Jihad/Dhimmi Watch 4th - 5th May

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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Monday, May 5, 2008

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Hamas to Israel: Accept the truce or else

See how they thirst for peace! "Hamas threatens Israel to accept truce," from the Jerusalem Post (thanks to all who sent this in): Hamas has threatened an "unprecedented escalation" against Israel if it does not agree soon to the Egyptian-mediated...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020885.php>


"You can't take the Islam out of Islamic terrorism"

The fearless and insightful Andrew McCarthy tells the truth, truths we have been repeating here for years, on the bully pulpit of the Rush Limbaugh Show. Don't miss Andy's important new book about the Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman case...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020882.php>

Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror

Joseph C. Myers at The American Thinker eviscerates the surrender that the new DHS policy forbidding use of the word "jihad" represents: [...] War is a complex endeavor, there are no silver-bullet weapons, theories, words or phrases that will disarm...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020881.php>

Who is teaching Chertoff and the DHS about jihad?

Here is a passage from the DHS memo "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims," which rules out use of terms like "jihadist" to refer to, well, jihadists. (Background here.) On May 8, 2007, Secretary Chertoff met with...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020880.php>



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The battle for secularism in Turkey

Henrik Ræder Clausen reports on the ongoing battle between secularists and Sharia supremacists in Turkey: Largely underreported in Western media, a significant constitutional battle is taking place in Turkey these days. On March 14th 2008, the Chief Prosecutor filed suit...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020884.php>

Dutch museum removes controversial Muhammad exhibit after death threats

I don't like "art" like this. I don't approve of "art" like this. But do not be deceived: if Sooreh Hera had exhibited a series of photographs of homosexual men wearing masks of Jesus and the Apostle John, no one...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020883.php>



Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Sunday, May 4, 2008

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"Death to the blasphemer": 5,000 demonstrate against Fitna in Pakistan

Yes, they're still angry. "Pakistan demo against Islam film," by Carl Dinnen for Channel4 (thanks to Twostellas): Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Pakistan to protest against a controversial film about Islam made by a Dutch MP....

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020879.php>

Al-Qaeda: We committed "blessed operation" against Italian embassy in Yemen

"I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim." -- Muhammad (Sahih Muslim 19.4366) "Qaeda claims attack on Italian embassy in Yemen," from Reuters (thanks to Twostellas): DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters)...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020877.php>

Australia: accused jihadist praised Allah for attack on Australian troops in Iraq

Here is yet another case in which a jihadist does not consider himself a citizen of the infidel polity in which he resides, but as a citizen of the umma, the global Islamic community. This is a mainstream Islamic belief,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020876.php>

Hizballah: We're proud to be on terrorist list

Terrorist pride Hizballah takes pride in its murderous work. "Hezbollah says 'proud' to be on the U.S. terrorist list," from Deutsche Presse Agentur (thanks to Sr. Soph): The Iranian-backed Lebanon-based guerilla movement Hezbollah said on Friday it prides itself...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020875.php>

Islamophobia strikes again: bomb kills 18 outside Yemen mosque

Actually, Islamophobes didn't set this one off. It appears to be jihadists of one type or another, but who exactly did it is as yet unclear. "Motorcycle bomb explodes outside Yemen mosque, killing 18," by Ahmed Al-Haj for Associated Press...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020874.php>



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Woman from Mali who underwent genital mutilation fights for asylum

Alima Traore should be granted asylum at once, and U.S. opposition to this practice -- so often justified by reference to Islamic teaching -- made clear. "Woman from Mali who underwent circumcision fights for asylum," by Stephen Manning for Associated...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020878.php>

Italy: Arabic translation of Constitution

"We have translated the constitution to increase immigrants' awareness of the laws that govern civic life in Italy." That's good. In Europe today, even the idea that Muslim immigrants have an obligation to obey the laws of the land is...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020873.php>