The official story is that he left the post due to illness. Does being “sick of it all” count? Among other things, there has been the detention of the U.S. ambassador at the Islamabad airport, the unregistered ISI agent running a Kashmiri interest group in the U.S. for two decades, the implication of the ISI […]
Archives for August 2011
Arkansas jihad murderer fired upon rabbi’s house
“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews…” — Qur’an 5:82. The upshot of the presence of this passage in the Islamic holy book is just the opposite: pious Muslims all too often act as the “strongest among men in enmity” to the Jews. “US Terrorist Admits He Also Shot […]
Harvard instructor under fire for anti-jihad thoughtcrime
Pamela Geller published Dr. Swamy’s article here on July 16. Note that, contrary to the Daily Caller’s headline, the article does not attack Muslims, but Islamic terrorism — which all Muslims except for a Tiny Minority of Extremists are supposed to be against. So why is Swamy’s article “distressing to many members” of the Harvard […]
Somalia/Minneapolis jihad group gets weapons, planning Ramadan offensive
Amid all the mainstream media spin on Ramadan as a time of devotion and prayer, it is useful also to remember that Ramadan is the month of jihad. Background on the Minneapolis/Somalia jihad pipeline here. “Al-Shabaab to launch Ramadan offensive?,” from UPI, August 1 (thanks to Twostellas): MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 1 (UPI) — Somali militant […]
Spencer on Fox News Radio’s Frank Wuco Show, July 31
Here is my interview on yesterday”s Frank Wuco Radio Show on Fox News Radio AM 970 WFLA. Frank is a fair interviewer, so this was a good, unrushed conversation. Listen to it here.
Pakistan: Schools teaching students to misunderstand Islam, to see suicide attacks as superior form of martyrdom and to wage jihad against Jews
Why don’t some enlightened Western Muslims like Honest Ibe Hooper or Boy Reza Aslan go over to Pakistan and straighten out these schools that are getting Islam so terribly wrong? After all, in America they will tell you that only greasy Islamophobes think that Islam justifies suicide bombing and jihad against Jews and Christians. How […]
Egypt’s Salafis: “We want an Islamic state like the one that was in the Middle Ages”
I tried to tell you. “Islamist factions jockey for power, vow religious rule,” by Betsy Hiel for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 31: CAIRO — If a new political force here has its way, public stonings, whippings and the lopping-off of hands will become the law in the Land of the Pharaohs. It all would help […]
Wilders: “I would say to Cohen and the rest of the left in the Netherlands: it is not my words, but your silence about the dangers of Islam which has the negative influences”
Indeed. “Wilders accuses left of demonising him over Norway shootings,” from Dutch News, August 1 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam party PVV, has accused left-wing politicians of a witch hunt by trying to implicate him and his ideas in the Norwegian mass shootings of 10 days ago. In an interview […]
Melanie Phillips: “As soon as the atrocity happened, people on the Left saw a heaven-sent opportunity to smear mainstream conservative thinkers and writers”
More on the complexity of the “left”/”right” dynamic in this story can be found here. But the press is indeed “cynically exploiting the murder of more than 70 innocents to make a connection which is as obnoxious as it is opportunistic in order to bully into silence those who express … legitimate democratic concerns.” “Hatred, […]
“He was all ready to go”: Failed jihadist planned bombing, shooting at restaurant popular with Fort Hood soldiers
Naser Abdo had also visited a military surplus store and paid cash for a uniform with Fort Hood unit patches. That’s some meticulous planning for murder, from what’s turned out to be one very selectively conscientious objector. “More Fort Hood Plotter Details Emerge,” from NewsCore, July 31: (NewsCore) – WACO, Texas — The Muslim soldier […]