The great Charles Malik (leaderu.com) Joseph Loconte of the Heritage Foundation has written an essay that is remarkable for having been published in the New York Times. (Thanks to Jerry Gordon.) He dares to point out that “the Commission on Human Rights no longer can be counted on to ‘name and shame’ even the most […]
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Why the uproar?
Yassin: the Palestinians’ worst enemy A thoughtful piece by David Pryce-Jones, who wrote the Foreword to my book Islam Unveiled, on the hypocritical outcry following the killing of Sheikh Yassin. From the Jerusalem Post: Christians and Muslims are defending themselves with the very same measures and moral values as Israelis “Blood will have blood” is […]
Islam & Multi-culturalism
A speech by Azam Kamguian on the Sharia courts in Canada. From the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society: In my speech, I will argue against the Islamic tribunals and will discuss how the Islamic Sharia law brutally violates human and women’s rights. I will try to demonstrate how Islamism and multi – culturalism […]
Steyn: The Spanish dishonoured their dead
Mark Steyn nails it again. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Jean-Luc: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, naturally they will like the strong horse.” So said Osama bin Laden in his final video appearance two-and-a-half years ago. But even the late Osama might have been surprised to see the Spanish […]
Jihad in Niger
Jihad rages already in neighboring Nigeria, and now it is spreading to other areas of West Africa. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas: Faced with a growing threat from Islamic militants, Niger is deploying extra troops to its troubled northern deserts with plans to multiply army patrols and set up a permanent forward operating base […]
Al-Qaida may head to jungles of Africa
More on the African jihad. From AP, : Squeezed out of sanctuaries elsewhere in the world, al-Qaida may be looking to the deserts and jungles of Africa as a haven where terrorists could train recruits and plan new attacks, the deputy head of U.S. forces in Europe said Friday. Key among U.S. military proposals to […]
US troops to silence terror threats in Africa
The war on terror is expanding into Africa. From AP, : The United States is scaling up its military presence in Africa as concern mounts over terrorist threats – both immediate and future – on the continent, the deputy head of American forces in Europe said Friday. “The threat is not weakening, it is growing,” […]
Amnesty International warned to stop “disparaging Islam”
Yesterday I wrote here that “Musharraf wants to examine Sharia law, particularly laws regarding rape (which I discuss at length in Islam Unveiled) in the light of “chivalry,” but for millions of Muslims in Pakistan and elsewhere, it is the law of Allah. It is not to be judged or revised — an idea that […]
Sharia, Again in Iraq?
From Concerned Women for America, an incisive article by Janice Shaw Crouse: Perhaps nothing illustrates the hard-won liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq any more than the freedom of their women — symbolized by, for instance, the removal of burqas, sending girls back to school and bringing women back into public life. But nothing threatens that […]
Dhimmitude at the Trib
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has discovered terrorism. This from Honest Reporting, with thanks to EPG: For the past three years, no matter how monstrous the Palestinian attack on Israeli civilians, the Minneapolis Star Tribune has consistently refused to apply the word ‘terrorism.’ One of the paper’s editors explained their ‘evenhanded’ position in February, 2002: In […]