He’ll be tortured in Egypt, they assert, and that seems to be more important than the fact that he hoped to cause the deaths of large numbers of Canadians. From the Toronto Star: The federal government has failed to justify the drastic step of sending a suspected terrorist back to Egypt given the high likelihood […]
Self-flagellation
Pearl “Because of the twisted, sado-sexual nature of the photographs taken at Abu Ghraib, the prison abuse story is deemed to be more “newsworthy” than a long litany of jihadist atrocities. The silence of the sheiks, mullahs and imams isn’t worthy of newsprint.” From Oliver North, with thanks to EPG: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are […]
Vatican: Prison Abuse Said Bigger to U.S. Than 9/11
Lajolo The Vatican foreign minister thinks that the prisoner abuse scandal was worse than the wanton murder of 3,000 people. Maybe Dan Schutte or the St. Louis Jesuits can whip out a new guitar hymn called “Moral Myopia” for this Sunday’s Masses. From AP, with thanks to LGF: ROME – The scandal of prisoner abuses […]
Radical Islam and radical Christianity
Here’s one for all those advocates of theological equivalence, or the idea that Christianity and other religions are just as much capable of inspiring violence and fanaticism as is Islam. No, no, thank you, I’ve heard of the Crusades. Haven’t heard of one lately, though. Anyway, this is not to say that Christians have never […]
U.S. Walks Out as Sudan Elected to U.N. Rights Body
Sichan Siv This just in from Reuters: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Sudan won an uncontested election Tuesday to the United Nations’ main human rights watchdog, prompting the United States to walk out because of alleged ethnic cleansing in the country’s Darfur region. Alleged, eh? Sudan’s envoy immediately shot back that the U.S. delegation was “shedding […]
Liberal Muslim Scholar: The Term ‘Jihad’ is Misunderstood by Islamist Clerics
Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari From
The Politicization of the Terror War
Some trenchant observations from William Webb: Richard Clarke started his testimony before the commission investigating 9/11 yesterday by stating, “Your government failed you, those entrusted with protecting you failed you and I failed you. We tried hard, but that doesn’t matter because we failed,” he said. “And for that failure, I would ask once all […]
WWJK: Who Would Jesus Kill?
I haven’t seen Mel Gibson’s movie, although I have heard enough about it for five lifetimes. However, this Ann Coulter column zeroes in on the peculiar dhimmi tendency of American liberals to practice theological equivalence: to assert or assume that Christianity and Islam have the same capacity to inspire violence. I discuss the absurdity of […]
Dhimmitude in Canada: watch your tone of voice there, buddy
“An American evangelist’s television series on Islam in America was canceled by a Canadian station after the first program because Muslims complained his tone and demeanor was an incitement of hatred,” according to World Net Daily. Program Manager Rob Sheppard wrote “a letter of apology” to the Canadian branch of the Council on American Islamic […]
Dhimmitude at the VOA
The Voice of America was once a key component of America’s ideological struggle against Communism. But against a new threat it seems to be having trouble summoning the requisite backbone. In this interview with the author of a new book on terrorism, the author explains why she profiled Christian cultists and Jewish militants in a […]