Only Muslim Extremists Get Upset About Cartoons
Good line, purportedly from Jon Stewart: Obama is not upset about the cartoon that calls him a Muslim extremist. Who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists. via Steve Garfield. See "New Yorker Obama Terrorist Cover" for background and commentary on the story. UPDATE: Amusingly, I see via Memeorandum, the hubbub goes on. Obama is continuing to beat this dead horse: Democrat Barack Obama said ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 16, 2008 06:37
Sarkozy Vows to Punish Gun-Toting Rioters
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Wednesday that rioters who shot at police during a flare-up of Paris suburban unrest would be severely punished," AFP reports. Strikes me as a good idea. Via OTB News.Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 28, 2007 14:38
Race Riots and Assimilation
Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he's made in the comments of my tongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France. He argues that the problem goes beyond religion and is ultimately about assimilation and "giving the descendants of immigrants a stake ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 27, 2007 15:35
86 Police Officers Hurt in French Youth Riots
The rioting youths in France have injured 86 police officers, several seriously, with some youths vowing to continue until there are deaths. The number of police officers injured during clashes by French youths in a suburb north of Paris rose to 86 after a second bout of violence overnight in which 60 officers were hurt, including six who are in serious ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 27, 2007 13:37
Rioting in Paris after Muslim Youths Killed
Rioting has been ongoing in the Paris suburbs for hours after the deaths of two teenagers in what appears to be an accidental crash with a police vehicle. Details are a bit sketchy in the early reports. "Riot grips Paris suburb after youths killed in police crash," AFP French police were on alert Monday for a new flare-up of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 26, 2007 08:24
German Terrorist Plot Foiled
German and U.S. authorities have thwarted what a massive Islamist terrorist plot against about to be launched against American targets in Germany. FT's Hugh Williamson: German security forces have prevented a terror attack in Germany that could have been more deadly than the Madrid and London bombings, top security officials said on Wednesday. Police on Tuesday arrested three men who had planned simultaneous ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 5, 2007 10:01
Pakistan Minister Says Rushdie Knighthood Justifies Terrorism
Pakistani Religious Affairs Minister Ijaz-ul-Haq declared that terrorism was "justified" in response to Salman Rushdie being awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth. Pakistan demanded on Monday that Britain withdraw a knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, as a government minister said the honour gave a justification for suicide attacks by Muslims. Angry protesters in several cities torched British flags and beat them ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 19, 2007 09:27
Failed States Index 2007
Foreign Policy has published the latest edition of The Failed States Index 2007. It is not a cause for celebration: Few encouraging signs emerged in 2006 to suggest the world is on a path to greater peace and stability. The year began with violent protests that erupted from Indonesia to Nigeria over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 18, 2007 15:00
Royal Warns of Violence if Sarkozy Wins
Segolene Royal is trailing badly in the polls going into today's run-off for France's presidency. So she warned that violence would break out if Nicolas Sarkozy wins. Socialist opponent Segolene Royal said on Friday that France risks violence and brutality if her opponent right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy wins Sunday's presidential election. On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls showed ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 6, 2007 07:43
Al Qaeda Declares France Enemy
Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahri has joined the Islamist war against France. Al-Qaida has for the first time announced a union with an Algerian insurgent group that has designated France as an enemy, saying they will act together against French and American interests. Current and former French officials specializing in terrorism said Thursday that an al-Qaida alliance with the Salafist Group ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 15, 2006 07:03
Illiberal Europe
Nick Cohen writes in today's Observer about the increasing fear in Western Europe of free expression. Next week, the Council of Europe is holding hearings on whether freedom of expression should include the right to offend religions. It is already clear that the tide is with the supporters of suppression. Meanwhile, Franco Frattini, the EU's Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 14, 2006 13:36
Balkans Paradise for Al Qaeda
The Houston Chronicle's Gregory Katz has a disturbing report from Belgrade that the combination of loose borders and powerful organized crime syndicates have made the Balkans "a paradise for al-Qaeda." A hidden alliance between terror networks and organized crime gangs that control heavily used smuggling routes in the Balkans is making it easier for terrorists to infiltrate Western Europe, according to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 27, 2005 10:35
14 Terror Suspects Detained In Belgium
Buried on page A19 of the Washington Post we find Belgian police raided homes in four cities Wednesday and detained 14 people suspected of involvement in a terrorist network that sent fighters to Iraq, including a Belgian woman reported to have carried out a suicide bombing in Baghdadâ¦. More than 200 police officers took part in raids at dawn in Brussels ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 1, 2005 03:41
Riots Bolstering French Radicals
The Washington Times today reprints a piece from yesterday's London Sunday Telegraph noting that the French riots, now more in progress for more than two weeks among Muslim and other immigrants, have dramatically increased the popularity of National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Riots drive recruits into arms of Le Pen Nationalist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen claims that the riots sweeping ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 14, 2005 10:03
Victor Davis Hanson on French Riots
Victor Davis Hanson is an excellent historian and an interesting commentator on world events. His background on discussing European affairs is superb. Still, I had to get a chuckle from this segment on the Hugh Hewitt radio program: HH: I'm now joined by Victor Davis Hanson, military historian extraordinaire, and you can read him every Friday at National Review ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 8, 2005 07:09
