Bookworm on Dec 14 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Muslim violence
Shortly after the founding of the State of Israel, the Jewish state began Operation Magic Carpet in order to rescue Yemeni Jews who were being threatened with extinction from their Muslim neighbors. All told, before anyone was aware of it, Israel brought in almost 50,000 Yemenite Jews. Not all Yemenite Jews came to Israel, however. [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence
Charles Martel left a comment to an earlier post about Islam’s core nature: I used to ask myself how Allah is served by the grotesque torture of non-Muslims. How is the supreme deity gratified or honored by the sadistic disfigurement and dismantling of his creations? Then I came to my senses and thumbed through my [...]
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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2008 | Filed under: Saudi Arabia
If I had to give one single reason for drilling the hell out of whatever energy resources America has to offer, it would be to de-fund the medieval sharia system that thrives in Saudi Arabia. Right now, Egypt is in an uproar because a 53-year old Egyptian physician convicted of malpractice against one of the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 04 2008 | Filed under: Muslim violence, Somalia
A thirteen year old (or, maybe, a 23 year old) was stoned to death for adultery after 3 men raped her. Showing their humanity, Somali authorities had nurses on hand to check on the girl. When the nurses exhumed her from the hole they’d placed her in for the stoning, and reported that she was [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Islam, Israel, Media matters, Muslim violence
The LA Times has admitted that it possesses a video of Barack Obama cheerfully attending a radical Muslim meeting at which the speakers hurled the usual violent and threatening invective at Jews and at Israel. Also attending were Ayers and Dohrn. One might think that, given next week’s election, the LA Times, which is another [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Islam, Muslim violence
The director of the BBC has finally admitted that, yes, of course the BBC treats Islam with unusual deference. Mark Thompson offers a 98 word defense of the BBC’s un-evenhanded approach: ‘My view is that there is a difference between the position of Christianity, which I believe should be central to the BBC’s religion coverage [...]
Bookworm on Oct 14 2008 | Filed under: Muslim violence
I love this story: a movie starring John Travolta was set to be filmed in a French suburb, so as to highlight the suffering of the young suburbanites. Unfortunately, these same suburbanites, clearly unaware of the liberal honor accorded to them, rioted so badly that filming had to stop: Filming of a new John Travolta [...]
Bookworm on Aug 30 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
We in America have become very introverted in the last few weeks, obsessively (and probably appropriately) focusing on our own upcoming elections. As we focus on those elections, it’s useful to remember what’s still out there: Hardline female ‘preachers of hate’ are radicalising Muslim women at one of Britain’s top mosques. The Saudi Arabian preachers [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Africa, Democrats, England, Europe, John McCain
J. R. Dunn has a wonderful antidote to political despair. I have some optimistic predictions of my own: I think the current gas crisis, coupled with the holes being punctured into Global Warming, and China’s status as No. 1 C02 polluter, will create a popular ground swell that will force the Demos’ hands (1) on [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Holland
My earlier post about the knifing atrocity in Japan, which seemed to happen without any citizen attempts to block the attack, garnered a lot of interesting comments. Danny Lemieux now sent me the perfect follow-up link to Bruce Bawer’s blog. (I can’t find any permalinks there, but just land on the June 9, 2008 post, [...]
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 27 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Islam, Muslim violence, Women
Honest to God, I really do wonder sometimes if the garden-variety fusion betwen Islamic and Arabic culture is salvageable: A teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with a British soldier when he was in Basra was murdered by her father in an “honour killing”, it was revealed today. Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was suffocated and [...]
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. Well, [...]
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, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Do you recall that, on the day I posted the Fitna video, I wrote the following? LiveLeak explains why it is showing this video, despite the fact that some at LiveLeak strongly disagree with its content. I note two things. First, LiveLeak understands free speech. Second, the LifeLeak discussion about its decision to show the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Geert Wilders’ 15 minute film about Islam is available now. While the Dutch government is afraid to show it, bloggers are not. Those who are anti-American, those who hate Israel, those who are completely invested in multiculturalism, try to downplay the conservatives’ concern about Muslim violence by analogizing conservatives to the Nazis, who scapegoated the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Holland, Islam, Muslim violence
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician has made a 15 minute long film that demonstrates how violent Islam is. He describes it as a film made with a split screen that has, on one side, passages from the Koran and, on the other side, modern footage of Islamists putting those passages [...]
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
Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Christians, England, Islam, Muslim violence
No comment: A vicar was in hospital last night after being attacked in his churchyard by two youths in what is being treated as a ‘faith hate’ crime. Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was kicked and punched in the head as one of the attackers screamed “f***ing priest”. He was left lying on the ground with [...]
Bookworm on Mar 10 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
It wasn’t bad enough that Scotland Yard was probably infiltrated by anti-government Islamist working for the Jihad. That’s carelessness, although probably inexcusable carelessness. Nope. What’s really disgusting is that Britain has announced to the world that an Israeli politician is banned from entering England because he criticized England, while a radical Hezbollah member, who calls [...]
Bookworm on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Muslim violence, Palestinians
I noted a couple of posts ago that the UN, predictably, is up in arms about the fact that Israel finally took action against the militants firing rockets at civilians. I’m sure, though, that the UN will greet with mind-numbing silence the fact that terrorists invaded a school in Jerusalem and killed seven (with a [...]
Bookworm on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: United Nations
For a year, Gaza has rained over 2,000 rockets onto Israeli soil, aiming specifically for civilian communities. There was, of course, nary a peep from the UN. Now that Israel has struck back, targeting specifically militants who happen to hide amongst civilian populations, the UN Rights Council springs into action: The U.N. Human Rights Council [...]
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