Might the jihad extend even into the courtroom of those who are being tried for pursuing it? Why not? From Expatica, : The Spaniard Enrique Cerda and Pakistani Ahmed Rukshar were due to go on trial accused of helping raise funds in connection with Fheik Mahammed, said to be Al Qaeda’s ‘No 3’. Fheik Mahammed […]
Spain Makes Terror Arrests
From AP via Fox News, . MADRID, Spain “” Police arrested 16 Islamic terror suspects in raids in several cities, including 11 men accused of having ties to Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi’s group Al Qaeda in Iraq and recruiting people for attacks there, officials said Wednesday. The 11 were part of a support group for a Syrian-based […]
Myth of Islamic tolerance reigns at AP
The myth of Islamic tolerance is presented as fact in this AP story, “Anti-Semitism Conference Opens in Spain” (thanks to Seymour Paine for the link): CORDOBA, Spain (AP) — Governments must take concrete measures to fight anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, delegates to an international conference said Wednesday, meeting in a city where Jews, Muslims […]
Spain: Engineer ‘designed missiles for attacks on Israel’
From Expatica, : ALICANTE — An aeronautical engineer has been arrested for allegedly designing missiles for the Palestinian terrorist organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Marwan Ismail Dahman, who was born in Gaza, in Palestine but is a naturalised Spaniard, was arrested in Benidorm in the Alicante province, the Spanish daily El Pais reported. He allegedly […]
Madrid Bombers Trained at Bosnia-Based Al Qaeda Campus
Jihadists working from bases in Europe — and even in that vaunted bastion of Islamic moderation, Bosnia. From Bulgaria’s Sofia News Agency, with thanks to Fraser: The terrorists that carried out the Madrid bombings in March 2004 have been trained at special Al Qaeda based in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The news was broken Tuesday by […]
What’s that? “Jihad,” you say? Never heard of it
When did Imad Yarkas misunderstand Islam, and how much did he misunderstand it?* “Al-Qaida’s Suspected Leader in Spain Denies Founding Cell That Helped in Sept. 11 Attacks,” from AP, : MADRID, Spain (AP) – Al-Qaida’s suspected leader in Spain denied Monday that he founded a radical Muslim cell accused of helping plot the Sept. 11 […]
“In 1492, we lost everything”
Traditional Islamic theology holds that any land that has once belonged to the House of Islam belongs to it forever. That is the ultimate impulse behind the efforts to eradicate Israel, and a growing parallel movement in Spain. “Andalusia’s connection,” from the Toronto Star: At the Jamal Islamiya mosque in this seaside town, a Muslim […]
Syrian arrested again for Madrid massacre
From Expatica, : MADRID-Spanish police have arrested a Syrian for the second time for his alleged links to the Madrid bombings. Mohannad Almallah Dabas was detained in his home in Madrid for his alleged links to the massacre in which 191 people were killed and 1,500 injured when four commuter trains were bombed on 11 […]
FBI Finds Link Between 9/11, Madrid Bombs
This shouldn’t come as any surprise to those who understand the ideological ties that bind together the two attacks and their perpetrators. From Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: MADRID (Reuters) – The FBI has established the clearest link yet between the March 11 Madrid train bombings and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on […]
Spain: Muslims demand removal of the “four Moorish heads” from the shield of Aragon
This Spanish-language story from El Mundo (thanks to Silvia) reveals new demands on the Spanish dhimmis: deny your history and culture. Above all, conceal the fact that modern Spain emerged out of seven centuries of Islamic occupation. My rough-and-ready translation of part of the piece: MADRID – The Secretary General of the Union of Islamic […]