Earlier, Turkey had threatened to attempt to prosecute the personnel on this list for “torture and premeditated murder.” They have been caught in a bluff, having claimed they got their information from IDF soldiers who opposed the raid, but this report says the names were “from previous lists that were published on anti-Israeli websites following […]
Archives for September 2011
Al Jazeera journalist admits to being Hamas operative
Samer Allawi “offered to use his position as a reporter to promote Hamas interests,” and “traveled to Qatar and met with additional Al Jazeera reporters, who the Shin Bet said were Hamas operatives, and discussed the possibility of using their position to advance Hamas by criticizing the US military in Afghanistan.” How many more operatives […]
Gratitude: Libya’s National Transitional Council declares Lockerbie case closed, will not release evidence that could lead to others being charged
This is the same NTC which refused to extradite Megrahi, who took a timely turn for the worse by the end of August as Tripoli fell, at which time he was said to be “comatose and near death.” These are but signs of things to come in future dealings with the NTC, whose members have […]
Afghan jihadist employed by CIA murders American at Kabul CIA office
As I have said many times in the context of many similar incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no reliable way to distinguish a peaceful Muslim from a jihadist. This is yet more fruit of the unwillingness to make even a cursory attempt to take that fact into account. And every few weeks (the […]
When Muslims Are More “Radical” than Islamists
Earlier on PJM (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discussed some of the differences — and similarities — between Muslims and “Islamists”: What are the differences between the traditional Muslim and the so-called “Islamist”? As words dealing with Islam continue to morph and multiply, it is important to differentiate, for there are real, if subtle, differences. A recent […]
Sharif El-Gamal, the man behind the Islamic supremacist Ground Zero Mosque, has an extensive criminal past
The other night I watched a British documentary about the Ground Zero mosque controversy (for which I was interviewed, and in which I appear) that portrayed Sharif El-Gamal as a good-hearted schlub who was trying to do a good deed and ended up getting beset by cynical sharpies like Pamela Geller and me. Anything about […]
Ibn Warraq: Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam and the Koran
Jewish Christianity and the Origins of Islam and the Koran by Ibn Warraq Professor Peter Bruns of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Bamberg, Germany), provides a very useful, critical survey of recent research on Islamic origins, but from an important dogma-critical perspective. He reminds us that not only Günter Lüling and Christoph Luxenberg’s pioneering philological approach, but also […]
Pakistan: 50 Islamic scholars issue fatwa for jihad against U.S., order Muslims to stop calling America a “super power”
The term “aggression” used in the fatwa is vague, and likely to be deliberately so: all hell can break loose at a time and place of their choosing. “Fatwa for Jihad against America,” from The Nation, September 26: LAHORE — As many as 50 religious scholars associated with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), a conglomerate […]
Leftist Useful Idiots rally around Islamic supremacist thugs who shouted down Israeli ambassador
Leftists have a taste for authoritarianism. Every time the hard Left has been in power, the freedom of speech is destroyed. Thus it is not surprising that these Leftist Useful Idiots would be idolizing thugs who are enemies of the freedom of speech. “Supporters rally around the ‘Irvine 11’ at town hall event,” by Nicole […]
Pakistan rally: “Shut up, America!”
Our friend and ally Pakistan is holding anti-American rallies. From Reuters (thanks to Maxwell): Girls hold placards while standing on a U.S. flag during an anti-U.S. rally in Hyderabad, Pakistan, September 25, 2011. REUTERS/Akram Shahid “Go America Go.” Heh. Good advice. We should go, and leave the Pakistani jihadists to their own devices, without American […]