In the new “liberated” Afghanistan, apostasy is punishable by death according to Sharia law. Our policy makers didn’t see a problem with incorporating Sharia law into the Afghani Constitution, nor into the Iraq Constitution either. From the Australia News, with thanks to Looney Tunes. A MAN detained by police for converting from Islam to Christianity […]
Women at war with the mullahs
More on Wafa Sultan from the UK Sunday Times, with thanks to Granny Weatherwax. It would be hard to imagine a place more remote from the violence and turmoil of the Middle East than this quiet cul-de-sac in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles. But as David Sultan opens the front door of his home […]
Former prime minister: Iraq is in a “˜civil war”
The question we must seriously ask ourselves at this juncture is whether a Sunni-Shia civil war would help or harm U.S. interests. To understand the answer to that question, we must first define our national interests as separate and distinct from the interest of the “Iraqi people.” And we must wonder, are we wasting ourselves […]
Five die in Afghanistan car ambush
From the Taipei Times: Suspected Taliban insurgents ambushed an influential former governor in an Afghan city yesterday, shooting him dead along with his bodyguard and three others, police said. Militants used AK-47 assault rifles to shoot at a car carrying the ex-governor, Taj Mohammed Qari Baba, near his home in eastern city of Ghazni, said […]
Pakistan bomb kills seven
From AP: DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Suspected Islamic militants triggered a bomb near a police van Sunday in northwestern Pakistan, killing seven people and wounding four others, an official said. The remote control bomb shattered the police vehicle while it was on a routine patrol in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in northwestern Pakistan, […]
Iran’s top dissident released from jail
From Reuters: TEHRAN – Iran’s most prominent political dissident, Akbar Ganji, has been released from prison after six years behind bars for criticising some of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic. Ganji, a journalist, was jailed in 2000 after writing articles linking senior officials to the serial killings of political dissidents in 1998. […]
Rice Says U.S. Would Consider Meeting Iran
Secretary of State Rice has emerged as the chief architect of American foreign policy since the last election. She seems to be hopelessly out of her depth dealing with Islam and Islamic nations and has articulated no clear strategy for dealing with them in over a year as Secretary of State. From AP: MELBOURNE, Australia […]
Report: Iran would talk with U.S. about Iraq
Are we witnessing the attempted creation of a “Shia bloc” consisting of Iran and Iraq? From CNN: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is willing to hold talks with the United States on Iraq, a top Iranian official said Thursday, according to a report by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). Ali Larijani, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator […]
Rice defends resuming military ties with Indonesia
Secretary Rice stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that there could be anything wrong with arming more and more Muslims and Indonesia seems to be her new found “moderate Muslim” country: the shining example Iraq refuses to become in her “Light Unto The Muslim Nations” scheme. From the Sydney Morning Herald: THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza […]
Gridlock and anxiety after jail raid
From Al-Jazeera.net: The Palestinian territories have come to a halt during a general strike called in protest against an Israeli siege of a West Bank jail. The Palestinian Authority is already in a heightened state of alert after the raid on the Jericho jail provoked a wave of abductions and threats of revenge against the […]