Some 1.5 million protesters carried anti-government banners, red-and-white Turkish flags and pictures of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the secular republic in 1923. Turkish flags hung from balconies and windows, as well as buses and fishing boats and yachts bobbing in Izmir’s bay. “I am here to defend my country,” said Yuksel Uysal, a teacher. “I am here to defend Ataturk’s revolution.”
Clerk Rings Up N.J. Jihad Jerks: It all began on a frigid January day with 10 bearded Muslim men huddled in the parking lot of a Circuit City debating who would go inside to have a copy made of a tape showing them firing guns and praising jihad…
‘Talking’ Terror: What if the months of planning and conversation that went into the 9/11 plot had been leaked in advance to The New York Times? …
Fortress America’s gate is open: The Fort Dix boys were pulled over for 19 traffic violations, but because they were in “sanctuary cities,” any cop who suspected they were illegals was unable to report them to immigration authorities. Again, as a matter of policy.
Symposium: Jihad in Jersey: News of the FBI’s arrests of six militant Islamists in New Jersey who plotted to kill our soldiers at Fort Dix was met yet again with the same tired responses of shock and dismissal from the mainstream media (MSM) and from major American Islamist organizations. — M. Zuhdi Jasser
Terror suspect takes witness stand in NY, and it goes badly: Hou also questioned Sabir about an audiotape, found at his house, in which a religious lecturer said God would “destroy the disbelievers.” “That’s God’s word. I have to believe in it,” Sabir said.
Hate-Crime Hysterics: Among the more than 200 organizations supposedly ardent for the bill are the American Music Therapy Association, Catholics for Free Choice, Easter Seals, Goodwill Industries, International Dyslexia Association, Rock the Vote, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics & Ritual. Who knew?
Too Fine For PBS: Boy, was I wrong. Burke’s doc is a riveting and creatively made film about the most important subject of our time: What to do about radical Islam?
Europe to scan mosques for radicals: Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said Europe had extensive experience with the “misuse of mosques,” which instead of being places of worship are used for other ends.
