Someone didn’t teach this woman properly
The story of a European female convert to Islam carrying out a suicide mission in Iraq came as a shock to a lot of people, despite the fact that it's not the first European...
Category: Terrorism
Independent, but idiotic
Harry's Place (dead link; the blog was cracked very shortly after I posted this) drew my attention to a bizarrely stupid side column to a profile of Muriel Degaque, the Belgian convert to Islam...
Black Iris on “Takfiri culture”
A Jordanian-based blog called The Black Iris of Jordan has published a lengthy article called Confronting the Takfiri Culture, explaining exactly what this term means to Muslims and why it is such a heinous...
Zahid and Parveen Sharif acquitted
The BBC reported this afternoon that Zahid and Parveen Sharif, who were accused of knowing about their brother Omar's involvement in the Tel Aviv pizza-parlour bombings in 2003 and not saying anything, were acquitted...
Juan Cole on Mustafa Akkad
There's been much discussion on the terrorist attacks in Amman on Sunni Sister ([1], [2], [3]) and Izzy Mo's blog ([1], [2]). The director of the famous "da'wah film" The Message, Mustafa Akkad, was...
Bliar defeated
Good news today, which certainly justifies an update: Tory Bliar's proposal to lock suspected terrorists up for up to 90 days got defeated in the Commons, with 322 against and 291 in favour. 49...
Interview with UK cyber-crime minister
The most recent Guardian Online has an interview with Paul Goggins, the British Home Office minister concerned with internet crime, about recent Government proposals to police internet use by requiring service providers to keep...
Murray: Hazel Blears lied
Craig Murray has a piece in today's Guardian calling out Hazel Blears, a Home Office minister, for relaying a straightforward untruth regarding the so-called Islamic Jihad Union, a purported terrorist organisation operating in Uzbekistan,...