Australian Somali immigrant, male model and DJ Sharky Jama apparently thought it would be fun to travel to Iraq and Syria and torture and kill innocents.  Yesterday, the moral stature of the human race was slightly improved when he died fighting for ISIS.  He was 25, which means that other people have been relieved of 50-75 more years of having to ( Read more... )

Yesterday we learned that Iranian agents plotted to bomb a crowded Washington, DC restaurant at lunchtime, in an incredibly-bloodthirsty plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States of America. This attempt, if backed or even sheltered by the Iranian government, is of course an act of war against both America and Saudi Arabia, and ( ( Read more... )

Courtesy of cutelildrow and an expansion of my comment to her post in http://cutelildrow.livejournal.com/2271443.html?view=5895635#t5895635 on the comment by Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post "To Islam's Dismay, a New (Oil) Nation is born Read more... )

My opinion of Amnesty International has never been all that high, but I used to think that it played an important role in exposing human rights abuses. Used to.

Then I read "Amnesty International Boss Endorses 'Jihad in self-defence'" (from The Investigative Project on Terrorism (Read more... )

From "Perilous Euphemisms," by Susanne M. Reyo in Front Page (http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35276).

“Overseas contingency operation.” “Man caused disaster.” “Anti-Islamic activity.”These are the currently required terms by our government, ( Read more... )

On March 20th, Obama gave a major address to the people of Iran. Courtesy of the Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090320.wirantext0320/BNStory/International/home?cid ( Read more... )

This from Riaz Khan, under the as-usual unperceptive AP's headline "Islamic law to be imposed in parts of Pakistan" (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090216/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan).

The government agreed to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive ( Read more... )

Inspired by and mostly lifted from a comment I posted in foxfire74's blog, made to a post (http://foxfire74.livejournal.com/41654.html?view=288182Read more... )

(originally posted by me into the blog of mosinging1986My opinion of George W. Bush was that he was a good, though not great, President. He successfully waged war against America's enemies and overthrew two hostile regimes, those of Afghanistan and Iraq. This needed to be done, and it needed to be done because George H. W. Bush (the 41st President) failed to ( Read more... )

(this reprints a post I made over a year ago, on January 1st 2007, and adds a postscript)

===Twenty years ago, I would have been more optimistic about the possibilities for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In particular, I assumed (in 1990) that the end of the Cold War would inevitably lead to such a peace, because absent the Soviet ( Read more... )