In the featured piece at FrontPage this morning, I discuss the Yemen/Chicago UPS jihad plot: It was yet another jihad plot against targets in the United States: the bombs, sent from Yemen via UPS, were powerful enough to bring down a cargo airplane. They were addressed to a synagogue in…

Again: Contrasting ideals of martyrdom on stark display, as several attackers subsequently detonated suicide vests. Those ideals have clear and far-reaching implications for the character of their respective cultures, societies, and civilizations, where giving one’s life for what is believed to be a noble cause is a supreme form of…

In Islamic law, blood money, or diyya is less for non-Muslims than for Muslim lives. It is just one such indication of how, under Sharia, infidel blood is cheap. "At least 7 hostages killed in rescue from Iraq church," by Waleed Ibrahim and Muhanad Mohammed for Reuters, October 31: BAGHDAD…

"Yemen is like a bus station — we stop some terrorists, and we send others on to fight elsewhere … We appease our partners in the West, but we are not really helping." – Yemeni political analyst Murad Abdul Wahed Zafir, 2008. This, once again, shows Yemen’s lack of seriousness…

What if something had gone wrong? We know the bombs were powerful enough to bring down a plane. There would have outrage at Muslim casualties, and the sense in the Mideast that something must be done about such slaughter. Maybe even Yemen would show some sense of urgency. And heaven…

It’s absurd enough that this would happen once, but it’s not the first time. And Saudi Arabia is up for a supporting role. When apologists for Islam defend Sharia’s deplorable record on women’s rights and human rights in general, they often cite marginal improvements that Islamic law may have introduced…

The planning for this jihad attack evidently involved more than just a few people in Yemen. "Chicago Synagogue Cites Web Visits From Egypt," by Lauren Etter for the Wall Street Journal, October 30 (thanks to Choi): A rabbi at one of the synagogues allegedly targeted by explosive-laden packages from Yemen…

Osbourne and Yusuf Islam: Take off that cross, you uppity kaffir This is an example of the Leftist/Jihadist Alliance, or perhaps of the cluelessness of the Left, or perhaps of its indifference to the freedom of speech that Islamic supremacists wish so ardently to extinguish. Take your pick. "Stewart-Colbert ‘sanity’…

A medical student. See? Poverty causes terrorism! "Bomb was designed to explode on cargo plane – UK PM," from the BBC, October 30 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Prime Minister David Cameron says the device in a package sent from Yemen and found on a US-bound cargo plane was designed to…

Feel the love. "US-bound bomb could have brought down plane," from AP, October 30: A bomb found on a U.S.-bound cargo plane was powerful enough to bring down an aircraft, British authorities said today, as forces in Yemen searched for suspected al Qaeda militants behind a plot to bomb Jewish…