An interesting story from Reuters, with thanks to THE ONE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED. JERUSALEM – Israeli security sources played down a report on Sunday that a key suspect in this month’s London bombings is believed to have helped plan a pro-Palestinian suicide attack in Tel Aviv two years ago. Maariv daily said Mohammad […]
NYT: Anger Burns on the Fringe of Britain’s Muslims
Hassan M. Fattah writes this in-depth article on the British bombers and barely touches on religious motivation at all. In the New Duranty Times: LEEDS, England, July 15 – At Beeston’s Cross Flats Park, in the center of this now embattled town, Sanjay Dutt and his friends grappled Friday with why their friend Kakey, better […]
Bomber’s family: why we fear the racial backlash
From the UK’s Independent Online: The family of one of the London suicide bombers has revealed how it has become “criminalised, persecuted and vilified” amid growing fears of a racial backlash in the wake of the atrocities. The despair expressed by Mohammed Sidique Khan’s family is the first tangible evidence of how the blasts have […]
London-based radical salutes bombs ‘victory’
Mr. Al-Siba”i recently explained that under Islamic law, there are no civilians. This comes to us from the TimesOnline: A LONDON-BASED Islamic radical has praised the suicide bomb attacks on the capital. Hani Al-Siba”i, an Egyptian-born academic, described the attacks that killed at least 55 people as “a great victory” that rubbed the noses of […]
One city, two worlds
Muslims in Leeds don’t integrate into English society according to this report from AP, with thanks to Skeet Street. LEEDS, England – Young men wear tight jeans and T-shirts, their black hair gelled. The heavy and distinct Yorkshire accent “” gruff with flat vowels “” may be just as deceiving. Despite their outward Western appearance, […]
For young Muslims in Britain, the call of radicals is strong
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with thanks to Skeet Street. LEEDS, England — In a basement mosque where suspected suicide bombers once prayed, the imam ended worship Thursday with traditional Islamic blessings, then turned to the subject on everyone’s mind: “The devil of radicalism is at our doorstep. We must fight it, brothers.” Shahzad Tanweer — […]
Muslim World League Denies US Claim of Terror Financing
From Arab News, with thanks to Skeet Street. JEDDAH “” The Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL) yesterday denied US allegations that it was involved in financing terror and said the US claim would tarnish the image of the organization. The MWL “rejects anything linked to terrorism and is committed to Islam’s stand, which prohibits terrorist […]
Treasury Designates UK’s MIRA for Support to Al Qaida
From a US Treasury Department Press Release, with thanks to Sr. Soph. The U.S Department of the Treasury today designated the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA), a U.K.-based Saudi oppositionist organization, for providing material support to al Qaida. MIRA is run by al Qaida-affiliated Saad al-Faqih, who was designated pursuant to E.O. 13224 […]
Bat Ye”or’s theory of the British collapse
Writing to View From the Right from Europe, Bat Ye”or, the author of Eurabia, explains Britain’s total surrender to Islam in terms of dhimmitude and particularly Britain’s dhimmi-like betrayal of Israel: Dhimmitude is characterised by the victim’s siding with his oppressors, by the moral justification the victim provides for his oppressors” hateful behavior, and by […]
Raphael Israeli’s warnings went unheeded
“…Over the past decades at least, the British have been warned by many quarters about their overly permissive policy towards sheltering terrorists, which was originally devised and carried out by the same Jack Straw who was then Home Secretary and is now the Foreign Secretary, notably after the Islamist “mouths” and “brains” of the Gama’at […]