Two aspects of this story raise an eyebrow, given Yemen’s track record as a “bus station” for jihadists. One is the fact that the assailant was “known to authorities.” The other is an officials claim of “dozens” of arrests “as police raided addresses across Sana’a.” Now, if they knew where they were, why were they […]
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“I got a lot of respect for a gun”
From Jihad Watch reader Camelia: An atheist passes a priest and shouts “Jesus is a lie!”. He then passes a Jew and shouts “God is a lie!”. He then passes a Muslim cleric and shouts, “Good day Sir!”. :))
Geller: “This is the first time anyone offered public help to people threatened under Islam’s death penalty for apostasy”
Over at Frontpage, Jamie Glazov interviews my SIOA colleague Pamela Geller about the bus ad initiative in Miami: Geller: Last Tuesday (April 13), Stop Islamization Of America and the Freedom Defense Initiative, the new organization I have begun with bestselling author and Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, rolled out our “Leaving Islam” ad campaign on […]
Omid Safi lies again, claims I threatened to kill him
The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do. A few years back I had a rather unpleasant exchange with Omid Safi, a professor at that time at Colgate University, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Or at least he […]
“British dad” accused of funding jihad from restaurant business
The translation of the original headline, according to Jihad Watch’s handsome, leather-bound American English / English-English Dictionary is “Birmingham purveyor of a particular curry dish is jihad kingpin.” And knowing is half the battle. “Brummie balti boss ‘is terror kingpin,” by Tom Wells for The Sun, April 26 (thanks to the aptly named Thomas Pellow): […]
U.N.: Iran angles for membership on commission to protect women’s rights
Another item for our ever-expanding You-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up file. And this comes after their failed candidacy for the Council for Human Rights. Not that the Iranians would say they’re against women’s rights. They’re only interested in the position, privileges, and obligations in society that Sharia prescribes for women. Those are their rights, and nothing more. “Tehran candidates […]
Islamic Republic of Farmville: Second al-Qaeda leader’s “profile” shut down on Facebook
As was the case with bin Laden, it’s not who’s operating the page that is of interest, but the fact that, per this report, “experts say militant groups have been scrambling in recent weeks to get on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.” And you thought Mafia Wars was annoying. “Terrorist No2 gets axe from […]
Tariq Ramadan manages simultaneously to deny and affirm that he’s a stealth jihadist
The master of the dance here dances masterfully. “On U.S. speaking tour, once-banned Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan shares his vision for the future: Ramadan speaks to the Chicago Tribune about his U.S. visit and asks American Muslims to be involved in American society and spread a better understanding,” by Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah in the Chicago […]
UK Al-Qaeda top dog planned major jihad attack on New York subways
More on the recently foiled New York subway jihad plot. “British al-Qaeda commander planned July 7-style attack on New York subway,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, April 25 (thanks to all who sent this in): A British al-Qaeda commander planned to emulate the July 7 London suicide bombings with a coordinated attack on the […]
Shocker: French Muslims complain of feeling “stigmatized” after woman fined for driving with vision obscured by niqab
The rules of “rock-paper-scissors” are more grounded in reality: here, hurt feelings trump safety behind the wheel. Indeed, this case is so much like others in which practices in the Muslim world, or by Muslims who continue those practices in the West: You can’t criticize without apologists claiming the problem does not really exist even […]