And why shouldn’t they? If they’re being brought up as good Muslims, they are very likely being taught that women and religious minorities are not the equals of male Muslims. This assumption is enshrined in Islamic law in numerous ways, as I demonstrate in Onward Muslim Soldiers. These are the attitudes that, along with violent […]
Greenberg: Radical Islam tops list of U.S. enemies
Common sense from Dan Greenberg in the MetroWest Daily News (thanks to Nicolei): It has become almost impossible to have a detached discussion — one that takes historical considerations into account — about the war on terror, and the position of Iraq in the context of that war. Here, I would like to do my […]
Mufti of Australia: this was Muslim land
Before shrimp on the barbee, Foster’s Lager, and Crocodile Dundee, evidently there was the burqa, the book, and the Prophet. MEMRI is reporting that the Mufti of Australia and New Zealand, Taj Al-Din Hamed Abdallah Al-Hilali, is claiming that Australia was originally Muslim land, settled by Afghans. The Aborigines are their descendants: “The strange thing […]
Banning Valentine’s to fight crises of legitimacy
Majid Mohammadi explores the delicate and easily-wounded sensibilities of radical Muslims. As Muslims in Western Europe and the U.S. assert their right to maintain their culture and not assimilate, as Dyab Abou Jahjah of the Arab European League has insisted, we will see more of this sort of thing in the West: “In Saudi Arabia, […]
Hambali wanted to attack Australia
It seems that the terrorist Hambali wanted to start the jihad in Australia, but wasn’t able to get it off the ground. This from The Australian, with thanks to Jean-Luc: HAMBALI, Southeast Asia’s most dangerous terrorist, wanted to attack Australia but had failed to establish a local network capable of staging bombings, US interrogators have […]
The voice behind the intifada
Dr. Mohammed al-Shiekh Mahmood Sayam Dr. Mohammed al-Shiekh Mahmood Sayam, who first called for “intifada against Zionism” in 1987, was recently interviewed by Asia Times Online. The interview reveals a great deal about the radical Muslim mindset. Sayam numbers among his intellectual mentors several of the fathers of modern radical Islam whom I profile in […]
Saudi official: embassy Islamic centers not closing
According to a statement from the Saudi Press Agency (courtesy IMRA), the Islamic Centers in Saudi embassies are not closing down — contrary to a Washington Post report. The Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance, Sheikh Saleh Bin Abdulaziz Bin Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh, “replying to a question on the Washington Post newspaper’s […]
Jihad in the Saudi Embassy in Washington
MEMRI has an illuminating report about the Islamic Affairs Department (IAD) of the Saudi embassy in Washington: “Officials of the Saudi government working at the IAD in Washington, D.C. and its worldwide offices have been mentioned in media reports in 2002 and 2003 for suspected connections with terrorist activities. During the past week, it was […]
New Issue of “Voice of Jihad”
The Middle East Media Research Institute reports on a new issue of Al-Qaeda’s online magazine, “Voice of Jihad.” “Our number one enemy,” this issue tells us, “is the Jews and the Christians, and we must free ourselves to invest all our efforts until we annihilate them – and we are able do this if Allah […]
The Vatican Speaks Out Against Dhimmitude
Many (if not most) of you have already seen this at LGF, but I had been planning to put it up already, and it is so significant that I didn’t want to let it go by unremarked. La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine in Rome that enjoys semi-official status in the Catholic Church, has published […]