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:
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This Month in Jihad
Monday, July 11th, 2011This Week in Jihad for March 10, 2011
Thursday, March 10th, 2011Another week of Jihad news from the usual sources:
This Week in Jihad for January 13, 2011
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Time for another installment of This Week in Jihad.
Please note that these weekly installments are only a sampler of Jihad-related news from around the world, and that I skim a lot more stories than I post here. One reason is that, from Africa to Indonesia, regular Jihad-related violence is depressingly frequent. So I don’t report every suicide bombing or honor killing that goes on. There’s just too much to keep up with.
However, given Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting spree in Tucson, I thought I would change that for this week’s roundup, to provide glimpses of places in which political and religious violence are the rule rather than the exception. So here’s a list of all the deadly incidents related to Islam I could find mention of from this past week:
- Suicide bomb kills 18 at a police station in Pakistan.
- Suicide bomber kills two on bus in Afghanistan.
- Two killed, six wounded in Taliban attack.
- Off-duty policeman shoots a 71-year old Christian man dead on a bus in Egypt.
- Jihadis open fire in a bar, killing seven in Nigeria.
- That follows hot on the heels of 11 people being killed in Jos, Nigeria.
- Jihadist suicide bomber kills 17 at bathhouse in Afghanistan.
- Couple axed to death in Punjab, India.
- Man killed and mutilated in honor killing in Multan, Iran. “Murtaza’s ears, lips, tongue, nose were sliced his eyes were gouged out with a knife before his head was severed.”
- Ireland suffers its first honor killing.
- Iraqi police chief killed by a roadside bomb.
- Six NATO soldiers killed Wednesday in Afghanistan.
- The figure above presumably includes U.S. Private Benjamin Moore, killed by an IED.
- The figure presumably does not include Marine Lance Cpl. Ryan Giese, killed on Friday.
- Nor that of Private First Class Robert Near, also killed in Afghanistan on Friday.
- Finally, I count two more names on this list of the fallen, for the time period specified, not including those killed 1/12: SPC Ethan C. Hardin and PFC Ira B. Laningham IV (the latter of Zapata, Texas).
If I’m counting correctly, that brings the total, just for this week, up to 73. There could be twice that many I didn’t have time to search out yet, either from the Foreign Policy/Jihad sources listed to the right (JihadWatch was, as always, invaluable) or just doing a Google search. And there could be twice (or ten, or even a hundred) times as many Jihad-related killings that didn’t make news reports. I did not include Iran’s execution of five accused drug-smugglers in the total. Nor any of the other 46 executions the Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out in the last 20 days.
Other Jihad-related tidbits:
- Christopher Hitchens on the assassin of Salman Taseer
- Speaking of Taseer, Pakistani’s clerics have weighed in overwhelmingly. Overwhelmingly in favor of his assassination, that is.
- Want to know what soft Jihadis actually think? This piece by M. Shahid Alam, a mixture of truths (Pakistan’s elites are corrupt), half-truths (America is their pupper master), half-digested second-hand Marxism (“the Pakistani state fell into the lap of lumpen elites”), conspiracy theories (“The military dictator who preceded him had boasted in his autobiography that his government had garnered US$50 million by capturing and selling Pakistanis to secret US agencies.”), and Islamist rhetoric (“Pakistanis worried that this was only the start of a campaign to repeal the [blasphemy] law – and open the floodgates for Salman Rushdi-style smearing of the blessed Prophet.”). Oh, and this guy is an economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
- American Center for Law and Justice sues to halt construction of the Ground Zero Mosque.
- If you didn’t already have enough to worry about, the coalition government in Lebanon has collapsed.
- Not News: Jihadist death threats against synagogues. News: In Fargo, North Dakota.
- First they came for the beer…
- Hamas linked CAIR is singing from the same hymnal as The New York Times in blaming the Tucson shooting on “inflammatory political rhetoric”.
- In Saudi Arabia, accused in rape case sentenced to one year in prison, 100 lashes. The accused rape victim, that is.
This Week in Jihad for December 16, 2010
Thursday, December 16th, 2010Lots of Jihad news of note this week:
- Just in case you were busy Saturday and didn’t hear, a suicide bomber struck central Stockholm on Saturday.
- That bomber, Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, was yet another product of British schools.
- But don’t worry, there are only about 200 Islamic extremists total in all of Sweden!
- Except that train bomber guy wasn’t among them. Might need to do some more counting there, guys…
- Not News: Middle Eastern religious leader declares that there’s a Zionist conspiracy against Arabs. News: It was the the patriarch of the Church of Antioch and the entire Levant for Melkite Greek Catholics. (Hat tip: The Corner.)
- Kuwait general says Iran’s nuclear program is military, not civilian. On behalf of non-liberals everywhere: Duh.
- Unclear on the concept: Feminists protesting in favor of Islamic extremists. You’re doing it wrong. (Sadly, the impulse seems inexplicably common in feminist circles these days.)
- Al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks against Christmas shoppers in the U.S. and Europe. Honestly, I just assume al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks year-round. It’s pretty much what they do. It’s like saying the New England Patriots work on winning football games year-round.
- Usually you hear about Iranian-sponsored suicide bombers blowing up people in other countries, not Sunni suicide bombers blowing up Shi-ites in Iran itself.
- Danish MP Jesper Langballe fined for telling the truth about Islamic rapes and honor killings. Indeed, he was denied the opportunity to defend himself.
- Did you know that Feisal A. Rauf, the guy trying to build the Ground Zero Mosque, is a slumlord?
- Weimer Istanbul. (Hat tip: Michael Totten.)
- And speaking of Michael Totten, he has an interview with Giulio Meotti, the author of A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism. Lots of bracing, disheartening information in that interview. “Europe is an anti-Semitic continent.” “The current European anti-Semitism is a powerful mix of Islamist pressure on Europe by large Muslim communities in its midst and a leftist-progressive ideology.”
- The 2010 Jihad Watch Award Winners. If you haven’t noticed, JihadWatch is one of the sites I
stealreference stories from for this roundup. - Finally, Dwight’s essay on the Iranian Revolution may be of interest to many readers.
This Week in Jihad for December 9, 2010
Thursday, December 9th, 2010Another week, another batch of news from the world of Jihad:
- The “fierce moral urgency” of closing Guantanamo Bay seems to have abated recently. (I can’t possibly imagine why.) But it’s a good thing considering that some 150 people release from Gitmo have returned to Jihad.
- Orthodox church destroyed in 9/11 tired of wondering when they’re going to get the greenlight to rebuild and files suit against NYC.
- Old and Busted: Hamas wanting to kill all the Jews. The New Hotness: Hamas wanting to kill all the Jews. And all the Christians. And all the…Communists? But then who will support our nation’s vital Che T-shirt industry?
Not these Che shirts. If you can't put up funny pictures of your friends on the pretext that its vaguely related to the topic at hand, what's the point of having a blog?
- And Hamas’ masters in Tehran aren’t too wild about Bahai, either. (That’s a Michael Totten piece, and as usual, it’s long, thoughtful, and full of interesting tidbits.)
- “Appreciating and respecting the Quran should not be done by eating its verses.” Especially in cake form.
- Convicted felon caught buying body armor. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence his name is Waheed Islam.
- When U.S. troops liberated Baghdad in 2003, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t so the next government could impose Sharia-inspired prohibition there.
This Week in Jihad
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. Now back to a less happy task: rounding up jihad-related news over the last week:
- Muslim rape gang in Derbyshire, UK preyed on as many as 1,000 women and under-aged girls.
- Iranian Nuclear Scientists get to meet Allah.
- According to those Wikileaks documents everyone is talking about, Hezbollah used Red Crescent ambulances to smuggles Iranian arms into Lebanon.
- Obama’s UK ambassador gushes over the awesomeness of London’s jihadist mosque.
- Five Christians a week murdered in Pakistan for their religion.
- Kenya’s Presidnet orders all gays arrested.
- Saudi man to be lashed 70 times for the crime of turning on his cell-phone’s Bluetooth near of woman’s shopping center.
- Latest things to offend Muslims for no particular reason is (rolls dice): Yodeling.
- Canadian panel opposes adding honor killings to Canadian law. “Every offence that could be involved in honour-based crimes is already in Canadian law.” Well, yes. But that didn’t stop “hate crime” legislation, now did it?
(Hat tip: The usual suspects under “Jihad” on your right.)
As a side note, I would be interested to hear if anyone actually finds these weekly roundups useful. I put these up and get very little feedback on them…
This Week in Jihad
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Jihad waits for no man, so here’s another roundup of news:
- It takes very special skills to take someone with a sworn confession of involvement in the murder of 224 people, and to bungle the prosecution so badly that you’re only able to convict him on one count of conspiracy. But Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department are just that special.
- North Korea is reportedly “supplying banned nuclear and ballistic equipment to Iran, Syria and Myanmar. Well, isn’t that just lovely?
- The story of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, born Carlos Leon Bledsoe, a native-born jihadi who killed a U.S. solider at a recruiting station in Little Rock.
- “Feminist” scholar Lila Abu-Lughod says that honor killings are a consequence of Western colonialism, and that burqas are not at all oppressive to women. Sounds like the type of feminist that would be right at home at WisCon.
- Judges rules that no, cops didn’t violate a Somali’s families rights when refusing to let them put on hajibs during a drug bust. (Whether our time and money is best spent arresting people for possession of khat is a topic for another time…)
- Secretary of State Clinton complains that Europe isn’t accommodating enough to the Religion of Peace. That would be the same Clinton that would be required to wear a burqa in Iran or Saudi Arabia, not the Clinton that could legally have multiple wives; him I figure could get used to it…
- UK student: Support the troops! His Islamic classmates: Support the troops and we will kill you.
- “The scholars are unanimously agreed that a Muslim who insults the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) becomes a kaafir and an apostate who is to be executed.”
- Saudi Arabia and India stepping up military cooperation. Hmmm….
- Quest for Honor is a new documentary by Mary Ann Smothers Bruni about the quest to eradicate honor killings in Kurdistan. It seems to be getting a bit of Oscar buzz.
- And researching that, I came across this site http://www.stophonourkillings.com/, which I hope to take a closer look at when I have more time.
- Toy pig pulled from toy farm because…well, you can probably guess.
(Hat tips: Jihadwatch, MEMRI, Michael Totten, etc.)
Symantic’s Extensive Analysis of the Stuxnet Worm
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010My hacking skills are pretty much limited to writing “Hello World” in Python on a good day, but even a cursory glance shows that Stuxnet is a very sophisticated beast indeed. Let’s hope it delivered a critical blow to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
This Week in Jihad
Thursday, November 4th, 2010Just because the U.S. has an election doesn’t mean Islamic fundamentalists rest. So here’s a roundup of Islamic- and Jihad-related news from around the world.
- Oklahoma outlaws Sharia law. Naturally, Islamist front group CAIR is suing.
- Bill
MaharMaher refuses to apologize for Mohammed comments. Good for him. - What happens if Iran gets the bomb?
- Tony Blair’s sister-in-law converts to Islam.
- An ironic side effect of overwhelming Republican gains on Tuesday: The House Democratic coalition just got a lot more “progressive,” and the Progressive Coalition will probably be lead by Muslim Keith Ellison.
- Saudi Arabian prince opposes the Ground Zero Mosque.
- San Diego cleric famed as a teacher of “non-violence and tolerance” arrested for aiding a designated terrorist group.
- Finally, MEMRI brings us this Arab News cartoon about the U.S. elections, which I rather like:
