Jihad Watch reader Kamala kindly alerted me to jihad bomb plotter Muhammad Yusuf’s blog, True Islam. Now that he has been arrested for a jihad bomb plot, Islamic apologists in the U.S. will say that he was a Misunderstander of the Religion of Peaceâ„¢; ironically, however, he dedicates his blog to clearing up those ever-present […]
Archives for 2011
Al-Shabaab vows to defeat “black colonialist” Ethiopians
Ethiopian and Kenyan self-defense are colonialism, but al-Shabaab’s religious and cultural imperialism are A-OK, of course. In addition to its intention of imposing Sharia, the group has shown impulses like those of Sudan’s Bashir toward the Arabization of Somalia. Those measures have included banning the teaching of English in schools in favor of Arabic, and […]
New York jihad bomb plotter wanted to show “there was mujahideen in the city ready to wage Jihad”
Muhammad Yusuf busy misunderstanding Islam He was within an hour of finishing a pipe bomb, just a couple of days after Muslims protested in front of the NYPD against surveillance of their communities. More on this story. “Terror suspect Jose Pimentel plotted to kill cops and soldiers with bombs he was building in Manhattan apartment, […]
New York: Jihad bomb suspect spoke of changing his name to “Osama Hussein”
To whom did he speak about this? Didn’t anyone take him aside and explain to him that all true Muslims abhorred Osama bin Laden and everything he stood for — all, that is, except for a Tiny Minority of Extremistsâ„¢? More on this story: “‘Lone wolf U.S. citizen who wanted to change name to Osama […]
Restoration Weekend 2011
I just got back from the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend 2011 at The Breakers in West Palm Beach, Florida, where I was on two panels: one on “Islam vs. Islamism” with Andy McCarthy, along with the artist Bosch Fawstin and Baroness Caroline Cox, and one on “Islamists in America” with Raymond Ibrahim, Daniel […]
New York: Misunderstander of Islam arrested in bomb plot
Every other story I have seen about this arrest identifies the man who was arrested only as Jose Pimentel, an “Al-Qaeda sympathizer,” as if he were a non-Muslim who somehow had gotten the idea that Al-Qaeda was great, and thought he might detonate a bomb. But actually he was Muhammad Yusuf, yet another convert to […]
Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader orders Egyptians not to vote for secularists or non-Muslims
After Youssef Qaradawi — whom Western academics portray as a “moderate” — commands Egyptian Muslims to vote only for Islamic parties and avoid non-Muslims, he hypocritically asserts his support for “every person of the Syrian people, including the Alawites, the Druze, and the Christians.” “Don’t Vote for Those Who Don’t Accept Allah as their God, […]
Ron Paul: “Flawed” U.S. policies caused 9/11
Here he goes again. Ron Paul and Barack Obama agree that jihad terrorism is our fault, caused by our actions, and capable of being ended by something that we do. It never occurs to either of them how ethnocentric and condescending this is: they both assume that Muslims are just passive reactors to American enormities, […]
U.K.: Local government attempts to pander to Muslims, winds up offending everybody
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.” – James Thurber The city of Bradford has designed an anti-littering campaign aimed at the Muslim community that invoked Allah, saying “the whole of the Earth has been declared by Allah as a place of prayer for the Muslim.” It […]
Indonesia: Ahmadi mosque that operated for 21 years suddenly closed over permit violation
In this case, the violation does not concern the usual permit system that stacks the deck against non-Muslim houses of worship. This incident seems to involve a convenient technicality, as Indonesia tightens the screws against the Ahmadi sect across the country: in several provinces, they are banned outright. Also noteworthy is the matter-of-fact statement that […]