Clifford D. May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies writes that the reason we don’t hear from moderate Muslims is they are intimidated by radicals. We at Jihad Watch maintain another reason moderates are scarcely heard is that they don’t have a theological leg to stand on in refuting mainstream Islamic doctrine. Undoubtedly, both […]

This report comes from the Bandar Beacon, aka, the Washington Post: The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program, according to U.S. officials and independent analysts. No attack appears likely in the short […]

Despite the best efforts of the Lincoln Group, hired by the administration to portray America and American democracy in a positive light, the real propaganda war in Iraq centers around Islam and appeals to Islamic duty and solidarity as shown here: “Softened tone of jihad propaganda conveys the same bitter message,” from the Telegraph: The […]

From CNN: BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterpart, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, are in Baghdad for a previously unannounced visit aimed at jump-starting the process of forming a national unity government. Rice and Straw — who flew into the Iraqi capital Sunday from northwest England — were meeting […]

Update on this story from Reuters: BOSTON, April 1 – Describing her captivity in Iraq as horrific, freed American hostage Jill Carroll disavowed critical statements she made about the United States, saying on Saturday she had been forced into making a propaganda video. “During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate […]

From the New Duranty Times: BLACKBURN, England, April 1 “” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced more protests and public embarrassment here on Saturday that have turned a trip meant to be a friendly follow-up to an American trip by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw into a two-day run through a raucous, mishap-ridden gantlet. She was […]

Since it’s April Fools Day one might mistake this story for a joke, but here it is from AAP, with thanks to Looney Tunes. Australia’s embassy in Jakarta has been alerted to prepare for a possible backlash following the publication in an Australian newspaper of a cartoon depicting the Indonesian president as a dog copulating […]

This report just in, with thanks to “interested” Mary Jackson: Over a million Muslims are to take to the streets of London today in a demonstration against Islam. They are to march from the notorious Finsbury Park mosque in North London to the not-quite-so notorious Brixton mosque carrying placards bearing the following slogans: They’re only […]

Secretary Rice’s grand strategy to transform the Muslim world through “democracy” is failing on all fronts, plunging the entire region into Islam inspired chaos, and yet she stubbornly clings to a policy embodied in one cliché after another. From Bloomberg: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. will no longer give explicit support […]

A car bomb assassination followed by a shoot out at the funeral. Just another day in Gaza City. From the