Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Bureaucracy, England, Jihad
I can’t add anything to this that you haven’t already thought of yourselves:
A solicitor who specialises in representing terror suspects and tells them not to cooperate with police was paid almost £1 million in legal aid last year.
Muddassar Arani’s firm represented Abu Hamza, dirty bomb plotter Dhirin Barot and three of the 21/7 bombers in [...]
Bookworm on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Iraq, Jihad, John McCain, Judges, Judicial activism
I’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprint below:
Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at John [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
At this particular moment — 4:47 p.m., PST — the counter in my sidebar from The Religion of Peace records that terrorists acting in Islam’s name have committed precisely 11111 acts of terror since 9/11. That’s quite a number, both in terms of that string of ones, and in terms of what all those ones [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Jihad
WARNING: British bloggers — do not write about this story.
In England, a convoluted case played out in which the government froze funds in British banks that were to be sent to Al Qaeda, the funds’ owners challenged that action, and the court held against the government. As a result of this successful court [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Andrew C. McCarthy, author of the newly published Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad, sat down for an interview at NRO, and voiced some unpleasant truths about our suicidal sensibilities:
Lopez: What’s the most devastating lesson from 15 years ago we still haven’t learned?
McCarthy: That the primary cause of Islamic terrorism is Muslim doctrine, and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: 9/11, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
One of the things about conspiracy theorists is that they live in a hazy world of innuendo and speculation. There’s never any hard evidence to support their theory, just a lot of disparate facts that can be spun together into a tangled and usually nonsensical tapestry. As often as not, the beauty of the theories [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: Jihad, Muslim violence
I will never again complain about having to throw away my unfinished drink before going through airport security:
A gang of alleged British Muslim fanatics plotted to cause “carnage on an almost unprecedented scale” with simultaneous suicide bombings on up to 18 transatlantic airliners, a court has heard.
Bombs made from hydrogen peroxide liquid explosives, and disguised [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Saudi Arabia
Dennis Prager likes to say (and I’m paraphrasing here) that liberals and conservatives have entirely incompatible world views. They understand facts in such a different way that there are few points of intersection. I had a reminder of that truism the other day when I watched Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center with a [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Children, Jihad, Muslim violence
I have one more school children post I want to do today, and this one is scary and depressing. It’s also not new, because it’s an issue that’s been around and about which I’ve blogged before: the possible terrorist threat to our children. Danny Lemieux gave me the heads up about the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Jihad, Muslim violence
Samir Khan is a devoted jihadist who blogs viciously against America out of his bedroom in his parents’ home in North Carolina. Apparently being a devout Muslim, though, hasn’t insulated Samir from the sin of theft (a small sin, I agree, compared to arguing for the violent overthrow of your country). Thus, Samir hotlinked multiple [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
I’m not saying this is the inevitable by-product of multiculturalism, but it’s very clear that, as to one Scottish young man, he failed completely to acquire a European/Scottish/British identity:
A British-born Muslim student has been jailed for eight years for a series of Islamist terrorism offences.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, a shopkeeper’s son who has been described [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Abortion, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Multiculturalism, World War II
There’s a new movie out about “homegrown religious fundamentalists who kill in the name of God” — and Manolah Dargis, who writes movie reviews at The New York Times really wants to like it. You’ve got to admire Manolah. After all, who in America doesn’t want a solid documentary about the homegrown Western [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Iran, Israel, Jihad, Media matters
The media is congratulating itself for “exposing” Ahmadinejad with its constant focus on it’s “we have no gays in Iran” statement. Ha, ha, ha! Isn’t the man an idiot! Look, America, he thinks there are no gays in Iran!
Ahmadinejad is right, of course, when it comes to Iran. But he’s not [...]
Bookworm on Sep 23 2007 | Filed under: America, Jihad, Muslim violence, World War II
Ken Burns’ new series about World War II is off to a good start although his stately pace can often be somewhat sleep inducing. It’s one of those slightly bizarre situations where it’s worth your while to force yourself to stay awake.
Part of the first episode includes a run-down of what Americans were watching in [...]
Don Quixote on Jul 25 2007 | Filed under: America, Jihad, Leftist morality, Religion
Thank you as always for your insightful and thoughtful comments. I always love throwing out topics and seeing the wonderful places you take them.
Today, I’d like to ask another question that relates to faith. One thing that cannot be denied about the Islamists is that they have a deep faith. It is hardly surprising that [...]
Bookworm on Jul 18 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Congress, Democrats, Iraq, Jihad, Muslim violence
Neo-neocon is an elegant writer, so I like her summary of the theater in which the Democrats engaged last night when they called for a slumber party to dramatize their desire to withdraw from the Iraq War immediately. I left a comment at her blog, which I like enough that I’m reprinting it here as [...]
Bookworm on Jul 18 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
I’ve never liked the idea of John McCain as a presidential candidate. He’s a little too iconoclastic for my tastes and, as with so many senators in the run for President, he has way too much baggage trailing behind him and too little administrative experience. Another reason I don’t want a McCain campaign [...]
Bookworm on Jul 17 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Europe, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
London, one of the greatest cities in the world for the last 1,000 years or so, continues to slide down, down, down. If you’re unlucky enough to live in the wrong section of London, this is what it’s like to do business:
A corner shop run by an Asian couple has been attacked 200 times [...]
Bookworm on Apr 18 2007 | Filed under: Jihad, Muslim violence, Nazis
Most of us envision mass killers as stone cold nut jobs, like Cho Seung Hui, who carried out Monday’s Virginia Tech carnage. By all accounts, he was an angry, lonely person, obsessed with violent death. Small wonder that, given the means and the opportunity, he would act out his vengeful fantasies. The [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
Fjordman, who is not afraid to “out” jihadist violence in Europe has a long, long post at Gates of Vienna about the violent crime wave in Europe that has its root, not in socio-economic factors, but in jihad. The following paragraphs are just the beginning:
Although the European Union warns against “,” those who live in [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Somalia
The Muslim Brotherhood dreams of bringing shari’a law to America. It’s occasionally useful to remember what that would mean for Americans on a daily basis:
Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Political correctness
Watch this, and you won’t be surprised that “progressives” are trying to ban it from YouTube:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Qx4u-Uua8]
I’d like to add something profound, but I can’t. The video pretty much says it all.
Hat tip: Flopping Aces
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