This ought to complicate Hamas’ attempts to reconcile with Fatah, though, as this report notes, it could also conceivably result in an even more virulent jihadist conglomerate with which Israel would be expected to negotiate. “Hamas, Islamic Jihad debate joining forces,” from Agence France-Presse, January 18: Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two main Palestinian Islamist […]
Archives for 2012
Libya: Salafists race to impose Sharia “in more and more communities”
As was the case with Egypt, weren’t the Salafists and their sympathizers in Libya supposed to be a Tiny Minority of Extremists? We tried to tell you. “In Libya, a Fundamentalist War against Moderate Islam Takes Shape”, by Steven Sotloff for Time, January 18: The Libyan revolution has not been kind to Mahmud al-Arabi. Last […]
Al-Qaeda magazine found in Guantanamo cell
What a torture chamber Guantanamo is, eh? It’s so horrifically draconian that the terrorized, tortured prisoners lounge around reading the propaganda that their own side, the avowed enemies of the United States, puts out. Meanwhile, a French judge is seeking access to Guantanamo in order to confirm allegations prisoners have made of Qur’ans being desecrated […]
Wealthy Texas Muslim becomes jihadi, AP scratches head and wonders why
The question asked in this headline is never answered in the article. The AP can’t bring itself to consider the possibility that Moeed Abdul Salam read the Qur’an and Sunnah and was “radicalized” in that way. “Why did boarding school graduate join al-Qaida?,” by Chris Brummitt and Gene Johnson for AP, January 18 (thanks to […]
How Circumstance Dictates Islamic Behavior
Preach peace when weak, wage war when strong Has there ever been a time when one group of people openly exposes its animosity for another group of people””even as this second group not only ignores the animosity, but speaks well, enables, and legitimizes the first group? Welcome to the 21st century, where Western politicians empower […]
Muslim thug’s threats shut down Marxist antisemitic thug’s “anti-Sharia” conference
This is an unconscionable infringement on the freedom of speech, and an indication of the dismal state of affairs in England today: a conference on Sharia and human rights in a London university is canceled after an Islamic supremacist thug photographs and threatens the participants that he will kill them if they say anything he […]
Nigeria: Top cop suspended after mastermind of Christmas church bombing escapes
Keystone Kops, Nigerian edition. It will be harder to capture Sokoto a second time. “Top Nigerian cop suspended over suspected sect member escape,” from Agence France-Presse, January 17: Nigerian authorities on Tuesday suspended a top police officer for alleged negligence in the escape of a suspected member of the Islamist Boko Haram sect arrested over […]
U.K.: Muslim women receive death threats for trying to rescue others from violent situations
“Somewhat unsurprisingly the threats perpetrated by extremist Muslims cover an array of appalling crimes including obscene sexual offences … [the women] are frequently accused of ‘destroying Islam’ or “corrupting our women’.” Qur’an 4:34 makes violence against disobedient women lawful. Whatever other rationalizations one trots out, at the end of the day, Allah says you can […]
Afghanistan: Abused 15-year-old struggles to recover after police sent her back to her in-laws when she fled; 87% of Afghan women suffer abuse
Sahar Gul’s other option would have been jail, though police sent her back to her abusers. About 80% of the 115 or so girls known to be in Afghan jails are there for the “moral crime” of running away from home. It is a sick society where one can only hope to choose one form […]
Denmark: 3.5 million dollars collected yearly to sponsor Islamic terror
One version of homegrown terrorism: when Muslim immigrants and their children and grandchildren send their salaries, social benefits, black market money and money earned from robberies, thefts and handling stolen goods to Muhammad’s copycats. This is a case in which being an economic refugee and supporting terrorism are the same. “Terrorist groups get millions from […]