“‘When you’re targeting as ‘special’ 20 percent of the world, you’re obviously sweeping far too broadly and you’re going to waste a lot of resources on people who pose no threat,’ said David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. ‘The second problem is that when you treat people from Muslim countries […]
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Relax redux: Jihadists are no threat to America, and there is no clash of civilizations!
Shelves of books all about Islam, and a rifle — but don’t get the crazy idea that this has anything to do with Islam Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Relax Bulletin, the revelation that there are only 91 million admitted jihadists, comes the latest from former CIA agent Marc Sageman, who says that the […]
‘Independent’ Kosovo: A threat, not a country
James George Jatras, director of the American Council for Kosovo, explains in WorldNetDaily why Kosovar independence is so ill-advised: Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking the rhetorical question: “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.” That […]
Spencer and Mohamed Elibiary on deception in Islam
I met Mohamed Elibiary at the America’s Truth Forum Symposium in Dallas a few weeks ago. Elibiary is the President and CEO of the Freedom and Justice Foundation, which he cofounded in 2002 to “promote a Centrist Public Policy environment in Texas by coordinating the state level government and interfaith community relations for the organized […]
Chad: Muslim in-laws seize wife, kill son of convert from Islam to Christianity
Why are Jeje Nehamiah Baki’s Muslim in-laws so hostile? Could it have something to do with the traditional Islamic prohibition — indeed, a death sentence — on those who leave Islam, a prohibition rooted in the words of Muhammad? Western Muslim spokesmen have frequently assured us that no such prohibition exists. Yet stories like this […]
Fitzgerald: Barack and Iraq
It is idiotic to accuse Barack Obama of being a Muslim or a secret Muslim. He is not. It is not idiotic, however, to attack the miscomprehension of Islam that surely explains such a remark, one he might wish to reconsider, that he would “meet with Muslim leaders” in order to thrash out the things […]
“yall are stupid morons get a life”
That headline is the entirety of a message I received in the Hate Mail Bag yesterday. Ironically enough, it came from a jihad apologist who has recently sent me 62 email messages claiming that the global jihad is a reaction to U.S. foreign policy (tell that to its victims in Thailand, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.), and […]
Fitzgerald: Old modes of operating on both sides
BAGHDAD – Al-Qaeda is using children as suicide bombers in Iraq, with at least two attacks in the past week committed by 15-year-olds, a US military commander claimed on Sunday. — from this news article As always, the PLO — which is merely the earlier name of the “Palestinian Authority” — has been there first. […]
Fitzgerald: Tariq Ramadan and How He Got His Chair At Leiden
A Geneva teacher fired for controversial comments he made in an article for a French newspaper will receive SFr255,000 in damages from the canton of Geneva. The canton announced yesterday it is paying the amount to Hani Ramadan, a French teacher from a junior high school (cycle d”orientation) in Meyrin. The sum is the equivalent […]
2006: Siljander hosted Sudanese paramilitary chief linked to Darfur terror
During Ali Ahmed Karti’s visit to Washington. Siljander says in this 2006 article that he didn’t know anything about Karti’s connections. Background on the Siljander case: “Sudanese Official Is a No-Show at State Department,” by Glenn Kessler for the Washington Post, May 13, 2006 (thanks to Sr. Soph): Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi E. Frazer […]