JW/DW Digest 19th,20th Aug 2008

Apache Lifts Off at Balad

A AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter hovers before takeoff, Jan 3. A 30 mm automatic Boeing M230 chain gun is located under the fuselage. It provides a rate of fire of 625 rounds per minute. The helicopter has capacity for up to 1,200 rounds of ammunition. Photo by Master Sgt. John Nimmo Joint Combat Camera Center

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Hizb ut Tahrir London meeting: an eyewitness report
Jihad Watch reader S. Azam went undercover to the Hizb ut Tahrir conference in London on the caliphate last Saturday, and kindly sends us this exclusive report about what was said there: Khilafah The Need for Political Unity London Conference...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022288.php>


Torture chamber found in mosque
Now don't go getting all excited. Doesn't your local church have a torture chamber? What's that? It doesn't? Well, okay, but there must be at least a room in the basement where they rough up heretics? No? But...but...well, at very...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022287.php>


Britain: model pupil leads double-life
Promising student by day, mujahid out to "wipe out infidels" by night Update on this story. "Model pupil secretly studied ways of wiping out non-Muslims," from Yorkshire Post, August 19:Britain's youngest terrorist - a teenager from West Yorkshire -...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022286.php>


Philippines: "rogue Muslims" burn houses, slaughter civilians
More on this story. "Rogue Muslims raid villages," from Times Online, August 19:Manila Muslim rebels in the Philippines attacked several towns, killing at least 26 people and displacing 7,000. The raids triggered a swift military response and raised doubts over...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022284.php>


Suicide bombers storm US base in Afghanistan
"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain..." (Qur'an 9:111) "Suicide bombers try to storm American base," from...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022280.php>


He had an assault rifle in a public park and announced "The Start of My Personal Jihad (in the US).Â" He got two years probation.
Houssein Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State University in Michigan, was arrested on September 8 at Hemlock Park in Detroit. He was wearing camouflage makeup, black clothes, and carrying an AK-47 assault rifle; he reportedly had to...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022279.php>


Spencer: After Musharraf, the Deluge
In Human Events today I discuss what might come after Mushy: Pakistan's Musharraf has resigned, and everyone seems happy. Pakistanis danced in the streets and fired guns in the air, and one retired soldier in Peshawar even declared: "The root...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022278.php>


U.K.: Jihadist cell may have been plotting to attack Queen, other royals
Aabid Khan Update. "Islamic terror cell 'may have been plotting to attack Queen'," by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, August 18: A terror cell caught with details of bomb-making and suicide vests may have been plotting to attack the Queen...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022276.php>


"Thank God he's resigned" -- Pakistanis celebrate Musharraf's downfall
Time to party "The root cause of all problems has gone." "Pakistanis jubilant over Musharraf's resignation," by Asim Tanveer for Reuters, August 18: MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistanis danced in the streets on Monday after beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022273.php>


Coming soon: the Islamosatellite
Courtesy Iran -- which, for those of us who are Islamorealistic, is not good news. More on this story. "Iran ready to put Muslim countries' satellite in orbit," by Parisa Hafezi for Reuters, August 18: TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022272.php>


Australia: judge decrees that "lesser jihad" illegal
But still probably best to drop the problematic word, jihad, and just call it "violence," to be on the safe side. "Judge tells terror trial religiously motivated violence illegal," by Gary Hughes, for the Australian, August 18:RELIGIOUSLY motivated violence was...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022265.php>


Musharraf quits
Mushy, we hardly knew ye Musharraf was ineffectual, corrupt, duplicitous, and brutal. And what ultimately follows him could be even worse -- which is, of course, the stated reason why the U.S. stayed in his corner for so long,...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022264.php>


Spencer Blogging the Qur'an: Sura 39, "Throngs"
"The Unbelievers will be led to Hell in throngs" Here is the latest in the series, currently running at Hot Air: According to Muhammad's favorite wife, Aisha, "The Messenger of Allah used to fast until we would say, 'He...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022263.php>


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Malaysia: Avril Lavigne concert canceled
"Too Sexy" The most revealing aspect of the following (otherwise humorous) anecdote is that it is Malaysia's youth who are increasingly becoming Islam's morality police, contrary to the somewhat ingrained Western notion that youth everywhere just wanna have fun....Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022281.php>


Random House accused of censorship
But they're really guilty of dhimmi cowardice. "Writers accuse Random House of censorship," from ABC News Australia, August 19 (thanks to JE): The publishing industry is once again embroiled in controversy, with Random House scrapping plans to publish a novel...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022282.php>


Britain: pharmacies to offer "free medicine checks during the holy month of Islam to make sure Muslim customers' health is not affected if they stop eating between sunrise and sunset"
Such medicinal altruism! -- especially compared to the "treatment" these aspiring Muslim physicians (or these) would, in the name of "cultural understanding" and "sensitivity," offer the "other." "Co-operative Pharmacy to give Muslims medicine help during Ramadan," by Martin Beckford for...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022283.php>


Serbia: Islamic community says withdrawal of novel about Muhammad and Aisha not enough; leader compares book to Muhammad cartoons, demands publisher "repent"
This is the same book that Random House recently withdrew. Ironically, this process has gotten the book much more exposure -- in the U.S. and abroad -- than it likely ever would have garnered if not for Random House's fear...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022277.php>


Egypt: organ transplants between Muslims and Copts forbidden
According to the man behind this, apparently, "It is very degrading for a human being to do this." One can only suppose he means for a Muslim to give a precious organ to save the life of a Copt? "Syndicate...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022275.php>


New York Times calls Brigitte Gabriel a "radical Islamophobe"
At first I thought it was an encouraging sign that Deborah Solomon interviewed Brigitte Gabriel in the New York Times Magazine: "The Crusader," August 15. After all, the Times has deigned to notice few anti-jihadists, and has never reviewed our...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022266.php>


Islamic tourism must be halal
Once again, the Islamic world tries to rationalize, through the strict guidelines of sharia, modern-day phenomena that the rest of the world regularly implements and takes for granted -- this time, tourism."Panel discussion defines Islamic tourism," by Putri Zanina and...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022270.php>


California: Muslim fair answers questions, clarifies "misconceptions" to infidels
Such as the fact that the hijab, far from being a sign of female subjugation, really "represents a step towards freedom." "California State Fair: Muslim booth offers answers on Islam," by Jennifer Garza, for the SacBee, August 18:Cindy Cassidy is...Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022269.php>