JW/DW 27th, 28th May 2008

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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Taliban recruiting for jihad at Kabul University

Sounds a lot like university students stateside. "Afghanistan: Secret Taleban cells spread lessons of jihad in Kabul University," by Jeremy Page for the Times, May 27 (thanks to all who sent this in): To his professors and peers at Kabul...

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Fitzgerald: Some key propositions about the war in Iraq

Let me list some of them: 1. The correct definition of "victory" in Iraq should be an outcome that weakens Islam -- the Camp of Islam and Jihad -- not only in Iraq but elsewhere. There is no other justification...

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Arizona: Muslim engineer guilty of illegally accessing nuclear plant computer

I'm sure he only wanted the nuclear information in order to generate electricity. "Iranian engineer guilty in Arizona nuclear plant software case," from The Associated Press, May 27 (thanks to Sr. Soph): PHOENIX: An Iranian engineer has been convicted of...

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Taliban leader: Mistah bin Laden, he dead

The horror, the horror? Nah Is Osama bin Laden dead? Yet? Still? More importantly, does it really matter? It does not. The jihad, as Joe Biden and almost everyone else doesn't realize, is not a movement organized around a...

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Iran promises Hamas more weapons, money

Buds In case Hamas can't seize enough American-made weapons from Fatah, they can always fall back on Iran. The pretext here is the Israel-Syria talks, which makes this even more of a cruel joke, since -- as always --...

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Teenage wasteland: Al-Qaeda starts teenage terror cell in Iraq

Rebels with a cause Al-Qaeda forms a youth group, but campfires and archery are not quite what they have in mind. "Iraq: Al-Qaeda creates teenage terror cell, says report," from AKI, May 27 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): Baghdad, 27...

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Stop the Presses: UN says Iran ignoring its demands to suspend nuke work

As a great philosopher once told me, "Well, duh." "Iran: Tehran pursuing its nuclear programme, says UN," from AKI, May 27 (thanks to Twostellas): Tehran, 27 May (AKI) - Iran is ignoring United Nations' demands that it suspend its uranium...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021185.php>

One of the oddest reviews ever

Jihad Watch reader Vince has alerted me to a review of my book The Truth About Muhammad by the respected blogger Gay Patriot. Vince has been kind enough to post my response there, but this review by "Average Gay...

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"Pray, pray, Allah is great. America is destroyed by a fatal jihadist nuclear strike"

Is it a coded message? An attempt to "strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah" (Qur'an 8:60)? Or something more? "Terrorism: New al-Qaeda video calls for nuclear strike," by Hamza Boccolini for AKI, May 27 (thanks to...

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Fitzgerald: Defeating the Jihad by Dividing the Jihadists

The way to divide the Camp of Islam and Jihad is to first identify those pre-existing fissures, large and small, that exist, and to figure out what should, or should not be done, to widen them. I have written many...

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Fitzgerald: Clarifying my positions

A poster here at Jihad Watch recently made a series of statements in attempted rebuttal of my position, long available here, at the "Articles by Hugh Fitzgerald" link, from early 2004 -- a position from which I have not wavered,...

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Spencer: CAIR's Continuing Mystery

In Human Events today I discuss the strange circumstances surrounding the departure of Ahmed Bedier from CAIR, and what it all may and may not mean. Joe Kaufman has a better piece on the same issue today at FrontPage, but...

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Honor killing in Germany: she wanted to live like other German girls

She wanted to live like a German, as did Hatin Src. And so again, the same question that was asked when Hatin Src was murdered: "How many more women have to die before this society wakes up?" "Honor Killing Victim...

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50,000 to 100,000 U.S. Muslims in polygamous families

"Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that a minority of Muslims take second wives, and that Islamic scholars would differ on whether one could do so while living in the United States." He didn't say...

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Winning in Iraq for Allah: Alcohol banned in Basra

As the last paragraph shows, this is a reaction to the recent return of alcohol to Basra. A What-Are-We-Fighting-For Sharia Alert from Iraq: "Iraq: Alcohol banned in southern city of Basra," from AKI, May 22 (thanks to Stlreader): Baghdad, 22...

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UK: Cops tell motorist to remove "racist" England flag from his car

To avoid offending Poles? Come on. It is clear which immigrant group, and the only immigrant group, that this hyper-PC police officer had in mind. "Motorist told flag could be racist," by Charley Morgan for This Is Wiltshire, May 23...

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Iran fights "whores" who "want to destabilise the Islamic Republic"

A noble aspiration for "whores," or anyone. "Iran: Cleric 'calls all feminists whores and foreign spies,'" from AKI, May 27 (thanks to all who sent this in): Tehran, 27 May (AKI) - A top Iranian cleric from the northeast, Ayatollah...

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Amsterdam police get cheap deals for Qur'an

I am all for non-Muslim officials reading the Qur'an in order to gain more insight into Islam, but I doubt that any genuine insight that they get from reading it will be encouraged by Amsterdam police authorities. Also, I get...

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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Tuesday, May 27, 2008


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Churchill predicts "Islamophobia"

Â"In a very few years, perhaps in a very few months, we shall be confronted with demands with which we shall no doubt be invited to comply. Those demands may affect the surrender of territory or the surrender of liberty....

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Al-Qaeda tells jihadists: Don't attack Yemeni police; they're not "tools in the hands of the crusaders"

No kidding. "Al-Qaeda urges attacks on US interests in Yemen," from Deutsche Presse Agentur, May 26: Sanaa (Yemen), May 26 (DPA) The Al Qaeda terrorist network asked Monday its supporters in Yemen to limit their attacks to "effective" operations against...

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Is the price too high?

Last March, scarcely a day after Geert Wilders's film Fitna was released on LiveLeak, LiveLeak pulled it, explaining: Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British...

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Spencer Blogging the Qur'an: Sura 26, "The Poets"

"And the Poets, it is those straying in Evil who follow them." The latest in my Blogging the Qur'an series at Hot Air (links in the original): This is a Meccan sura; its name comes from v. 224, which...

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Fitzgerald: The Alawites and Hizballah

The Alawite despotism may seem to be calling the shots in Lebanon, but it is Hizballah that, by enraging the Sunnis in Lebanon, may cause all kinds of problems for the Alawites of Syria. The Alawites who rule Syria constitute...

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Row in Church of England over call to proselytize Muslims

Why is this controversial? Christianity, like Islam, is a missionary faith. Muslims, as Mohammed Rasheed/Nicky Reilly newly reminds us, are energetically proselytizing among Christians. But no, say the dhimmi bishops, it is not a two-way street. If no coercion is...

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Fitzgerald: The immigrant's bad faith

In February, Hussain and 24 other Muslims joined a statewide lawsuit against Citizenship and Immigration Services and the FBI for what they called unusually lengthy delays in processing their citizenship applications. Some waited as long as five years. ''The...

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Fitzgerald: McCain, Parsley, and the larger Jihad

"In a statement to ABC News about Parsley's comments, McCain's campaign said the senator 'obviously strongly rejects such statements.'" -- from this article Senator McCain both "obviously" and "strongly" rejects "such statements"? Why "obviously"? And why "strongly"? If he wishes...

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Fitzgerald: The Times tells us what to think about Israel and Syria

In the Times a few days ago Ethan Bonner notes that most Israeli "strategists and generals" have "said that giving up the strategic advantage of the Heights in exchange for promises or even written treaties makes no sense." And he...

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