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In what will come as a major shock to Jihad Watch readers, a new study by, of all people, the US Institute for Peace shows that Muslims who believe Islam should play a role in politics (as traditionally it has) support acts of violence committed in its name to a greater degree than those who […]

This story about “jihadi etiquette” appeared in The Sunday Times on June 10, 2007. It has been nearly six years since the World Trade Center attack. It has been four decades since the Six-Day War, which signaled for the Arabs and Muslims a recognition that regular warfare, in the Lesser Jihad against Israel, would not […]

Though poverty is mentioned several times in the article, an official notes that “the terrorism problem shows up differently in North and Western Africa in comparison with other parts of the world. In the Sahel, for instance, extremists are not always the poorest of the poor, but rather “” as is the case in northern […]

Alan Cooperman’s Washington Post report on the the Pew Research Center poll of American Muslims is typical of mainstream media coverage of the poll: disturbing findings are ignored or downplayed, and the whole thing is given a bland, reassuring, and ultimately misleading headline. The Post’s story seems to be based on the proposition that all […]

Let’s start with the predictable: the usual nonsense and blague, in this silly and insidious article, from all those seemingly shocked, seemingly puzzled family members and family friends of the ringleader in the Fort-Dix mass-murder plot. Schnewer the “Palestinian”: The mother “said her son was innocent, honest and the victim of religious persecution.” What’s more, […]

The spirit of Jorge Luis Borges”s Pierre Menard hovers over the Muslim reaction to Spencer’s The Truth About Muhammad. Here is Robert, quoting the exact words of the Qur’an, hadith (carefully relying only on the most authoritative muhaddithin, Bukhari and Muslim), and Sira (relying just as carefully on early Muslim biographers of Muhammad and never […]

Powerline blog recently published “a pessimistic assessment” of the situation in Iraq, written by an American serving there. While it is labelled a “pessimistic” assessment, it would be more accurate to call it a “realistic” assessment. The fact that it has been put up at a website ordinarily an unshakeable supporter of the war may […]

Islamic Tolerance Alert from Nigeria. “Muslim pupils beat teacher to death over Koran,” from Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: MUSLIM pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher to death today after accusing her of desecrating the Koran. Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was adjudicating an Islamic Religious Knowledge […]

A few questions. Are Muslims anywhere in the West now working in the passport-issuing services? Are they working in the immigration and naturalization services? Are they privy to plans for investigating fraud that might allow fellow Muslims to remain in this or other Western countries, or allow them to bring in plural wives, or in […]

In “A More Islamic Islam” in the Washington Post (thanks to all who sent this in), Geneive Abdo (who wrote a fairly good book a few years back, No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam) carries CAIR’s water and touts “charismatic intellectual” Siraj Wahaj, who has said, “If only Muslims were clever […]