He also called upon his “brothers and sisters in Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab countries” to “create a revolution, and by this I mean instating the word of Islam… the law of Allah.” “UPDATE 1-Russian rebel calls for jihad, praises Arab unrest,” by Amie Ferris-Rotman for Reuters, March 3: MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) – Chechen-born […]
Archives for March 2011
How not to win the war
We were not outside the White House to protest against Anjem Choudary yesterday, but since we are being blamed for whatever happened there anyway, including the actions of the bullying Christians in this video, this post from Pamela Geller is important: “How Not to Win the War,” from Atlas Shrugs, March 3: […] TPMMuckracker was […]
Obama administration preparing for Islamic states in Middle East
What’s that? I thought only greasy Islamophobes thought that the likely outcome in the Middle East would be Islamic states, not pluralistic Western-style democracies! “Obama administration prepares for possibility of new post-revolt Islamist regimes,” by Scott Wilson in the Washington Post, March 4 (thanks to Jamal): The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that […]
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California police: 13-year-old girl ran away in fear of arranged marriage in Pakistan, parents lied about her disappearance
Jessie Bender was about to be taken on a two-month trip to Pakistan. Why didn’t her mother and stepfather just claim to investigators that their daughter was jumping to conclusions and overreacting? The parents’ elaborate lies suggest they had something to hide. Britain’s forced-marriage investigators have seen many a case that started with the ruse […]
Indonesia: Another province bans Ahmadis from publicly practicing their religion
This trend has arisen in response to recent episodes of persecution, though the Ahmadis were not the perpetrators, but the victims. It is striking how quickly Indonesian authorities can move when they care to in order rein in Islamic “heretics.” Of course, such pious zeal is never directed at, say, the rabid thugs (and supposed […]
Pakistan: More land grabs against Christian property, desecration of graves, Bibles, and crosses
Question for the Pakistani paper The Nation: Is this also the work of a vast conspiracy by the U.S., Israel, and India? Maybe some of those “400 pro-India and pro-Israel CIA agents,” or others working at the behest of “leading Indian and Israeli tycoons?” My, but they’re busy. And to top it all off, they’ve […]
Frankfurt Airport jihad murderer “took to radical Islam over the course of just a few weeks”
But no one seems particularly interested in how or why. “Islamist shooter radicalized in Germany,” from The Local, March 3 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Arid Uka, the 21-year-old Kosovar who has admitted to killing two US airmen in Frankfurt, was a loner only recently turning to radical Islamist ideology, according to investigators. German federal prosecutors […]