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Amnesty International Mainstreams the Jihad

9 March 2010

Islamist Watch, 9 March 2010:  Amnesty International famously advocates on behalf of people persecuted just for expressing an opinion. However, last month the group suspended Gita Sahgal, the head of its gender unit, after she expressed an opinion of her own: that by working with Taliban supporter Moazzam Begg, Amnesty has betrayed its mission to [...]

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The UK and the Future of Islamist Subversion

5 March 2010

Investigative Project on Terrorism, 4 March 2010: By looking across the Atlantic at our closest friend and ally, the United Kingdom, are we looking into our future? Or maybe even our present?
A brilliant exposé on Channel 4’s “Dispatches” and the pages of the Telegraph, reveals that the extremist Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) – which [...]

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Britain’s Islamic Republic

5 March 2010

Channel 4, UK, 1 March 2010: Dispatches investigates a fundamentalist Islamic group headquartered in Britain, and its claims to have placed its ‘brothers’ in positions of political power here. Using undercover recordings, investigative journalist Andrew Gilligan reveals the group’s ambitions to create a worldwide ‘Islamic social and political order,’ and the concerns of a mainstream [...]

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Saudi Prince Alwaleed grants $145,000 to Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, DC

3 March 2010

Arab News, 2 March 2010: Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, which is chaired by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has donated $145,000 to the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington, D.C. The chair, which is under the university’s School of International Service, seeks to enhance the understanding of Islam among ordinary [...]

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Are We Financing Our Own Demise?

3 March 2010

FSM, 2 March 2010: What is Sharia Compliant Finance (SCF)? This is the question I seem to be hearing all too often. As I had explained in my article “One Nation under Allah,” “Sharia deals with all aspects of day-to-day life, from family issues to sexuality, hygiene, politics, economics, banking, business, contracts and social issues, [...]

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Islamic Finance Faces Challenges

3 March 2010

Wall Street Journal, 1 March 2010: At a party in Karachi a young man cradles a glass of whiskey and laughs when asked why he is in the Islamic banking industry. “It is the fastest-growing sector in Pakistan,” he says. “I want to make money, so this is where I need to be. Who cares [...]

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Extremist Muslims have ‘wormed their way into Labour Party’ UK minister warns

1 March 2010

Daily Mail, 1 March 10: A fundamentalist group that wants to turn Britain into an Islamic republic has successfully infiltrated the Labour Party, a minister said yesterday. Jim Fitzpatrick named the Islamic Forum of Europe as a group trying to win power by secretly taking control of local Labour organisations. . . . .
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Department Of Jihad?

25 February 2010

Investors Business Daily, 24 Feb 10: The Justice Department employs nine lawyers previously involved in the defense of terrorist detainees. This is a colossal conflict of interest. Just whose side are they on? From the dropping of a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party to the decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik [...]

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Muslim activist group CAIR is unusually quiet about longtime board member’s deportation

24 February 2010

Dallas Morning-News, 23 Feb 10: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is a high-profile national organization that speaks out frequently when it believes Muslims are being mistreated. Recently, for example, it denounced the introduction of full-body scanners in airports as a violation of Islamic rules about modesty. Its Web site carries many press releases on a [...]

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More Than a Hero

24 February 2010

FrontPage/Robert Spencer, 24 Feb 10: I said it at the Geert Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth — and yet there are so few heroes.
That is [...]

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Painful Dhimmitude and Submission by Florida Sheriff

24 February 2010

Arab News/CAIR Press Release, 23 Feb 10: A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today thanked a Florida sheriff for his “prompt and professional” response to the circulation of an anti-Islam message by members of his department using official e-mail addresses.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it received a complaint that [...]

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Islamists Play Shell Games with Security

24 February 2010

Islamist Watch, 23 Feb 10: Despite the countless terror attacks perpetrated by their co-religionists, some Muslims still have the chutzpah to demand that security protocols conform to supposed Islamic sensitivities. But like a typical shell game, every time we think we know which procedures they grudgingly will tolerate, we discover that we have been hoodwinked [...]

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Panel of former Muslims says U.S. needs to “wake up”; overtolerance could pave the way for shari’a in America

22 February 2010

Washington Times, 19 Feb 10: Apostasy killing of former Muslims could become widespread in the United States if the U.S. government and Americans don’t “wake up,” a panel of three former Muslims said on Capitol Hill Thursday. The talk, hosted by three members of the new civil rights organization Former Muslims United (FMU), marked the [...]

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Nonie Darwish: Islamic Indoctrination vs. Education

18 February 2010

FrontPage/Nonie Darwish, 18 Feb 10: Remember the Muslim Television executive, Muzzammil Hassan, who decapitated his wife near Buffalo, New York? His TV station, Bridges TV, was created to promote the idea that Islam is a religion of peace and friendship. This station’s goals perfectly fit with the intense Saudi PR machine, which is spending tons [...]

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IPT Investigates the Muslim Public Affairs Council

15 February 2010

Investigative Project on Terrorism:
MPAC Pursues Islamist Ideology in Guise of Civil Rights Defender
Far from being the zealous champion of civil rights that it presents itself to be, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has followed a consistent pattern of defending designated terrorist organizations and their supporters, opposing U.S. counterterrorism efforts and spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric. That [...]

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Airport body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslims say

12 February 2010

Airport body scanners are a bad idea because too many people who really understand how they work have said that the scanners would never find the type of explosives the Underwear Bomber used. Also, because we Americans think throwing money at technology will easily solve all problems instead of investing in what really works: intensively [...]

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U.S. torn over whether some Muslims pose threat or offer insight

8 February 2010

Dalls Morning News, 7 Feb 10: After the worst military base massacre in U.S. history, officials acknowledged that they failed to “connect the dots” – the shooter had been corresponding with an imam tied to al-Qaeda and had condemned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a war against Islam.
But Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal [...]

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US Government ‘De-radicalization’ Expert on Terror Watch List

5 February 2010

PJM/Patrick Poole, 4 Feb 10: Following the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) has come under fire for failing to connect the dots concerning bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. But new information concerning the NCTC’s de-radicalization expert, Yasir Qadhi, raises questions about how far the rot of political [...]

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How the Christmas Bomber Spent his Summer in the United States

5 February 2010

Investigative Project on Terrorism, 5 Feb 10: In August of 2008, an Islamist student made his way from London to Houston to attend a two-week program put on by the AlMaghrib Institute. This was his third course with the Institute, including two in London. On Christmas Day 2009, the very same student, Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab, [...]

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Burqa becomes focus of tense debate in Europe

5 February 2010

CNN, 4 Feb 10: As France moves closer to a partial ban on the burqa, a leading European lawmaker declared Wednesday that the full Muslim veil is a symbol of political Islam and has no place in Europe.
“The majority (of Europeans) don’t want the political Islam and the symbols of political Islam. And the burqa [...]

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Imam in Spain charged for ‘harassing woman over veil’

1 February 2010

Daily Telegraph, 28 Jan 10: An imam in northeastern Spain has been charged with threatening a woman who refused to wear an Islamic headscarf or abide by certain Islamic customs, prosecutors said on Thursday. The prosecutors are seeking a five-year jail sentence for Mohammed Benbrahim, a Moroccan, on charges of slander, coercion and menacing behaviour [...]

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No Niqab Chez Nous

29 January 2010

Wall Street Journal, 28 Jan 10: The question is not if, but when and how France will banish full facial veiling from the streets of the République. . . . Polls show that a majority of French people support the maximalist ban. French Muslim intellectuals, activists, and community leaders who represent the promise of an [...]

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The thin blue line of jihad

22 January 2010

Spectator, 21 Jan 10: The Telegraph reports that the National Association of Muslim Police has attacked government policy on countering Islamic extremism. . . . This is an extremely alarming development.
First, a general point. The very idea that police officers form themselves into interest groups of any stripe whatever should be anathema to the ethic [...]

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The truth about the Islamic Human Rights Commission, recommended by Britain’s Muslim Police

22 January 2010
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Daily Telegraph, 21 Jan 10: As I noted earlier, the National Association of Muslim Police thinks British Muslims should report crimes to the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). It sounds a lovely organisation, doesn’t it? Human Rights. Who could be against that? The only problem, as so often with Islamic groups, is that it doesn’t do [...]

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Geert Wilders trial is an affront to Western liberty

21 January 2010

City Journal/Bruce Bawer, 20 Jan 10: Bruce Bawer is the author of Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom and While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Since 9/11, there has been a series of red-letter dates that should figure in any future history of the Islamization of Europe. One thinks, for example, [...]

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Dutch filmmaker in court over anti-Islam hate speech

21 January 2010

AFP, 20 Jan 10: Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders on Wednesday appeared in an Amsterdam court for the first time in connection with charges of inciting racial hatred against Muslims. Wilders, who has compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, “has always made his statements in his capacity as a public representative,” his lawyer Bram Moszkowicz [...]

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Daniel Pipes: Why I stand with Geert Wilders

20 January 2010

Jerusalem Post/Daniel Pipes, 19 Jan 10: Who is the most important European alive today? I nominate the Dutch politician Geert Wilders. I do so because he is best placed to deal with the Islamic challenge facing the continent. He has the potential to emerge as a world-historical figure.
That Islamic challenge consists of two components: [...]

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American-Born Jihad

20 January 2010

New York Times/op-ed, 20 Jan 10: We Americans used to be more than a little smug about the integration of Muslims into U.S. society in contrast to the way Europeans get along — or don’t get along — with Muslims living in Europe. Unlike Western Europe, America did not import large numbers of Muslims from [...]

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Political Correctness Claims 13 Lives at Fort Hood

14 January 2010

Human Events/Robert Spencer, 14 Jan 10: It’s official: political correctness prevented Fort Hood assassin Nidal Hasan’s Army superiors from acting upon signs of his incipient jihadist tendencies. AP reported Monday that “a Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found the doctors overseeing Maj. Nidal Hasan’s medical training repeatedly voiced [...]

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The Islamic Infiltration of the US Government

14 January 2010

PJTV: Bill Whittle goes to Washington, DC to investigate radical Islam’s influence over our government and access to our national security secrets. Two whistleblowers, formerly with the DOD and FBI, have the chilling details. Watch videos:
The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets (PJTV)
The Islamic Infiltration, Part 2: From Influence to [...]

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Muslim summit to counter radicalization among youths a sham

12 January 2010

Washington Times, 12 Jan 10: A major Jewish organization accused several Muslim groups on Monday of using an Islamic summit in Chicago as a platform for extremist and anti-Semitic invective instead of its stated purpose to combat the increasing radicalization of Muslim-American youths.
Based on transcripts or tapes obtained from a Dec. 23-27 convocation of [...]

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“Cultural Jihad” Exploits American Freedoms, Documentary Shows

11 January 2010

American Spectator, 10 Jan 10: Americans who remain blithely unaware of the subtle, sophisticated techniques radical Islamists have used to successfully penetrate U.S. institutions should be introduced to a new documentary that explores the historical development of Jihad.
The film calls attention to a 15 page document FBI agents uncovered back in 2003 authored by the [...]

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Clare Lopez: Jihadis Inside the Gate

6 January 2010

Clare Lopez, a retired CIA operations officer, is an instructor with the CI Centre and the Vice President of the Intelligence Summit.
As the new decade opens, the country is reeling: the year just past saw more attacks by Islamic jihadis directed against Americans than in any other year since 9/11. Several were discovered and stopped [...]

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Were Northwest Airlines screeners haunted by memories of the ‘Flying Imams’?

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 Jan 10: What were those Northwest Airlines screeners thinking when they let a young Muslim man with no luggage and a one-way ticket board a transatlantic flight without the minor inconvenience of a full body search?
You may not remember the story the press dubbed the “Flying Imams” case, but it had a [...]

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Anjem Choudary: profile

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 4 Jan 10: Anjem Choudary’s latest insult to the families of British service personnel killed in Afghanistan is in keeping with a career of controversial attacks on military operations in the country. In March last year, the 42-year-old leader of the Islamic group, Islam4UK, branded British soldiers returning from Afghanistan as “cowards” and [...]

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Revealed: the true extent of Islamic radical influence at University College London

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 Jan 10: The true picture of Islamic radicalism preached at the British university attended by Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab can be revealed today.
The Sunday Telegraph can disclose new details of radical Muslim speakers who have been invited to events organised by University College London’s Islamic society, the organisation headed [...]

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Alert and deeply alarmed

4 January 2010

The Australian, 4 Jan 10: DANISH cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is reportedly philosophical that his life has been all but destroyed by fundamentalist Islam. The rest of us should remain angry at the alleged assassination attempt on the artist whose cartoon of the prophet Mohammed as a suicide bomber caused outrage four years ago.
Westergaard, who [...]

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Detroit bomber’s mentor continues to influence British mosques and universities

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 2 Jan 10: Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric accused of inspiring the Detroit plane bomber, has been permitted to speak at a series of British mosques and universities, a Sunday Telegraph investigation has discovered.
Al-Awlaki has been accused by US counter terrorism officials and the Yemeni government of being one of the driving [...]

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Penetration Even At The Pentagon: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy

18 December 2009

Investor’s Business Daily/Paul Sperry, 17 Dec 09: The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack.
An honored guest [...]

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Islamists in the UK Government

16 December 2009

Islamist Watch/David Rusin, 16 Dec 09: Is there any degree of radicalism that disqualifies someone from holding a sensitive government post in the UK? Probably. But it would be difficult to tell based on two recent stories.
First, Treasury official Azad Ali has begun advising the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on combating Islamic extremism. Apparently his suspension [...]

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The Dark Lessons of Eurabia

16 December 2009

FrontPage, 16 Dec 09: Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Sheskin, a retired officer (Major) of the IDF. He has spent many years in Israeli intelligence services, primarily in the European theatre of operations. His expertise is in Radical Islam, Sharia Law, and the art of detecting the whereabouts of terrorist leaders in Europe and [...]

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Free Speech on Trial

16 December 2009

FrontPage/Robert Spencer, 16 Dec 09: Free speech goes on trial in the Netherlands on January 20, when Dutch politician Geert Wilders appears before the Amsterdam District Court on charges of having “intentionally offended a group of people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion,” as well as having incited to hatred and discrimination.
What did Wilders do [...]

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When it Comes to Islamist Terror, An Islamic Problem Needs an Islamic Solution

15 December 2009

“….Certainly our counterintelligence experts were NOT using the non-violent Marxists as experts on how to defeat the Soviets…..”
By M. Zuhdi Jasser
M. Zuhdi Jasser is a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander. He is the President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy based in Phoenix, Arizona. AIFD, founded in 2003, is a think tank and activist [...]

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Muslim Brotherhood in North America

15 December 2009

Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan): “Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our aspiration.” . . . . “The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying [...]

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Muslim Cultural Center Headed To Ground Zero?

9 December 2009

Gothamist, 9 Dec 09:  An Imam has turned an abandoned department store just two blocks away from ground zero into a place where hundreds Muslims gather for prayer every week — and he dreams of converting into a full-fledged Islamic cultural center.
After paying $4.85 million this summer to purchase a five-story Park Place building — [...]

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Spain to Try 9 Men Over Islamic Death Trial

8 December 2009

Reuters, 8 Dec 09: Nine men are awaiting trial in eastern Spain after allegedly sentencing a woman to death for adultery in an unofficial court held under Islamic sharia law, a police spokeswoman said on Monday.
The woman walked into a police station in March saying she had escaped captors who had taken her to a [...]

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Political Correctness in UK

7 December 2009

The Sun, 5 Dec 09: MINISTERS have been BANNED from using words like Islamist and fundamentalist – in case they offend Muslims. An eight-page Whitehall guide lists words they should not use when talking about terrorism in public and gives politically correct alternatives.
They are told not to refer to Muslim extremism as it links Islam [...]

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Former Muslims back Swiss vote on Minarets

4 December 2009

Religious Intelligence, 4 Dec 09: The Swiss Republic’s referendum decision to ban Minarets is being applauded by Former Muslims United (FMU). FMU, led by executive director Nonie Darwish, is a civil rights organization which aims to protect the rights of former Muslims who have since renounced their faith. It is based in the United States [...]

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Andrew McCarthy: Somebody at Fort Hood Should Be Walking the Plank

4 December 2009

National Review/The Corner, 3 Dec 09:
Andrew McCarthy is a is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. He is the author of the recommended book, Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad.
Prepare [...]

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Terror-tied ISNA official teaching troops at Ft Hood

3 December 2009

Jawa Report, 3 Dec 09: I was contacted today by an official in the military anti-terrorism community who was extremely upset that a top official for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) was conducting classes at Ft. Hood on Islam to troops about to deploy to Afghanistan.
The individual in question, Louay Safi, actively promotes the [...]

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