JW/DW Digest 7th, 8th & 9th July 2008

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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"Tel Aviv and US shipping in the Persian Gulf will be Iran's first targets"

More saber-rattling from the peaceful mullahs and their peaceful nuke program. "Iran will 'burn' Tel Aviv and US shipping in Gulf if nuclear programme attacked," by David Byers in the Times Online, July 8 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): Iran...

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Georgia Muslim charged with murder in honor killing of daughter

Making the case against Muslim immigration Georgia Honor Killing Update: "Dad charged with murder in bride's 'honor killing,'" from CNN, July 8 (thanks to all who sent this in): ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A Pakistani man is charged with...

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"Terrorism is just one tactic being used by Islamic extremists in their effort to force their way of life on the rest of the world"

Don't miss the interview with Vijay Kumar, an ©migr© from India who is seeking the Republican nomination in a Tennessee primary Congressional race set for August and is running on an anti-Sharia platform, at FrontPage. A sample: The main focus...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021680.php>


Iranian News Agency delighted that Obama says US should "ratchet down" rhetoric on Iran

Naivete. "Obama: Harsh US Rhetoric on Iran Boosting Oil Prices," from Iran's Fars News Agency, July 8 (thanks to Gateway Pundit): TEHRAN (FNA)- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday that harsh US rhetoric toward Iran appeared to be...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021678.php>


Iraq arrests three from Ministry of Science on charges of affiliation with Al-Qaeda

As I've pointed out for years, there is no reliable way to distinguish between jihadists and peaceful Muslims. The implications of this are many. No one is considering them, in Iraq or elsewhere. "Iraq arrests ministry staff on charges of...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021675.php>


Glick: "The media will only give us the information they wish us to have. And that information's relationship to the truth is arbitrary at best"

An extraordinarily insightful column from the always perceptive Caroline Glick. "Our World: The media and enduring narrative," from the Jerusalem Post, July 8: Last Wednesday's terror attack in Jerusalem was unique. Due to the fact that Husam Taysir Dwayat bulldozed...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021674.php>


CAIR rep: Obama, McCain should condemn "Islamophobia"

As we have seen many times, "Islamophobia" is a spurious, trumped-up phenomenon that is most often used to describe, and denigrate, the legitimate suspicion that people have of Islamic supremacism and the jihad ideology. Nor has the unindicted co-conspirator CAIR...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021672.php>


Interfaith dialogues with Wahhabis: good luck

Saudi calls for "inter-faith" dialogue must be seen for what they plainly are: attempts to curry international, particularly Western, favor, vis- -vis the monarchy's more "radical" countrymen, who threaten to overthrow it."Saudi king set to lead rare interfaith talks in...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021671.php>


Israeli Arab group seeks to "seeks to sow terror in the hearts of Zionists"

Hmmm. Now where might they have gotten the idea to do that? Could it have been from this verse of the Qur'an? "Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021668.php>


Lawmakers try to get American teenagers sprung from Pakistani madrasa

Why are these two boys being held there and not allowed to leave? What have they learned there that they might bring back to Atlanta with them once they do get sprung? "Lawmakers Meet With Musharraf to Get American Teens...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021667.php>




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More Coptic persecutions-though with a light at the end of the tunnel?

As the following report indicates, this is a "first." Eighteen Muslims involved in terrorizing Copts are charged with, among other things, "ridiculing religion." Of course, whether they will actually be found guilty and serve time is a whole other matter....

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021679.php>


"We've got nothing against prayer rooms or mosques for the Muslims. But a minaret is different. It's got nothing to do with religion; it's a symbol of political power."

Anti-Dhimmitude Alert: Note, too, how Islam and race are conflated once again. "Swiss far right forces vote on minaret ban," by Matthew Weaver for the Guardian, July 8: Far right groups in Switzerland have collected enough signatures to force a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021676.php>


UK: Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist

Absurd Britannia just keeps outdoing itself. Like Muslims when confronted with the reality of the jihad ideology and the violence committed in its name, some Brits get huffy with those who report on these things, rather than directing their ire...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021673.php>


Iranian parliament approves death penalty for "online crimes," including promoting apostasy from Islam

An update on this story. "Iran: Death penalty for 'online crimes'," from The Media Line, July 8: A new law has been passed by the Iranian parliament extending the usage of the death penalty to be handed down in cases...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021670.php>


Fitzgerald: The new Jews, and how we must defend them

We hear increasingly that Muslims are "the new Jews." Muslims are not "the new Jews." In Western Europe all of the non-Muslims, both the indigenes and other non-Muslim immigrants, are "the new Jews," -- though it must also be added...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021669.php>


Street prayer banned

Anti-dhimmitude alert: "Italy: Proposed fines for Muslims sparks controversy," from AKI , July 7: Milan, 7 July (AKI) - The President of the northern Italian city of Milan, Filippo Penati, has triggered widespread debate with a controversial proposal to fine...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021665.php>




Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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Jihad against Buddhist teenagers on a school bus

Three students were wounded, but actually the jihadists were more likely to have been targeting the paramilitary rangers -- although they have targeted teachers and fired on at least one school bus in the past, suggesting that the school bus...

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Sharia: "What's in a name?" A lot - to help us understand our future

Comments by David G. Littman: After the June 16 climacteric at the UN Human Rights Council, I explained at Jihad Watch that all "Criticism of Shari'a or fatwas in particular is now forbidden". I provided facts and video evidence to...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021663.php>


"Since 9/11, whenever people hear the word Muslim, right away they think terrorist"

Here we go yet again. Samina Ahmed says: "(People) a lot of times have so many questions. And I make them comfortable enough so they can ask them." Great! I have a question, Ms. Ahmed: Do you think talking to...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021662.php>


The Last Patriot: Worse than Spencer's books!

Islamophobia in fiction! Ho-gannnn!!! The former Nixon aide and convert to Islam Bob Crane (whose lackluster commitment to truth and accuracy I discussed here and here) reviews Brad Thor's blockbuster novel The Last Patriot, and finds it (gasp) worse...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021661.php>


Relatives of 7/7 London jihad bomber hold party at his grave

Ghouls. "Relatives of July 7 bomber hold PARTY at his grave to 'celebrate his life,'" from the Daily Mail, July 7 (thanks to Paul): A party is being held at the grave of a 7/7 bomber in what is being...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021657.php>


Fitzgerald: A sign of weakness?

Obama, if elected, may be reluctant to do what McCain, if he could be made to see the Jihad in its worldwide context (especially the problems of Da'wa, demographic conquest, and the Money Weapon deployed in the countries of Western...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021656.php>


Fitzgerald: What everyone continues to fail to grasp

Sending very expensive-to-recruit-train-maintain-and-outfit Western troops to Iraq, and keeping them there to attempt to attain a goal impossible of attainment, is, to say the least, unwise. The Sunnis will never acquiesce in their loss of power to the despised Shi'a....

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021655.php>


Fitzgerald: Children of the Jihad

"Al Qaeda has successfully established a network for recruiting boys as young as 12 from across central Asia as it seeks new volunteers to enlarge its team of prospective suicide bombers and militants fighters, senior security officials from the Middle...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021654.php>


Suicide bomber kills 40 in attack on Indian embassy in Kabul

The Taliban says they didn't do it. "40 dead in Indian embassy blast in Afghan capital," by Amir Shah for Associated Press, July 7: KABUL, Afghanistan - A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021652.php>


Political propaganda mixed with Arabic instruction at Harvard

Guess what kind of political propaganda? This is no surprise, given the dominance of propagandists like Omid Safi and Carl Ernst in Middle East studies departments in American universities today. And don't miss Franck Salameh's expose of the propaganda mill...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021649.php>


US removes Saddam's pre-1991 uranium from Iraq

"There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991." "AP Exclusive: US removes uranium from Iraq," by Brian Murphy for AP, July 6 (thanks to all who sent this in): The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021648.php>


Jihad group growing in China

As the learned analysts misinterpret American gains in Iraq as heralding the end of the global jihad movement, news from elsewhere is already showing how wrong they are. "Radical Islam stirs in China's remote west," by Ben Blanchard for Reuters,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021645.php>


Spencer Blogging the Qur'an: Sura 33, "The Confederates," verses 1-27

"The Prophet is closer to the Believers than their own selves" The latest installment of my Blogging the Qur'an series at Hot Air takes up the beginning of the extremely important sura 33, which solidifies the importance of Muhammad...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021643.php>




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Copts make it to the Post

A Washington Post article about Copts under Islam manages a bit of objectivity, though subtle Islamic apologetics abound. "Egypt's Coptic Christians Are Choosing Isolation," by Ellen Knickmeyer for the Washington Post, July 7: CAIRO -- Under pressure from fundamentalist forms...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021659.php>


Fitzgerald: Would she say it in Riyadh?

The picture here of the niqab'd girl, with the caption underneath ("Just like anyone else") should make us think, of course, of the much more dangerous picture: that not of the obvious slave of Allah, but rather of the Muslimah...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021653.php>


Sharia beaches booming in Turkey

No, not the hazmat inspector There is no reason why Serafettin Ulukent shouldn't cater to these Muslims if they want beaches where women can wear astronaut suits. The problem is that the ideology that leads them to wear these...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021646.php>




Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Monday, July 7, 2008

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Obama website the latest thing that offends Muslims

As I noted here, Obama has been going to some lengths to make sure nobody thinks he's a Muslim. Nor has he been making any particular effort to add, "Not that there's anything wrong with that." This is an example...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021641.php>



"We're just like anyone else, and I think people have a hard time understanding that"

Just like anyone else This story is typical of how people who have no idea that the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism even exist view Islam: it's a trifle exotic, yes, but more sinned against than sinning, you see...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021639.php>


"I want to tell America jihad will continue, it will never stop"

Another call for jihad against the U.S. from Pakistan. "Pakistan Islamists vow jihad year after mosque siege," by Zeeshan Haider for Reuters, July 6 (thanks to all who sent this in): ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Pakistani Islamists vowed support...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021638.php>


When radicals come home to roost

At first this sounds promising, till one realizes that the Saudis are not so much concerned about radical Islam's violence and intolerance vis- -vis the infidel world, but only as directed against themselves, and their oil wells. From Asia News, July...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021637.php>




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Male Saudi researcher and female student face lashes, jail time for research phone conversations ruled to be front for affair

"The man was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 600 lashes and his student to 4 months in prison and 350 lashes last November for establishing a phone relationship that led her to divorce her husband." Sharia Alert. "Saudi...

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"We must punish you, and we must kill you" -- for leaving Islam

Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Islamic Republic: "Iran: Authorities 'Temporarily' Release Badly Injured Christian: Local police demand US$43,000 bail from convert's family," from Compass Direct News, July 3: ISTANBUL, July 3 (Compass Direct News) - After four weeks in police...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021640.php>