Archive for March, 2005
Saudi clerics still encouraging jihad
From the Stop the Presses Department, via MSNBC, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Inside Saudi Arabia today there’s a national campaign against extremism. Television ads, billboards and even ATM machines drive home the toll of terror. The Saudis recently hosted a worldwide conference condemning all terrorism and declaring they’ve cracked down. “When imams preach […]
Anti-dhimmitude: Judge kills CAIR’s suit against ex-Rep. Ballenger
CAIR finally loses one. Good thing Ballenger didn’t retain Rich Lowry as his lawyer. “Judge kills suit against ex-Rep. Ballenger,” from the Charlotte Observer, with thanks to Daniel Pipes: WASHINGTON – A federal judge has dismissed a $2 million lawsuit filed against former Rep. Cass Ballenger by an American Muslim civil rights group for linking […]
Schwartz: “The Battle for Islam is Joined”
Stephen Schwartz, a convert to Islam, makes a momentous announcement in TechCentralStation, via FrontPage: On March 25, seven American Muslim activists joined me in founding a new, and much-needed platform for moderate Islam in America. Our organization is titled the Center for Islamic Pluralism. We have a website, www.islamicpluralism.org, at which our inaugural press release […]
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 […]
Academic Marxist Rock Star
In FrontPage today, Tzvi Kahn takes another look at my old pal Mark LeVine. Funny how all of Mark’s challenges to debate me melted away when I asked him actually to supply a specific date and venue. Here is my first article about the great LeVine. Here is his reply, with additional responses by me. […]
Young Muslim immigrant killers deported from Denmark, leftists mourn
From the Norwegian Kafir’s superb Fjordman blog: One of the men, Hizir Kilic, was born in Denmark, while his cousin Ferhat Kilic came to the country when he was three. The two men were minors at the time of the crime, and had therefore not yet become Danish citizens, since anyone born to immigrant parents […]
The Death of France’s “Multiculturalism”
The great Nidra Poller, writing in Frontpage (thanks to EPG): October 2000, Place de la République in Paris: the first of what would become an endless series of ambiguous pro-Palestinian demonstrations welcomed the snake of anti-Semitism into its heart. “Death to the Jews” rang out loud and clear that day as policemen stood by, journalists […]
Latinas Embrace Islam
Another article about Latinas converting to Islam, in Florida this time. From the TBO News, with thanks to Skeetstreet: TAMPA – As a child, Amy Perez attended different Christian churches, praying at Catholic Masses and singing at Baptist revivals. But she never felt satisfied with the answers those faiths provided to her questions. At 12, […]
Muslims plan to disrupt Temple Mount visit
From World Net Daily, with thanks to EPG: JERUSALEM — A plan by a grassroots Jewish organization to bring 10,000 Jews to the Temple Mount has prompted an Islamic group allegedly connected to Hamas to instruct followers to disrupt the visit, a high-ranking Jerusalem police official told WND. Revava, a group with the stated mission […]
Dhimmitude at the Treasury Department
“Outside View: Terrorist Financing and Crime” is an egregious piece of ignorance and dhimmitude by Juan Carlos Zarate, U.S. assistant secretary of the Treasury Department for terrorist financing. Among other duties, Zarate is responsible for formulating and coordinating the department’s counter-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering efforts. From UPI, with thanks to EPG: Washington, DC, Over […]
Former Alberta man charged in plot to wage worldwide jihad
From the Edmonton Journal: A former Edmonton-area cinema owner has been charged in the United States with raising cash and recruiting Muslim extremists in North America throughout the 1990s to help wage a worldwide Islamic jihad. Kassem Daher, linked by CSIS to al-Qaeda, is a Lebanese native who came to Canada in the 1980s as […]
New jihad magazine hits Internet
What? These terrorists use “doctrinal arguments” to recruit? Why, does Rich Lowry know about this attempt to discredit Muhammad and Islam? “Jihad’s latest ‘rag’ hits the Internet,” from the Asia Times: BANGALORE – A new jihadi magazine made its appearance on the Internet this month. [1] Named Dhurwat al-Sanam, Arabic for “the highest or most […]
Conyers helps Muslims keep official out of U.S.
From the Detroit Free Press, with thanks to EPG: Michigan Muslims of Indian descent are hailing the U.S. government’s decision to deny a prominent Indian minister entry into the country because of his intolerance toward religious minorities. The State Department’s move came after U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, sponsored a congressional resolution last week to […]
Arabs, Muslims being wooed by NJ governor candidates
From AP, with thanks to EPG: NEWARK — From a living room festooned with dozens of elephants in all shapes and sizes, Sherine El-Abd is busily raising money for gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler, whose call for lower property taxes she loves. It’s only March, but the Edison woman, an Egyptian immigrant and Republican organizer, is […]
Reporters Visit Underground Iran Nuclear Plant
From the Bridge for Sale Department, via Reuters, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum: NATANZ, Iran – Iran’s President Mohammad Khatami took a group of journalists deep underground on Wednesday into the heart of a key nuclear plant which Washington wants dismantled and whose existence was kept secret until 2002. About 30 local and foreign journalists […]
A ridiculous and ominous decision in Britain
Could this be National Review’s last article critical of the creeping Islamization of Europe? “Wrong from Head to Toe: A ridiculous and ominous decision in Britain,” by Theodore Dalrymple in the March 28 issue of NR, via The Manhattan Institute, with thanks to EPG: In the long annals of judicial stupidity, there can rarely have […]
“The Prophet (peace be upon him) was the perfect role model in all situations”
Wouldn’t it be important, with this kind of rhetoric going around, to know what the Prophet said and did? And how jihad terrorists make use of it? Apparently not. “The Prophet as a Man – 29: Perfect Role Model in All Situations,” from Arab News, with thanks to JJP Mackie: The Prophet (peace be upon […]
Moderate Muslims celebrate public rebuke of bin Laden
Everything was going along great in this one until I chanced upon mention of the illustrious Omid Safi, who is such a kind professor that he does his students’ thinking for them “” particularly on that global menace, “Islamophobia.” From the Washington Times, with thanks to Bill Roggio: CAIRO – The condemnation of Osama bin […]
CAIR conference to tackle Islamophobia, anti-Americanism
The arbiters of what is and is not “Islamophobia” in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations, are planning to devote their 2005 Annual Conference to “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism, Causes and Remedies.” Among the luminaries speaking is the infamous Muzammil H. Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America. A Harvard educated, highly […]
Lowry speaks about CAIR and NR
Rich Lowry of NR says this at The Corner about the CAIR book brouhaha: THE BOOK BUSINESS [Rich Lowry ] Some folks have e-mailed in asking about a book brouhaha going on in some parts of the blogosphere involving us. Here is what happened: A National Review Book Service e-mail blast for the book “The […]
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