JW/DW Digest 10th, 11th May 08

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Sunday, May 11, 2008

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Islamic nations launch "Islamophobia Observatory"

Observe this, İhsanoğlu If İhsanoğlu really wants to rectify Islam's image, he should start by rectifying things like this. But instead, he and the OIC continue to pretend that any concerns non-Muslims may have over an Islamic cleric proclaiming...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020966.php>

Lebanon: Army overrules gov't decisions against Hizballah

"As for the telecommunications network, the army will look into the issue in a manner that is not harmful to the public interest or the security of the resistance [against Israel]." A clear statement of priorities. Never mind that Iranian...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020965.php>

Jordanian Muslim cleric: Islam will rule the world, America will fall

Who would have expected that the former minister of religious endowment in modern, moderate Jordan was a Misunderstander of Islam? Yet here he is saying Islam will rule the world. Didn't he get the new US government guidelines about...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020964.php>

UK: High-profile reformed jihadist arrested on suspicion of jihad activity

Now this is very interesting, and its implications are manifold. Was Hassan Butt's entire conversion to anti-jihadism an exercise in Muhammad's dictum "war is deceit"? "Anti-terror police arrest Muslim author and former al-Qaida recruiter as he boards flight to Pakistan,"...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020963.php>

"Hizbullah has turned from an opposition party into a militia attempting to impose its control. I think Hizbullah believes that the way to Tel Aviv passes through Beirut"

More on Iran's attempt to create a client state in Lebanon to go along with its Iraqi Shi'ite client state and its friends in Syria. "Lebanese minister: Hizbullah believes way to Tel Aviv passes through Beirut," by Roee Nahmias for...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020962.php>

Sign the anti-Spencer petition!

Jihad Watch reader James has alerted me to this petition over at PetitionOnline: To: Robert Spencer We strongly condemn all the writings of Robert Spencer which present a wrong and misleading view about Islam and about Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W)....

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020961.php>

Iran backing Hizballah jihadists in Lebanon: "It is a new chapter of the battle led by Iran to control all of the Middle East"

The world should be standing for a Free Lebanon, in which Lebanese Christians can live in peace without being terrorized by Hizballah or any other jihadists, and should understand that this initiative by Iran and Hizballah is just another part...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020960.php>

"The jihadist project-and it most certainly is a jihadist project-is to remove all barriers to the establishment of sharia"

Andrew McCarthy, author of the sobering and essential new book Willful Blindness, discusses that blindness in an address at the Hudson Institute, "The Jihad in Plain Sight," May 6: ...Simply stated, we did not take the enemy and his...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020959.php>

Happy Sixtieth Birthday, Israel!

Iranian freedom fighter Amil Imani pens an eloquent tribute to the country on the front lines of the global jihad. Israel, your people, as well as people of good will, are celebrating your sixtieth birthday. We, the children of Cyrus...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020958.php>

Hamas' Mashaal threatens to kidnap more Israelis

"I think there's no doubt in anyone's mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process," - Dhimmi...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020952.php>


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"It is not possible that a country could want to join the European Union while its army is occupying the territory of another EU country"

So says French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. But actually it is quite possible that a country could want to join the European Union while its army is occupying the territory of another EU country. And it is also possible, although...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020957.php>

Jordan: Man kills pregnant sister in "honor killing"

According to the article, this is at least the fifth honor killing in Jordan this year. "Jordan police question family for Â'honour killingÂ'," from Deutsche Presse-Agentur: AMMAN - The Jordanian authorities are questioning a 22-year- old man, who allegedly killed...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020956.php>

Bangladesh: Muslim villagers, angry at pastor's ministry, gang-rape his 13-year-old daughter

"Besides the religious opposition of some residents, the officer said villagers had no personal or commercial conflicts with the Das family that could serve as a motive for the assault." "Bangladesh - Pastor's 13-year-old daughter gang-raped," from Compass Direct, May...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020955.php>

U.S. withholds $81 million in aid to Pakistan following misappropriation of funds

$81 million out of nearly $1 billion a year: It's only a start, if they even decide to follow through on it. An update on this story. "Pentagon rejects some Pakistan aid requests," by Peter Spiegel and Greg Miller for...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020954.php>

Algeria: $460 fine, one-year suspended sentence for carrying Bible, study materials

"Officials in several instances have cited a February 2006 law governing the worship of non-Muslims. Clarified by subsequent decrees in 2007, the law restricts most religious meetings to approved places of worship and forbids any attempt to 'shake the faith...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020953.php>


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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Saturday, May 10, 2008

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Captured Al-Qaeda chief not captured after all

Sorry about that, Chief This is nothing. Last year around this time he was killed but not killed. "Iraq al-Qaeda chief not captured," from the BBC, May 9 (thanks to larwyn): The United States military in Iraq says a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020951.php>

A debate challenge to a satisfied man, Dinesh D'Souza

Dinesh D'Souza, who has come in for almost as much flogging here at Jihad Watch as he gives his books at his blog, is a very happy man these days. Flogging his latest book, he's in full Von Hugel mode,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020950.php>

Methodist group claims responsibility for Philippine bus bombing -- no, wait...

Scratch that. It wasn't Methodists after all. It was, of all things, an Al-Qaeda-linked Muslim group. Didn't they get the new US government guidelines about not linking Islam with terrorism? "Muslim militants-linked extortion gang says it caused Philippine bus bomb...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020949.php>

Defining the Jihadist Enemy: A Petition

From PetitionOnline (thanks to all who sent this in): To: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence The American people condemn the May 8, 2008 decision by the majority of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in rejecting...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020946.php>

New Jersey imam says he was tortured into admitting he was member of Hamas

But if he was, why didn't he say so on his green card application, and come clean then? And what about his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, which is just as much an Islamic supremacist group as Hamas (which defines...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020945.php>

Indian Muslim cleric: "Every Muslim should be a terrorist"

He also pines for Sharia in America and recommends hijab as a preventative for rape. And when he recommends that every Muslim be a terrorist, he means that "Muslims should terrorize the anti-social elements in society. He should terrorize...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020944.php>

Hizballah seizes western Beirut from Lebanese Army

An update on this story, and things are going downhill fast. "Hezbollah militias assume control of western Beirut," from CNN, May 9: BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Western Beirut fell under the control of opposition Hezbollah militias Friday in what amounted...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020942.php>

"Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" freed on bail in U.K.

Why? Abu Qatada Update. "Islamic preacher Abu Qatada is bailed," by Christopher Hope for The Telegraph, May 9: Abu Qatada, who last month defeated the Government's efforts to deport him to Jordan on terror charges, will be subject to a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020940.php>

Somalia jihadists seize police headquarters in Mogadishu

Remember, jihad is an interior spiritual struggle. This one just happens to be in the interior of the Mogadishu police headquarters now. Somalia Jihad Update. "Armed Somali Insurgents Seize Police Headquarters in Mogadishu," from the Associated Press, May 8: MOGADISHU,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020939.php>



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Libya seethes, Calderoli apologizes for "consequences" of wearing Muhammad t-shirt

Careful wording or abject dhimmitude? "Libya/Italy: Calderoli 'sorry': Berlusconi confident migrant coooperation will resume," from ANSA (thanks to Insubria): (ANSA) - Rome, May 9 - An Italian government minister whose reappointment was opposed by Libya on Friday apologised for an...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020948.php>

UK cops to step up recruiting of Muslim police officers

Policewomen in Britain, policewomen in Iran "I'd like to see prayer facilities at work being pretty more universal as they are at the Met where there's a prayer room at New Scotland Yard." Meanwhile, is anyone asking why Muslims...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020947.php>

U.S. most charitable nation; oil-rich Muslim countries give almost nothing

The most likely reason for this is that zakat, the almsgiving that is obligatory for all Muslims, is generally not to be given to non-Muslims. Since there is nothing preventing this aid from being given to non-Muslims, they don't give...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020943.php>

Canada: Islamic group calls newspaper cartoon a hate crime

"Under the Criminal Code of Canada, a hate crime is committed to intimidate, harm or terrify an entire group of people to which the victim belongs. The victims are targeted for who they are, not because of anything they have...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020941.php>