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Archives for 2005

Hizb ut-Tahrir comes calling

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British MP Harriet Harman got quite the surprise last week when members of Hizb ut-Tahrir came for a visit, taking advantage of Harman’s open-door office policy. The representatives of the violent Muslim group were there to complain about the British government’s efforts to outlaw their organization, in a story recounted by Nick Cohen in the […]

Secret poll: Iraqis support attacks

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Troubling news out of London today, as the Daily Telegraph reports that the results of a secret poll conducted by Britain’s Ministry of Defense indicate that a majority of Iraqis – 65% – support attacks against Western forces stationed throughout the country: Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a […]

Indonesian Muslims close local churches

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The intimidation campaign waged by Muslim groups against Indonesian Christians continues unabated, leading one Christian leader, Pastor Johan Bandi, to issue “an urgent call for solidarity for the persecuted churches in Indonesia,” per ASSIST News Service: In recent months, Christians in Indonesia have faced a severe escalation of terrorism, intimidation and persecution. “This escalation is […]

Israeli Arab dentists recruited by Hamas

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Hugh Fitzgerald touches in today’s Daily Hugh on the problem of recruitment of moderate Muslims for the jihad, and of course it is something I have emphasized repeatedly: self-proclaimed peaceful and moderate Muslims have made no effort to separate themselves from jihadists, and many times here at Jihad Watch we have chronicled the adventures of […]

Saudi Author: “Imagine You’re a Woman”

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The Saudi author Badriyya Al-Bishr, who is nothing if not courageous, writes this in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. From MEMRI, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: “Imagine you’re a woman. You always need your guardian’s approval, not only regarding your first marriage, as maintained by the Islamic legal scholars, but regarding each and every […]

Enter Saudi petro-dollars

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From an April 18th Jihad Watch archive it was reported that the Philippine government was having talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the terror group which has for decades been attempting to take control of the southern island of Mindanao from the rest of the Philippines. On October 13th the Philippine government agreed “to […]

Holland struggles with Muslim immigration

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The conflict between secular European societies and their Muslim immigrant populations was once a niche story, relegated to smaller publications who were unafraid to touch on “racial” or “religious” issues. However, with the murder of Theo Van Gogh by a Muslim radical, even large media outlets such as the International Herald Tribune are beginning to […]

Bakri reaches his UK followers via the Internet

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And what is the message the portly cleric wishes to convey? Why the glorification and urging of jihad, of course. From the Times Online: THE exiled radical Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad is continuing to reach his followers in Britain through websites and internet chatrooms. After a period of silence that came after Bakri Mohammad’s […]

Zawahri urges aid for Pakistan quake victims

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From Reuters: In a video tape aired on a Qatari satellite channel, Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the leading figures in Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, called on the world Muslims to send aid to the devastated Pakistani victims after a deadly earthquake hit South Asia earlier this month, killing more than 40,000 people, and driving […]

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