Condoleezza Rice showed how knowledgeable the Washington experts on the Middle East and Islam really are when she said in January 2007: “There’s still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that.” Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update: “Baghdad bombs target Shi’ite pilgrims, 26 killed,” by […]
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Imam of Tunis mosque misunderstands Islam, says artists who create blasphemous works are “infidel” and should “be killed and their blood be spilled”
Hitler entering the National Socialists’ "Degenerate Art" exhibition This imam manifests the totalitarian impulse within Islamic law. Totalitarian systems aim to control the very soul of the individual, and so individual expression that falls outside acceptable boundaries must be ruthlessly suppressed. The National Socialists in Germany are Sheikh Houcine Laabidi’s spiritual kin. More on this […]
Cigarette smoking can be dangerous to your health: Mali Islamic supremacists whip smokers
Mali needs some Tareyton smokers Whenever I traveled in Muslim countries in years past, it seemed as if all the men smoked like chimneys. Turns out smoking is un-Islamic. Who knew? Sharia Alert from Mali: “Islamists in north Mali burn cigarettes, whip smokers,” from AFP, June 16 (thanks to David): Islamists from an Al-Qaeda offshoot […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 8)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 8 Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 THE TALISMAN The Victorian critic Henry Grey provided a useful summary of the Waverley […]
The Islamic supremacists next door
A Jihad Watch reader recently contacted me and sent me the letter below, which he has sent to the managers of his apartment complex in a large Western state in the U.S. It is illustrative of the difficulties that Islamic supremacists can cause in otherwise placid communities, including a considerable raising of tensions and hostilities […]
Homeland Security-funded study downplays jihad threat, pushes idea of Tea Partiers as terrorists
The endgame of this endeavor is obvious and should be disquieting to any free person. “Homeland Security-Funded Study Pushing Tea Party Terrorism Narrative,” by Patrick Poole at PJ Media, June 11 (thanks to Peter): In an era of agenda-driven academic research, who watches the watchers? Or more accurately, who gets to designate and categorize the […]
House members call for answers about U.S. Government’s involvement with Muslim Brotherhood
Bravo. “House Members Seek National Security Answers from Inspectors General,” from Representative Michele Bachmann’s site, June 13 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Today, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-06) and Congressmen Trent Franks (AZ-02), Louie Gohmert (TX-01), Tom Rooney (FL-16) and Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03) sent letters to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director […]
Greatest Church Soon To Be Mega Mosque?
Earlier on FrontPage Magazine (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I discussed the significance of renewed and adamant calls to transform Turkey’s Hagia Sophia into a mosque — in honor of Sultan Mehmet the conqueror and onetime scourge of Christendom: Ostensibly dealing with a building, a recent report demonstrates how Turkey’s populace””once deemed the most secular and liberal in […]
New Jersey Muslim indicted for murder that was initially blamed on “Islamophobia”
Last August I received the Tweet above from a certain Jawad Rasul. It said: Thank You @pamelageller and @jihadwatchRS, If you have any humanity, you might ponder over this! nyp.st/phBJuX via @newyorkpost I had no idea what the heck he was talking about. The link went to a story about a murder in New Jersey. […]
Turkey’s PM wants Fethullah Gülen, the “Turkish Khomeini,” to come home
Here is still more indication of the rapid discarding of secularism and Islamization of Turkey: many believe that Gülen, the “Turkish Khomeini,” wants to bring Sharia back to Turkey: “Turkey”s National Security Council condemned in 1998 for ‘trying to undermine the country”s secular institutions, concealing his methods behind a democratic and moderate image.’ For this […]