JW/DW Digest 10th,11,12th Oct 2008

Sgt.D. Scott, unmanned aerial system maintainer, prepares a Shadow UAS for launch Aug. 15, 2008 at Forward Operating Base Kalsu. 3rd Air Cavalry Regiment, maintains a fleet of 12 Shadow aircraft, which can survey all corners of the Multi-National Division-Center area of operations - a region about the size of West Virginia.

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Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest
Sunday, October 12, 2008

German neo-Nazis view jihadists as allies

The organizers of the controversial anti-Islamization rally in Cologne last month have been widely described as neo-Nazis. However, in "German Neo-Nazis View Islamists as Allies," at Pajamas Media, October 10 (thanks to all who sent this in), John Rosenthal discusses...
Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023058.php>


The American Muslim and Islamic moderation

You can't win! At The American Muslim last week, Sheila Musaji asked, "What exactly is required to be considered a Â"moderateÂ" Muslim?" Ever ready to be helpful, I gave Musaji ten points for Islamic moderation here. But now in a...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023058.php>


Memo to FAIR: Steyn not guilty of "Islamophobia" -- but free speech still in jeopardy

Will FAIR revise its "Islamophobia's Dirty Dozen" list to drop Mark Steyn, now that Canada's Thought Police have acquitted him of "flagrant Islamophobia"? (Background on the case here.) But this is no victory for free speech: the laws under which...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023055.php>


Stealth Jihad with Dialogue vs. Freedom of Expression at the UN (Geneva)

Comments by David G. Littman (NGO Representative to the United Nations in Geneva of Association for World Education (AWE) / World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ): This is a sequel to two articles posted on Jihad Watch (28 September and...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023049.php>


New Obama "Muslim Outreach Advisor" met with Islamic organizations associated with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood

Just like his former advisor, who recently stepped down. "Obama Muslim Outreach Coordinator Under Fire for Meeting With Extremists," from Fox News, October 10:Barak Obama's Muslim outreach adviser is under fire for meeting with Islamic groups with extremist views, just...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023052.php>


East Tennessee State University celebrates diversity, won't let me speak

Another Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is about to begin, and for the next three weeks, actually, I will be traveling all over the country to speak at various universities. But not to East Tennessee State. As I have made clear recently...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023047.php>


U.K.: Official report details concerns among prison staff about aggressive Islamic proselytizing and "radicalization"

Another day, another study with the same conclusion. "Inmates 'Forced Into Radicalism'," from Sky News, October 10: Muslim prison gangs are trying to force other inmates to sign up to Islamic radicalism, prison officers have warned. Extremists at high security...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023043.php>


Saudi-funded textbooks being used in America's K-12 classrooms

Teaching, among other things, that Jesus was a "Palestinian," the state of Israel never existed, and that the Muslims discovered America before Columbus. At this rate, perhaps even Saudi grade-school textbooks -- complete with jihadi and dhimmi declarations -- will...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023037.php>


Meeting defamation head on

Defamation, as you can see here and here, is a favorite weapon of jihadists and their witting and unwitting allies. They prefer to smear anti-jihadists as "hatemongers" and "bigots" than actually to refute their assertions, which of course they cannot...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023036.php>


U.K: Jurors for London, Glasgow car bomb cases screened for "prejudice," employment in military or security services

Not unlike this ongoing case in the U.S. The jurors were told the defendants were following "a fundamental form of Islam." All their attempts at political correctness aside, will heads roll and accusations of Islamophobia fly over that choice of...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023035.php>


India: Cell of jihadist software engineers again calls "poverty causes terrorism" theory into question

"With a job that brought in an annual salary of over Rs. 19,00,000 ($56,000) a year, 31-year-old Peerbhoy is as distant as could be imagined from the madrasa-educated, no-prospects jihadist of media caricature." More on this story. "White-collar 'media terror...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023029.php>




***** DHIMMI WATCH *****

Australia: Study finds most non-Muslims still unaware that Islam has its own set of rules

Sharia: the great divide. "Alcohol creates 'barrier' for Muslims," from The Age, October: 10Alcohol, food and gender relations are the key barriers to social interaction between Muslim and non-Muslim Australians, a study suggests. The findings emerged from a study commissioned...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023050.php>


Mattel defends Islamic proselytizing doll

"Islam is the Light"? Mattel insists the doll does not say "Islam is the Light," and thus, even though numerous complaints have been lodged, will keep it on the shelf. Judge for yourself (above) what it says. One wonders,...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023046.php>


Church of Scotland backs plans for sharia courts

An update on this story. "Church of Scotland backs Islamic sharia law courts," from The Scotsman, October 10: The Church of Scotland last night welcomed the possibility of introducing sharia law courts in Scotland. Rev Ian Galloway, convener of the...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023045.php>


Islamic scholars denounce dancing, say it violates sharia

Violating the law Business as usual in Dar al-Islam. "Islamic scholars say dance violates sharia," by Hassan al-Ashraffor Al-Arabiya, October 8:Salsa festival in Morocco stirs controversy. Marrakesh will host its first international salsa festival amid controversy as officials and...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023042.php>


Italy: Muslims protest mosque closure by performing Friday prayers in the street

Italian authorities said the mosque "is located in an industrial area" and they offered the Muslims a temporary place of worship five kilometres away. Not good enough. "Italy: Muslims protest against mosque closure," from Adnkronos, October 9:Modena. Muslims in the...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023041.php>


Iraqi jihadists: "Expel Christians from Mosul"

Islamic Tolerance Alert, and more on this story. "Islamic fundamentalists: "expel Christians from Mosul," from AsiaNews, October 9: Mosul (AsiaNews) - Jalal Moussa, 38, is the latest victim in the campaign of hatred launched by Islamic fundamentalists against Christians in...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023039.php>


U.K.: Muslim prisoners get new clothes if cells are searched with dogs

Ruh-roh. "Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley in Yorkshire, said: 'Another way for people not to have their cells searched for drugs is not to commit crime in the first place'." "Muslim inmates get new clothes if dog sniffs...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023034.php>


Canadian Forces seek recruits at mosque, encounter "indignation" among some members

Among the "indignant" members, there is a curious logical disconnect. The same people would most likely insist that the problem of Islamic jihad is limited to a Tiny Minority of Extremists who have "hijacked" Islam. And yet, apparently, neither Muslims...

Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/023033.php>