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Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald offers some strategic considerations: The polypragmonic impulse is the result of all the most unattractive, and some of the attractive ones as well, of the American character, and of our rulers who do not take ideologies seriously because they fail to recognize that they, too, have an ideology […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald renews his appeal to end the jizyah to governments that support the global jihad: Let Saudi Arabia, now making one billion dollars every day or two, and Kuwait, and the U.A.E., step in to aid Hamas if they so desire. They can afford it. Member countries of the […]

Danish students expected to kowtow to cartoon rage. From MEMRITV, with thanks to Enzo: Following are excerpts from a dialogue between Danish and Arab students, held in Damascus. The dialogue was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on March 24, 2006. Ahmad Al-Shater, Chairman of Arab Students Union: The Islamic religion is not a religion of terrorism, […]

In FrontPage this morning I discuss the prevailing unreality regarding the Islamic death penalty for apostates in reference to one particularly egregious case: The Abdul Rahman case in Afghanistan has given rise to a spate of articles in the Western press, assuring Westerners that Muslims do not actually kill or want to kill apostates. While […]

In “Leaving Islam is not a capital crime” in the Chicago Tribune (thanks to Doc Washburn), M. Cherif Bassiouni, a professor and the president of the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law, purveys a series of half-truths and distortions that are — at best — misleading. He begins by asserting: […]

In “Apostates from Islam: The case of the Afghan convert is not unique” in My Weekly Standard, Paul Marshall of the Center for Religious Freedom marshals an impressive array of evidence to show that Abdul Rahman, the celebrated Afghan convert from Islam to Christianity, is not at all alone in his suffering under Islam’s apostasy […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the “Palestinian nationality” and suggests a new strategy for dealing with the “Palestinian people”: A poster at this website recently asserted, in response to my assertion that there are no “Palestinians”: “A nation is an idea, a shared identity, and Palestinians have that in spades. They are […]

With dhimmi scholar John Esposito in the news again, Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald offers this homage to the great man: John Esposito did not start out as anything more than a mild-mannered low-level academic; one suspects he had no strong feelings about Islam, and was not prompted by any of the mental […]

This piece from the Nigerian Daily Independent begins by stating the fact, often noted here, that Islam forbids the killing of innocents — of course, the definition of who is “innocent” is another matter. However, the writer is not as practiced as some Islamic apologists in the West in the deception and dissimulation that so […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald makes a proposal to Cairo and the dhimmis in Washington: Foreign aid should be subject to return if the recipient fails to show that it has put that foreign aid to good use. That good use should include, in the first place, encouraging gratitude, and friendship, toward the […]