JW/DW Digest 5th, 6th July 2008

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

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"Jihad against America obligation of all Muslims"

Wali-ur-Rehman bases this on the Islamic principle that defensive jihad is fard ayn, incumbent upon every individual Muslim, if an Islamic land is invaded. "'Jihad against America obligation of all Muslims,'" from the Daily Times, July 3 (thanks to Jeffrey...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021635.php>


Al Qaeda recruiting prepubescent boys for the jihad?

This is actually not altogether surprising. Back in 1998, Bin Laden declared that "we find that the only age group capable of giving and waging jihad is the 15-25 age bracket" (The Al Qaeda Reader, 267). According to Ayman Zawahiri:...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021632.php>


Muslims as Jews?

Some Muslims don't feel like the Jews of Europe Fraught with contradictions: "British Muslims 'feel like the Jews of Europe,'" by Murray Wardrop for the Telegraph, July 4: Shahid Malik, the UK's first Muslim minister, said it has become...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021631.php>




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U.K.: Police dogs to wear "booties" when searching Muslim homes to avoid causing offense

An attempt at appeasement, in an update on this story. "Sniffer dogs to wear 'Muslim' bootees," by Stuart MacDonald for the Sunday Times, July 6: Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021636.php>


Fitzgerald: The fate of the Christians of Iraq

The fate of the Christians in Iraq should not have come as a complete surprise. It is true that some believed that the kind of Iraqis in exile they met, the soft-spoken thoroughly westernized chalabis and makiyas, were representative men...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021634.php>


Fitzgerald: Work back from the results

Citizens of the Western world should work back from the results. When the British government decides that it cannot deport Abu Qatada, who has been identified as a leader of Al Qaeda in Britain, because he might be ill-treated in...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021633.php>


U.K.: Schoolboys disciplined for 'refusing to pray to Allah' in religious ed class

Two budding non-dhimmis refuse to follow the pack. Were students told the prayer includes the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith that "there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah"? "Schoolboys disciplined for 'refusing to...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021630.php>


Malaysia: Sharia court steps in before high court can rule, declares deceased Hindu a Muslim

More of this from Malaysia. "Syariah court declares deceased a Muslim," from the New Straits Times, July 5: GEORGE TOWN: A dispute over the right to claim the body of a man between the religious authorities and the deceased's family...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021629.php>




Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Saturday, July 5, 2008

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What we should be fighting for this July 4

1. Freedom of religion What we must defend: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Â- First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution What we must defend it against: "Islam isn't...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021628.php>


South Korean police bust drug ring shipping heroin-processing chemical to Taliban

Better jihad through chemistry. "S Korean police bust Â'Taleban-linked' drug ring," from Agence France-Presse, July 4: SEOUL - South Korean police said Friday they have arrested members of a major drug-trafficking ring with suspected links to Afghanistan's Taleban insurgents. Â'Police...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021626.php>


Excusing taqiyya?

Instead of trying to be "bold" and tackling a "controversial" topic, innate apologists would do better to simply remain silent. In "Secret Muslims: Are Muslims allowed to hide their faith?" in Slate, July 3, Juliet Lapidos wonders "whether there's a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021625.php>



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When Muslim children become "Westernized"

Okay, before anyone asks why this is on Jihad Watch-after all, "arranged" marriages do not necessarily have anything to do with Islam-bear in mind that a Pakistani (read: Muslim) parent that is "conservative" enough to want to arrange a marriage...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021624.php>