Thursday, July 24, 2008

JW/DW Digest 23rd, 24th July 2008

Nassau Strike Group

The ships of the Nassau Strike Group transit westward in the Atlantic Ocean as they wrap up their deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility in the Atlantic Ocean, July 5, 2008. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Coleman Thompson



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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Thursday, July 24, 2008

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Intel bill passes with Hoekstra amendment to ban funding to promote gov't guidance on "jihad"-free lexicon

Some good news, in an update on this story. "Michigan rep fights terrorism words ban," from UPI, July 23: HOLLAND, Mich., July 23 (UPI) -- The intelligence bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives includes a ban on a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021928.php>


Al-Qaeda group recruiting jihadis with videos of "martyred" children

From adults in bunny suits inciting children to jihad, to the "ghastly" images of dead children inciting adults to jihad -- jihad knows no bounds. "Video of 'martyred' child used for recruitment by Al Qaeda-linked group," by James Gordon Meek,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021927.php>


Russia to give Iran new anti-aircraft defenses

John VI Cantacuzenes Alert: "Iran to get new Russian air defences by '09 -Israel," by Dan Williams for Reuters, July 23 (thanks to Mackie): TEL AVIV, July 23 (Reuters) - Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021925.php>


New intelligence indicates that "global jihad" is "substantial" threat

Would that the Israeli intelligence's Western counterparts took jihad as seriously. Of course, that the State Department has essentially censored the use of words like "jihad," may be part of the problem. "Intelligence bodies warn threat from global Jihad 'substantial',"...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021924.php>


"Better we go fight for Allah maybe at least we go [to Paradise]...Over there we have good wives, everything."

But despite saying things like that, which makes it clear that these Muslims wanted to kill people at Fort Dix because they thought Allah would reward them for doing so, the defense wants prosecutors to stop talking about "jihad" in...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021923.php>


Fitzgerald: McCain, Bud Day, and Islam

Bud Day was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, but he has a long history of heroism before that. He first went to war at age seventeen (I think), in World War II. He was in that war, and the...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021922.php>


Iraqi forces preparing for grand siege on al-Qaeda bastions

But Shiites trained in Iran may pose a more persistent threat. "30,000 Iraqi troops poised for assault on Qaeda bastion," from AFP, July 23:BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - Some 30,000 Iraqi soldiers and police are to launch a military assault against...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021921.php>


Losing the war of ideas

In "Winning the War of Ideas" in the New York Sun, July 23 (thanks to Ethelred), James K. Glassman, the new under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, says many positive things. He points out that our...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021919.php>


Indonesia tries selective "deradicalization," condemning only some jihadist violence, leaving political Islam untouched

As with Saudi Arabia's "rehabilitation" efforts, the main goals here appear to be protecting the regime and stopping domestic jihad attacks -- those could hurt Muslims. While the article notes that "the Indonesian police believe 'that if they could overcome...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021917.php>


Iranian blueprint for nuclear talks: Buy time. Lots of it.

"'The paper calls for a huge exercise in talking,' said one senior European official. 'If you were to try to implement it, it would take a minimum of several years'." That's the idea. "Iran Offers 2 Pages and No Ground...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021916.php>


Spencer: McCain vs. Muslim Radicals

My column in FrontPage this week discusses the Muslim outrage over remarks by McCain's friend Bud Day (news links in the original): Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. are outraged over remarks made last Friday by Bud Day, a key supporter...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021914.php>


Spencer: Good Will Wasted

My column in Human Events this week discusses the Administration's continued attachment to Fantasy-Based Policymaking regarding Israel: In a gesture of good will, Israel last week released five imprisoned terrorists, plus the remains of two hundred others, in exchange for...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021913.php>


Jihadi Jack-Rabbit continues vowing death and destruction to infidels

And you thought cartoon characters that inspire children to jump out of windows to see if they can fly were bad. "Pictured: The TV rabbit preaching hatred and telling young Muslims to 'kill and eat Jews,'" from the Daily...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021915.php>


Islamic suicide bombings not a recent phenomenon, as once thought?

We're all used by now to "radical" Imams instructing the Muslim youth to strap on some dynamite, detonate, kill infidels, and enter paradise--as this Imam told British Muslims, or as "superstar" Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi told millions of al-Jazeera viewers--and well...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021912.php>



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Fitzgerald: No more Muslim refugees from Muslim misrule

In general, Western countries should not make refugee status available to Muslims who continue to identify themselves as Muslims. If they claim that they are ill-treated under a Muslim system, perhaps because of political despotism, or perhaps because of inshallah-fatalism,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021920.php>


Iran: Tortured Christian, ex-Muslim, flees to Turkey

"I have no doubt they wanted to kill me." Islamic Tolerance Alert: "Iran: Tortured Christian Flees," from Compass Direct News, July 21: ANKARA, July 21 (Compass Direct News) - Days after his release from a month of interrogations and severe...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021918.php>



Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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"You will not meet a young Muslim man in the world who is not angry about something"

More on this story: how would you like your ex-fiancee to say this about you? "He wasn't the brightest crown in the box . . . not the handsomest guy in the world . . . thick mentally. My sister...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021910.php>


"Levant and Steyn are fighting for the defining ideal of Western civilization which, once lost, would spell the beginning of the end of all our other freedoms"

In "Paving the way for 'soft jihad,'" Barbara Kay ably explains the significance of recent Islamic advances against free speech -- which are part of what I call the stealth jihad. From the National Post, July 22: When Ibn Warraq's...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021909.php>


Fitzgerald: Churchill and beyond

Many at this site are familiar with Churchill's comment about the menace of Islam to Western Christendom, and the fanaticism of Muslims (whom he called "Mohammedans" -- a term that, given the centrality of Muhammad to Islam, as uswa hasana,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021907.php>


"Lions of Islam" joining jihad in Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Chechnya and Turkey

The recruit for jihad across borders always proceeds along explicitly religious lines, with stress placed upon the supranational character of the Islamic umma, and upon the traditional Islamic idea that defensive jihad becomes obligatory upon each and every Muslim if...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021906.php>


Former fiancee of convicted jihadist could have sworn that he was only interested in the "greater jihad" against one's daily struggles

Daddy always warned me about men like that. Odd too that "Khawaja" is the Arabic word for "Westerner" or "Christian." "Terrorism claims against Khawaja stunned his ex-fiance," from CBC News, July 22:The ex-fiance of the Canadian man accused of involvement...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021904.php>


Iranian government response to Fitna "aims to introduce the real Islam"

Fitna, of course, simply contains Qur'an verses and depicts Muslims preaching violence and committing acts of violence on the basis of those verses. So the best response to it from the Iranian government or anyone else would be a comprehensive,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021901.php>


Lawmakers call on NYC to pull Islamic subway ads

Snapped Shot has some ideas for Wahhaj's marketing campaign The ads are being paid for by the Islamic Circle of North America, which, as Marisol noted here, is one of the organizations listed in the infamous 1991 Muslim Brotherhood...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021898.php>


Another tractor attack in Jerusalem

"A man" is responsible for this one. Time to turn over all the tractors to women. "New digger 'attack' in Jerusalem," from the BBC, July 22 (thanks to Visvas): A man driving a mechanical digger has carried out an attack...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021897.php>


Chad: after listening to "an inflammatory sermon" against Christians and atheists, jihadis become "intoxicated by indescribable extremism...almost mad," and go on wild rampage

As the following anecdote demonstrates, when infidels do not overly concern themselves with "winning the hearts and minds" of jihadis, success quickly follows. "Counter-Insurgency, Chad-Style," by David Axe for Danger Room, July 21:"An alleged [up]rising led by an Islamic preacher...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021896.php>


Canadian Islamic Congress plays race card, says PM Harper indifferent to "brown-skinned" Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr

Never mind the fact that Khadr was captured in a jihadist compound in Afghanistan after killing a U.S. Army medic, according to survivors. "Harper indifferent to 'brown-skinned' Khadr: Islamic group," from the Canadian Press, July 21: Prime Minister Stephen Harper...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021893.php>


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Fitzgerald: Call journalists and politicians to account

".the group says the ads -- which will coincide with the holy month of Ramadan -- aim to educate non-Muslims and reach out to those interested in joining the faith." -- from this article The "holy month of Ramadan"? No,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021911.php>


Pakistan: Christian teenager beaten to death for his relationship with Muslim girl

Islamic law allows a Muslim man to marry a Christian woman, but does not allow a Muslim woman to marry a Christian man. Since in Islamic cultures a woman generally joins her husband's household, this is yet another provision that...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021908.php>


UK govt drops plan to allow Muslim schools to police themselves

A glimmer of sanity in Insane Britannia. "Government drops plan to allow Muslim schools to police themselves," by Graeme Paton in the Telegraph, July 21 (thanks to Twostellas): Under proposals unveiled earlier this year private Muslim schools were to be...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021905.php>


Philippines: Bishop receives threats to convert to Islam, pay jizya, or face war

In accordance with Qur'an 9:29. "Philippine bishop reports receiving threat to convert to Islam," from Catholic News Service, July 22: MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- A bishop in the southern Philippines reported receiving a letter threatening him with harm if he...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021903.php>


The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as Gospel in Iran

Released yesterday, a new report reveals just how rampant anti-Semitism is in Iran, from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, July 21:The Hate Industry: a blatantly anti-Semitic series which incorporates The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has recently been...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021902.php>


80% of Muslim literature in Russia "contains appeals not to observe laws of non-Muslim states" and "to liquidate peoples with other religious convictions"

Update to this story. Earlier, Russia's Council of Muftis had "accused the experts who compiled the list [banned books] of doing so "tendentiously and subjectively" advising them to be more "balanced." Russia"80% of Islamic literature in Russian offers wahabi ideas...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021900.php>


Bahrain defies human rights, opts to govern according to sharia, releasing kidnapper

Here is what that women who may be deported from the UK to Jordan to have a sharia court decide who gets her son is up against. Considering the mother in the following story has been trying to finalize this...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021899.php>


Islamic version of YouTube "allows Muslim users to feel safe"

Surely the Taliban, which is adamant that Muslims watch only Islamic programming, would approve of this. "Temecula group starts Web site as Muslim alternative to YouTube," by David Olson, for the Press Enterprise, July 20:A Temecula group has launched a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021895.php>


Obama campaign throws the color green under the bus

Someone in charge of pre-emptive damage control decided green is the color of Hamas. Hamas does use the color, but green is also, as the article notes, traditionally associated with Islam itself in Muslim communities. So much for cultural sensitivity....

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021894.php>



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