Just in case you’re still wondering which side they’re on. “Pakistan: Bin Laden killing ‘second biggest’ national tragedy,” by Syed Saleem Shahzad for AKI, May 6 (thanks to all who sent this in): Islamabad, 6 May (AKI) – Pakistani opposition leader Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan reacted to the killing of Osama bin Laden by American […]
Archives for May 2011
Switzerland: More Muslims training in jihad camps
And visiting Qur’an schools — yet somehow that peaceful book’s peaceful message eludes them. Eurabia Alert: “More Swiss train in Islamic militant camps,” from SwissInfo, May 8: Defence Minister Ueli Maurer says there has been an increase in the recruitment of Muslims for militant training camps. In an interview with the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, Maurer said […]
Lawyers for accused Portland jihad bomb plotter say feds coerced him
Here we go again: what would it take for you to commit mass murder in the name of Allah? Would you do it for money? For love? Out of a sense of justice? Out of a sense of religious duty? Would you do it because an agent provocateur encouraged you? Absurd as they may seem, […]
Jihad murderer of U.S. diplomat in Sudan killed waging jihad in Somalia
“I cannot tell anyone how we got this information,” said Mohannad Mohammed’s father. Is anyone watching him? “Sudanese diplomat killer slain in Somalia: father,” from Agence France-Presse, May 8: KHARTOUM – One of four Sudanese Islamists who escaped from prison last year after they were sentenced to hang for the murder of a US diplomat […]
Pakistan: Mentally ill Christian charged with “blasphemy,” Christian families flee after Muslim mob threats
More good will from our friend and ally Pakistan. This sort of incident ought to be part of the calculation in Washington when they consider whether or not to continue aid to Pakistan. But it isn’t. “Mentally Ill Christian Charged with ‘Blasphemy’ in Pakistan: Christian families flee area after Muslim mob threatens them,” from Compass […]
Saudi Arabia and Turkey tried unsuccessfully to persuade Pakistan to hand over bin Laden to U.S.
So the Pakistanis must have known he was there. “Malik gives Zardari’s message to Saudi king,” by Syed Rashid Husain for Dawn, May 8 (thanks to Ashish): RIYADH: Interior Minister Rehman Malik handed over a message from President Asif Zardari to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The unscheduled visit and presence of the […]
This is a war, and Noam Chomsky is a traitor
Of course it was a planned assassination. It was the planned assassination of a man who murdered three thousand Americans. George W. Bush ordering military operations in response to that murder is a moral equivalence that only a traitor would make. “Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death,” from Guernica, May 6 (thanks […]
Yet another opportunity that will be passed up
This column reflects widespread assumptions: bin Laden’s death “offers an opportunity for moderate Muslims to reclaim their faith from a man who hijacked it in the name of global jihad.” They had to wait for bin Laden to die to “reclaim their faith”? What form of Islam, what school of jurisprudence, what sect, actually rejects […]
Egypt: Muslims attack, set fire to church, 6 dead
True to the mainstream media’s habit of describing a scene of mutual “tensions” when Muslims attack Christians, the headline below describes “Egyptian sectarian violence,” giving the impression of equal participation. Here, the rumor that the Coptic church is holding two women who converted to Islam has fueled months of jihadist violence against Christians far removed […]
Imams en route to conference on “Islamophobia” pulled off plane, compare selves to Rosa Parks
We have yet to hear the pilot’s side of the story, but this situation smells bad for several reasons, not least of which is the curious coincidence of the imams’ travel plans to a conference on the concocted phenomenon of “Islamophobia.” We have seen provocative behavior by “flying imams” before, as well. And in any […]