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Archives for 2010

Obama’s Counterterror Czar to critics: Shut up. Opposing our policies is helping al-Qaeda.

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Brennan is responding to criticism of the mirandizing of Abdulmutallab, which dammed up what was looking to be a useful source of information. They’re doing a good job, he insists, and critics are just playing into the hands of the jihadists. But the increase in jihad activity in the U.S. belies his words. “Opposing view: […]

UK: Muslim convicted of “serious terrorist offences” walks free

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He is charging, predictably enough, “Islamophobia,” but the Crown Office says that “Mohammed Siddique remains convicted of serious terrorist offences.” “Scottish ‘terrorist’ Mohammed Atif Siddique freed as verdict quashed,” by Charlene Sweeney for the Times Online, February 9 (thanks to all who sent this in): A student described as Scotland’s first home-grown terrorist walked out […]

Two years before the Fort Hood jihad murders, Army was warned about jihadist sentiments among Muslims in the ranks

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A warning that was not heeded and is not being heeded. “Army warned about jihadist threat in ’08,” by Bill Gertz in The Washington Times, February 9 (thanks to Doc Washburn): Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic […]

Bombay High Court says Islam can be criticized, but not “maliciously”

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The problem with this ought to be obvious: who decides what constitutes “malicious” criticism? Islamic spokesmen in non-Muslim countries routinely characterize any and every criticism of Islam, including any accurate depiction of the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism, as malicious. It is a central element of their playbook: characterize anyone who dares to speak the […]

UK: Christian teacher “forced out” after complaining about Muslim students who praised 9/11 jihadists and shouted out their hatred for Jews and Christians

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Nothing surprising in what these children were saying: we have seen adult Muslims saying similar things many, many times over the years here at Jihad Watch. Nor is there anything very surprising in the fact that in Absurd Britannia today it is this teacher who suffers for reporting this, while the students aren’t disciplined in […]

Louay Safi at Ft. Hood: a testament to willful cluelessness about jihad and national security

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Here is a useful summary of Louay Safi’s checkered past and dubious associations, despite which he was employed as a military subcontractor to lecture on Islam. This report does not mention that, even after the Ft. Hood shootings, Safi was involved in troops’ training, and was allowed to meet with victims’ families. Those occurrences, of […]

Pakistani Christian sentenced to life in prison on blasphemy charges

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Life behind bars, for allegedly damaging a Qur’an. An update on this story. “Christian sentenced to life in prison for blaspheming Islam,” from Spero News, February 7: A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to life imprisonment Imran Masih, a young Christian, for having insulted and desecrated the Koran, according to the Minorities Concern newsletter. On […]

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