Hasan Akbar update. From AFP, with thanks to Nicolei: US army Sergeant Hasan Akbar, accused of a grenade attack that killed two 101st Airborne Division troops and hurt 14 others in Kuwait in 2003, faces a court martial April 4, a military spokesman said today. “His court martial starts April 4,” spokeswoman Jackie Thomas of […]
Kuwait: Fundamentalists Recruiting Teens for Jihad
And to what extent is this happening in mosques elsewhere in the world, including the United States? From AP, with thanks to LGF: KUWAIT CITY – Every Friday, 17-year-old Dhari al-Zahameel’s family would wait for him to come back from the mosque so they could have lunch together. Then one day the young al-Zahameel didn’t […]
Kuwaiti Cleric Questioned Over Calling For Jihad In Iraq
How many more are going unquestioned? From AFP: KUWAIT CITY, Aug 24 (AFP) – An Islamist cleric was freed without bail after being questioned for a few hours over allegeations he incited youngsters to fight against US forces in Iraq, legal sources told AFP. Sheikh Jaber al-Jalahma, a hardline Islamist, was questioned after some Islamist […]
Kuwait busts Iraq jihad ring
Kuwait also plans to try to keep the young from being misled by jihad ideology. I hope to see how they will explain the jihad verses in the Qur’an and Hadith. From AFP: KUWAIT said today it was questioning 11 people in connection with an alleged campaign to recruit volunteers to fight US forces in […]
Tolerance in Kuwait: writer jailed for private lecture on Islamic Studies
The Sharia not only denies equality of rights to non-Muslims and women; it also tends to a totalitarian extinguishing of free thought. From the Index on Censorship, with thanks to Nicolei: A one-year prison sentence was handed down to writer, journalist and researcher Yasser al-Habib on 20 January 2004, when he was reportedly convicted of […]
Sharia watch: Kuwaiti MP calls for music ban in schools
Radical Muslims are fighting around the world to institute Sharia law, with its institutionalized oppression of non-Muslims — dhimmitude. A new glimpse at what a Sharia state would look like comes from Kuwait, where “an Islamist parliamentarian has said he was coordinating with other MPs to ban music education at schools in Kuwait as ‘anti-Islamic […]