Akbar Ahmed is a world-renowned Islamic moderate, but in this piece he plays the same games of victimhood, shifting of attention from jihad to “Islamophobia” and evasion of responsibility that his colleagues in Hamas-linked CAIR and other Islamic supremacists and jihadists have perfected over the last decade. My own experiences with Akbar Ahmed have not […]
Archives for 2011
NY authorities downplay jihad bomber’s Islamic faith: He “smoked marijuana and drank…and only attended Muslim religious services infrequently”
He had a website called “True Islam” containing extensive information about Islamic teachings on jihad warfare and related matters. He wrote there: I created this Blog in order to help people learn about the Religion of Islam, and to help clarify many issues within the Religion of Islam that many people might have a hard […]
Got a Butterball turkey for Thanksgiving? You’re eating halal
In “Happy Halal Thanksgiving” in the American Thinker today, Pamela Geller reveals the shocking truth: if you’ve gotten a Butterball turkey for Thanksgiving, it’s halal: Did you know that the turkey you’re going to enjoy on Thanksgiving Day this Thursday is probably halal? If it’s a Butterball turkey, then it certainly is — whether you […]
Failed New York pipe bomb jihadist had been under surveillance for two years
How very, very disrespectful. What will probably follow in the coming days are stories of how Pimentel was “radicalized,” claims that he was a “decent fellow,” and possible claims of mental illness. Those are popular in jihadist cases. “New York bomb suspect monitored for two years, officials say,” by Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister for […]
New York jihad bomb plotter “not part of a larger conspiracy emanating from abroad”
Bloomberg and others keep placing major emphasis on the apparent fact that Muhammad Yusuf was working alone, and was not connected to a foreign jihad terror group. That’s dandy, but no one at all seems concerned about the implications of the obvious fact that he was inspired by Islam’s doctrines of jihad, which remain capable […]
That’ll fix it: U.S., U.K., and Canada announce more sanctions against Iran
The never-ending cycle of incrementally more restrictive sanctions against Iran will not end in Iranian cooperation, transparency, or the halting of its nuclear program. It will end in an Iranian nuclear test, followed by a war of endless finger-pointing in the West over how it could ever have happened and why firmer action was not […]
Thailand: Jihad against Buddhist monks collecting alms
Nothing — nothing — shows the gallantry and fortitude of the intrepid mujahedin and the nobility of their cause like… beating up on a bunch of Buddhist monks. “Nine injured in Pattani violence, another killed in Yala,” from The Nation, November 21 (thanks to Kenneth): Three monks, three policemen and three local residents were slightly […]
Report: Contacts between al-Qaeda and Nigeria’s Boko Haram are increasing
An update on this evolving story. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb grew out of the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat. Here again, one finds “regional” jihadist conflicts finding common cause with one another and cooperating. All share the aim of imposing Sharia law, the purpose of jihad in all its forms. The conflict […]
Hadiths of the day from jihad bomb plotter Muhammad Yusuf
There is a wealth of information at New York jihad bomb plotter Muhammad Yusuf’s website, including several collections of ahadith about jihad. Here is one segment of that collection. It is noteworthy that none of the Islamic spokesmen in the U.S. will make any effort to show that these hadiths are false, or that Muhammad […]
FBI statistics show that there is no “Islamophobia”
Commentary generally marches in dhimmi lockstep with dreary predictability, but here it breaks ranks. And these 2010 statistics are no different from those of the previous year. “FBI Statistics Belie Islamophobia Hysteria,” by Jonathan S. Tobin in Commentary, November 20: It has become an accepted trope of contemporary journalism that American Muslims are under siege […]