JW/DW Digest 25th, 26th May 2008

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Monday, May 26, 2008

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Diana West: Sniper shooting Koran hardly 'criminal behavior'

More common sense from Diana West: It is late August 1939. American columnist Augusta "Gusto" Nash, played by the incomparable Claudette Colbert in the 1940 movie "Arise, My Love," is sitting in a French railway car taking her from Paris...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021168.php>

Sistani: Not so fast

Earlier today I posted denials from the Iraqi press, via Gateway Pundit, that Ayatollah Sistani was issuing anti-American fatwas. I did not, however, look closely at what the denials actually said. The ever-perceptive Diana West did, however, and she kindly...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021167.php>

Will jihadis use mentally ill as suicide bombers?

What the Mohammed Rasheed (Nicky Reilly) case tells us. "MI5 fears jihadis will use mentally ill as suicide bombers," by David Leppard and Abul Taher for the Sunday Times, May 25 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): Islamic terrorists may be...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021166.php>

Also see:

* ‘Gentle Giant’ my arse, from the Illustrated PIG

But even this is not enough for the terrorists. They also soak the shrapnel in rat poison, because it causes hemorrhaging - victims may bleed to death before they can get to the hospital.

Remember all of this, when you hear the world tell us that Islam is a religion of peace in responding to this attack.

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Fitzgerald: The half-wit, his nail bomb, and his Islam

Devon and Cornwall Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville said Reilly appeared to be a "vulnerable" individual who had been "preyed upon" and "radicalised". He said: Â"Our investigations so far indicate that Reilly, who has a history of mental illness, had...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021165.php>

Iraqi press denies AP report that Sistani is issuing anti-American fatwas

At Jihad Watch we have never shared in the general enthusiasm for the Ayatollah Sistani, with his classification of unbelievers as "unclean" on a par with blood, urine, and feces, but there is no doubt about which side the mainstream...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021164.php>

Iran paid Iraqi jihadists to kill UK soldiers

$300 a month. "Iran 'paid Iraq insurgents to kill UK soldiers,'" by Sean Rayment for the Telegraph, May 25 (thanks to Sr. Soph): Iran has secretly paid Iraqi insurgents hundreds of thousands of American dollars to kill British soldiers, according...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021162.php>

CAIR whines that Seattle police training course links Islam to terrorism

The unindicted co-conspirator CAIR tries to stop a police training course that sounds more realistic than most. "But Solomon Bradman, CEO of Security Solutions International, which is conducting the program, said, 'I can't take the responsibility of my course linking...

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Fitzgerald: What would Israel get for the Golan Heights?

What would Israel get for giving up the Golan Heights, a tangible and, many generals think, an indispensable asset? Oh, it would get a promise, by the trustworthy Syrian government, to end its support of Hizballah. But how likely is...

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Fitzgerald: Olmert the Golem and the Golan

The Golem of Hebrew legend is a creature who is formed of inanimate clay, but is wonder-working and beneficent. However, in modern Hebrew slang the word Â"golemÂ" is used, presumably because only the Â"made from inanimate clayÂ" part is implicated,...

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Enforcing Sharia at UC-Irvine

In "UC Irvine Still Enforcing Sharia Law" by Jonathan Constantine Movroydis and Reut Cohen at Pajamas Media, May 22, we see how dhimmi university administrators allow Muslim students to enforce Sharia provisions (no filming of the "sisters") on the campus...

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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Sunday, May 25, 2008

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Afghanistan urges Pakistan to stop jihad attacks

"Islam does not recognise boundaries and jihad (holy war) in Afghanistan will continue," said Mehsud, as we noted earlier. This kind of talk has made the Karzai government nervous, and for very good reason. "Afghanistan urges Pakistan to stop attacks,"...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021160.php>

Barry Rubin: The Fall of Lebanon

Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, explains why May 21, 2008 is a date that should live in infamy. Â"If you have...

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Abysmally clueless Biden: "to compare terrorism with an all-encompassing ideology like communism and fascism is evidence of profound confusion"

This is the fruit, of course, of talking about terrorism rather than jihad. In "Republicans and Our Enemies" in the Wall Street Journal, May 23 (thanks to George), Senator Joe Biden shows that he, like almost everyone else, still has...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021156.php>

Happy birthday, Bob

"Neighborhood Bully," 1983: Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man, His enemies say he's on their land. They got him outnumbered about a million to one, He got no place to escape to, no place to run. He's the...

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"Islam does not recognise frontiers and boundaries. Jihad in Afghanistan will continue"

Mehsud affirms the traditional supranational unity of the Islamic umma, and portrays himself as a "true Muslim," which is always and everywhere the substance of the jihadist appeal in the Islamic world. "Pakistani Taliban vows jihad in Afghanistan," from Reuters,...

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Benazir's bank accounts offered to Jihad Watch!

Imagine my surprise, after Benazir Bhutto attacked me from the grave, when I received this email from Bilawal Zardari. This one immediately lays claim to being the second-best money-scam spam ever: Hello, I want to take this opportunity to express...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021151.php>

Muslim friend of UK restaurant nail-bomber shocked, shocked that he would do such a thing

What? No "hate" here! This Mohammed Rasheed (Nicky Reilly) character, he had trouble pronouncing his T's, and so he must have been mentally ill, and so he must have been led into "extremism" that way. UK Nail Bombing Update. "Islamic...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021150.php>

Sherlock-Holmesian Lefties find the source of the "Obama is an apostate" claim

Jihad Watch reader James sends me this from Digby's Hullabaloo: In response to my question about how the new Muslim Apostate meme got started, Gavin at Sadly No emailed with this link to Jihad Watch from David Horowitz's FrontPage magazine....

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Surge in honor killings, women committing suicide in Iraqi Kurdistan

Last December, this article noted: "Families in predominantly Kurdish southeast Turkey are pressing young daughters or wives to take their own lives to spare the men of the family from serving time." Given the prevalence of honor killings in the...

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Algeria: Ex-Muslim faces 3 years in jail for practicing Christianity "without a license"

Islamic Tolerance Alert. "Algeria: Court pressures woman to renounce Christ," from Compass Direct News, May 23: ISTANBUL, May 23 (Compass Direct News) Â- An Algerian public prosecutor has demanded a three-year sentence for a convert to Christianity in western Algeria...

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Japanese bow and scrape over new Cartoon Rage

We're still waiting for a government to say, "Grow up." An update on this story. "Japan says Muslim offense at cartoon 'regrettable,'" from Japan Today, May 24 (thanks to Twostellas): TOKYO Â- The government said in a statement Friday that...

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Al-Qaeda top dog: "If it wasn't for our heroes, today we would have many churches in the Arabian Peninsula, as we have already seen with the opening of one in Qatar"

I thought they were just nationalists fighting against American imperialism. What are you, al-Libi, some kind of Islamophobe? "Terrorism: Al-Qaeda halts spread of the church in Arab world, claims leader," from AKI, May 23 (thanks to all who sent this...

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