“Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That’s why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab […]
Somali jihad group threatens journalists
If these Somali jihadists ultimately join the Somali immigrants who are coming in large numbers into the United States, they will find that “journalists” like Michael Kruse, Phil Keating, Meredith Heagney, Manya Brachear, and S. I. Rosenbaum are their best friends. “Hizbul Islam threaten Somalia journalists,” from Garowe Online, October 24 (thanks to James): MOGADISHU, […]
Attack on Cruise Liner: Piracy or Terror?
Patrick Goodenough at CNSNews.com assesses the evidence: (CNSNews.com) – Gunmen who attacked a luxury cruise liner off the east coast of Africa may have been terrorists targeting Americans and other Westerners rather than pirates, the Australian government said Monday. An armed gang on two speedboats fired machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade at the Seabourn […]
Al Qaida Still Operating in Somalia
This will come as no surprise to those who have been following the Bin Laden saga. From AP via ABC News, “Ethiopia: Al Qaida Operating in Somalia,” . ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s prime minister warned on Thursday of the danger posed by a “very active al-Qaida cell” in Somalia’s capital and said a stable […]
No more Somalias: US vows to stay the course
Smiling at the massacre From Reuters: The United States vowed on Wednesday to stay the course in Iraq after three American contractors were killed in an ambush and their bodies dragged through the streets of Falluja in an incident reminiscent of the grisly fate of U.S. soldiers attacked in Somalia in 1993. Four contractors to […]
Somali Muslim Journalist on the Detrimental Effects of Wahhabism on His Country
Says MEMRI: “On November 21, 2003, Somali journalist Bashir Goth wrote an extensive article detailing how Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi Islam has corrupted the Islam of his native Somalia.” He calls Wahhabism an “alien, perverted version of Islam that depends on punctilious manners more than it depends on deep-rooted faith. A strange uniformity… has crept into […]