Her own words, in a tribute to the cleric who green-lighted Hizballah’s suicide attacks, including the 1983 barracks bombing that killed 241 Americans. “One of Hizballah’s giants,” indeed. “CNN reporter on terrorist: ‘I respect him a lot’,” by Aaron Klein for World Net Daily, July 5: TEL AVIV – CNN’s senior Middle East affairs editor […]
Archives for July 2010
Sharia courts in the U.K.: “these privatized legal processes were ignoring not only state law intervention and due process but providing little protection and safety for the women”
The founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain ably catalogs all the things that are wrong with what is advertised as “just a little” Sharia in the U.K. A full-length report in .pdf format is linked below. “What isn’t wrong with Sharia law?” by Maryam Namazie for the Guardian, July 5: The recent global […]
Oh, boy: Iran proudly presents the “Islamic haircut catalog”
Now that will fix all of society’s problems! Economy? Standard of living? It’s all the consequence of one gigantic, collective bad (i.e. un-Islamic) hair day. Oh, and Israel. Can’t forget that. In any case, Sharia is what happens when “government knows best” meets “Allah knows best.” And Islamic governments find it’s a whole lot easier […]
Imam who lied to investigators in NYC subway bombing plot is deported to Saudi Arabia
Buh-bye, now. An update on this story. “Imam leaves United States under plea deal in terror case,” by Susan Candiotti for CNN, July 5: (CNN) — A New York imam who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents as they investigated an alleged terror plot left the United States on Monday as part of his […]
Somali jihadist leader: “We tell the Muslim youths … wherever they are in the Muslim world to attack, explode and burn the embassies of Burundi and Uganda”
This is not the Somali jihadists’ first threat against Uganda and Burundi. But it is much wider in scope. “Somali Islamist leader calls for Uganda, Burundi Embassy attacks,” from the People’s Daily Online, July 5: A senior Islamist official from the hard-line Islamist movement of Al Shabaab on Monday called on international jihadists to attack […]
Talibanization of Britain: Windows blacked out to protect “modesty” of Muslim women swimmers
UPDATE July 26, 2015: Greetings, ListVerse readers! Click here for the truth about the claims in the ListVerse article. ——- The Taliban were well known for requiring Afghans to paint their windows black, lest passers-by catch sight of a woman inside. Now, complaints from Muslim swimmers have generated this decision to do the same in […]
“Don’t be fooled” by tributes to “moderate” Hizballah cleric
Since his death, Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah has been hailed as a “merciful father” by Hassan Nasrallah, and in the West as a “moderate” Muslim, largely for having expressed disapproval of the 9/11 attacks. But there is much more to Fadlallah’s story that has been so quickly forgotten. “Sheikh Fadlallah was the terrorist mastermind behind the […]
“Israel will never apologize for defending its citizens”
Rebuffing Turkey’s demands for an apology, an “impartial” (remember Goldstone?) inquiry, or the end of ties between the two countries after the Fraud Flotilla incident. In the third case, it’s not as though Erdogan’s Turkey has been much of an ally, anyway. And as is standard practice, the Turkish foreign minister later claimed he had […]
India: Muslims cut off professor’s hand over months-old test question about punctuation
The question? Supply the punctuation for a narrative that included a character named Mohammad being asked: “Why are you calling God, God, God….” Clearly, the standards for an excuse to attack a non-believer were not particularly high, if that trumped-up act of “blasphemy” demanded a severed hand in return — and it appears from the […]
Recent arrests reveal failure of Indonesia’s deradicalization program
They never attacked the real root of the problem — not surprisingly. “Indonesia: Unlearning Jihad: Recent arrests reveal failure of country’s de-radicalization program,” by Sara Schonhardt for the GlobalPost, July 5: SEMARANG, JAVA — A pitched argument is unfolding between convicted terrorists and high-level criminals detained in a prison in Central Java, where police have […]