This is horrible, but hostage-taking is an established feature of Islamic law: "As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the…

Yesterday the Iranian-American writer Amil Imani published a piece, "Governor Perry’s Islam Curriculum," which retails the same false information about the Perry/Aga Khan curriculum on Islam for Texas schools that we have debunked here at Jihad Watch several times, but since Imani’s piece is making the rounds, it is all…

Philistines for Palestine Update. Here, thanks to Sam, is video of the disruption of the Israel Philharmonic concert in London by anti-Israel thugs. It’s come to this degree of a breakdown of order and decency. Enjoy the music at the end, and note the study in contrasts encompassed therein….

No, really, this time will be different. When and how, pray tell, did he have his awakening to the values of a modern civil society? He promises Libya will shun "extremism," but that is a uselessly relative term among the many platitudes the rebels have spouted off to reassure their…

Indeed. It is a train wreck waiting to happen. Those agitating for statehood want the U.N. to leapfrog "Palestine" over the normal criteria both to be a state, and to act like one. They hope that what the U.N. starts, it will feel obliged to finish, as the new…

No "right of return" there: one of the remaining who was interviewed was pessimistic about prospects of Iraqi Jews returning even to visit: "saying that latent anti-Semitism within Iraqi society would prevent this from happening anytime soon." It’s "latent" because they’ve all but run out of Jews to expel….

Tantrum in Turkey. Ann Landers used to pose the question to women doubtful of long-term commitments: "Am I better off with him or without him?" With regard to Turkey under Erdogan, Israel’s answer to this question ever more open to debate. If nothing else, their relationship is no longer a…

This tactic of repeated, timed disruptions by thugs distributed throughout the venue is the same that was used against the Israeli ambassador Michael Oren at UC Irvine. It is a regression from the standards of civil society that should not be tolerated, lest it be rewarded, and therefore repeated. Don’t…

They acknowledge the Iranians are stalling for time, and they’re giving it to them. There is no end game to this process, but only an ongoing series of incrementally, symbolically tougher restrictions that do nothing to stop Iran’s nuclear program. But the next report, we’re assured, will be "a bit…

The "official" ceremonies are anything but that. They do not represent the reality of the war or the will of the American people. So come to ours! The AFDI/SIOA 911 Freedom Rally will feature 9/11 family members, including Rosaleen Tallon, sister of hero firefighter and reservist in the United…