deal on Iraq Oil Field,” by Chen Zhu for Caixin Online, May 18 (thanks to D.): CNOOC Ltd., the Hong Kong-listed unit of China National […]
Times Square jihadist considered several other targets
Even though Shahzad settled on Times Square, to whom did the information on other targets go? “Times Square bomb suspect eyed other targets, official says,” from CNN, May 18: New York (CNN) — The man accused of attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square considered other targets in and around New York […]