Movie stardom comes to the jihadist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. “Terrorism: Failed ‘US bomber’ in Al-Qaeda video,” from AKI, May 26 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Rome, 26 May (AKI) – The Nigerian man accused of a failed attempt to blow up a US passenger jet in December last year is featured in a new Al-Qaeda video […]
Archives for May 2010
Hizballah threatens to target “military, civilian and commercial ships” heading to Israel
There you have it: they’ll target civilians, and they have no reservations about saying so. You stay classy, Hizballah. “Hezbollah vows to bomb ships in event of new war with Israel,” by Jocelyne Zablit for Agence France-Presse, May 25: BEIRUT — Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that his militants would bomb military, civilian […]
Spencer: Genocide Girl’s Chutzpah
In FrontPage this morning I discuss the letter to the editor recently written by the Muslim girl who endorsed genocide: Questioned by David Horowitz, Jumanah Albahri, a Muslim student (and Muslim Student Association member) at the University of California at San Diego, recently endorsed a new genocide of Jews – thereby giving voice to the […]
SIOA at Manhattan Community Board meeting on the 9/11 Mosque — the fix was in
(Video courtesy Pamela Hall.) Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Daisy Khan (Photos above courtesy Pamela Geller, who has many more here.) Tonight Community Board 1 in lower Manhattan held a hearing to discuss the proposed thirteen-story (some reports say fifteen-story) mosque to be built at Ground Zero. It was a curious exercise, since the Board has […]
Jihadis crossing into U.S. from Mexico
I’ve heard direct accounts of this several times over the years from people who live along the border in Arizona and Texas. Marisol posted about this on Saturday here. The Right Scoop just kindly sent me the video to which she linked — it is now embeddable, so here it is.
Spencer: State Department Endorses Islamic Law
In Human Events this morning I discuss the Obama Administration’s dhimmitude and abandonment of the freedom of speech regarding “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day”: Last Thursday was “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” and Muslims, predictably, are outraged. Thousands of Pakistanis demonstrated against the drawings of Muhammad, and the Pakistani government shut down access to Facebook and YouTube […]
9/11 Mosque imam tells U.S. media that mosque funds would be raised here, then tells Arab media that mosque will get funding from Muslim countries
A smooth deceiver is caught out. “Foreign mosque money: Arabs to help pay,” by Tom Topousis for the New York Post, May 25 (thanks to Twostellas): The imam behind a proposed mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero will turn to Arab and Muslim nations around the world to help finance the estimated $100 […]
Indonesia: Islamic police to carry skirts, force women in violation of Muslim dress codes to wear them
Speaking of puritanical and misogynistic, here is a Sharia Alert from modern, moderate Indonesia: “‘Islamic’ skirts for women,” from AFP, May 25 (thanks to Twostellas): MEULABOH (Indonesia) – ISLAMIC police in Indonesia’s Aceh province have been issued with 20,000 long skirts and ordered to cover up women deemed to have broken Muslim dress codes, an […]
Sex and the City 2 blasted as “anti-Muslim” for depicting Muslim society as “puritanical and misogynistic”
When they’re bashing the moral laxity of the West, it’s OK to be puritanical. When Westerners notice that Islamic society is puritanical, it is an act of “Islamophobia.” Nonetheless, Muslims are enraged yet again, this time because of this film’s depiction of Islamic society as “puritanical and misogynistic.” And really, I must say I’m outraged […]
Prosecutor in case of human rights activist jailed in Pakistan: “I can’t tolerate to see this blasphemer standing in front of me; I really want to kill him with my own hands”
Clearly the prosecutor is a Misunderstander of Islam, since everyone knows that only greasy Islamophobes believe that Islam carries a death penalty for blasphemy. Here is an update on the case of Hector Aleem, the human rights activist who is in jail in Pakistan for objecting to the destruction of a church. There was a […]