JW/DW Digest 11th, 12th June 2008

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Thursday, June 12, 2008

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Toronto jihadists: "There was clear, overt, military context to the training"

More paintball jihad, as we saw a few years ago in Virginia, with CAIR rep Randall Ismail Royer. "Paintball was practice, says terror-cell mole," by Isabel Teotonio for the Toronto Star, June 11 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): They were supposed...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021363.php>


Ahmed Bedier in deep with Doudou

Guess who met with Doudou Di'ne, United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, in Miami on June 2 at a hearing on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination. That's right: none other than...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021362.php>


Secret Islamic state in Scotland? A dinna kin!

Dinna fash yersel! It's just a muckle nuisance, pure! "'Muslim base' discussed, court told," from The Press Association, June 11 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): Two Muslims supporters of "violent jihad" discussed setting up a secret Islamic state in a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021361.php>


Thug-In-Chief: Iran's enemies "cannot do a damned thing"

Ahmadinejad taunts the West. "Enemy cannot do a damn thing: President," from IRNA, June 11 (thanks to Sr. Soph): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that enemies "cannot do a damned thing" over the national nuclear program. The president made...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021360.php>


Googling Jihad Watch

I was over at Daniel Pipes' site yesterday and was intrigued by an entry he has about how high entries from DanielPipes.org come up when googling various people and things. These things are fluid, of course, but here are my...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021359.php>


Spencer: The Stealth Jihad in Turkey

In Human Events today I discuss one of the world's most skillful practitioners of the stealth jihad: Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan (news links in the original): Anyone opposed to the global jihad should be watching recent developments in Turkey very...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021352.php>


Spencer: What the Cartoons Have Unleashed

In FrontPage today I discuss the accelerating campaign by Muslim states to blame the irrational rage of Muslims on the West, and to use it as a pretext to destroy free speech (news links in the original): Who is responsible...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021351.php>



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Fitzgerald: John Esposito and his credentials

In response to someone's relaying criticism levelled at him by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch several months ago, John Esposito did not bother to respond. Or rather, his response consisted of an attack on the "scholarly" background of Robert Spencer...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021358.php>


Fitzgerald: Lawrence Wright, who came to the party late

Ahmed Rashid, the Pakistani journalist who is always being interviewed on NPR, was discussing this Â"rethinking-within-Al-QaedaÂ" business on NPR, at the same time as Lawrence Wright appeared. He was very skeptical of WrightÂ's notion, and he had a grasp of...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021357.php>


Indonesian "militants" plan march to demand government ban on Islamic Defenders Front

The motives of Pasukan Berani Mati ("suicide troops," according to the article) and exactly what was the last straw among the many crimes of the Islamic Defenders Front are not clear, but any pressure on the government to ban the...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021356.php>



Indonesia: "Islamic Defenders Front" threatens to kill church leader

Islamic Defenders Front Update. "Indonesia: Islamists threaten to kill church leader," from Compass Direct News, June 5: JAKARTA, June 5 (Compass Direct News) - Members of the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) in Tangerang, Banten province, confronted and threatened to kill...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021355.php>


Jordan: Sharia court annuls ex-Muslim's marriage; "Marriage depends on the creed, and the apostate has no creed"

Islamic Tolerance Alert. "Jordan: Court annuls Christian convert's marriage," from Compass Direct News, June 9: ISTANBUL, June 9 (Compass Direct News) - A Jordanian Islamic law court has annulled the marriage of a former Muslim because of his conversion to...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021354.php>


"In my culture, not to be a virgin is to be dirt"

We have seen this in Europe before -- in fact, in Britain the National Health Service pays for it. Eurabia Alert: "Surgery Offers Muslim Women Illusion of Virginity," by Elaine Sciolino and Souad Mekhennet in the New York Times, June...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021353.php>




Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Muslims urged to foil conspiracies against Islam

Conspiracies against Islam: bin Laden, al-Zawahri, and the other "hijackers"? Nope: conspiracies by "the enemies of Islam" designed to "weaken this religion of peace." A bit of introspection would be welcome in this context, but in this piece everyone seems...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021350.php>


"If they come for me, man, there's gonna be a fricking shootout. I ain't goin' to no jail, man."

But maybe he is. "Suspected terror leader plotted attack in fear of looming arrest," by Isabel Teotonio in the Toronto Star, June 10 (thanks to all who sent this in): Fearing his days were "numbered" and his arrest imminent, the...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021349.php>


"Those who were instructing me said that if I believed in serving God it was my duty to fight against the foreigners"

Note that the appeal is, once again, theological -- the very element that the State Department and DHS have now determined to ignore. "The 14-year-old Afghan suicide bomber," by Kim Sengupta in the Independent, June 10 (thanks to all who...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021348.php>


Iran tells Iraq that U.S. troops are "main obstacle on the way to progress"

Or are U.S. troops the main obstacle to Iraq's becoming a full-fledged client state of Iran? Or are U.S. troops in Iraq the main enabler of Iranian meddling in Syria and Lebanon, since they know the Americans will do nothing...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021347.php>


Fitzgerald: The unsung history boys

The keenest and most aware, in every part of the Western world, are now engaged in one vast, but not collective, History Lesson. Those in this class are necessarily a class of autodidacts, given the failure of our governments to...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021346.php>


Fitzgerald: Fun, and indispensable, learning

Up and down the coasts of Europe one can find ruins, the remnants of ancient watchtowers and fortifications. One is seldom provided with any explanation; when something is written very occasionally in a guidebook, there is mention of "invaders." Who...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021345.php>


Jordanian group wants Wilders tried over Fitna

Free Speech Under Assault Update. First the Jordanians demanded the Motoonists, and now Wilders. "Jordan group wants Dutch MP tried over 'anti-Islam' film," from AFP, June 10 (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair): AMMAN (AFP) - Some 30 Jordanian media outlets filed...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021344.php>



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Malaysian Prez: Muslims in Britain should live under Sharia

Ultimately, of course, this would mean that non-Muslims in Britain would be living under Sharia law as well. "Malaysian president Abdullah Badawi calls for British Muslims to live under sharia law," by Jonathan Wynne-Jones for the Telegraph, June 9 (thanks...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021343.php>


Fjordman: Refuting God's Crucible

Fjordman refutes the latest exercise in wishful thinking about Muslim Spain and Islamic history in general: This text is written in response to God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis, an American historian and...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021342.php>


Principal who had CAIR lead assembly leaves school

Justice, of a sort. An update on this story. "Principal has new job after 'Islam 101' controversy: Parents outraged over assembly allowed by Friendswood Junior High leader," by Ericka Mellon for the Houston Chronicle, June 5 (thanks to all who...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021341.php>