Obey the Sharia ban on alcohol — or else. “Islamist sect shoots dead four in northeast Nigeria,” from Reuters, September 14 (thanks to Wimpy): Gunmen shot dead four people in a bar in the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri in the latest strike by a radical Islamist sect, police said. Boko Haram, whose name translates […]
Archives for September 2011
Wajahat Ali, coauthor of “Islamophobia” report, was board member of Muslim Brotherhood group
Wajahat Ali was one of the five authors of the hard-Left Soros-funded Center for American Progress’s attack piece “Fear, Inc.,” a supposed takedown of “Islamophobes” including Steven Emerson, David Yerushalmi, Daniel Pipes, Frank Gaffney and me. My responses are here and here; Daniel Greenfield and Mark Tapson also expose the sinister agenda and propagandistic, truth-free […]
Pakistan: Don’t take that tone with us, Panetta
A predictable reaction from Islamabad to the Secretary of Defense’s pointed criticism of Pakistan’s refusal to take on the Haqqani network. Also predictably, Pakistan is demanding “proof,” and continuing its recent diversionary tactic of accusing the U.S. and NATO of being culpably negligent in ensuring border security, in a situation they portray as analogous to […]
U.K.: Wife of Stockholm suicide bomber arrested on suspicion of helping plan attack
In January, Mona Thwany was doing a bit of a tap dance, denying knowledge of the plot and saying, “Some people said Taimour is a martyr. I don’t know whether he is or he isn’t. All I can say is that I totally condemn terrorism”.” Jihad, not so much, apparently. “Widow of suicide bomber is […]
Iran’s Thug-in-Chief tells WaPo that Jews started both World Wars
A real straight shooter… of paranoid fiction We’d say you can’t make this stuff up, except Ahmadinejad just did. Just when you think he has run out of new material, the conspiracy paranoia portfolio expands again. “Ahmadinejad: Zionists started both world wars,” by Yitzhak Benhorin for YNet News, September 14: WASHINGTON — Iranian President Mahmoud […]
Secretary of Defense Panetta warns Islamabad after Pakistan-based jihadists are implicated in 20-hour attack on Kabul
When jihadists have gone over the border from Pakistan and attacked inside Afghanistan, it has never been that big a deal for Pakistan. When even Pakistan-based jihadists go back over the border from Afghanistan and attack Pakistan, it is an affront and a crisis. An update on this story. “U.S. warns Pakistan after suspected Haqqani […]
Libya: Jihadist groups quietly setting up “long-term presence”
“When asked whether there are men inside the NTC that are affiliated with terrorist groups, the senior defense official admitted, ‘Yeah, probably’.” We tried to tell you. More on this story. “Libya the new terrorist haven?,” by Chris Lawrence for CNN, September 14: Terrorist groups are trying to set up for a long-term presence in […]
Seattle: Misunderstander of Islam who tried to drive Marines off road linked to jihad suicide bomb plot at military recruiting station
Michael Jihad is a convert to Islam who somehow picked up the ridiculous Islamophobic idea that as a Muslim he had a responsibility to wage war against unbelievers. How did he get a crazy idea like that? Has he been reading the misleading, hate-filled anti-Islam writings of greasy Islamophobes? “Seattle-area man tied to terror plot,” […]
Geller: Illinois governor’s Hamas council
In “Illinois governor’s Hamas council” in World Net Daily today, Pamela Geller uncovers a shocking case of useful idiocy: Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn last week invited Muslims with links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to join a Muslim American Advisory Council, which, according to a press release from the governor’s office, “will help ensure […]
Detroit underwear bomb jihadist shouts “jihad” in court, demands to be judged by Qur’an only
He doesn’t recognize American law, because it was written by human beings. He believes that the Qur’an was written by Allah, and that Muslims should be judged only by it. He doesn’t appear concerned about the possibility that the Qur’an might contain something that might portray in a bad light trying to murder hundreds of […]