Reinforcing Islamophobic stereotypes Will the Islamophobia never end? “Kandahar mayor killed by suicide bomber with explosives in turban,” by Jon Boone in the Guardian, July 27 (thanks to Bill): Afghan insurgents appeared to continue their assassination campaign against key public figures on Wednesday with the killing of the mayor of Kandahar. Ghulam Haider Hamidi was […]
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Alabama: “Strict Muslim” with jihadist ties charged with threatening Obama, obtaining weapons
Apparently Ulugbek Kodoriov is yet another Misunderstander of Islam. Maybe he got hold of one of my books instead of one by John Esposito or Karen Armstrong that would have explained to him the true teachings of the Religion of Peaceâ„¢. “Uzbek Man Charged With Threatening Obama, Obtaining Weapons,” by Edmund DeMarche for FoxNews.com, July […]
Indicted jihad recruiter continues jihad on Facebook
He recruited for jihad at a mosque in Minneapolis. Now he continues to do so on Facebook. “Indicted Al-Shabaab Recruiter Continues Jihad on Facebook,” by Patrick Poole for Pajamas Media, July 27: As the House Homeland Security Committee prepares to hold hearings this week on the issue of radicalization in the Somali community, it is […]
Left, Islamic supremacists inciting violence against freedom fighters
Here are just three of the death threats I’ve received, and which name other pro-freedom activists, since the mainstream media and its Leftist and Islamic supremacist allies started blaming me for the Norway murders: Subject: death Message: You goddamn fascist scum are the worst evil shits in America. And another: Subject: Spencer, Geller, Littman, Wilders […]
Four misunderstanders of Islam accused of plotting to sell heroin in U.S. to fund Hizballah and Taliban
US Attorney Preet Bharara announced at an afternoon news conference, “Today we unseal two indictments that provide fresh evidence of what many of us have been seeing for some time, the growing nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.” Indeed, we have been seeing it for some time. In my 2002 book Islam Unveiled I discussed […]
Pakistan: Intrepid mujahedin show “un-Islamic cloth” who’s boss
Imagine the lost expenditure of time, labor, and wages represented in the “thousands of meters” of fabric in the Taliban’s bonfire. Jihad causes poverty. “Pakistan Taliban make bonfire of “˜un-Islamic” cloth,” from Agence France-Presse, July 26 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A Taliban group in Pakistan on Tuesday burned a huge quantity of cloth […]
Rep. King: More than 40 U.S. nationals have gone to Somalia to join jihad
Come for the jihad, stay for the samosas — wait, what? Awww, maaaaan! “Lawmaker: 40 Americans Joined Somali Al-Qaida Linked-terror Group,” from the Associated Press, July 26 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): WASHINGTON (AP) _ The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says more than 40 Americans have been recruited by al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Somalia […]
Al-Qaeda in Iraq: “All the Shi’ites, including merchants or government officials, are infidels and confiscating their money is part of jihad”
This point does not apply only to al-Qaeda’s enmity with Shi’ite Muslims; nor did al-Qaeda make it up. Muhammad said: “I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly […]
U.S.: Money from $2 billion trucking contract in Afghanistan diverted to Taliban
Just what you want to hear in a fiscal crisis. “U.S. trucking contracts funded Taliban, source says,” by David Ariosto for CNN, July 26: Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — A U.S. military task force has discovered that part of a $2.16 billion transportation contract was diverted through a murky network of subcontractors and into the hands […]