The jihadis in Pakistan are relentless in their determination to make everyone too terrified to oppose them. After all, Muhammad said, “I have been made victorious through terror” (Bukhari 4.52.220) “Pakistani Taliban vow to attack weddings and funerals of their enemies,” by Nasir Habib for CNN, September 16 (thanks to all who sent this in): […]
Archives for September 2011
U.S. ambassador to Pakistan: “There is evidence linking the Haqqani Network to the Pakistan government. This is something that must stop.”
The Pakistanis were not happy when the Secretary of Defense criticized their failure to take on the Haqqani network. They really won’t like this, an exceptionally frank allegation from the ambassador. “U.S. links Pakistan to group it blames for Kabul attack,” by Qasim Nauman for Reuters, September 17: Islamabad (Reuters) – The United States accused […]
“Finnish citizens of Somali origin” arrested “on suspicion of funding terrorism and recruitment” for “overseas” groups
Overseas terrorist groups. Let’s see… have the Mary Kay Commandos made it to Helsinki? No, this case appears to involve the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab. “Finland terror suspects are Somalis: report,” from Gulf Times, September 18: Two people arrested in Helsinki on suspicion of funding terrorism and recruitment had foreign links but planned no attacks […]
Pakistan resumes attempted whitewash of minority affairs minister’s assassination
No one was buying it before. No one is buying it now. The Bishop of Islamabad has called the most recent police statement “absurd.” Briefly, Pakistani authorities had at least seemed to be trying to look busy, but they are simply moving the plot along in their revised version of the circumstances of Shahbaz Bhatti’s […]
Off again, on again: Iranian foreign minister says court will commute sentences of hostage hikers “in the near future”
An update on this story. It now appears Iran may attempt to arrange a swap for Iranians in U.S. custody. “Iran: Court to commute sentences for 2 Americans,” by Ali Akbar Dareini for the Associated Press, September 17: TEHRAN, Iran “” Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that the courts are willing in “the near future” […]
Ron Paul’s Ignorance and Naivete Regarding Jihad
Earlier on Pajamas Media (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discussed how Ron Paul appears to be ignorant and naïve when it comes to the goals of the jihad: ignorant because his statements are not based on accurate knowledge and naïve because he thinks they are — more to the point, because he takes al-Qaeda’s propaganda at face […]
Sweden: Imam on program broadcast by publicly funded Radio Sveriges’ international service reportedly calls for apostates from Islam to be killed
Surely we’ll be told this has all been taken out of context, though the death penalty for apostasy from Islam comes from Muhammad’s own orders (Sahih Bukhari 9.84.57). Surely we’ll be told that has been taken out of context as well, though we’re not the believing Muslims who have continue to act on those orders […]
Three dead Malaysians, killed by jihadists in Thailand–where’s the outrage?
And bear in mind that one of those Malaysians who was killed just on the other side of the border yesterday in ‘restive’ (i.e. jihad afflicted) southern Thailand was a three year old. So, where’s the public outrage and indignation? If Muslims, I mean we Malaysians, can get angry enough to protest in the streets […]
Palestinian Authority backpedals on talk of Jew-free state
An update on this story. Predictably, even though Maen Rashid Areikat made these same comments last year, he is now said to have been misquoted, and as reported below, he wants USA Today to “reverse the story.” Perhaps the PA realized that ambassador’s calls for “total separation” of Jews and Muslims at the outset of […]
Tunisia: Muslims invade Christian basilica with the intention of turning it into a mosque
Police dispersed them, and that should have been the end of the story, but it is not. Rather, “talks took place with the governor and they have been invited to make an official request to the faith ministry.” This has occurred in the “new” Tunisia. The modern, moderate, secular Tunisia. The transitional regime has rewarded […]