Bhokin Bhalakula The Thai jihad continues apace. From Reuters: Heavily armed raiders stole a large quantity of explosives from a quarry in Thailand’s largely Muslim south, just days after a bomb attack in the region and prompting fears of another, officials said on Wednesday. “With this amount of fertilizer, you could blow up a whole […]
The growth of radical Islam in Central Asia
Background on the jihad in Uzbekistan, from Asia Times. Note that the jihadis were from middle-class families: Recent reports Prior to the recent terror attacks in Uzbekistan which claimed at least 19 lives, a spate of reports from the region shows ongoing Islamist activity and law-enforcement efforts to contain it. One report details the state […]
Pakistan: A curriculum of hatred
A controversy in Pakistan centers over jihad in the textbooks. From HiPakistan: The religious parties in Pakistan are at loggerheads with the government on yet another issue: the so-called “exclusion” of some Quranic verses from the biology textbook for Intermediate classes. What has annoyed the MMA? It all began three weeks ago when in reply […]
Tiny minority of extremists update: 65% Pakistanis support Osama
A popular man An interesting report on polling in Pakistan, from Mid Day: Nearly two thirds of people in Pakistan hold favourable views of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and 86 per cent approve of President Pervez Musharraf, according to a survey by a major American organisation. Nearly half of those interviewed said suicide bombings […]
Islam & Multi-culturalism
A speech by Azam Kamguian on the Sharia courts in Canada. From the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society: In my speech, I will argue against the Islamic tribunals and will discuss how the Islamic Sharia law brutally violates human and women’s rights. I will try to demonstrate how Islamism and multi – culturalism […]
Thailand: Ruling party member implicated in jihad activity
Thaksin: did the jihad reach into his government? A prominent Thai governing official has been arrested in connection with jihad attacks in southern Thailand. From The Straits Times, with thanks to Nicolei: A prominent member of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s ruling party faced treason charges yesterday over a deadly January attack on an army base […]
The Mythical Moderate Muslim
Yashiko Sagamori in Arutz Sheva says there are no moderate Muslims, and explores the strange dhimmitude that comes over respected analysts when they look at Islam. I would make one clarification: there are in my experience many moderate Muslims, but a moderate Islam is harder to find — and this is a significant weakness that […]
British radical Muslims explain how the caliphate will be restored
Evidently by violence. Above is the illustration accompanying this announcement at the British radical Muslim site Al-Muhajiroun (thanks to “Allah“): Islaamic conference How the Khilaafah will be restored & Man-made law destroyed …80 years on from the destruction of the Islamic state – 3rd of March 1924… Wednesday 3rd of March 2004, From 7pm to […]
Where did he get this idea?
Australian jihadi David Hicks Australian TV is airing a sympathetic documentary about David Hicks, a convert to Islam who is now “awaiting before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” Piers Akerman in the Sunday Telegraph (thanks to Kevin) has a few choice words about this publicly-funded puff piece, but one section jumps out in […]
The kind of society jihadis want to establish
In case anyone has forgotten the Taliban or doesn’t believe reports from Saudi Arabia or Iran, this look at the rule of the radical group Ansar al-Islam in a region of Iraq gives a glimpse of the kind of society jihadists worldwide want to establish. From AP, with thanks to Nicolei: Back when the radical […]