“The world will see the anger of the Islamic world against this regime.” Oh, we’ve seen it before. And I wonder: how many of those who are planning to turn out would prefer to be at an anti-mullahocracy demonstration if such wouldn’t put them in line for torture and death? From AP, with thanks to […]
Al-Arian Jurors Are Shown Series Of Web Site Postings
“Our daggers and rifles will pursue them until the extraction of the last Jew from our land.” Rumpled Academic update from the Tampa Trib, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: TAMPA – — A series of Palestinian Islamic Jihad communiqués posted on the Internet was shown to jurors Tuesday in the terror-support trial of Sami […]
Hearts and minds in Pakistan
Will earthquake aid really win over Pakistani hearts and minds? This article, “For Devout Pakistani Muslims, Aid Muddles Loyalties,” from the New York Times (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist), suggests that it does win over those who are not politicized, but that jihadists and their sympathizers are unswayed — as I observed about the tsunami […]
Saudi Dollars and Jihad
Rachel Ehrenfeld asks key questions in FrontPage. (Yes, yes, thank you, I know that jihad means “struggle,” not “holy war,” and that that struggle takes many forms in Islamic tradition. Warfare against unbelievers is one of its principal forms.): Earlier this month, President George W. Bush finally declared that our war is with Radical Islam. […]
Iraq: We are fighting for an Islamic State, says Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda issues a helpful statement of its intentions for those who do not read Jihad Watch. Of course, Sharia is already part of the Iraqi Constitution, so why do they oppose it? From AKI, with thanks to Sr. Soph: Baghdad, 18 Oct. (AKI) – Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the terror group led by Jordanian militant Abu […]
Pakistan’s government implicated in nuclear trade
Much has been said about the recent peace initiatives between the Indian and Pakistani governments. However, a recent report in Pakistan’s Daily Star contends that — while peace efforts may be moving forward — Pakistan is still attempting to upgrade and expand its nuclear arsenal through covert purchases made overseas. Considering Pakistan’s persistent refusal to […]
“7 Danger Signs of Militant Islam”
The United American Committee asked me to supply them with some signs that any given Muslim spokesman may be a sympathizer with the global jihad and/or its overall goal of establishing Sharia. I gave them these seven as a preliminary list, although they have been slightly modified — I would add “by name” to number […]
Who won the Koranic duels? The Koran did, of course.
This report is an update for two Jihad Watch postings. One from November 2003 and the other from February 2005. It also explodes the myth of one becoming “rehabilitated” from the Qur’anic call to jihad. From The Telegraph, : A pioneering scheme to fight Islamist terror by encouraging jailed extremists to rethink their grasp of […]
Trifkovic: President Bush’s Speech on Terrorism: Meaning and Implications
Serge Trifkovic has written an enormously insightful assessment of President Bush’s Thursday speech at Chronicles (thanks to all who sent this in). Read it all, please, but here is the conclusion: The unprecedented danger is for us to forget that we are heirs to the greatest and best civilization the world has known, and that […]
MI5 unmasks covert arms programmes: Document names 300 organisations seeking nuclear and WMD technology
Nuclear and other WMD jihad update from The Guardian, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The determination of countries across the Middle East and Asia to develop nuclear arsenals and other weapons of mass destruction is laid bare by a secret British intelligence document which has been seen by the Guardian. More than 360 private companies, […]