From the American Thinker, more on the interconnectedness of jihad and terrorist organizations. Here’s what the documents tell us: On February 26th, 1993 the first world trade center was attacked by al-Qaeda and the EIJ[Egyptian Islamic Jihad] (really two organizations that cooperated in 1993 and eventually merged). A month later an official from EIJ was […]

From Frontpage Magazine I was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying me under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to survive, as the perpetrators shouted “Allah Akbar!” My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. At 10 years old, I learned the […]

Well, that works for me, too. From AP Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the U.S. had resorted to the same “repressive” tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader that was posted Monday on a militant Web site. The tape appeared to be […]

Flemming Rose speaks So, over two weeks we witnessed a half-dozen cases of self-censorship, pitting freedom of speech against the fear of confronting issues about Islam. This was a legitimate news story to cover, and Jyllands-Posten decided to do it by adopting the well-known journalistic principle: Show, don’t tell. I wrote to members of the […]

Two stories this weekend estimate the number of dead in cartoon violence at 45. Just stop and think about that for a minute. What an utter waste.

Jeff Jacoby, in today’s Boston Globe The Phoenix is Boston’s leading ”alternative” newspaper, the kind of brash, pull-no-punches weekly that might have been expected to print without hesitation the Mohammed cartoons that Islamists have been using to incite rage and riots across the Muslim world. Its willingness to push the envelope was memorably demonstrated in […]

From AFP Hundreds of angry Muslims ransacked two churches in southern Pakistan before setting them on fire after allegations that a Christian had desecrated the Koran, police and officials said.

Cartoon rage continues. From AP Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, smashing the windows of a guard post but failing to push through the gates. Several people were injured.

All right, you shirkers. Enough about your cholesterol. Why aren’t you having a bit of havarti on a cracker, or a nice warm roll with Lurpak butter? Buy some today. If nothing else, you can donate it to the local homeless shelter. From AP Consumer boycotts of Danish goods in Muslim countries in protest of […]

From AP Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday in violence that left at least 15 people dead, police and a resident said. Troops and police reinforcements have been deployed to restore order in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, where 15 Christian churches were burned, said Nigerian […]