[Note from Robert Spencer: I am pleased to introduce yet another new Jihad Watch News Editor, Eric Schwappach. I hope our increased number of posters will enable us to improve our international coverage of jihad, which is already unparalleled anywhere — if I do say so myself!] Can moderate Muslims integrate their youth into British […]
LA Times fooled by fatwa
The LA Times doesn’t care about the terror ties of those who issued the recent America fatwa against terrorism. Nor does it care that the statement itself leaves open significant loopholes by not defining who are the “innocent” people that Muslims are forbidden to kill. Others are fooled, too: I found this article because it […]
Doublespeak Unveiled: Muslim “moderates” are true to spirit of Islam
Bruce Thorton makes numerous important observations about the dhimmis in the Administration and some revealing behavior on the part of “moderate Muslims” in Private Papers (thanks to Looney Tunes): As stalwart as the Bush administration has been in the current conflict with Islamic jihadists, judging from the op-ed in last Saturday’s New York Times by […]
U.S. Muslim Fatwa Against Terrorism
Here is the text of today’s fatwa, via CAIR (thanks to David Ouellette). It suffers from the same problem that I noted here and here: it condemns the taking of innocent lives and actions against civilians. It doesn’t address statements by Muslims to the effect that civilians in various places are not innocent, and are […]
Bomb suspect ‘berated shopkeeper for not being proper Muslim’
As I have noted many times, it is the jihadists who in the Islamic community wear the mantle of being true and pure Muslims. No self-professed moderates have yet successfully challenged that. From The Telegraph, with thanks to Skeetstreet: The suspected terrorist accused of trying to bomb a tube train at Warren Street used to […]
The myth of the ‘moderate’ Muslim
I have long maintained that those who identify themselves as moderate Muslims must resolutely attempt to convince Muslims that the theology and ideology of jihad is wrong, or their moderate statements are essentially useless — and that jihadists will always be able to quote Qur’an and Sunnah against them. Jihadists, as I have often said, […]
Queens Muslim Group Says It Opposes Violence, and America
From the New Duranty Times, with thanks to all who sent this in. The young Muslim men, with beards and bullhorns, work the streets of Jackson Heights on the weekends. They surface at parades and protests around the city, loudly declaring America the enemy and advocating for an Islamic state. Several weeks ago, they publicly […]
Iran Moderate Says Hard-Liners Rigged Election
Here’s an interesting development in Iran’s election, from the New Duranty Times, but regardless of the protests, it looks like there will be a run-off between two hardliners, the Mayor of Tehran and Rafsanjani. TEHRAN – The race for the presidency in Iran was thrown into turmoil on Saturday when the third-place finisher accused conservative […]
Reformist Egyptian Writer Critiques Islamist Education and Propaganda
A sign of hope in Egypt? We’ll see if Al-Qimni is arrested or otherwise persecuted. From MEMRI, with thanks to Sr Soph: In the wake of the recent wave of terrorist bombings in Egypt, the reformist Egyptian writer Sayyid Al-Qimni published an essay in the weekly Roz Al-Yousuf in which he argues that the responsibility […]
Mowbray: Islamic Hall of Shame
Joel Mowbray notes the tepid-to-hostile response from Kamal Nawash’s fellow Muslim leaders to Nawash’s Free Muslims March Against Terrorism — especially an unsurprising dose of venom from the egregious Hussein Ibish. From FrontPage: In the first of its kind for an event organized by a major national Muslim organization, Kamal Nawash and the Free Muslims […]