This Month in Jihad

Well, I’m not really updating it weekly anymore, am I?

So here are some notable Jihad-related stories from the last month or so:

  • Geert Wilders acquitted.
  • Pakistani generals helped sell nuclear secrets to North Korea. Lovely.
  • Christopher Hitchens, who is probably considerably more pro-Palestinian and skeptical of Israel than I am by a good measure, questions the motives of the “Gaza Flotilla,” noting the many ties of the organizers to Hamas, and of Hamas to Assad’s Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran. “The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians.”
  • Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will face the death penalty. Good news, but why did it take a year and half to get to this point?
  • Al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri is dead.
  • At least 29 women in Leeds have UK courts to thank for preventing forced marriages.
  • Baby’s first jihad.
  • Robert Spencer on the possible Hindu roots of Islam.
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    2 Responses to “This Month in Jihad”

    1. toddhisattva says:

      Oh no, Spencer is in the wading pool and about to get drowned in the swamp of The Hindus Created Everything crankery.

      Among his shaky assertions, the only plausible cognates are “The combination of bowing and praying is called in Farsi Namaz, a word reminiscent of the Sanskrit words Nama – Yaja.” Wow, he’s discovered that Farsi is related to Sanskrit. Keepin’ up with William Jones.

      “The word Allah itself may be Sanskrit.” In spite of thousands of years of recorded *Semitic* cognates (*El*ohim, Ba’*al*, Bab*yl*on, Micha*el*, Dani*el*, throw a rock and you’ll hit a “lord”), Spencer can seriously offer some weak semi/homophones as evidence?

      Well, at least it’s not the asinine “Allah is a Moon God” theory. A competitor, I guess, but not an improvement.

    2. toddhisattva says:

      I should have pointed out, it is the *second* “L” in “Allah” that is cognate with “Ba’al” and “Daniel,” the word is a shortening of “al-Ilah” for “The God.” The first “Al” is the “the” word.

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