Osama bin Laden meets Jack Chick: the Vatican got the US to stage 9/11 in order to control the world! A beyond-parody article from MEMRI, with thanks to all who sent this in: The following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian historian Professor Zaynab Abd Al-Aziz, which aired on Saudi Iqra TV [1] on […]
Filipino Muslims poised for independence
From AP via the StarOnline, “Muslim Filipinos optimistic long quest for homeland nearing end,” with thanks to Fjordman. COTABATO, Philippines – They came by foot, some arriving days early – men taking time off from work and veiled women in long dresses with children in tow, lugging bottles of water and baskets of food under […]
Hanson: Our Strange War
Victor Davis Hanson writes in NRO, with thanks to TR. The three-year-plus war that began on September 11 is the strangest conflict in our history. It is not just that the first day saw the worst attack on American soil since our creation, or that we are publicly pledged to fighting a method “” “terror” […]
UNCHR: Protecting Religion”“ Specifically Islam
Elizabeth Kendal of World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission writes in AssistNews, with thanks to LH. AUSTRALIA — In an astonishing move on 12 April 2005, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) moved from promoting respect for human rights (the rights of humans) to promoting “respect for all religions and their value systems”. […]
“Islam always spoke with the sword in the hand and I don’t see why now we have changed attitudes and talk with the other civilisations”
Refreshing Candor Alert. “Iran: Vote for Rafsanjani and We Will Have Nuclear Bombs, Says Religious Leader,” from Adnkronos International, with thanks to MG: Tehran, 27 May (AKI) – Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hasani, a representative of Iran’s supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in Iranian Azerbaijan, has no doubts as to who to vote for […]
Peace is hopeless if the aim of the Palestinians is total victory
As I have long argued. From Barry Rubin in Lebanon’s Daily Star, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: The central question of the Arab-Israeli – or at least the Israeli-Palestinian – conflict is whether it is a “normal” struggle over territory or an existential battle set by religion, identit, and other factors much less susceptible […]
Does the Muslim American Society want an Islamic government in the United States?
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross meets the slick Mahdi Bray on PAX-TV to debate the prevalence of Sharia sentiments in the US. “MAS’s Muslim Brotherhood Problem,” by Gartenstein-Ross in the Weekly Standard: ON MAY 14, 2005, PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire broadcast a debate that I took part in against Mahdi Bray, the executive director of the Muslim American […]
Bin Laden planning an ‘Islamic state’
Stop the presses! It seems that Osama bin Laden is working to establish (gasp) an Islamic state! I have discussed this in five books now and innumerable articles, and so I am glad to see that AP is coming around. (Thanks to OBL r Us for the link.) An alleged militant on trial for a […]
Jihad warriors on the march from Cambodia to Southern Thailand
From TNA, with thanks to Peter in Bangkok: Cambodian Muslims flock to Thailand’s troubled South SA KAE0, May 19 (TNA) – Thai immigration officials on the Thai-Cambodian border have reported an unusual rise in the number of Muslim men from Cambodia travelling to Thailand’s three southern border provinces. More than a hundred Cambodian Muslims a […]
Islamic Rebels Claim to Hold Uzbek Town
The abuse rained down heavier than usual after I posted this last Monday. How dare I support the brutal Karimov regime? (I don’t.) How dare I say that the people who are revolting in Uzbekistan are jihadists? They’re just reacting to years of oppression. All right. But this just came in from AP (thanks to […]