Here’s one for the learned analysts who are sure Sunnis will never work with Shi’ites, and vice versa. “Hamas says will unite with Iran if Israel attacks,” from Ynet News, December 15 (thanks to Alexandre): Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal said on Tuesday that Islamist militant groups would back Iran…
Why not? To disallow them would have been “Islamophobic.” “Manchester terror suspects cleared to work as guards,” by David Leppard for The Sunday Times, December 13: Ten members of a suspected Islamist terror cell, said by MI5 to be plotting to blow up a shopping centre and a nightclub in…
“Asians.” “Men.” “Men of South Asian origin.” “Pakistanis.” “Men.” “Born in Pakistan.” “Pakistani origin.” Eight paragraphs in, we learn it was a “suspected Islamist cell.” Until then, one might almost have gotten the impression that Pakistan had declared war on Spain. And that is the problem with this kind of…
Everybody knows that Christianity is just as likely as Islam to inspire murderous violence in its adherents. Someday everybody will get some evidence to support this. The point is not really about Christianity or moral equivalence at all. It is about the continued evasion and refusal to confront the doctrine…
Not all who travel to join the jihad in Somalia will become suicide bombers. Some will return to their prior country of residence, trained, experienced, and looking to apply what they have learned. More on this story. “Somalia suicide bomber ‘was from Denmark’,” from BBC News, December 10: A suicide…
Now is not the time to reward Sudan’s repressive regime.
Why would they travel all the way to Pakistan for an interior spiritual struggle? More on this story. “Pakistan questions Americans suspected of jihad wish,” by Zeeshan Haider for Reuters, December 10 (thanks to James): ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Five young Americans were being questioned in Pakistan on Thursday on…
If the books agree with the Koran, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical. “Taliban dynamite schools in NW Pakistan: official,” from AFP, December 9 (thanks to James): PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Taliban militants on Wednesday dynamited two boys’ schools in Pakistan’s Khyber district, where troops…
Partying like it’s 1984. Of course, many of these terms are euphemisms employed in the first place to dodge the heart of the matter, Islamic jihad. But euphemisms themselves eventually begin to take on too much of the connotation of the words they replaced, and it’s soon time to roll…
I think it’s interesting as well as worrying that the left should conform to a historic pattern of appeasement and enabling of our totalitarian enemies. I am referring to the left that extends from the Chomsky supporters of Hamas to the Joshua Micah Marshall-Huffington Post liberals who may despise Chomsky — 0r may not — [...]
