The Hamilton Spectator While the West battles al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Taliban and other radical organizations and individuals, its more challenging task will be to marginalize the underlying ideology of radical Islam. Long dormant, but always alive, this ideology, based on literalist readings of Islam's texts, is history's latest and perhaps greatest incarnation of … [Read more...]
Lying, Defying, and Demoralizing
OBL's three-fold strategy to defeat the West Private Papers Like all of Osama bin Laden's previous messages to the West, his most recent communiqué contains three Ladenese trademarks — lying, defying, and demoralizing — that are always present whenever the al Qaeda chieftain addresses the West. That bin Laden has publicly lied before, there is no doubt. After the strikes of … [Read more...]
What Would Mohammad Do?
Private Papers We've all seen them — those little wristbands Christians sometimes wear, or put on bumper stickers, with the acronym "WWJD?" — What Would Jesus Do? A reminder for them to ask, in every situation they face, what their Lord would do, and to emulate Jesus' teachings of divine compassion, love, patience, faith, hope, and charity. What about Muslims? Muslims are … [Read more...]
A Rising Star on Islam’s Territorial Double Standard
CAMERA Raymond Ibrahim is a name to watch for. His book, The Al Qaeda Reader (DoubleDay) will be out in April 2007. By way of introduction, don't miss his outstanding Op-Ed today in the Los Angeles Times. Entitled "Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered: What they capture, they keep. When they lose, they complain to the U.N.," is so brilliant that it takes a lot of … [Read more...]
Grievance-mongering at the gym
by Michelle Malkin MichelleMalkin.com [Excerpt] In an excellent piece for the Los Angeles Times, Raymond Ibrahim points to Pope Benedict's concessions to Islam in Turkey as a symbol of the West's weakness in the face of conquering jihadists: When Islamists wage jihad — past, present and future — conquering and consolidating non-Muslim territories and centers in the name of … [Read more...]