Posts Tagged ‘Dominique Strauss-Kahn’

The Unexpected Return of This Week in Jihad

Friday, June 10th, 2011

I stopped doing This Week in Jihad because it was eating up too much of my time. But this week there were enough big Jihad-related stories to justify putting one up:

  • Michael Totten has an interesting interview with Claire Berlinski on the situation in Turkey. If Turkey put up a status update, it would read “Mood: Delusional.” Also, is it just me, or does Berlinski look an awful lot like Dr. Lisa Cuddy on House?
  • Rep. Peter King to hold a hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons.
  • Extensive New York Times piece on the Cosmos Foundation, Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, Atlas Construction, and charter schools in Texas. NYT calls Gulen a moderate. JihadWatch disagrees. Also, Gulen has hired George W. Bush’s PR rep Karen Hughes.
  • You know that “unarmed peace flotilla”? Yeah, not so much.
  • Female Kuwaiti “activist” calls for the return of sexual slavery to keep rich Muslim men from committing adultery. Sisters are doing it to themselves. And somewhere, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is kicking himself.
  • Strafor analyzes the latest al Qaeda video and sees a message of defeat. “The very call to leaderless resistance is an admission of defeat and an indication that the jihadists might not be receiving the divine blessing they claim.” The also show how al Qaeda ignorance of American gun control laws (no, you can’t buy automatic weapons at a gun show, since you need to fill out a form, undergo a background check that can take up to 90 days, and have a local law enforcement “chief” authorize your form (among other requirements), and that assumes you live in a state they haven’t been outlawed in) has lead to the arrests of several Jihadests looking to purchase them.
  • LinkSwarm for May 23, 2011

    Monday, May 23rd, 2011
  • “The arrest of a mediocre international civil servant in the first-class cabin of his jet isn’t just a sex story: It’s a glimpse of the widening gulf between the government class and their subjects in a post-prosperity West. Neither Geithner nor Strauss-Kahn have ever created a dime of wealth in their lives…the Great Men of the Permanent Governing Class cannot be bound by the rules they impose on the rest of you schmucks.”
  • As always, Iowahawk is on the case.
  • This is disturbing. Remember the McMartin Preschool case, where numerous people were charged bizarre, contradictory and flat-out-impossible charges of ritual sexual abuse of children? Unfortunately, Texas has its own equivalent in the “Mineola Swingers Club” case. Unfortunately, unlike the McMartin Preschool case, people have actually been convicted.
  • Liberals manage to kill Texas campus carry bill. Sponsor Sen. Jeff Wentworth blames House Speaker Joe Straus.
  • LinkSwarm for May 18, 2011

    Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
  • The French are incensed that French elites are not above American law. And who could possibly believe that prison was so primative? “‘There are numerous very heavy barred doors that make a noise each time they are opened or closed,’ French lawyer Gerald Lefcourt told the paper. Worse still, he said, ‘The food is terrible.'”
  • Iconblog doesn’t think Perry is running for President, not least because most of his campaign team has signed on with Gingrich.
  • NRO’s Kevin D. Williamson says much the same thing.
  • Redistricting may get rid of Lloyd Doggett by making his district a majority Hispanic district based in San Antonio.