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Archives for August 2011
Time Magazine defames and demonizes counter-jihadists
So what else is new? Is anyone doing anything else these days? Still, I think it important to answer as many as I can of these and show the truth. “When Slogans Beget Slaughter,” by Ishaan Tharoor in Time Magazine, August 6 (thanks to all who sent this in): Last year on Sept. 11, I […]
Remember those Jewish terror plots? The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg equates resistance to Islamization with Nazism
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. — Isaiah 5:20 Remember all those Jewish terror plots? All those programs to impose Jewish law upon non-Jews? “Well, This Looks Atrocious,” by Jeffrey Goldberg in The […]
Former CIA agent and Ron Paul adviser writes on antisemitic website attacking counter-jihadists
Big-time negotiators False healers and woman haters Masters of the bluff, masters of the proposition But the enemy I see Wears a cloak of decency — Bob Dylan, “Slow Train” Philip Giraldi is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served 18 years in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. In 2008 he […]
U.K.: Head of studies at Royal Air Force training college is convert to Islam accused of preferential treatment for Muslims, Holocaust denial
His appointment probably seemed like a golden politically correct photo-op at the time. “Ayatollah of the RAF: Academic ‘university’ head is Muslim convert who claims Nazi gas chambers were British propaganda and criticises Libya air strikes,” by Ian Gallagher for the Daily Mail, August 7: The head of studies at the Royal Air Force pilot […]
Iran arrests 17 over water fight, head of morality police pledges to “act forcefully”
It is a weak and paranoid regime for which young people with squirt guns pose an intolerable threat. An update on this story. “Iran arrests 17 youths over water fight,” from Agence France-Presse, August 7: Iranian police arrested 17 boys and girls over a water fight at a seaside park in the Islamic republic’s south, […]
Muqtada al-Sadr threatens to attack U.S. military trainers in Iraq if they stay
It’s not that he wouldn’t. When a group of the “anti-Crest“‘s followers offered to attack U.S. forces in June, he thanked them and asked for Allah to watch over them. On the other hand, al-Sadr does not have to take any present action on a threat for the future, so the sabre-rattling is likely to […]
Somalia: Clashes erupt after president declares victory over al-Shabaab in Mogadishu
While the government and African Union troops now control 90% of the city, al-Shabaab is now simply in a position to do what jihadists do best, from Thailand to Afghanistan to Hamas-controlled Gaza to Nigeria to jihadist attacks in the West: not fighting like men, but engaging in asymmetrical, guerrilla warfare, launching random attacks to […]
Why Anders Breivik was not and could not have been radicalized by Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller
David Wood of Answering Muslims has produced this extraordinary video, in which he examines Anders Breivik’s actual manifesto and finds that Breivik was plotting violence back in the 1990s, before I had published anything about Islam, and that the direct impetus for violence that Breivik himself cites was not me or Pamela Geller or any […]
Pakistan: Bishop of Islamabad warns forced conversions to Islam are rising as another Christian girl is abducted
As with the situation in Egypt, this is not at all the first time we have seen such behavior in Pakistan. Two such prominent cases in Pakistan have been those of Saba (or Sarah) and Anila Masih, and Farah Hatim. The news organization Fides has reported that “at least 700 Christian girls are kidnapped and […]