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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Monday, May 19, 2008

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Traitor still operating jihadist website in North Carolina

The traitor Samir Khan is still in his North Carolina home advocating jihad against Americans, and law enforcement officials seem unable to figure out what to do about it. Here is Fox's initial report, and now here is a report...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021070.php>

Bush: Democracy is not hostile to Islam

What the President says here is good -- it is good to see him explaining why the West offers a better way of life. His words, although framed as criticism of the authoritarian governments of the Islamic world, could also...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021068.php>

Fitzgerald: Barack Obama and the "legitimate claims" of Hamas

According to columnist David Brooks, who has been talking in his naive boy-scoutish way to Barack Obama, the teflon candidate believes that Â"the U.S. needs a foreign policy that Â'looks at the root causes of problems and dangers.Â' And, again...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021067.php>

Fitzgerald: Cutting out Islam's heart to undercut a few Infidels

In one of this articles criticizing Robert Spencer, CAIRÂ's Omar Subhani wrote this: Fitzgerald says that when Muslims say jihad is really a spiritual struggle they are not telling the truth. He asserts that the hadith that states that the...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021066.php>

Huge cash bounties bring in no Al-Qaeda honchos

Gee, now why might this be? "Bounties a Bust in Hunt for Al-Qaeda: Lavish U.S. Rewards Program Has Failed to Dent Network's Leadership," by Craig Whitlock for the Washington Post, May 17, 2008 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): SANAA, Yemen --...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021065.php>

The Jaipur bombing email: a manifesto for jihad

A few days ago I noted that a little-known Indian jihadist group had sent an email claiming responsibility for last week's bombings in Jaipur, in which over 50 people were killed. But the email was more than just a claim...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021063.php>

U.S. soldier uses Qur'an for target practice; U.S. military apologizes; U.S. official kisses Qur'an

Assuming that the soldier really did know this was the Qur'an -- he says he didn't but the military "rejected the claim" -- this story illustrates many things. 1. While the President and the military brass are anxious to deny...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021062.php>

Former FBI supervisory agent: U.S. ambassador to Yemen in 2000 hindered FBI investigation into USS Cole bombing

A naive and muddleheaded multiculturalist ambassador impedes anti-terror efforts. "Coddling Terrorists In Yemen," by Ali H. Soufan, an FBI supervisory special agent from 1997 to May 2005, in the Washington Post (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): Seven years after al-Qaeda terrorists...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021061.php>

CAIR rep Omer Subhani exposes Robert Spencer! Part V

Omer Subhani is the Communications Director for CAIR-South Florida, and he has undertaken a multipart "exposé" of my work, which I just discovered and have been responding to this week. And as we have seen in Parts I, II, III,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021058.php>


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Afghan journalism student insists "he only confessed to questioning the religion's treatment of women because he was tortured."

"Prosecutor Ahmad Khan Ayar told the appeals court that the primary court sentence [of death] was "the right decision" according to Islamic law and the Afghan Constitution." Yes, Afghanistan, where the constitution stipulates that "no law can be contrary to...

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Malaysian government to appeal Court decision allowing woman to leave Islam

When the Court first handed down this decision, I wrote here that "this is a small step in the right direction, but not as much of one as you might think," because some schools of Islamic jurisprudence don't mandate the...

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Pakistani Christian doctor jailed for "blasphemy," mob attacks his home

"This is the house of a blasphemer," reads a sign on his house. "Pakistan: Doctor Jailed On 'Blasphemy' Charges," from Compass Direct News, May 16 (thanks to Cindy): ISTANBUL, May 16 (Compass Direct News) - Pakistani police have jailed a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021059.php>


Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Sunday, May 18, 2008

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OIC to declare a "memorial day" for massacres against Muslims

Just in case you were getting distracted by those 10,000+ jihad terror attacks since 9/11, the OIC helps you remember that Muslims are victims, not perpetrators. Got it? Victims, you Islamophobe. "OIC to adopt Â'memorial day' for massacres against Muslims,"...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021057.php>

Bush: "I've got to do a better job of making it clear when I talk about Islam, I talk about a peaceful religion, which I talk about a lot"

Does anyone really not know that George W. Bush believes Islam is a peaceful religion? Apparently some don't: yesterday "a young Palestinian Christian woman, Henriette Charcar" scolded the President for this, telling him: "I think it comes out that you...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021055.php>


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EU called upon to work harder to teach coexistence between Muslims, Christians and Jews

Here again, the responsibility is entirely upon non-Muslims to foster integration. There seems to be no awareness whatsoever of the fact that Islamic leaders in Europe are discouraging integration, or any discussions of the manifold implications of that fact. "Culture...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021056.php>


Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Saturday, May 17, 2008

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National Intelligence Director: "We try not to refer to 'jihad' as something that's bad"

These guys didn't think "jihad" was something bad As intelligence agencies try to recruit Muslims, they don't want to give them the impression that they're against jihad! And of course they are making no effort whatsoever to determine what...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021052.php>

McCain to Obama: "It is reckless, it is reckless to suggest that unconditional meetings will advance our interests"

John McCain scores Barack Obama for saying he'd meet with the Thug-In-Chief. From LGF: I have some news for Senator Obama: talking, not even with soaring rhetoric, (unconditional)... in unconditional meetings with a man who calls Israel a "stinking corpse,"...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021051.php>

Obama: Hamas, Hizballah have "legitimate claims"

Really? What are they? From "Obama Admires Bush," by David Brooks in the New York Times, May 16 (thanks to Infidels Are Cool): The U.S. needs a foreign policy that Â"looks at the root causes of problems and dangers.Â" Obama...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021050.php>

Saudis to Bush: No reduction of oil prices. Bush to Saudis: OK, we'll give you nukes

And when I touch you I feel happy, inside More Fantasy-Based Policymaking over in the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places, where our Saudi masters have again rebuffed the dhimmi President's humble request for a reduction of the jizya....

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021049.php>

Bin Laden says "Jihad is a duty to free Palestine," mainstream media covers for him

In his latest audio, or Whomever's latest audio, bin Laden (or Whomever) says that destroying Israel is "the most important issue for the Islamic nation." He also says, "Jihad is a duty to free Palestine." So reports AKI in "Terrorism:...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021045.php>



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Malaysian Muslims protest Court ruling allowing woman to leave Islam for Buddhism

Islamic Tolerance Alert and Siti Fatimah Update: "M'sian muslims protest ruling on renunciation of Islam," from AFP, May 16 (thanks to Twostellas): PENANG (Malaysia) - A GROUP of Muslims in Malaysia's northern Penang state staged a protest on Friday to...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021048.php>

This is not a joke: Afghan hijacker now working at Heathrow airport

Well, he has experience. "Afghan hijacker 'working at Heathrow,'" by Graham Tibbetts in the Telegraph, May 16 (thanks to Sr. Soph): An Afghan hijacker who forced an airliner to fly to Britain is now working at Heathrow, it has been...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021044.php>

Egyptian Parliament: Female Genital Mutilation is A-OK [UPDATE: Or is it?]

UPDATE: Jihad Watch reader Anonymous has kindly alerted me to this MEMRI blog post, "Egyptian People's Council Nixes Sections Of New Children's Law," May 16. It says, "However, the People's Council did decide to ratify the section banning female circumcision."...

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Dutch police arrest cartoonist for "publishing cartoons which are discriminating for Muslims and people with dark skin"

Gregorius Nekschot is quite the equal opportunity offender, having penned cartoons offensive to Catholics and Jews (e.g., Muhammad molesting Anne Frank) alongside his emphasis on lampooning Islam and Muhammad. What did he get arrested for? Lampooning Islam and Muhammad....

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021042.php>