From Yahoo News: NEW YORK, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The first session of the International Freedom Defense Congress, the operating body of the human rights organization Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), will be held in New York on September 11, 2012. The principal focus of the Congress will be a media workshop pertaining to […]
Archives for March 2012
Karzai wants us out, and he’s right
Karzai is a scoundrel, but he is right about this, albeit for the wrong reasons. This mission is foredoomed. There is no clearly defined goal, and in any case any goal worth reaching is impossible to achieve. There is no bringing democracy or humane values to a Sharia state, and in any case we already […]
Why Afghans get angrier about burned Qur’ans than about murdered civilians
“To Muslims, and especially to Afghans, religion is much higher a concern than civilian or human casualties.” This is very hard for non-Muslims to understand, even those who are devoutly religious. After all, isn’t each human being valuable as a work of the Creator and irreplaceable as an individual, while copies of a book that […]
Green Wall of Islam — Sharia is coming
The clouds are gathering, not only over the Middle East, but also over the Caucasus. If Israel is under the threat of missile bombardment from Muslims in Middle Eastern states, then Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are under terrible political, economic, and religious pressure from those states. The Iranian and Turkish military and political machine are […]
Afghan interpreter attempts to ram a truck into Marines waiting to greet Panetta
“An Afghan interpreter hijacked a pick-up truck from a soldier and drove it at a group of US Marines on the airfield tarmac, before it crashed and burst into flames.” More on “this story”:https://jihadwatch.org/2012/03/afghanistan-jihad-car-bomb-attack-on-runway-just-as-defense-secretary-panetta-arrives-for-surprise-v.htm. “Security breach overshadows Karzai-Panetta talks,” by Dan De Luce for Agence France-Presse, March 14: An Afghan died Thursday after trying to […]
Jihadist bombings in Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria more powerful in 2011
Imagine if they put that ingenuity and resourcefulness into building something constructive, rather than attempting to blackmail their targets into submission by destroying them bit by bit. It is far easier to destroy than rebuild, and easier to get attention that way, and so they become self-serving vandals, launching cowardly attacks against civilians. In Somalia […]
Yemen: Allies of ousted president still reportedly trying to leverage al-Qaeda revolt to their advantage
That won’t end well. An update on this story. “Yemenis: Ousted leader undermining al-Qaida fight,” by Ahmed al-Haj and Aya Batrawy for the Associated Press, March 14: SANAA, Yemen (AP) “” It was a stunning attack by al-Qaida in a country that is one of the world’s hottest fronts against the terror group. Militants rampaged […]
Mali: “Suspected Islamists” hold up Red Cross convoy, tear down flag
Jihad causes poverty. “Suspected Islamists block Red Cross convoy in Mali,” from Agence France-Presse, March 14: Suspected Islamists turned back an International Committee of the Red Cross convoy, tearing down its flag, as it tried to enter Tessalit in northeast Mali, a source said Wednesday. Tessalit was seized on Sunday by Tuareg rebels following weeks […]
Asia Bibi petition: “We refuse to accept that this mother of five children will continue to languish in her putrid, stifling, freezing cell for so long”
Blasphemy laws: Keeping Pakistan safe from devout Christian women. Here is the text of the petition reported on in this story. From UN Watch, March 13: Since June 2009, Pakistani citizen Asia Bibi, mother of five little children, has been imprisoned in appalling and intolerable conditions in Sheikhupura prison in Punjab province. Her crime: being […]
Pakistan running for a seat on UN Human Rights Council; 50 human rights activists sign petition to council for release of Asia Bibi
Pakistan on the Human Rights Council, and Asia Bibi’s release: the former should not happen without the latter, unless the council changes its name to the UN Council for Window Dressing and Hypocrisy. “Petition: Free Pakistani Christian woman set for execution,” from CNN, March 14: (CNN) — Activists presented a petition Tuesday to the United […]