JW/DW Digest 4th Aug 08

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Monday, August 4, 2008

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Taliban-trained Muslims infiltrating Britain

In preparation for the jihad against Dar al-Harb. More on this story. "UK faces threat from British Muslims returning from Afghan" from the Economic Times, August 3:LONDON: The UK faces serious security threat from British Muslim extremists returning from Afghanistan...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022058.php>

The Islamic world and explosions #3: Algeria

This one contains that hallmark of Islamist strikes: suicide. "21 injured including six police in Algeria car bomb attack," from AFP, August 3:ALGIERS - Twenty one people, six of them policemen, were injured in a suicide car bomb attack early...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022057.php>

The Islamic world and explosions #2: Iraq

As this report notes, the last "major" bombing in Baghdad occurred last Monday -- a whole week. "Truck bombing kills 12 in Baghdad," by Selcan Hacaoglu for the AP, August 3:BAGHDAD - A truck bomb exploded during rush hour Sunday...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022056.php>

The Islamic world and explosions #1: Somalia

Islamist "insurgents" strike again, killing women. "Mogadishu blast kills 13, mostly women," by Abdi Sheikh for Reuters, August 3:MOGADISHU - A roadside explosion in Mogadishu on Sunday killed at least 13 people, most of them women who were sweeping a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022055.php>

Kuwait criminalizes "insulting Islam" on the Internet

The ordinary understanding of slander in the West is that it involves making false charges that defame another person. But in Islamic law, the definition of slander doesn't involve falsehood. The Shafi'i manual of Islamic law 'Umdat al-Salik defines "slander"...

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Turkish soap opera showing wife as equal called "decadent" and "sinful" in Saudi Arabia

Where it is nonetheless wildly popular. The clash here is between the Saudi authorities, who style themselves as the guardians of what is Islamically correct, and secular Turkish culture, which is comprised largely of Muslims acting in ways that cannot...

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