Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Al Qaeda recruits “who came to train in Afghanistan in the 1990s were not impoverished social failures,” observed Lawrence Wright in his 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. In the twenty-fifth anniversary year of Al Qaeda’s September […]
Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Osama bin Laden, Out of Islam’s Past (Part 4)
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Osama bin Laden habitually invoked “images that were deeply meaningful to many Muslims and practically invisible to those who were unfamiliar with the faith,” wrote Lawrence Wright in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. As bin Laden’s Al Qaeda attacks of September […]
Canada Frees ‘Deradicalized’ Al Qaeda Terrorist in Parliament Bomb Plot
No longer showed “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.” While Prime Minister Carney’s government targets the real threats coming from America and Israel, it’s welcoming back Al Qaeda. Here’s a little flashback. For years, police and CSIS spooks have kept a close eye on the Salaheddin Islamic Centre, a former warehouse in […]
Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: The Savage Wars of Jihad (Part 3)
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. “Death on a grand scale was a goal in itself. There was no attempt to spare innocent lives, since the concept of innocence was subtracted from al-Qaeda’s calculations.” wrote Lawrence Wright in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. The twenty-fifth anniversary year of the mother […]
UK: Author of Green Party’s ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Motion Has Friend in Al-Qaeda
Lubna Speitan, the Green Party member behind the “Zionism is racism” motion, is friends with Minh Quang Pham, an al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted to bomb passengers landing at Heathrow from Israel and America. Speitan, however, said questions about her friendship with Pham were just “character assassination.” She has said herself that despite Pham’s conviction for […]
UK Green Party Member Is Friends With Al-Qaeda Supporter Who Plotted to Bomb Heathrow Passengers
The Green Party member behind the “Zionism is racism” motion is close friends with an al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted to bomb passengers landing at Heathrow from Israel and America. More on this execrable woman, the British-Palestinian Lubna Speitan, can be found here: “Green Party fails to suspend ‘good friend’ of al-Qaeda terrorist,” by Memphis Barker, Telegraph, […]
‘Who is better to rise as a secret proxy for Iran than al-Qaeda?’
Although violent sectarianism are as old as Islam itself, the goal of defeating the common infidel enemy persists, and, of course, America is the archenemy of both al-Qaeda and Iran. Take the example of Saudi Arabia: This ostensible ally of the United States also allied with Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas, despite the fact that the […]
Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Jihadist Justifications (Part 2)
Part 1 is here. “The Quran is full of references to jihad,” wrote Lawrence Wright in his 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Now that September 11, 2001, the terrorist day of infamy forever known as 9/11, has reached its twenty-fifth anniversary, it is instructive to review jihadist […]
Mali: Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims kills more 100 soldiers in jihad attack this month
It looks as if here yet again, as we have seen in Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Somalia and elsewhere, that the jihad forces are better equipped, better trained, and better funded than the national military forces. If an Islamic state is established in Mali, it could […]
Thousands back petition urging Archbishop of Canterbury to resign over 9/11 outrage
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, withdrew the award she gave to a Muslim cleric who praised Osama bin Laden on the anniversary of 9/11. But that wasn’t enough. The truth is that the revocation of Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi’s award did nothing to change the core beliefs of Lambeth Place, which had stated: […]