We are hearing this so often, it is clearly a line that some group has settled upon and sold to the rest. “Lebanese Political Party: ‘The Alexandria Bombing Was an American-Zionist Production,’” from Translating Jihad, January 4: […] (Link to original Arabic.) Lebanese Popular Congress: The Alexandria Bombing Was an American-Zionist Production alintiqad.com, 3 Jan […]
Archives for January 2011
Former Lebanese defense minister: Egypt church bombing “clear evidence of Zionist-Western attempts to target the national fabric of Egypt”
And again — more antisemitic conspiracy mongering, denial and obfuscation. “Former Lebanese Minister: ‘The Alexandria Church Bombing Was a Zionist-Western Attempt to Target the National Fabric of Egypt,’” from Translating Jihad, January 3: […] These comments come from former Lebanese defense minister ‘Abd-al-Rahim Murad, and appear to be following a pattern for him, as he […]
Hamas TV: Muslim kids taught to sing “May the glory of the religion (Islam) return, and may our blood be shed”
This is the Hamas that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was named an unindicted co-conspirator for aiding in the Holy Land Foundation jihad funding case. “Arab kids in Sur Baher, Jerusalem taught to sing: ‘May our blood be shed,’” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, January 4: A Hamas […]
Kurdish women’s rights activists fear for their lives after mullah accuses them of blasphemy
Why we don’t see more reformers in Islam, chapter 434: “Mullah Accuses Kurdish Women Activists of Blasphemy,” by Saman Basharati for Rudaw, January 3 (thanks to Twostellas): ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: Thirteen Iraqi Kurdish women’s rights activists fear for their lives and have complained to the police after a well-known Mullah has accused them of “blasphemy […]
Egyptian Islamic cleric: “Israel’s Mossad and the CIA are behind the attack in Alexandria”
Yet more conspiracy paranoia, finger-pointing, and evasion of responsibility. “Egypt: Cleric blames Israeli and US intelligence for Church bombing,” from AKI, January 3 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Cairo, 3 Jan. (AKI) – US and Israeli intelligence were behind the deadly bombing of a church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria early on Saturday, an […]
Four in ten French and Germans see Muslims in their country as a threat
61 percent of French and 67 percent of Germans see Muslims as refusing to integrate. 18 percent of those in France and 15 percent in Germany blamed the Muslims’ lack of integration on “racism and lack of openness by certain French and German people.” But even though that is only a minority of respondents, that […]
Zionist vulture captured in Saudi Arabia!
So far we’ve seen Zionist squirrels, and Zionist pigeons, and Zionist rats, and Zionist sharks, and even sexually predatory Zionist cats. And now — what took them so long? — Zionist vultures. “Vulture in Saudi Custody Suspected as Mossad Agent,” by Gil Ronen for Israel National News, January 4 (thanks to Jules): Saudi Arabian security […]
Spencer: Are Muslims Being Victimized In America Today?
In Human Events this morning, I discuss the wave of “Islamophobia” that is supposedly sweeping across America: “Attacks on the American Muslim community and on Islam rose to an unprecedented level in 2010.” So claimed Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in an end-of-the-year fund-raising appeal. The hard-Left […]
Afghanistan: Women imprisoned for fleeing violent husbands
Why are violent Afghan husbands in such steady supply? The usual excuses — “cultural” or “tribal” issues, or the observation that domestic violence occurs in other societies — do not begin to explain the level of spousal abuse across the Islamic world and in Muslim communities in the West, even in seemingly improbable places like […]
Jihadists arrested in plot to attack Jerusalem stadium were employees of British consulate
Those employees are the same ones named earlier as members of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. “British consulate employees in Jerusalem linked to terror attack,” by Richard Spencer for the Telegraph, January 3 (thanks to all who sent this in): Two Palestinians were charged by a court on Sunday with planning a rocket attack on […]