“Vatican Is Rethinking Relations With Islam,” from the Washington Post, with thanks to JJP Mackie: ROME — After two decades of contact and dialogue with the Islamic world under Pope John Paul II, the Vatican is rethinking an outreach program that critics say is diluting Catholicism and has brought almost no benefits to beleaguered Catholic […]
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US warns Philippines south could become “new Afghanistan”
What’s that? The Philippines, you say? But I thought that “serious extremist movements are visible only in Saudi Arabia, Iraq (where they are imported, mainly from the south), Iran, Pakistan, regions of Nigeria and Malaysia, and a tiny number of war zones like Chechnya and southern Thailand.” Hmmm. Maybe I should get a new batch […]
Petition to the UN Against Religious Apartheid
A call for some sanity at the UN from the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights: Petition to the United Nations Against Religious Apartheid To: H.E. the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan; The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights is an umbrella coalition representing various organizations from the following communities: […]
Professor: Islamic militants have highly sophisticated organization
Here’s a talk given by Michael Doran, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Princeton, where he teaches courses on political Islam. From the Princeton Packet, with thanks to Nicolei: Militant radical Islam will not be defeated solely by bringing democracy to the Middle East, Princeton Professor Michael Doran said during a lecture Monday at […]
Fitzgerald: Fourteen Points on How to Discuss Islam Properly
Jihad Watch Advisory Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald has nothing in common with Woodrow Wilson except that they are both carbon-based life forms — and both have Fourteen Points: For people to discuss Islam properly, they would need to do a number of things. The first thing would be to recognize that the Qur’an itself […]
Muslim clerics’ warning of U.S. plot hinders measles vaccinations
The human cost of the paranoia fueled by jihadists. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: KANO, Nigeria — Accusations by Islamic preachers that vaccines are part of an American anti-Islamic plot are threatening efforts to combat a measles epidemic that has killed hundreds of Nigerian children, health workers say. Government officials play down the anti-vaccine […]
Keep Islamic law out of Canada, Quebec politicians urge
From the Montreal Gazette, with thanks to Tom and RB: Islamic law has no place in Quebec or the rest of Canada, a provincial cabinet minister and several MNAs said yesterday. With the Ontario government expected to decide shortly on whether to allow the Islamic legal code, known as sharia, to be applied to settle […]
Applications of Islamic law
A useful summary from the
Al-Qa’ida book on managing savagery
An intriguing new Al-Qaeda book on how to reestablish the caliphate by stages has appeared on the Internet. From Isralert, with thanks to Enzo: On 2 March, “Irhabi3,” a new member in Al-Ikhlas forum, posted a link to a new book “Managing Savagery – The Most Crucial Period to Be Faced by the Nation,” by […]
A reply to Stephen Schwartz’s “Reductio ad Jihadam”
Stephen Schwartz has published a piece entitled “Reductio ad Jihadam” in Tech Central Station today. Although Schwartz does not name me in the piece, he calls into question some of the core premises of my work, so I feel compelled to reply — although I am somewhat reluctant to do so. Stephen Schwartz has interpreted […]