“The French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers says it is worried that freedom of expression is under threat in France.” There’s more where that came from. “Playwright petrol attack handed to terrorist police,” from RFI, January 15: An investigation into an attack in Paris on the Algerian actress and playwright Rayhana has been handed […]
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Islamic “human rights” group seeks legal proceedings against Israeli defense minister for bogus crimes
It is a clever strategy: create the appearance of Israeli killings of civilians by launching attacks from civilian areas, and then seeking to prosecute Israeli officials for retaliating at all. The overall objective, of course, is to bring down so much international opprobrium upon Israel that it will be paralyzed and unable to respond to […]
Pakistan’s Prez: Fork over more jizya, and faster
And Holbrooke immediately came across, despite the fact that this strategy has spectacularly failed. “Holbrooke promises review of new screening measures: War on terror has paralysed Pak economy: Zardari,” from the Daily Times, January 16 : ISLAMABAD: The US regional campaign against militancy and the violence it has provoked in Pakistan have almost crippled the […]
U.S.: Grand jury indicts 4 in Mumbai, Denmark jihad plots
An update on the cases of Ilyas Kashmiri, former Pakistani army major Abdur Rehman, Tahawwur Rana, and David Headley “4 indicted in Mumbai, Denmark terror plots,” from CNN, January 15: (CNN) — A U.S. grand jury indicted four people, including two Chicagoans, for alleged roles in plots against a Danish newspaper and the November 2008 […]
Google Islam search “bug” continues, Day 10
Suicide of the West Alert: It has been ten days since I first posted about how Google is censoring negative search suggestions on Islam, and four days since Google said that this was not dhimmi self-censorship, but a “bug,” and would soon be corrected. For some reason, the mighty search engine can’t seem to fix […]
German police training Taliban fighters
Suicide of the West Alert: Jihad Watch reader Olschak sends along this German-language article “žWir bilden Kämpfer für die Taliban aus!” in Bild, January 16. The title, of course, translates to “We train fighters for the Taliban!” The article is an exclusive interview with Rainer Wendt, the head of the German Police Union (DPolG). Wendt […]
Fitzgerald: When it comes to Islam, please stop this “problem” and “solution” nonsense
Many continue to believe that if we argue that Islam itself is the problem, this will leave the West with no solutions. The word “solution” leapt out at me. I have written about it many times before, in regards to those who speak of a “two-state solution” to the Arab Muslim Jihad against Israel. I […]
Fitzgerald: Jihad of the Pen and Tongue from Within the West
An Islamist radical whose teaching role at a leading university was exposed yesterday by The Times led a secretive “Brothers’ Circle” at which he espoused his hardline views. Reza Pankhurst, a senior figure in the hardline group Hizb ut-Tahrir, gathered a group of male members of the London School of Economics (LSE) Islamic Society for […]
U.K.: Gov’t re-establishes ties with Muslim Council of Britain
Below is a useful introduction to what’s wrong with that. “The government caves in to the Muslim Council of Britain,” by James Forsyth for The Spectator, January 15: The government has caved in its dispute with the Muslim Council of Britain. The government broke off relations with the group over its deputy director-general Daud Abdullah […]
Denmark: Palestinian gunman gets 10 years in jail for shooting up Israeli cosmetics stand
But he said he did not intend to kill when he opened fire. Sure. Just a little terror… “Palestinian gets 10 years for shooting Israelis,” from Agence France-Presse, January 15: COPENHAGEN – A Danish court on Friday sentenced a Palestinian man to 10 years for the shooting of two Israelis in a Danish shopping mall […]