This is certainly true. I warned in March 2003 that the idea of bringing democracy to the Middle East was unrealistic (at best), and over the years here at Jihad Watch Hugh Fitzgerald wrote many times about the folly of the Iraq and Afghanistan projects, and how that folly was based on a faulty understanding […]
Archives for 2013
Bangladesh: 100,000 protest against Islamic supremacists after murder of counter-jihad blogger
More power to them. An update on this story. “Blogger’s death rekindles anti-Islamist protests in Bangladesh,” from Reuters, February 16: More than 100,000 Bangladeshi protesters, angered by the killing of one of their leaders, poured back onto the streets of the capital on Saturday to demand the death penalty for those found guilty of war […]
Egyptian President Denies Targeting of Christian Girls
During Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi’s recent visit to Germany, in an open meeting with that nation’s Egyptian community, a Coptic Christian attendee implored him to take measures to help protect the Christian girls of Egypt, who, as the man put it, “are subject to kidnappings on a daily basis.” According to the Arabic website Gate […]
Robert Spencer: Why Did Lenin and Muhammad Hate Music?
Here is PJ Lifestyle Editor David Swindle’s note on my new series there: “Politics is downstream from culture” has been one of PJ Media’s mantras in response to the election. It’s with this direction in mind that I”ve invited my friend, the courageous writer-scholar-activist Robert Spencer, to contribute regularly to PJ Lifestyle. Since May of […]
Saudi Hypocrisy At Its Best
Over at FrontPage Mag (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discuss the latest bit of Saudi sponsored surrealism — that is, its new Vienna-based “interfaith dialogue” initiative: Few things offer surreal experiences as when Islam and the West interact””when 7th century primordialism encounters 21st century relativism. Consider the issue of “interfaith dialogue.” In principle, it is a decent […]
Counter-jihad blogger murdered in Bangladesh
The Islamic supremacists tried to silence Lars Hedegaard with a bogus “race hate” trial. That didn’t work, so they tried to kill him. And they succeeded in murdering — most brutally — Ahmed Rajib. They hacked Jihad Watch. Comments still aren’t working, but we are still trying to get them going. We will not be […]
Robert Spencer and Michael Coren on the jihad torture and murder of Kriss Donald, and more
My weekly appearance on Michael Coren’s Sun TV show.
The “Epidemic” of Sexual Harassment–and Rape–in Morsi’s Egypt
Over at FrontPage Mag (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I discuss yet another indicator of the true nature of the Obama-supported “Arab Spring.” Since the “Arab Spring” came to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood assumed power, sexual harassment, abuse, and rape of women has skyrocketed. This graph, which shows an enormous jump in sexual harassment beginning around January […]
Jihad Watch site jihad update
I apologize for how long it is taking to get the site fully up and running again. This morning I am able to post, albeit with difficulty, but comments and some other features are still disabled. I ask for your patience: the problems have proved deeper and more intractable than anyone expected, but we are […]
Tech difficulties update
I really don’t have all that much to report, but I wanted to let you know I’m working on it. The situation is very much the same: the comments feature is still not working, it is still very difficult to post articles at all, and other features of the site are non-functional. Several tech experts […]