“The Kremlin has given him its staunch backing, seeing him as the key to keeping the separatists in check, and that has allowed him to impose his will.” Sharia Alert, and Myopia in Moscow. “Chechen leader imposes strict brand of Islam,” from the Associated Press, February 28 (thanks to L.): GROZNY, Russia: The bullnecked president […]
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Fitzgerald: Building That Bridge Over The River Kwai, Or, Why Are We In Afghanistan?
The very idea that because Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan, Afghanistan has a special, irreplaceable importance in the “war against terrorism,” is false. In the first place, the fact that Al Qaeda found Afghanistan under the Taliban (a Taliban nurtured by an American-supported Pakistan, and recognized by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) […]
Jihad gaining ground in Bosnia
The genuine atrocities committed by the Milosevic regime have become an all-purpose excuse for many to ignore the growing influence of the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism in the Balkans, and to defame those who oppose the jihad in Bosnia, Kosovo, and the surrounding regions as supporters of fascism and genocide. This includes people who […]
WSJ calls for defending free speech, sort of
Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal calls for liberals and conservatives to defend Geert Wilders and freedom of speech. The WSJ has not always been this understanding of what is at stake in the Wilders case — this piece is a welcome departure from the paper’s previous stance. Still, this Stephens piece is thoroughly […]
Ayatollah Khomeini’s Rushdie Fatwa ““ the UN Commission on Human Rights ““ St. Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1989
Littman and Spencer: I have known a lion Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative to the United Nations in Geneva of Association for World Education (AWE) / World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ): Twenty years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini and Salman Rushdie competed with St. Valentine at the 45th session of the UN Commission […]
Counter-terrorism minister: Gaza situation radicalizing UK Muslims
Apparently the same way Iraq, dogs, pig statues, underwear ads, and free speech in general tend to “radicalize” Muslims. “Israeli killing of Palestinians radicalises UK Muslims,” from the Pakistan Daily, February 1: Britain’s security and counter-terrorism minister acknowledges link between foreign policy, security threats. Britain’s security and counter-terrorism minister, Lord Alan West, warned Tuesday that […]
Fitzgerald: The Ill-Founded Assumptions of Obama’s Address To Muslims
The notion that America managed, under Bush, to lose some kind of special place in the affections of the Muslim world — a special place that it possessed because America “had no colonial legacy” — is the kind of thing you read in the cheesiest potted summaries of the postwar period (“because, boys and girls, […]
Fjordman: A History of Optics, part 4
This is part 4 of 6. The first three are here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 In the 1720s the German professor Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687–1744) showed that certain silver salts, most notably silver chloride and silver nitrate, darken in the presence of light, not heat as some scholars had previously believed (the process […]
Egyptian Muslim cleric airs Holocaust footage, says: “This is what we hope will happen, but, Allah willing, at the hand of the Muslims”
As you read this and/or watch this clip, keep in mind the open calls for genocide against the Jews made by Muslim demonstrators in recent weeks in the U.S. and Europe. “Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari Justifies the Holocaust, Airs Footage, and Declares: ‘This Is What We Hope Will Happen But, Allah Willing, at the Hand […]
The Battle of Gaza: Stirring New Dilemmas
“The Battle of Gaza: Stirring New Dilemmas” is an exclusive Jihad Watch essay by Raphael Israeli. Raphael Israeli was born in Fez, Morocco, and arrived in Israel at the age of 14. A professor of Islamic, Middle Eastern and Chinese history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is the author of 25 books, including […]