Actually, the perpetrators were jihadis. “A Pakistani intelligence official in Peshawar said the militants were using the mosque as their headquarters…” Using a mosque as heir headquarters? Why didn’t the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims rise up and say, “Not in our name!”? “Bomb at Pakistan Mosque Kills Dozens,” by Pir Zubair Shah and Salman […]
Archives for 2010
Geller: CAIR Smears CPAC Event
At Big Government, Pamela Geller responds to the FoxNews article to which I responded here: At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2010, Robert Spencer and I are launching a new organization, the Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI), by presenting a conference entitled “Jihad: The Political Third Rail — What They Are Not Telling You.” The […]
Ottawa imam issues fatwa against credit cards
This is the kind of thing that leads financial institutions to make special accommodations for Sharia finance. “Ottawa Imam issues fatwa against credit cards,” by Jennifer Green for Canwest News Service, February 18 (thanks to Twostellas): In an economy awash in easy credit, Ottawa’s leading imam is definitely swimming against the tide. Imam Khaled Abdul-Hamid […]
Does Obama really need to send an envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference?
In “Pandering To The Islamic Conference” in Forbes, February 18 (thanks to Twostellas), Claudia Rosett identifies more of what’s wrong with the Rashad Hussain appointment: Controversy is swirling around President Barack Obama’s choice of a young American Muslim lawyer, Rashad Hussain, to serve as his special envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. Behind […]
Quebec “snowball” jihadist gets life in prison
A setback for Frosty the Suicide Bomber. “Canada hands Moroccan life sentence for promoting jihad,” from Agence France-Presse, February 18 (thanks to all who sent this in): MONTREAL — A Moroccan man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for plotting attacks in Germany and Austria and touting terrorism online from his basement apartment in […]
North Carolina: Muslim 8th-grade teacher says it was a “hate crime” that students left a Bible on her desk
Maybe the students were indeed taunting her by leaving the Bible and the card. Eighth graders can be like that, whatever the religion of the teacher may be. But when the teacher is Muslim, adolescent taunting becomes a “hate crime.” “Religious conflict leads to teacher’s suspension,” by T. Keung Hui for the Charlotte News and […]
Shocker: Taliban increasingly resorting to use of human shields in Helmand battle
The intrepid mujahedin, hiding behind women and children in hopes of buying time on the battlefield and scoring propaganda points in the eagerly credulous global press. “Embattled Afghan Taliban rely on human shields,” by Alfred de Montesquiou and Rahim Faiez for the Associated Press, February 17: MARJAH, Afghanistan – Taliban fighters holding out in Marjah […]
Business as usual: Pakistani Muslim lawyer accused of rape and murder of 12-year-old Christian girl released on bail
A none-too-surprising update on this story. “Christians outraged in Lahore over release of young domestic worker’s murderer,” by Fareed Khan for Asia News, February 16: Lahore (AsiaNews) – Pakistani Christians have strongly protested the release on bail of a Muslim lawyer accused of raping, torturing and killing last month Shazia Bashir, a 12-year-old Catholic girl, […]
“We Christians became the target of political struggles”: four Christians killed in four days in northern Iraq
“Struggles,” indeed — intended or not, an appropriate choice of word, as it is a common translation of the term jihad. Among the almost innumerable problems with being a dhimmi, or “protected” group, is how quickly and dramatically one can become un-“protected,” and instead become pawns in a conflict of agendas beyond one’s control, as […]
Obama’s counterterrorism czar: “They are not jihadists, for jihad is a holy struggle”
From Umdat al-Salik, Englished as Reliance of the Traveller, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University in Cairo as conforming “to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community”: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser […]