Daily Mail headline: ‘We could have another Timothy McVeigh’: U.S. authorities warned against anti-Islamic terrorism after Norway shooter ‘inspired’ by Robert Spencer and Unabomber Look at that headline. Named in it are three mass murderers and me. In my work I have never called for, approved of, endorsed, or advocated…
Last year, Abdo said that he wanted to fight "Islamophobia" and "put a good positive spin out there that Islam is a good, peaceful religion." "Accused Fort Hood plotter got bombmaking recipe from Al Qaeda," by Warren Richey for the Christian Science Monitor, July 29: A soldier suspected of plotting…
"President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombings as brutal and inhumane and said they ‘cannot be justified by any religious faith.’" Yet the Taliban, which Karzai has threatened to join, constantly invoke Islam to justify their actions. This recalls the fact that last year, U.S. Muslim soldier Naser Abdo condemned the…
This kind of mass murder has become so commonplace in some Islamic countries that it is hardly even noticed. And certainly no one care to explore its motivations. Sunni/Shi’ite Jihad Update: "Gunmen kill 11 Shiite Muslims in SW Pakistan," from The Associated Press, July 30: QUETTA, Pakistan—Gunmen opened fire on…
Koşaner was a hardline secularist. Traditionally the military has been the guardian of Kemalist secularism. But now several military officers have been arresting for plotting to overthrow the government. Erdogan has won, and Turkey is on its way to becoming an Islamic state. "Necdet Özel becomes acting Chief of General…
Koşaner was a hardline secularist. Traditionally the military has been the guardian of Kemalist secularism. But now several military officers have been arresting for plotting to overthrow the government. Erdogan has won, and Turkey is on its way to becoming an Islamic state. "Necdet Özel becomes acting Chief of General…
In Malaysia, antisemitism is not just the characteristic of former prime ministers. Nor does it characterize solely the government, or the (unholy) Leftist-Islamist political opposition. No, Jew hatred is a defining feature of Islam as a whole, and hence is characteristic of many if not most Malaysians in general. This…
Gearing up, they hope and expect, for the revolution after the revolution. More on this story. "Groups quit Egypt rally saying hijacked by Islamists," by Edmund Blair and Marwa Awad for Reuters, July 29: (Reuters) – More than 30 political parties and movements withdrew from a rally on Friday that…
Interpol has already issued a "red notice" for their arrests. Now that the four Hizballah men have been officially named, Lebanon has until August 11 to inform the U.N. tribunal of the action they will take. In a Hizballah-dominated government, the scope of possible responses is considerable. They may well…
It is this alliance of rebels that we’re banking on to usher a democratic civil society in Libya. "Islamists suspected over Libyan rebel death," by Rania El Gamal for Reuters, July 29: (Reuters) – Libyan rebels say the gunmen who shot dead their military chief were members of an Islamist-linked…
