In FrontPage this morning I discuss how the reaction of various parties to the Portland jihad bust follows a sadly familiar pattern: A nineteen-year old Somali Muslim named Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested Friday in Portland, Oregon, just as he was trying to blow up a van loaded with explosives at a Christmas tree lighting […]
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Assaults on free speech update
The legal intimidation libel case against my colleague Pamela Geller continues. Ohio lawyer Omar Tarazi has filed a $10-million defamation lawsuit against Geller for elements of her reporting on the case of Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who kicked off a year-long custody battle when she fled from her home in fear for her life […]
Portland, Oregon refused to participate in Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2005
And Friday it almost reaped the bitter fruits of that decision. Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Update: “Politically correct Portland rejected feds who saved city from terrorist attack,” by Byron York in The Examiner, November 28 (thanks to Pamela Geller): In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon, angry at the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror, voted […]
Saudi snake urged U.S. to “cut off the head” of Iranian snake
Sunni snake asks Useful Idiot Infidel to do its dirty work vs. Shi’ite snake. “Saudi king urged US to attack Iran: leaked documents,” from AFP, November 28 (thanks to Banafsheh): PARIS (AFP) – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme, according to US documents leaked […]
Wikileaks documents show Saudi donors remain chief financiers of al-Qaida
Surely no one could possibly be surprised by this. “Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels,” by Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren for the New York Times, November 28 (thanks to her royal whyness): WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past […]
Leaked cables: Turkey wants “to take back Andalusia and avenge the defeat at the siege of Vienna in 1683”
Direct confirmation of what we have been saying for years about Erdogan’s plans for Turkey. “Diplomatic Cables Reveal US Doubts about Turkey’s Government,” from Spiegel, November 28 (thanks to Ian): […] The leaked diplomatic cables reveal that US diplomats are skeptical about Turkey’s dependability as a partner. The leadership in Ankara is depicted as divided […]
Islamic supremacist Reza Aslan can’t stop thinking about Jihad Watch
We are always on Reza’s mind Reza Aslan is being exposed at Jihad Watch: not only his adolescent gutter mentality and inability to hold a rational debate, but also the evidence that he is a deceptive Islamic supremacist who is widely taken as a “moderate.” Aslan has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate not […]
Shifting the focus: arson attack against Oregon jihadist’s mosque
Generally after a jihad attack in the United States, whether successful or not, mainstream media outlets run multiple stories about how Muslim communities fear a “backlash” against innocent Muslims from enraged “Islamophobic” rednecks. Of course, such “backlashes” never materialize, but the purpose of such stories is to shift the public’s attention away from the reality […]
Divorce causes jihad: Oregon jihadist “embraced militant Islam not long after his parents split up”
The search for some explanation, any explanation, for Mohamed Mohamud’s attempted jihad mass-murder other than the texts and teachings of Islam has now begun in earnest. The first entry: Mohamud became “radicalized” after his parents split. And it’s true: the divorce of parents has driven many an unhappy child to try to set off a […]
Imam of mosque that failed Oregon jihadist attended: “there wasn’t anything that would prompt me to think he would plan this. It’s completely, clearly, textually denounced in the Islamic religion”
Wanly did not offer chapter and verse in this report, but we’re probably going hear a lot about apologists’ favorite verse to cherry-pick, Qur’an 5:32 (no one ever includes 5:33 for fuller context, of course), which reads: “We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or […]