JW/DW Digest 12th, 13th May

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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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The State Department's Jihadist Exchange Program

State just keeps going from bad to worse. Patrick Poole reports at Pajamas Media: State Department diplomats are taking full advantage of their new rules prohibiting the use of "jihad," "jihadist," and "mujahedeen" to describe Islamic extremists and terrorists, which...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020991.php>

Jihadists kill five in Jammu, including a woman hostage and a press photographer

The Jihad is back in Jammu and Kashmir. "Terror returns to Jammu," by Arun Joshi for the Hindustan Times, May 12 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): In a dastardly attack, the biggest in Jammu region since 2002, militants struck in...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020990.php>

The New York Times notices the Islamic death penalty for apostasy, wonders if Obama will incur it

Well over a year after I wrote about this possibility, and six months after Washington Post "journalist" Perry Bacon completely misrepresented my position in order to blame me for the "Obama is a Muslim" rumors, and many many months after...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020987.php>

MILF welcomes Libya's offer to lead peace mission

Fox Guarding the Henhouse Alert: sure, says the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Libya would be a great choice as a mediator! "Philippines: Rebels welcome Libya's offer to head peace monitoring mission," from AKI (thanks to Sr. Soph): Cotabato City, 12...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020984.php>

Fitzgerald: The respected cleric's deportation trial

"Deportation trial under way for respected Passaic cleric" -- headline of this article about Qatanani "Respected" by whom? For what? It is not the job of the reporter to tell readers what to think about Qatanani. If he is "respected"...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020983.php>

"Allah hath promised such of you as believe and do good work that He will surely make them to succeed (the present rulers) in the earth..."

That imperialist headline is Qur'an 24:55, discussed in the latest installment of my Blogging the Qur'an series at Hot Air: Sura 24, "The Light," verses 21-64. This section also contains the instructions to women to veil themselves. There are...

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Another honor killing in Jordan: Man drowns sister in Dead Sea

The second reported honor killing in Jordan in less than a week. "Jordan charges man with killing sister suspected of having extramarital affair," from the Associated Press, May 12: A Jordanian judicial official says the country's state prosecutor has charged...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020989.php>

Fitzgerald: When The Fool of Chelm Is At The Helm, Or, What Peres Did, He Undid

"Although in '98 everything seemed dark because of Rabin's murder, I believed we could still move the peace process ahead more quickly. I did not think we'd have so many problems. I believed the separation between the West Bank and...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020986.php>

Fitzgerald: Deceiving ourselves by our own propaganda

Ordinarily in a war, when one conducts propaganda both black and white, there is always the danger that one will end up deceiving oneself. This is particularly true where the "war" does not look like a war as we have...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020985.php>

Islamic supremacists killing singers, actors, and artists in Iraq

Their work is un-Islamic, you see. Imagine what fun Muslims who share this perspective could have once they gain control in Europe! "Iraqi artists and singers flee amid crackdown on forbidden culture," by Afif Sarhan and Caroline Davies in The...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020981.php>



Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Monday, May 12, 2008

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Hizballah attacks Druze villages

A Whose-State-Is-It-Anyway Update. "Hezbollah rocks eastern villages," from the BBC, May 11: Control of several villages loyal to Lebanon's pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has been handed to the army after an attack by Hezbollah. The group's fighters used heavy...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020979.php>

Guess who's speaking at the local mosque

Nope, guess again Unless you live in a rural area, there is probably a mosque (or more than one) in your town, and most people -- including local law enforcement officials -- regard them in much the same way...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020978.php>

Israeli Leftist discovers jihad

In "From Dove to Hawk" in Newsweek, May 8 (thanks to Paul Green), controversial Israeli historian Benny Morris finally notices that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not about land, but is fueled by a religious imperative: ...Con­trary to current historiographic discourse...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020974.php>

U.S. soldiers learning Arabic at Wahhabist Islamic Saudi Academy

Just when you thought the world couldn't possibly get crazier, yes, it's the Islamic Saudi Academy about which the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom expressed "significant concerns" that the school was promoting, according to Cinnamon Stillwell, "a brand of...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020973.php>

New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot

Altered Face? Really? The New York Times, true to the New Duranty Times moniker Hugh Fitzgerald has given it, has run a gushing profile of Ali Ardekani, the young Muslim filmmaker who made "Who Hijacked Islam?," (linked in the...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020970.php>

Somali jihadists retake parts of Mogadishu, enforce Sharia on pain of death

The Islamic Courts Union are back -- in some areas of Mogadishu. "Islamists target Somalis in terror campaign: Islamists target white aid workers," by Alex Strick van Linschoten in the Sunday Times, May 11 (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair): When Ibrahim...

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Saudis hold "women in the workplace" forum -- with no women present

And meanwhile, at the forum a scholar calls into question the commonly articulated view that Islam improved the lot of women in the seventh century. Of course, the blame is rather characteristically placed on the Greco-Roman tradition, but the subtext...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020977.php>

Scotland: Police bid to tackle Islamophobia

Hmmm. How are they going to tackle Islamophobia? Will they go right to its root cause -- will they get Muslims to stop blowing stuff up in the name of Islam and announcing that they will soon dominate the land...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020976.php>

Attempts to stem trafficking of teenage girls in northern Nigeria hampered by... Sharia law

"The [Child Rights Act] has been endorsed by the Nigerian federal government but not as yet by the predominantly Muslim northern state legislatures because it contains clauses which many northerners see as going against their religious and cultural values." But...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020972.php>

Amnesty International to Saudi Arabia: No lashes for coffee klatsch

Earlier coverage suggested Muhammad Ali Abu Raziza was "framed by the religious police after he angered some of their members at a training course." In any event, public pressure may again work to spare individuals the cruel and unusual punishments...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020971.php>

'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

"If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her." An update on this honor-killing story. By Afif Sarhan and Caroline Davies in The Observer, May 11 (thanks to Cindy):...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020969.php>

US public school history books whitewashing and promoting Islam

"Islamic activists use multiculturalism and ready-made American-made political movements, especially those on campus, to advance and justify the makeover of Islam-related textbook content." "History textbooks promoting Islam: New report says Muslim activists 'succeeding' in expunging criticism," by Bob Unruh at...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020967.php>