Malaysia’s thuggist Islamic lifestyle police is enjoying a ground swell of popularity amongst Malaysian Muslims. Since their raid (“inspection“) of a church in Selangor state one month ago today, Muslim authorities have used the incident to further their political interests, whilst the Malay media interest and Malay support of the ‘defenders of Islam’ have remained […]
Archives for September 2011
U.S. money is Taliban’s second highest source of revenue, after opium
Nation-building hasn’t exactly worked out, unless Western powers were actually trying to build a kleptocracy. Neither opium nor the American taxpayer should be a source of income for the Taliban. In the case of the opium trade, which was instrumental in funding the Taliban’s resurgence, Western governments looked the other way from opium production for […]
Mother of “20th hijacker” Moussaoui: “Racism” radicalized him
Those allegations pander to the credulous “underlying causes” crowd, for whom everything causes jihad — hurt feelings, inclement weather, cartoons, sunspots, bad hair days — except the the jihadist ideology, rooted in Islamic texts and traditions. “Twentieth 9/11 hijacker was radicalised by the ‘daily racism’ he suffered in France, says his mother,” by Andy Milne […]
IAEA “increasingly concerned” at “credible evidence” of Iranian nuclear weapons program
More on this story. The IAEA will kick the can down the road for another couple of months, and then issue another report. At some point, there will be an Iranian nuclear test, and they’ll issue a really big report. “UN: Credible evidence Iran working on nuke weapons,” by George Jahn for the Associated Press, […]
Virginia: Pakistani national and legal permanent resident charged with terrorist support over ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba stands out from the usual Baskin Robbins assortment of flavors of jihadist groups in the subcontinent due to its ties with and backing by Pakistani intelligence. That connection adds an additional complication to this story, not mentioned in the report below. LeT has been reported to be aiming to expand its operations to include […]
Taliban take 30 Pakistani children hostage in Afghanistan
This is horrible, but hostage-taking is an established feature of Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their […]
The Perry/Aga Khan curriculum, again
Yesterday the Iranian-American writer Amil Imani published a piece, “Governor Perry’s Islam Connection,” which retails the same false information about the Perry/Aga Khan curriculum on Islam for Texas schools that we have debunked here at Jihad Watch several times, but since Imani’s piece is making the rounds, it is all worth repeating. Imani writes: Another […]
An evening at the Royal Albert Hall…
Philistines for Palestine Update. Here, thanks to Sam, is video of the disruption of the Israel Philharmonic concert in London by anti-Israel thugs. It’s come to this degree of a breakdown of order and decency. Enjoy the music at the end, and note the study in contrasts encompassed therein. Order and beauty disrupted by hideous […]
Relax! Libya’s rebel commander downplays his jihadist “past”
No, really, this time will be different. When and how, pray tell, did he have his awakening to the values of a modern civil society? He promises Libya will shun “extremism,” but that is a uselessly relative term among the many platitudes the rebels have spouted off to reassure their Western backers about freedom, rights, […]
France: Palestinian statehood bid “dangerous”
Indeed. It is a train wreck waiting to happen. Those agitating for statehood want the U.N. to leapfrog “Palestine” over the normal criteria both to be a state, and to act like one. They hope that what the U.N. starts, it will feel obliged to finish, as the new state would be dependent on continuing […]