“Bin Laden brought in a teacher who would threaten to beat the children with a stick to teach them the Quran, the Islamic holy book, al-Zawahri said.” Not exactly Cosby, but then again, we already knew that on so many levels. “Al-Qaida head recalls ‘human side’ of bin Laden,” by Ben Hubbard for the Associated […]
Archives for 2011
Muslim Brotherhood: Only “Drunks, Druggies, and Adulterers” Reject Sharia
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood just made a few assertions that have ruffled the nation’s secular and Christian populace. At a conference attended by some 5,000, Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, Dr. Essam el-Erian, Vice President of the “Freedom and Justice” party, the Brotherhood’s political wing, declared that “No one in Egypt””not a Copt, a liberal, a leftist, […]
Somali jihadist: Kenya-Israel defense cooperation aimed at “destroying Muslim people and their religion”
Of course, none of this has anything to do with how al-Shabaab has been behaving. They were just going along, minding their business, waging jihad to impose Sharia while linking up with al-Qaeda and abducting aid workers from Kenya, and someone so rudely decided to resist. Someone they can’t starve into submission. “Somali militant bashes […]
This will work: U.S. reaches out to Pakistan with hip-hop troupe
I should be waging jihad, but I just wanna dance Confront the belief-system of jihad violence and Islamic supremacism? Naah. Hold the Pakistanis to their agreements with the U.S. and challenge them on their aiding of jihad groups? Pah. Send in the hip-hop troupe. Pakistan will immediately moonwalk away from its double game. “US tries […]
UK: Four misunderstanders of Islam arrested in jihad terror raids
The only hint in this standard politically correct report that these arrests involved Misunderstanders of Islam is the note that they’re suspected of “travelling to Pakistan to undertake terrorist training and of raising funds for terrorist purposes.” The Telegraph gives no hint, of course, of why they might have been interested in terrorism in Pakistan […]
New Tunisian PM: “The liberation of Jerusalem starts here. I will be the sixth righteous caliph.”
The English in this report is marginal, but the import is clear. The Righteous or Rightly Guided Caliphs were, according to Islamic tradition, the first four successors of Muhammad: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali Ibn Abi Talib. Then some add Hasan, Ali’s son, or Umar II, who came slightly later. And Hamadi Jebali is […]
Debate tomorrow night: Spencer versus jihadists on democracy versus theocracy
I doubt it will be nearly as much sheer fun as my debates with Marvelous Moustafa Zayed (here and here), but tomorrow night on ABN I’ll be debating the Britain-based jihadists Anjem Chaudary and Abu Izzadeen. Tune in here at 4PM PST, 7PM EST.
Boston: Witness says accused jihadist Mehanna sought terror training
He always wanted to know what Islam permitted and what Islam forbade, was always quoting the Qur’an, and yet he ended up dedicated to promoting violent jihad on the Internet. How did he misunderstand the peaceful faith to which he had dedicated his life? “Witness says Mehanna sought terror training,” by Milton J. Valencia and […]
Spencer: All-American Muslim misleads on Islam
In Human Events this morning I discuss how TLC’s hot new offering gives Americans the wrong impression of Muslims: TLC”s much-ballyhooed All-American Muslim reality show makes its agenda clear in its opening sequences: shots of a hijabbed girl roller-skating, Muslims dancing at a wedding, an American flag waving proudly in the breeze, and newspaper clippings […]
Iran: Zoroastrians often forgotten victims of systematic, institutionalized abuse since Islamic revolution
Wherever there is a resurgence of Sharia, tolerance suffers, and harassment and abuse increase. “How Iran persecutes its oldest religion,” by Jamsheed Choksy for CNN, November 14: Bloomington, Indiana (CNN) — As Zoroastrian funerary processions enter the graveyard overlooking the Tehran suburb of Ray, their sobriety is often shattered by the sound of explosions and […]