Hard to imagine that the Sahel was ever all that safe, but now the jihad there is stepping up in intensity. “France: Sahel no longer safe after al Qaeda attack,” by John Irish and Abdoulaye Massalaatchi for Reuters, January 9 (thanks to Ken): PARIS/NIAMEY (Reuters) – France said on Sunday the African Sahel region was […]
Archives for January 2011
Nigeria: Jihadis open fire in bar, murdering seven
Christians are fighting back, and the situation is escalating. “Nigeria: Homes set ablaze in violence-torn region,” by Ahmed Saka for Associated Press, January 9 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): JOS, Nigeria – Rioters set homes ablaze and angry youths armed with machetes set up roadblocks Sunday throughout a central Nigerian city plagued by violence between Christians […]
Sharia in Bangladesh: Students suspended for trimming beards
Isn’t it great that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange made Oklahoma safe for Sharia? “Bangladesh students suspended for trimming beards,” from AFP, January 9: DHAKA — The headmaster of an Islamic school in Bangladesh said Sunday that he had banned 15 teenage students from attending lessons after they trimmed their beards. Mohammad Mudesser Hussain said the pupils […]
New York: Moderate Muslim who beheaded his wife to claim that she abused him
Muzzammil Hassan’s grotesque attempt to portray himself as the victim of the wife he beheaded is in microcosm the same kind of evasion of responsibility, finger-pointing and claiming of victim status that we see from Islamic spokesmen in the West regarding jihad every day. Remember also that Aasiya Hassan was much smaller than he was, […]
Pakistan releases al-Qaeda jihadist, “self-declared warrior against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan”
Friend and Ally indeed. Pakistan’s Double Game Update: “Pakistan’s release of militant stirs questions,” by Kathy Gannon for Associated Press, January 9 (thanks to JCB): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – He is a self-declared warrior against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. He allegedly ran terrorist training camps there when the Taliban was in power. He was […]
Hamas-linked CAIR, which has publicized fake anti-Muslim hate crimes, blames Giffords shooting on “inflammatory political rhetoric”
The mainstream media is trying to use the shooting of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords to demonize and silence conservatives, as Pamela Geller establishes here. The Leftist/Islamic supremacist convergence is nicely illustrated by this press release from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations: CAIR Offers Condolences on Arizona Shooting Spree (WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/9/11) — The Council […]
Mainstream media blames Sarah Palin, conservatives for shooting of Rep. Giffords, despite lack of evidence — yet refused to talk Islam after Fort Hood jihad massacre
Pamela Geller shows here that the would-be assassin in Arizona is actually a Leftist, but when have the facts ever stopped the Leftist/Islamic supremacist smear machine? Mainstream media operatives are leaping to conclusions about conservative responsibility for the Giffords shooting, showing none of the delicacy and compunction they showed when refusing to label the obvious […]
Death fatwa for yet another Pakistani official who criticized blasphemy law
Sherry Rehman joins the ranks of Shabhaz Bhatti and the late Salman Taseer in being marked for death for committing “blasphemy” against the blasphemy law. “Pak ex-minister Sherry Rehman fit to be killed, says cleric,” from the Press Trust of India, January 10: Islamabad: Several clerics have issued fatwas against former Pakistani minister Sherry Rehman […]
Pakistan: Cleric says assassinated governor “responsible for his own murder” as tens of thousands rally for blasphemy law
Tiny Minority of Extremists Update, and while we’re at it, an Impotent Islamabad Update, as the prime minister reiterates Pakistan’s commitment to doing nothing. “Thousands rally in Pakistan for blasphemy laws,” by Ashraf Khan for the Associated Press, January 9: Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Pakistan’s largest city on Sunday to oppose any […]
Miami Herald misleads readers about ISNA’s ties to Hamas
In this fulsome puff-piece about the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Miami Herald pseudo-journalistic propagandist Jaweed Kaleem, whose inveterate prejudices have shown through in his “reporting” before, tries to mislead his unlucky readers into thinking that ISNA’s links to the jihad terror group Hamas are just a fabrication of Americans Against Hate, rather than […]