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Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the need felt by so many Western politicians to court approval among Muslims by disclaiming any connection between Islam and terrorist violence: There is no need to curry favor with those whose immutable holy text contains Quran 9.29, or indeed all of Sura 9, received as the […]

Refreshing anti-dhimmitude. Or at least a first step. From Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in: PARIS (Reuters) – After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities. Roman Catholic […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald explores further the limits of free speech, exploding some common misconceptions in the process of replying to a commenter here: A poster here at Jihad Watch has made the following absurd assertions, which are, unfortunately, widely held: 1. Did publisher Rose [Flemming Rose of Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald offers a cartoon controversy curriculum: The cartoon controversy has created a teaching moment in American high schools and universities. History teachers, civics teachers, government teachers, do the following: Print out relevant sections from Milton’s Areopagitica (“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue” etc.), the trial of John […]

From AP: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan “” Pakistani security forces arrested hundreds of Islamic hard-liners, virtually sealed off the capital and used gunfire and tear gas Sunday to quell protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Authorities in eastern Pakistan had banned protests after riots killed five people in two cities last week. Elsewhere in the Muslim […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald revisits the question of Turkey’s entry into the European Union: Cartoon rage in Turkey has been relatively muted. That does not and should not obscure, however, the fact that Turkey represents a civilization fundamentally different from that of the Europeans, and that its bid to join the E.U. […]

Sudan is seeking to head the African Union which has peacekeeping troops within Sudan in an effort to halt the jihad carnage in Darfur, which is reported to be supported by the Sudanese government. If Sudan were to control the AU, they would also control the peacekeepers. Nice work, if you can get it. From […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald lionizes the arch-dhimmi Edward Mortimer, Kofi Annan’s speechwriter at the UN: The Director of Communications at the U.N. and Kofi Annan’s Chief Speechwriter (and also his “Senior Adviser”) is one Edward Mortimer, formerly with the Euro-Arab Dialogue branch of the E.U., and before that, a journalist with a […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald offers some recommendations on what to do about Darfur: “Genocide continues to rage in Darfur” — from today’s headlines Darfur should be a place upon which Infidel attention should be focused, and much made of the situation there, as it is so clear-cut. Two points can be made, […]

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald surveys the effects of the Islamic presence in Africa: Islam has had its effect on Africa, all right. In the north, the thriving agriculture, and flourishing civilization of migrants and Phoenician traders and Jews and christianized Berbers, the Other Shore of Mediterranean civilization, from where among others Tertullian […]