Tag Archive 'Jihad'
Bookworm on Nov 14 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Military, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
In a field rich with excellent conservative writers, I always think Mark Steyn is the best. The joyful days, though, are the days when he outdoes even himself. In this week’s column about the fluffy multiculturalism that reared its head both before and after Hasan’s deadly terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Steyn outdoes himself. Here [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Muslim violence
I don’t think the media has ever before been so blatant in its desire to divorce an evil act from its ideological origins, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen that game played out. More than two years ago, a short lived comedy show on Fox used the occasion of an abortive bombing in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Jihad, Military, Muslim violence
An eyewitness heard those words — Allahu Akbar — come out of the killer’s mouth. Private Joe Foster, though, is still ready to do his job, as he did at the time of the shooting, and that despite a bullet strike on his femur.
UPDATE: You must — MUST — check out Mudville Gazette to see [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Muslim violence
My liberal friend is a headline reader. That’s why we had a ridiculous conversation in which he wondered about the Fort Hood shooter’s motives. To the reader who scans, headlines that say “motives a mystery” trump even those articles that add, under the headline, little facts such as Muslim death cries (”Allahu Akbar!”), radical mosques, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Insane people reflect the obsessions of their times. In the old days, insane people heard messages from the Devil. In the post-nuclear age, they were in contact with Martians. And nowadays, if their Muslim, Islam gives the impetus to their urges. Indeed, Islam is an all-purpose blank check for bad behavior. As my cousin, the [...]
Bookworm on Jul 30 2009 | Filed under: Europe, Islam, Muslim violence
I want to recommend two interesting things to read as a prelude to my core post. The first read comes from a reliably good source: Rusty Shackleford. Over at The Jawa Report, he looks at the banality that exists side by side with the evil that is North Carolina’s recently arrested home grown jihadists. It [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
It’s no surprise that I’m not the only one thinking about the nature of the war waging around us. Mark Steyn is thinking about it too, but he’s added the other layer to the problem, which is the West’s willful refusal to acknowledge the enemy. Thus, after briefly discussing the way the press, imitating the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 29 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
(It will give you a sense of just how busy my weekend was that it took me two days to do this one post!)
A very popular bumper sticker in Marin since 2003 is one that has the phrase “Endless War” in blue type, with the “less” then crossed out with a red line, and the [...]
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: Uncategorized
I already knew that UC Berkeley was going to host a “scholarly” conference aimed at reconstructing Islamophobia. The promotional material, complete with the names of radical Islamist speakers, made it pretty clear that the conference’s focus would be on whitewashing Islam, as opposed to addressing a canker in one of the world’s major religions. [...]
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 Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Muslim violence
Perhaps because he’s not anchored to a presidential campaign he rightly describes as “insane,” Newt Gringrich speaks honestly and frighteningly about the problems that face the Western world today and the ostrich-like behavior that characterizes our leaders. It’s only five minutes and I think it is a must-watch.
Hat tip: W”B”S
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