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Friday, October 10, 2008

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Iraq: female suicide bomber kills 11

She had a male suicide-companion but, for some odd reason, he "failed to detonate his explosives vest." "Female suicide bomber kills 11 in Baquba," from the Associated Press, October 8:BAGHDAD: A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest Wednesday in...

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Algeria: Al-Qaeda mufti canned for opposing suicide attacks

Obviously, after all the "scholarly" effort Ayman Zawahiri put in legitimizing suicide bombings, al-Qaeda will be damned if it lets some mufti undermine it. "Algeria: Al-Qaeda mufti 'sacked for opposing suicide attacks,'" from Adnkronos, October 8:Algiers, 8 Oct. (AKI) -...

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Saudi-funded textbooks being used in America's K-12 classrooms

Teaching, among other things, that Jesus was a "Palestinian," the state of Israel never existed, and that the Muslims discovered America before Columbus. At this rate, perhaps even Saudi grade-school textbooks -- complete with jihadi and dhimmi declarations -- will...

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Meeting defamation head on

Defamation, as you can see here and here, is a favorite weapon of jihadists and their witting and unwitting allies. They prefer to smear anti-jihadists as "hatemongers" and "bigots" than actually to refute their assertions, which of course they cannot...

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U.K: Jurors for London, Glasgow car bomb cases screened for "prejudice," employment in military or security services

Not unlike this ongoing case in the U.S. The jurors were told the defendants were following "a fundamental form of Islam." All their attempts at political correctness aside, will heads roll and accusations of Islamophobia fly over that choice of...

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India: Cell of jihadist software engineers again calls "poverty causes terrorism" theory into question

"With a job that brought in an annual salary of over Rs. 19,00,000 ($56,000) a year, 31-year-old Peerbhoy is as distant as could be imagined from the madrasa-educated, no-prospects jihadist of media caricature." More on this story. "White-collar 'media terror...

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Islamic scholars denounce dancing, say it violates sharia

Violating the law Business as usual in Dar al-Islam. "Islamic scholars say dance violates sharia," by Hassan al-Ashraffor Al-Arabiya, October 8:Salsa festival in Morocco stirs controversy. Marrakesh will host its first international salsa festival amid controversy as officials and...

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Italy: Muslims protest mosque closure by performing Friday prayers in the street

Italian authorities said the mosque "is located in an industrial area" and they offered the Muslims a temporary place of worship five kilometres away. Not good enough. "Italy: Muslims protest against mosque closure," from Adnkronos, October 9:Modena. Muslims in the...

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Iraqi jihadists: "Expel Christians from Mosul"

Islamic Tolerance Alert, and more on this story. "Islamic fundamentalists: "expel Christians from Mosul," from AsiaNews, October 9: Mosul (AsiaNews) - Jalal Moussa, 38, is the latest victim in the campaign of hatred launched by Islamic fundamentalists against Christians in...

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U.K.: Muslim prisoners get new clothes if cells are searched with dogs

Ruh-roh. "Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley in Yorkshire, said: 'Another way for people not to have their cells searched for drugs is not to commit crime in the first place'." "Muslim inmates get new clothes if dog sniffs...

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Canadian Forces seek recruits at mosque, encounter "indignation" among some members

Among the "indignant" members, there is a curious logical disconnect. The same people would most likely insist that the problem of Islamic jihad is limited to a Tiny Minority of Extremists who have "hijacked" Islam. And yet, apparently, neither Muslims...

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Federal Appeals Court blocks release of Chinese Muslim detainees into the U.S.

An update on this story. "Court blocks judge's orders to free Chinese Muslims," from the Associated Press, October 8 (thanks to Twostellas): WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court temporarily blocked on Wednesday a judge's decision to free 17 Chinese...

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

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Break out the hats and hooters: Spencer named among nation's leading "Islamophobes"!

It's party time tonight in the Jihad Watch offices here in Secure Undisclosed Locationville: the far Left organization known as Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting has issued a list of twelve "AmericaÂ's Leading Islamophobes" (whom they term, with numbing...

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Debates, Deceptions, and Suhail Khan

Last night Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy, debated -- and bested -- Suhail Khan, Assistant to the Secretary of Transportation for Policy, on the question of "Is Islam A Religion of Peace?" You can listen to...

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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates: "I have been involved in the search for the elusive Iranian moderate for 30 years"

A most illuminating insight into the wishful thinking that guides and has long guided so much of American policy. "Giving Until It Hurts," by Barry Rubin for the GLORIA Center, October 8 (thanks to Andrew Bostom): In response to a...

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Gaffney: The Other Debate

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, was also in a debate last night: Shortly before John McCain and Barack Obama, as the Car Guys would say, wasted a perfectly good hour-and-a-half of AmericaÂ's...

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CAIR a front group with an "inconspicuous Islamist hue"

Check this man for an "inconspicuous Islamist hue" Those are the words of Shukri Abu Baker, a defendant at the Holy Land Foundation trial, which is underway now after a mistrial last summer. "FBI: CAIR is a front group,...

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Ian Buruma: Europe's "far-right revival" isn't Nazism, but resistance to Islamization

Ian Buruma thinks that Geert Wilders suffers from a "paranoid fear of 'Islamization,'" and his book on the jihadist murder of Theo Van Gogh, Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence, suffers in many places from...

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Lawful jihad continues to flourish in prisons

Jihadist who declared the "time for jihad is now" and wanted to "smoke a judge," declared at his recent sentencing that "he no longer believes in violent jihad and has 'adopted more positive Muslim beliefs.'" Now he is the imam...

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Iraq: Top al-Qaeda female suicide bomber recruiter arrested

Vacancy-announcement: "Iraq arrests top Qaeda female suicide bomber recruiter," from AFP, October 7:BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi forces arrested on Tuesday a woman suspected of heading up the recruitment of female suicide bombers in Iraq, including that of a teenager...

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Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, Part 3

Here is the third segment of my conversation with the Dutch politician and international warrior for free speech, Geert Wilders. Part 1 is here, and part 2 here. Watch for more in the coming weeks from Jihad Watch Video,...

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Spencer: Obama Wages War on Freedom of Speech

"See those divisive Islamophobes, Barack? They must be silenced!" In Human Events today I discuss a recent disquieting initiatives by our anointed Next President, and their implications: Last week the Governor of Missouri, Matt Blunt, issued a statement on...

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Spain's top court acquits 14 accused jihadists

On appeal. "Spain's Top Court Acquits 14 Of Islamist Terrorism," from AFP, October 7 (thanks to Twostellas): MADRID (AFP)--Spain's Supreme Court Tuesday acquitted on appeal 14 of the 20 men who were sentenced jail in February for belonging to an...

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Mosul: Three Christians killed in 24 hours

More of the same, in an update on this story. "Iraq: 'Three Christians killed in 24 hours'," from AdnKronos International, October 8: Mosul, 8 Oct. (AKI) - Three Christians have been killed in the past 24 hours in the northern...

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Sharia courts coming to Scotland

So much for fighting and dying for "freedom"... Suppose it's only natural, since down south, in England, sharia courts are the latest rage in "diversity." "Sharia courts set to bring Muslim law to bear in Scottish cities," by Shan...

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Baby doll engaged in Islamic proselytization and da'wa

"Islam is the Light" Karen Armstrong, John Esposito, Tariq Ramadan, make way for the "Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo" doll -- the latest Islamic apologist in town, and just for children, too. "EXCLUSIVE - Doll with...

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Wales: Parents, schoolchildren gather to celebrate Muslim festival

Do they do this for Christmas? If they do, do Muslim students and parents participate? "Pupils and parents to gather for assembly to celebrate Muslim festival," by Moira Sharkey for South Wales Echo, October 8 (thanks to Twostellas): PARENTS and...

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Four Algerians get four years in jail, $1,300 fines for Islamic terrorism -- no, wait...

Actually it was for not observing the Ramadan fast. Watch for these kinds of stories to start coming out of Europe before too long. "Algerians jailed for breaking Ramadan fast," from Al-Arabiya, October 7: An Algerian court has jailed six...

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Tunisia: "Controversial" film tackles issue of equal inheritance for daughters and sons

"The fact that the issue is not debatable from a religious point should not forbid us from discussing it from a humane and social perspective ... Should intellect be shackled if fundamentalists were enraged?" How that question is answered in...

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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Hamas offering "Jihad 101" course online

Next, we have the Yahudi-Qatil XLP model, ideal for general mayhem... These comprehensive courses even include mini-tests, with questions such as: "A truck is moving at a rate of 15 meters per second, at a distance of 200 meters,...

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Potential jurors in Fort Dix jihad case grilled on whether they think Islam teaches violence

Apparently you have to believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace™ to serve on this jury -- which suggests that the trial itself will tread only very, very lightly, if at all, into territory concerning the motives and goals...

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Fitzgerald: How long do Islamic apologists think they can get away with this?

The comments by Councilman Steven Choi came at the close of a recent Chamber of Commerce election forum attended by the dozen candidates for Irvine office. Choi cautioned the audience of business and community leaders not to vote for a...

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Fitzgerald: Visiting a mosque with Jon Corzine

''We thought it was over,'' said Awatif Abadrabbo, referring to the announcement by Homeland Security officials that were appealing an immigration judge's ruling last month granting Imam Mohammad Qatanani permanent U.S. residencyÂ…. During his time as imam, Qatanani, a soft-spoken,...

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Qaradawi denies being pressured into criticizing Shia Muslims

I said they're heretics and I meant it. Originally he said, "Shiites are Muslims but they are heretics and their danger comes from their attempts to invade Sunni society." Now he's saying: "In all my sermons, books and studies...

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Hamas-linked New Jersey imam wins deportion fight -- uh, not so fast...

''This is vindictive. The implications for relations between our community and the federal government are damaging and far-reaching." Uh huh. Mohammad Qatanani Update: "Imam's victory on deportation from U.S. short-lived," by Elizabeth Llorente for The Record (Hackensack, N.J.), October 3...

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"DonÂ't listen to Brzezinski, heÂ's awful. HeÂ's on TV talking about making deals with the Taliban."

Pay this man no attention So said Daniel Casse to Barack Obama, during a conversation they had after Obama began working out on an exercise bike next to Casse in Asheville, North Carolina. Obama, says Casse, did not respond....

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How al-Qaeda recruits

"Broke, drug-addicts" suffering from "weak personalities," "complexes" and "depression"? Or, as they see themselves, mujahidin fi sabil Allah? Here's a look at how al-Qaeda and other Islamists recruit potential jihadists and suicide-bombers from the general population, that is, when...

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Steven Choi for President: California councilman criticizes his opponent's ties to CAIR

The great Choi This story, predictably enough, makes scant mention of CAIR's questionable history: the terror convictions of various former CAIR officials; the Islamic supremacist statements made by some of its leaders; its designation as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in...

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Massachusetts imam, brother of Pakistani jihadist, admits immigration fraud, will leave U.S.

Masood is the brother of Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani jihadist whose group, Lashkar-e-Toiba, has left a bloody wake in Kashmir and India. Has anyone ever questioned Masood about what he thought of his brother's activities and the ideology that inspired...

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Supreme Court rejects Al-Arian's appeal

Rumpled Academic Update. "Terror case: Top court wonÂ't hear ex-profÂ's appeal," from the Associated Press, October 6: McLEAN, Va. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal from a former Florida professor once accused of being a...

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Hamas funds being transferred to Israeli Arabs

Yet another example of the difficulty of distinguishing "moderate" Islamic groups from those who simply insist on their moderate credentials. (We've provided a handy set of criteria here.) "Hamas funds being transferred to Israeli Arabs, documents reveal," by Amos Harel...

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Still another study points to prisons as hubs for "radicalization"

Now what: Take concrete steps to solve the problem of prison "radicalization," or wait for another study to come out? The path of least resistance won't work forever. "Jailed extremists 'are free to recruit'," from ITN, October 6: Jailed extremists...

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Octogenarian polygamist update

"A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah" More on this story. "Case of Nigerian man with 86 wives heads to criminal tribunal," from Africasia, October 6:A Nigerian man with...

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Fitzgerald: The U.K.'s new Muslim advisers

A group of young British Muslims are being named as advisers to ministers as part of a drive against extremism…. Ministers are understood to be prepared to have frank conversations with the advisors over foreign policy...— from this article Throw...

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Federal judge orders Muslims from Western China released from Gitmo -- into U.S.

I understand that they may be tortured if they return to China, but what assurance do we have that they will not engage in jihad activity in the U.S.? "Judge: Let Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo into US," by Hope Yen...

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UK: Muslim youths to advise ministers and civil servants

This being "part of fresh plans to prevent radicalisation and address community concerns." "Muslim youths to advise ministers," from BBC, October 7 (thanks to Kyros):A group of young British Muslims are being named as advisers to ministers as part of...

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Jordanian poet faces charges of apostasy, being an "enemy of Islam"

Stifling creativity in any medium through the threat of force has far-reaching consequences for creativity and innovation in a society for every medium, whether artistic or technological. There is an undeniable correlation between the free exchange of ideas (with the...

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Iraq: Women candidates fear attacks if their names are published on ballots

Funny how attempts to impose sharia (by force or legal attrition) never elevate the status of women except in an apologist's imagination (and anecdotes about how bad things were in 7th-century pre-Islamic Arabia don't apply to modern standards of human...

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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The American Muslim, terrorism, and Islamic supremacism

At the reliably truth-free publication known as The American Muslim today, Sheila Musaji has published an article, "What exactly is required to be considered a 'moderate' Muslim?" In it, she takes me to task for this statement: "And I wonder...

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Egypt: Christians and Muslims riot in village

According to this story, a Christian was shot dead; also, the reason given for this latest "sectarian" clash was that a Christian woman was selling property to a Muslim. According to this more updated report, however, the real reason is...

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"Hezbollah Brigades of Palestine": the latest manifestation of jihad in Palestine

These groups just keep morphing and multiplying, as recently happened with Hamas and its latest offspring, Jaysh al-Umma, which made clear that "Muslims all over the world were obliged to fight the Israelis and the 'infidels' until only Islam rules...

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Radical Islam growing in Bulgaria

Bulgarian jihad update. "New Â'radical Islam in BulgariaÂ' claims," by Clive Leviev-Sawyer for Sofia Echo, October 5:Just days after Sofia hosted a forum on how teaching at schools could be used to forestall radical Islam, a researcher gave an interview...

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Now wait a minute: isn't poverty the cause of jihad terrorism?

Today's news keeps disproving the learned analysts. Not that they, or those who keep giving them large sums for telling them what they want to hear, will take any notice of the fact. Rich Jihadist Alert: "Mumbai: The man who...

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Now wait a minute: wasn't "jihad" always an interior spiritual struggle?

Just the other day we saw the artful dissembler Khaleel Mohammed, the "moderate" Muslim who appeared in Obsession and was apparently fine with having done so until it was distributed nationwide, and then denounced the film, claiming that the "true...

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Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, Part 2

You can find Part 1 here. And in this part of my conversation with Geert Wilders, producer of Fitna and warrior for free speech, we discuss the "racism" canard and much more....

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Brooklyn: Litigious Muslim found with Al-Qaeda and chemical weapons material

He was well versed in the courtroom jihad, but apparently had plans to indulge in the more violent variety as well. Meanwhile, how big a story do you think this will be? Will the news networks report that a Muslim...

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Taliban in Saudi-brokered talks with Afghan government?

Just yesterday we had a British commander saying the Taliban couldn't be beaten. And Friday we saw the Taliban saying they were rejecting Karzai's offer to negotiate. The clue to this muddle may come in the Saudi statement about stopping...

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"Obama clearly will work a magic in the Islamic world"

"See that, Barack? That's Islamic anti-Americanism melting away!" "If Obama were elected president, 50 percent of the anti-Americanism in the world would disappear." I predicted this enthusiasm for Obama among Muslims around the world in March 2007: "Given ObamaÂ's...

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Somalia: Kismayo airport re-named after jihadist

"[Imam Ahmed] Gurey is a mythical figure in Somalia. A fervent proponent of Muslim expansionism, Gurey embarked on a conquest of Abyssinia which brought three-quarters of modern-day Ethiopia under control." Hmm. Was Gurey another misunderstander of Islam? Somalia Jihad Update....

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Kuwait: Music concert "abruptly" terminated after female fan hugs and kisses male singer

What do Malaysia and Kuwait have in common? "Uncontrolled" women -- singers or, as in this story, fans -- have a curious way of leading to canceled concerts. They also, coincidentally enough, have Islam in common, for what that's worth......

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Fitzgerald: The "root causes" of Islamic disarray

Arabs and Muslims, it has been said, cling to their past. And itÂ's true: they do cling to "their" past, as long as that past is the past that came after the pre-Islamic past that went before, which is merely...

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Mosul: "Climate of panic" among Christian community after month-long series of attacks, local media silent

Islamic Tolerance Alert. "Mosul, the relentless slaughter of Iraqi Christians," from AsiaNews, October 5: Mosul (AsiaNews) - A new attack against the Christians in Mosul: yesterday afternoon, an armed group assassinated Hazim Thomaso Youssif, age 40. The ambush took place...

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YouTube censors anti-sharia video

It apparently falls in the "hate speech" category. More on this story. "YouTube censors comedian's anti-Sharia video called 'Welcome to Saudi Britain,'" by Martin Beckford for the Telegraph, October 4:Pat Condell, an outspoken atheist and veteran stand-up comic, uploaded the...

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Monday, October 6, 2008

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Raymond Ibrahim: Islam and Innocence

Just recently, a high ranking Pakistani cleric, one Munib ur-Rehmen, asserted that Â"Islam does not allow anybody to take lives of innocent people by any means.Â" However, when he was grand mufti, two years earlier, he also said that Â"truly...

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UK military commander: War against Taliban cannot be won

Reaping the consequences of the PC delusion that the jihadists represent a tiny minority of extremists whose points of view are decisively rejected by most Muslims. "War on Taliban cannot be won, says army chief," by Christina Lamb for the...

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Spencer interviews Geert Wilders, Part I

Here is the first segment of my conversation with Geert Wilders, the courageous Dutch Parliamentarian who produced Fitna, and the debut of Jihad Watch Video. Watch for much more in the coming days and weeks....

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Blogging the QurÂ'an: Sura 53, Â"The StarÂ"

Rushdie didn't make them up Most people associate Â"the Satanic versesÂ" with the notorious novel by Salman Rushdie. In 1989, IranÂ's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie for writing this book — and this death...

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American public school text: "Jesus was a Palestinian"

In my forthcoming book Stealth Jihad, I discuss how Islamic groups (some with Muslim Brotherhood links) are asked by clueless textbook publishers to vet history texts, so as to make sure that everything they say about Islam is nice and...

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Allah abandons the Cubbies

Prayers unanswered: Dodgers 3, Cubs 1, and the World Champions of 1908 begin a second bad century....

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

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Pakistan's spies "support terrorism"

More evidence regarding what everyone is increasingly becoming familiar with: Pakistan's perfidious nature. Friend-and-Ally Update. "Pakistan's spies 'support terrorism,'" by Tamim Hamid for Quqnoos, October 4:A LEAKED report from SpainÂ's intelligence service has accused PakistanÂ's spy agency, the ISI, of...

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American traitor says U.S. economic crisis is a Muslim victory

Misunderstander of Islam rails against the "enemies of Islam." Not that this has anything to do with Islam, of course. More on the traitor's new video. "Al-Qaida: US economic crisis equals Muslim victory," from AP, October 4 (thanks to all...

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Dearborn: Muslim gets prison for death, rape threats against Debbie Schlussel

Debbie comments here. "Dearborn man gets prison for threats against commentator Debbie Schlussel," by David Ashenfelter for the Detroit Free Press, October 2: A federal judge today sentenced a Dearborn restaurant cook to 8 months in prison for e-mailing death...

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"Hizballah Brigades in Palestine" set to "carry out Jihad for the sake of Allah and to resist the enemies of Islam"

Not that this has anything to do with Islam, of course. A new group of Misunderstanders of their peaceful religion has popped up among the "Palestinians": "New Islamist armed group set up in Palestinian territories," from China View, October 4...

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American jihadist traitor says Pakistan's new leaders are U.S. puppets

"Dude! I love this book!" Al-Qaeda's Adam Gadahn is the first American to be charged with treason since World War II. A few years ago he invited me to convert to Islam and turn my sword against the enemies...

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Taliban rakes in $100 million a year from drug trafficking

Osama bin Laden himself has been called "one of the world's largest heroin dealers." In my 2002 book Islam Unveiled I discussed how the Taliban's involvement in drug trafficking was consistent with the group's theology. It is in line with...

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Muslims threaten Hindus in New York

Â"We have freedom of religion, and we have the Constitution.Â" At least for now. But how many Islamic supremacists such as those who figure in this incident will be needed to change all that? And who is doing anything to...

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Ostriches all over the nation whine about Obsession

Don't trouble them with the truth Reporting about haters is hateful, you see. But where are the stories about people who are grateful for the wake-up call about Islamic jihad and supremacism? Surely AP could find a few if...

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UK: Muslim pharmacist denies infidel woman access to "morning-after" pill

Left "ashamed and worried," woman wonders: "I appreciate we live in a multi-cultural society but what gives him the right to impose his beliefs onto me?" Why, simply because his beliefs tell him so. More specifically, it has to do...

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One-hundred Muslims to rally outside Wrigley Field

In need of prayer? "[T]o pray for Allah to change the team's dim fortunes." Yet at least one Muslim scholar has some reservations. At any rate, the real question is: What would Muhammad do? What is his sunna in...

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Egypt: Copt slain in clashes with Muslims

Surrounded "Sectarian divide" or religious bigotry? "Egypt Christian killed in clashes with Muslims," from AFP, October 4:MINYA, Egypt (AFP) — A Coptic Christian was killed by a stray bullet during an overnight gunfight between Christians and Muslims in a...

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Saudi cleric says Muslim women should cover all but one eye

Seductive Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "Saudi cleric urges Muslim women to cover up all but one eye," from Haaretz, October 4 (thanks to Twostellas): Saudi cleric Sheikh Mohammed al-Habadan has declared that a...

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Saturday, October 4, 2008

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Coming this December: International anti-jihad conference in Jerusalem

Recently I spoke with Geert Wilders about this conference in Jerusalem, and he asked me to be there. I plan to be. Meanwhile, watch for the video of my interview with Wilders, coming very soon. "Jerusalem to Host Ant-Jihad Convention...

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John Esposito in hell!

Oh, this is rich. Saudi-funded dhimmi academic propagandist John Esposito just keeps getting more entertaining. First there were the "Darth Vaders of the world," and now he is tormented by the devils Bernard Lewis, Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, and...

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Stop the presses! U.N. anti-blasphemy resolution curtails free speech!

The presidential candidates should be asked what they think about this. "U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution Curtails Free Speech, Critics Say," by Jennifer Lawinski for FoxNews, October 3: Religious groups and free-speech advocates are banding together to fight a United Nations resolution...

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More evidence that HLF "charity" was geared towards "global jihad"

"Live with self-respect or die honorably" Including new evidence indicating that the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development was quite fond of citing Abdullah Azzam (1941–1989, pictured above), the mujahid/scholar mentor of Osama bin Laden who often boastfully...

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Three Muslims charged in firebombing of Muhammad book publishing house

"Police said Beheshti was also charged with possessing a weapon 'designed or adapted for the discharge of a noxious liquid or gas.'" Now that's interesting. A few days ago we saw Aziz Poonawalla, a colleague of the unhinged psychotic Dean...

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Tolerance of the unacceptable

"Toleration of the unacceptable leads to the last round-up." -- Bob Dylan...

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Taliban: "We reject an offer for negotiation by the Afghan's puppet and slave President Hamid Karzai"

Evidently they think they can press on to final victory. "Taliban rejects peace talks," from Reuters, October 3 (thanks to JE): A SENIOR Taliban commander today rejected reconciliation with what he called the "puppet" Afghan Government, the latest in a...

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Al Qaeda + Pirates = Jihad on the High Seas

Arrghh...Aslim taslam, matey! More evidence that the supposedly "random" Somali pirate attacks are, in fact, associated with al-Qaeda's jihad. Incidentally, piracy as a jihadist activity has a pedigree at least as old as the Barbary conflicts with Europe and...

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Al-Qaeda in Algeria offers "glad tidings" of "victories" and the "massacre of the apostate slaves of America"

For an "imploding" organization -- according to "analysts" -- al-Qaeda sure still manages to get around: "Al Qaeda says it was behind Algeria bombing," by Raissa Kasolowsky for Reuters, October 1:DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's north Africa wing said it...

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CAIR asks IRS to see if Obsession distributor has violated tax-exempt status

This claim is self-evidently absurd: Obsession was made several years before the 2008 campaign, and contains no exhortations to vote for anyone. It is also quite revealing that they think -- and don't seem to care if their actions make...

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Flying Imams try to add FBI agent as defendant

The Flying Imams claim that they were taken off a flight not because they were acting suspiciously, but because they were discriminated against. They tried to sue the passengers who reported them -- which would have ended the reporting of...

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Slapstick Jihad: Act 2 – a total flop at the UN Human Rights Council

Comments by David G. Littman on a special Day at the UN Human Rights Council: Act 2 of Â"Slapstick JihadÂ" by EgyptÂ's Counsellor Amr Roshdy Hassan at the Human Rights Council (HRC) on 23 September was a total flop. He...

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Somali town administration vows "to bring back Islamic theocracy" and to govern "using laws of the Holy Koran"

Looking forward to theocratic rule Sharia-Alert. "Islamists slap Sharia law on Somalia town," from AFP, October 3:MOGADISHU (AFP) — Islamists in a town in southern Somalia have imposed Sharia law in line with their vow to bring back Islamic...

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Egypt: court gives Christian boys to Muslim father

More evidence that sharia law governs Egypt. A Christian man converts to Islam, and, even though Egypt's "Constitution" asserts that children under age 15 must remain with their mothers in case of separation, their two (apparently practicing) Christian boys must...

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Fitzgerald: Muslims and Hindus

Gandhi was unacceptably wrong about a number of things -- his advice to Jews to mimic Indians in their campaign with the British, and to offer "passive resistance" to Hitler, and if necessary to sacrifice themselves, takes the cake. But...

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Fitzgerald: A tribute to Noah Feldman

Some Jihad Watch readers recently wondered -- bizarrely -- if Noah Feldman was either a convert to Islam or what some of them insist upon calling "a self-hating Jew," or both. He is neither of those things. Rather, Noah Feldman...

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Acid, the new weapon for disfiguring women

It's happening in Bangladesh as well as in Pakistan and Gaza. There is, of course, nothing in the Qur'an to the effect of "Throw acid on her" if a woman is disobedient -- there is just "beat her" (4:34). But...

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Friday, October 3, 2008

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U.K.: Jihadist threat "approaching critical" level

Tiny Minority of Extremists Alert. "Terror threat in UK 'approaching critical'," by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, October 2: The threat level is at the "severe end of severe" according to sources who say the level of "chatter" among terrorist...

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Obama hires CAIR lawyer

This just in from Yid With Lid: "Obama is Using Terrorist's Lawyer to Defend Lawsuit," October 2 (thanks to all who sent this in): Here come another of those "Guilt by Associations" that Senator Barack Obama will try to weasel...

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"Achmed the Dead Terrorist" banned in South Africa as offensive to Muslims

"Silence, I kill you" indeed Wait a minute. Aren't we supposed to believe that Muslims condemn and abhor terrorism? At least until someone mocks an Islamic terrorist. Then suddenly one has offended all Muslims. But if they really condemn...

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Fitzgerald: The Alawite choice

Alawites, who constitute much of the officer corps and control the government of Syria, make up only 12% of the population of that country. Ominously, they are regarded by true-blue Sunni Arabs (who make up 70% of the population of...

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Fitzgerald: Wilders, Obama, McCain

Neither candidate, nor many of their loyalists, grasps what Geert Wilders describes in his speech to the Hudson Institute. One of them has accepted the idea that Iraq is the "central front" in the war of self-defense against Jihad, and...

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Fitzgerald: The "anti-Islam movement"

Malaysia has proposed that a large-scale international convention sponsored by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) be held as early as next year to tackle the anti-Islam movement which is rearing its ugly head in several developed nations. –...

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Kuwait Human Rights Society demands that YouTube erase "anti-Islam" material

That is, material that reports accurately about Islamic teachings and Muslims acting upon those teachings. "Uttering profanities against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the worst form of human rights violation in the world." Worse than murder. Worse than slavery. Worse than...

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Fitzgerald: Qaradawi and the Sunni/Shi'ite divide

"Shiites are Muslims but they are heretics and their danger comes from their attempts to invade Sunni society," said Qaradawi, who was quoted in the Egyptian independent daily Al Masry al Youm. "They are able to do that because their...

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Fitzgerald: Muslim "over-representation" in prisons

Muslims are not only "over-represented" in prisons, but they also find prisons the perfect place to conduct Da'wa among the indigenous non-Muslims. The latter, for whom life has proven to be simply too much, may well welcome the Total Regulation...

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Pakistani mufti insists that "Islam is a religion of peace and brotherhood and linking terrorism with it is not justified"

This from the same man who also asserted that Â"if a state is truly Islamic it would have to kill the apostate." "Linking terrorism with Islam not justified: Munib-ur-Rehman," from Associated Press, Pakistan, October 2:ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (APP): Islam is...

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UK judge recognizes grave threat posed to converts from Islam to Christianity

This sober judge acknowledges that "the condition of the Muslim convert to Christianity is one of life and death." Unlike other judges, who can't seem to transcend their own notions of right and wrong, this judge is basing his decision...

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Pat Condell: Welcome to Saudi Britain

Jihad Watch readers Rob and Hans wrote in to tell me that this video was banned on YouTube. Of course, at YouTube you can still find the viciously antisemitic "Robert Spencer -- Jew Undercover" video about which I first...

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Spencer: War On Terror Hits New Front -- The First Amendment

In Human Events today I discuss the escalating threats and fear surrounding the publication of the trashy novel The Jewel of Medina: British authorities arrested three Muslims in London on Saturday after fires broke out in the offices of the...

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Spencer: Attacking "Obsession"

We're both sorry he appeared in an anti-jihad film In FrontPage today I give a summary of the dishonesty, and hypocrisy of Khaleel Mohammed, the Islamic scholar who appeared in Obsession but is now sorry he has done so,...

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Pakistan Prime Minister: US attacks inside Pakistan are "terrorism"

But what do you bet he wouldn't call the 9/11 attacks terrorism? "Prime Minister Terms US Attacks Inside Paksitan [sic] Terrorism," from Pakistan News, October 1 (thanks to Kyros): ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has termed the US...

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France tries four members of "Islamist militant network"

George Carlin once observed that euphemisms are almost invariably longer than the "offensive" words they are introduced to replace. And eventually even those are replaced by longer terms once the former ones take on too much of an undesirable connotation,...

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Morocco shuts down Qur'anic schools advocating child marriage

Anti-Sharia Alert -- although there are certain to be protests from traditional Muslims against this, since there is an abundance of evidence from the Islamic sources that Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha when she was nine. An update on...

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John Esposito, Noah Feldman working to make the world safe for Shariah

An announcement from Esposito's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University: Is There a Role for Shari'ah in Modern States? Oct 23 2008 9:30am-5pm Location Leavey Center GU Conference Center Access This event has been marked...

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Somalia jihadists: "We have demolished a Christian church. And we'll replace it with an Islamic mosque. We will demolish all similar Christian cathedrals and other places of worship"

More on this story. "Somali insurgents want to raze non-Muslim places of worship," from the Associated Press, September 30 (thanks to Kyros): MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Islamists began demolishing an old Roman Catholic church in southern Somalia on Tuesday to...

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

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Ingrid Mattson and the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project

"Soft" Jihadist? While warning Jews of the great "perils" of allying with Christian fundamentalists, Ingrid bint Mattson is also busy making Americans complacent towards the threat of radical Islam. "Ingrid Mattson and the 'U.S. Muslim Engagement Project,'" by Cinnamon...

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Manual outlines signs of Muslim radicalization in prisons

Long beards: biggest giveaway More on the phenomenon of radical Islam's spread in prisons. "Manual outlines Muslim radicalization in prisons," by Elaine Ganley for AP, October 1:PARIS (AP) — Security officials from several European countries have developed a manual...

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Iraq: "Al-Qaeda is targeting orphans, street children and mentally disabled children as suicide bomber recruits as well as women"

Ready to be "martyred" for Allah? More on al-Qaeda's "brave" and "honorable" tactics. "Iraq: Al-Qaeda 'used 24 child suicide bombers in last two years," from Adnkronos, October 1:Baghdad, 1 Oct. (AKI) - Al-Qaeda has over the past two years...

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"Secularism is as foreign to Islamic theory as is Sharia law to Americans"

A good reminder that, with Jesus' "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, unto God what is God's," Christianity can survive, thrive even, in a secular society; whereas in the Islamic world, where there is absolutely no separation between mosque and...

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Iranian Top Dog: Palestinians will soon witness a "big day"

That "big day" will apparently consist of the disappearance of Israel. "Iranian leaders says Israel defeat 'absolute,'" from Al-Bawaba, October 1 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called for unity in the...

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Shock horror! Spanish intelligence says Pakistan helped arm Taliban!

More confirmation of what everyone should know by now about the duplicity of our Friend and Ally Pakistan comes today from Spain: "Spanish intelligence document says Pakistan 'helped arm Taliban,'" by Fiona Govan in the Telegraph, October 1 (thanks to...

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Fitzgerald: A tribute to Khaleel Mohammed

I wants to make your flesh creep Robert SpencerÂ's May 2005 exchanges with Khaleel Mohammed should have been the end of Khaleel Mohammed's short happy career as yet one more "Islamic reformer" (move over, Reza Aslan, Mustafa Akyol, Stephen...

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Fitzgerald: Dubai's pleasure palaces

Those who used to sing the praises of the Arabs, of the vast starlit desert, and the presumed effect of that vast starlit desert on the leather-faced noble Bedu, hawk on hand, standing barefoot on an outcrop of rock (see...

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Bali bombers vow revenge for executions, and say: "I've never regretted these bombings...I will not ask for forgiveness from those infidels"

"If it's true that there will be an execution, then all the people committing the execution will be condemned to die by God." "Bali bombers vow revenge over executions," from AAP, October 1 (thanks to JE): THREE death row Bali...

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Spencer en español

Here are two articles of mine that have recently been published in Spanish (thanks to Ignacio): "Obama bin Biden" pone fin a la guerra contra el terror ¿Cuál es el propósito del CAIR? English here and here....

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Khaleel Mohammed responds to the "satanic" Spencer: What would Jesus do?

For starters, Jesus would tell the truth Khaleel Mohammed, the Islamic "scholar" who appeared in Obsession but (now that the film is being distributed everywhere) has suddenly discovered it to be "Islamophobic," has responded to my post here with...

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Fitzgerald: Naomi Wolf and the hijab

Naomi Wolf, casting about for a new topic, appears to have found it. What better way to epater, than to defend the hijab? But why stop there? Why not the burqa? Why not the eye-slit of the niqab? Naomi Wolf...

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Fitzgerald: A simpleton appealing to other simpletons

The "conflict resolution" business comes mostly from Roger Fisher and the "Getting to Yes" boys who turned Fisher's banalities into a well-packaged presentation. That presentation has become (and not only in Cambridge) a vast "Negotiations" or "Conflict Resolution" industry, with...

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Fitzgerald: Uzbekistan and "Islamophobia"

Speaking at a coordinating ministerial session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov expressed concerns about growing Islamophobia and intolerance in various parts of the world, the Ministry told Interfax on Saturday. "Uzbekistan has...

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Federal judge: Victims of Palestinian jihad terror in Israel may lay claims in U.S.

Anti-dhimmitude. "Federal judge rules victims of PLO terror in Israel may lay claims in US," from the Jerusalem Post, October 1 (thanks to Dionysios Potamis): American citizens who are victims of terror attacks inside Israel can now take judicial action...

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Somali jihadists destroy Catholic church

"We are Muslims and we have to know that our religion prohibited Christian holy sites built for spreading Christianity in the Muslim territory." Islamic Tolerance Alert: "Somali militants destroy Roman Catholic church," from APA, September 30 (thanks to Kyros): APA-Mogadishu...

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

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Dayton Daily News scrubbing stories about spurious anti-Muslim "hate crime"

An important message from Patrick Poole updating this story: The Dayton Daily News has been walking back their coverage of the so-called mosque incident this weekend. The initial article on Saturday was "Chemical irritant empties Islamic Society of Greater Dayton's...

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Illinois mall jihadist gets 35 years in prison, man

He said: "I swear by Allah, man ... I'm down to live for the cause and die for the cause, man." I wonder if he is down to serve 35 years in the slammer, man. He also said, "I just...

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Islamophobic terrorists attack Ohio mosque! No, wait...

I first encountered Aziz Poonawalla during my exchanges with the frothing psychopath Dean Esmay, as he is a contributor to his blog. Poonawalla and I have had several unpleasant exchanges, which are as tedious to reread as they were to...

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Â"But donÂ't you think that the real problem is not Islam but Islamophobia?Â"

At Pajamas Media today the superb Bruce Bawer asks the question, "WhoÂ's Sleeping More Deeply — Europe or America?": [...] Make no mistake: if Europeans are, on average, more aware than Americans of the realities of Islam, itÂ's no thanks...

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In midst of fire-fight with US warship, Somali "pirates" celebrate Eid al-Fitr

And use their plunder to fund the land jihad. "US official: 3 pirates may be dead in shootout," by Mohamed Olad Hassan for AP, September 30 (thanks to Jeremy):Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy...

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Bombs kill five in India

In "areas wracked by Hindu-Muslim tensions." "Five killed in India bomb blasts," from AFP, September 30 (thanks to JE): Five people were killed and 25 others injured today in two suspected bomb attacks in the western Indian states of Gujarat...

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Melanie Phillips: "The leaders of the democracies are...burying their heads in the sand"

Strache: A limp-handed Nazi salute? The perceptive and courageous Melanie Phillips here discusses a phenomenon that Hugh and I have discussed at Jihad Watch several times over the years: that the mainstream parties in Europe are either mute or...

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Professor says Obsession film "smells" and is "pure propaganda"

If this "conflict-resolution" professor deems the Obsession film "pure propaganda," at least one Middle East history professor thinks otherwise. Wonder who knows more? More on this story. "Obsession smells: It's propaganda, professor argues, by Tom H. Hastings for Oregon Live,...

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Al-Qaeda preparing to blow Atlantis back into the water

Infidel stronghold on Muslim land "Symbol of decadence" -- not to mention Disney characters (who, accordingly are liable to receive death fatwas) -- must go. "Al-Qaeda planning to bomb Atlantis," by Dylan Bowman for Arabian Business, September 29:The Atlantis...

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The hardest thing to explain

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." -- Ayn Rand (thanks to Vee)...

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Nigeria: Rep urges Muslims to emulate Muhammad

Sunna Alert. Not to worry, however, as the particular Sunna being evoked seems to be that of Mecca, when Muhammad (ostensibly) sought only to live and let live. "Rep Urges Muslims to Emulate Prophet Mohammed," by Usman Bello for AllAfrica,...

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Syrian bombing investigation: Wait, maybe it wasn't the Zionists...

Whoops. One shouldn't expect much in the way of apologies from the Syrian media or Foreign Ministry for the rush to judgment. An update on this story. "Syria says radical Islam behind Damascus blast," by Ali Waked for YNet News,...

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Kenya: "Islamists" attack church in northern town in effort to seize land for mosque

Here is an exceptionally detailed Islamic Tolerance Alert, and also a case study in the limitations on the usefulness of the term "Islamist." The mainstream media uses it in some settings to describe proponents of Islam as a political platform...

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