JW/DW Digest 28-30th Sep 2008

A sniper pod rests on the lower right of a B-1B Lancer fuselage. The sniper pod allows the aircrew to positively identify a target and quickly assess battle damage after an attack. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jet Fabara)

Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Spencer interview with Le blog drzz

What's a drzz? Annika of the French-language blog drzz recently interviewed me, and the interview, in French, is now posted there. And here is an English translation of the interview: ANNIKA: Fundamentalist Islam claims to find its roots in...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022889.php>

Jihadist excoriates Zardari for "flirting" with Palin

So...You come here often? No Fun In Islam* Alert: "Fatwa against Zardari for 'flirting' with Palin," from NDTV, September 29 (thanks to PRCS): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari seems to be heading towards fresh trouble as the prayer leader...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022888.php>

The Hijab as aphrodisiac

Not "a symbol of oppression" but "a representation of culture and choice" Naomi Wolf, self-styled infidel-defender-of-the-hijab seems to be influencing other infidel women about the wonders of Islamic wear. The problem, however, is when non-Muslims, as this writer, begin...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022887.php>


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Does Islam Justify Honor Killings?

Supna Zaidi, the assistant director of Islamist Watch and daughter of my dear and much-missed friend the late Tashbih Sayyed, considers this question in an article of the same name at Pajamas Media (September 27): Sandela Kanwal wanted a divorce...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022891.php>

UK Muslim sues supermarket for making him carry beer on a forklift

This appears to be part of an effort to force the store to stop carrying alcohol altogether -- which illustrates the supremacist element in Muslim demands for accommodation. Muhammad laid curses not only upon those who drank alcohol, but those...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022882.php>


Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Monday, September 29, 2008

Obama goes to war against freedom of speech

"See those Islamophobes, Barack? It's time to call out the Thought Police!" By now a gazillion sites have posted this from the State of Missouri's site, "Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama CampaignÂ's Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement." What...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022880.php>

Slapstick Jihad triumphs again at the UN Human Rights Council

Comments by David G. Littman (representative to the UN of the Association of World Education and the World Union of Progressive Judaism): Once again, Egyptian Counsellor Amr Roshdy Hassan cowed into conformism all the Members of the Human Rights Council...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022879.php>

Somali pirates die strange deaths after boarding Iranian ship

Rand Simberg says that the symptoms correspond to those caused by radiation poisoning. "Pirates die strangely after taking Iranian ship," by Andrew Donaldson for the Times of Johannesburg, South Africa, September 28 (thanks to LGF): A tense standoff has developed...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022876.php>

Malaysia proposes convention on Islamophobia in U.S

The country that only recently had a fit because a concert performer was deemed "too sexy," that seized Christian books and arrested Americans who promoted Christianity, and that refuses to allow people the freedom to renounce Islam -- yes, this...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022874.php>

UK: Al-Qaeda actively recruiting prisoners for the "jihad against Britain"

Perfect candidates, too, since their "training" can be deemed nearly complete. More on radical Islam's appeal to "mischievous" men here. "Al-Qaeda bid to recruit inmates," by David Leppard for Times Online, September 28:AL-QAEDA terrorists have targeted 800 Muslim criminals they...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022869.php>

America as the last man standing

"In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe?" Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, chairman Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022867.php>

Blogging the Qur'an: Suras 49, "The Chambers," 50, "Qaf," 51, "The Winnowing Winds," and 52, "The Mount"

"They will recline on Thrones arranged in ranks; and We shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes." The late Medinan sura 49 begins by telling the believers how to behave in the presence of Muhammad...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022813.php>

Wilders: "You have almost lost Europe. I think it's one minute to 12:00."

Yesterday I interviewed Geert Wilders, the courageous Dutch politician who produced Fitna, and I hope soon to put the interview up here. Meanwhile, he appeared on the Glenn Beck show, explained to him -- as I have said so many...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022866.php>

Christian Right guns down policewoman in Afghanistan

No, actually, it was the Taliban. This story is yet another illustration of why no responsible American public figure would ever compare any individual or group to the Taliban. There is no Taliban of American politics, and saying that Sarah...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022864.php>


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U.K.: High-ranking Tory says party would cancel legal status for sharia courts if elected

There are many promising pledges in this interview, if only the party will stand with her and follow through on them. "Conservatives would ban sharia courts, says shadow minister," by Jon Swaine for the Telegraph, September 28: A Conservative government...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022878.php>

UK: Are women submitting to sharia courts voluntarily?

The UK's logic seems to be that, since both parties are willing to abide by the decision of a third part, in this case, the sharia court, and all parties concerned are doing so willingly, then it's legal. But, as...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022871.php>

Over one million European Christians kidnapped and enslaved by Muslims

Robert Davis' book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 has actually been out for several years, but I keep getting sent the press release below about it, and since it contains...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022872.php>

EU terror chief says "political correctness" is "hampering campaign against militant Islam"

While the French commissioner feels things have already gone "too far in blaming the Muslim communities." "Don't be soft on Islam, says EU terror chief," by Jason Burke for the Guardian, September 28:Europe's anti-terror chief has launched a stinging attack...

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UK: Nine-year-old girl rescued from forced marriage

The wonders of multiculturalism. Muhammad, of course, consummated his marriage with Aisha when she was nine and he was in his fifties. And in this, as in everything else, he is considered exemplary in Islam -- an "excellent example of...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022865.php>


Sunday, September 28, 2008

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Proof that "Islam, a religion of mercy, does not permit terrorism"?

Here, once again, is an example of the flaws of Islamic apologetics, and why it's so easy to dismantle them: "What Does Islam Say about Terrorism," from Pakistan Daily, September 26: A look at the various principles of Islam which...

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UK: Muslims try to get alcohol banned at local supermarket

Reasonable Accommodation Alert: this is what follows inevitably from the "reasonable accommodations" that Muslims are demanding, and being granted, in the U.S. as well as in Britain. Sharia law applies to non-Muslims as well as to Muslims. Once the precedent...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022860.php>