Islamists

-By Warner Todd Huston America is the land of liberty. It is the place where political expression is protected by law and custom. It is the freest nation on Earth… unless, of course, you wish to talk about Islam. Then, unless you bow and scrape, unless you assert its supposed peacefulness, unless you bend over [...]

The Carnegie Endowment for Peace has an intriguing report by Amr Hamzawy about Morocco’s Islamist, Party for Justice and Development (PJD). Hamzawy sees that the PJD, though entrenched in the nation’s political system, is challenged by various constraints, including the system’s semi-authoritarian nature, the power of the King, and competition to win the Islamist vote. This puts the PJD in a

Few Americans are familiar with Mark Steyn, the conservative writer out of Canada who has a huge International audience. This year he was indicted by the British Columbia Human Rights Commission for what is broadly charged as a hate speech crime for Steyn’s mild condemnation of Islamism in an article that appeared in Macleans [...]

Ahh the good old days of islam, when you could cut off a thief’s hand, and stone an adulterer to death. Oh wait, that’s today, if these lunatics get their way… Malaysian Islamist leader wants a return to mutilation A leader of Malaysia’s Islamist party wants its secular allies to apply strict Sharia law in the country. The [...]

Los siete islamistas del 11-M presos en A Lama piden ayuda al capellán de la cárcel - Galicia - Faro de Vigo, thanks to Alawen:The islamists who are imprisoned in the Galician prison of A Lama after being condemned because of the March 11th bombings, which killed 191 and hurt 1824 people, have asked the Catholic Church for help.The seven imprisoned -sentenced from 12 to 23 years in jail- have in

This is just one of the reasons why Moderate Muslims won’t speak out… They know they are the minority. Radio Australia Hundreds of members of a radical Islamic group armed with batons have clashed with moderate Muslims rallying for religious tolerance in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. About 100 members of the National Alliance for Religious and Faith Freedom gathered [...]

BOSTON (AP) — Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.   Say What? Hold up here, is the America we all know going bonkers? Are you kidding me? How is it a [...]

By Andrew L. Jaffee, netwmd.com I worked with a Shiite Muslim for seven years, probably one of the best customers I’ve ever had. I avidly follow true moderate Muslim commentators like Fareed Zakaria, [1] Kamal Nawash, [2] Fouad Ajami, [3] and Mansoor Ijaz. [4] I hold democratically-elected Muslim leaders like President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia with [...]

Malaysia’s education minister rejected complaints from religious groups that schoolgirl uniforms were too sexy and invited rape by men. Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, responded by saying, “It is unfair to punish women and children and the clothes they wear for the act of rapists. From what I have seen, clothing is not the main consderation [...]

Mob rule in UK Muslim neighboorhoods Starts off as just another Islamist rant on a megaphone, but then when the police politely ask him to turn down the volume, the mob backs the police into a wall and literally surround the cops and run them out of the neighborhood. It’s chilling to see the police get pushed [...]

Once potential voters get beyond the Barack Obama's fuzzy rhetorical mantra of "Change!", the picture of what an Obama "change" might look like begins to materialize.Red Planet Cartoons latest is one such picture. It deals with Obama's plan--or rather, non-plan--for dealing with al Qaida, terrorists and Iraq.RPC has an excerpt from the Washington Time's Donald Lambro's Exposing a Blind Spot:Sen. John McCain had one goal in mind when his turn came to question Gen. David Petraeus about the Iraq war: to show Sen. Barack Obama didn’t understand the dire threat al Qaeda posed to that country’s survival…Though he never mentioned the Democratic presidential front-runner by name, Mr. McCain wanted to dismantle one of Mr. Obama’s chief contentions regarding the war: that there is no serious

Khelafat Majlish and Islami Shashontantra Andolan recently formed the Anti-Quran Law Resistance Committee to protest against the National Women Development Policy approved by the advisers' council recently."As police halted their progress, the agitating activists started pelting them with brickbats and broke through the police ring," said pedestrian Mostofa Kamal who took shelter near the mosque during the clash.Fifteen pedestrians including two children Shaon, 12, and Badhon, 9, were injured.   ~ more... ~  

From El Confidencial Digital: The Civil Guard has detained this Tuesday in Melilla to two alleged Moroccan Islamists, one of them related with the Casablanca attack in 2003 and the other with a finished terrorist net in Morocco in February. One of the detained is Ali Aarass, who according with the Civil Guard is member of the "Movement of the Mujahidines of the Maghreb" from 1982 and it's related with the Casablanca attacks, in which 45 people were killed.The second arrested is Mohammed El Bay, linked with a group which according to Morocco, was preparing some attacks in the Maghreb and which was finished in February with the detention of 30 people, according to the Civil Guard. The Armed Institution also stated that El Bay was in charge of the relations with weapons' dealers in the cent

Why is it that everywhere we look, we are seeing Islamists, terrorists and far leftists supporting Obama?  It’s no coincidence that Obama has the most liberal voting record in the US senate.  The liberal-Islamist alliance is no secret anymore and nobody is bringing it up in the media.  It’s amazing how our enemies around the [...]

Jihad? Fatwa? Wahhabism? Islamist terrorism? All terms distorted or created by the U.S. government and media to stigmatize the Muslim religion and scare the public -- or so CAIR officials would have you believe. But their protestations ignore much evidence to the contrary available in radical Islamist writings, as well as statements by CAIR officials themselves intended for internal consumption. IPT's detailed examination of CAIR focuses today on its leaders' reassuring words, and places them in...(read more)

A specter is haunting the fragile democracy of Indonesia: the growing movement in support of Theocratic totalitarianism.The transnational Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami (the Islamic Liberation Party), founded in 1953 in Jerusalem by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, is banned in most Islamic countries but has supporters in high places in Jakarta. The party’s aim is to establish a Caliphate that rules over the Islamic world and throughout Islamdom – and its call is being answered by multitudes. The Hizb rejects democracy and considers everything non-Islamic as being kuffar – infidel. At least two cabinet ministers and one retired general in Indonesia support the party here.The Hizb follows three stages of activism, the first being secret cell discussion groups, forming a core of militants well versed i

It turns out Infidels are not alone in the fight against muslim extremists. We have a few brave apostates who “have our backs” as well. He fired the first salvo in 2003 and has been sticking his thumb in Islamist eyes ever since. Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury describes himself as a “Muslim Zionist.” He [...]

Thousands Of radical Islamists in Istanbul call for Jihad and the destruction Of Israel over the weekend. This from a country that is trying to get into the E.U. (European Union)The International Quds (Jerusalem) Meeting convened in Istanbul Saturday and called for armed struggle until Jerusalem is ‘liberated.’ Representatives of all Islamic countries, as well as organizations such as Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad and Jamaat-i Islamia are attending the giant meeting. Speeches of condemnation of Israel and determination to continue the armed struggle until Israel is eliminated were interrupted by loud calls of “Allah-u Akbar.” (God is great!) Turkey is a country that is 90% Muslim and 90% in Asia, not Europe, so why are member countries even toying with the idea of letting them in to the European Union?It would make a lot more sense to integrate Russia into the E.U. and NATO. This might curb some of their more bellicose actions and smooth relations by converting an adversary i

Tomorrow, Jordanians go to the polls for parliamentary elections. Over 900 candidates, including 200 women, will vie for 110 parliamentary seats in the contest. During the last parliamentary elections in 2003, the Islamic Action Front (IAF) took 17 seats, the best performance by a political party in the Kingdom. During the most recent elections in Jordan —the August 31, 2007 municipal balloting—the IAF withdrew hours after the polls opened claiming Government fraud. IAF accusations centered...(read more)

Bangladesh is the latest victim of a natural disaster in which Islamists, including groups designated by the U.S. as terrorists, already have a social assistance infrastructure. The death toll from the Bangladesh cyclone has topped 500 as of this post and will climb further. Bangladesh Islamist groups such as Hizbut Tahrir, Islami Oikya Andolon, Chhatra Mukti Andolon, Islami Shasantantra Andolon , and the deadly and dangerous Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islam (which uses mobile phone technology for triggering...(read more)

Defense secretary Robert Gates is rightly concerned that the internal turmoil in Pakistan is distracting crucial efforts from tracking al Qaeda and the resurgent Taliban. "The concern I have is that the longer the internal problems continue, the more distracted the Pakistani army and security services will be in terms of the internal situation rather than focusing on the terrorist threat in the frontier area," Gates said. There are plenty of signs of the damage already done. Some 200 members of government...(read more)

In the media coverage of Pakistan President Musharraf's declaration of emergency and martial law, Islamists objecting to his emergency declaration are being portrayed as defenders of Pakistani freedom, when in fact they represent pro-Jihad, Islamist anti-freedom ideologies. While there are certainly other genuinely pro-freedom individuals who object to Musharraf's emergency declaration, media sources are combining reports of anti-freedom Islamists' criticism along with other democratic opponents...(read more)

Many of my readers may recall my past written support for the SIOE groups across Europe. I have read word this morning of an attempt on the lives of the Denmark leadership of the Stop the Islamization of Europe. This is very important because such a story will most likely be ignored by the MSM, so here is an opportunity for sites like Jihad Watch and the Anvil to do some more good in a sphere that is sadly unpopular with the disinterested masses. Here is an excerpt from the report bySIOE: Stop Islamisation Of Europe: 2-5 sek. after there was a loud bang and the frontwindow was damaged. About two autonomous looking types were in the front and two on ecah sites smashing the site windows shouting Get him out get him out! and started hitting Anders and the SIAD passenger in the other site with ironbars. The SIAD member in the middle (foto) was hit of a thrown filled soda bottle in her backhead. Anders succeded after a while to kick one of the autonomous hard in the face as he leaned

For the foreseeable future, there's one issue that will dominate my candidate selection process....their stance on the War on Terror and dealing with Islamic Fundamentalistism (or whatever else you want to call it). I believe this fight (intellectually, ideologically, culturally, militarily...whatever) is the most critical problem we face.Liberals just don't seem to grasp the seriousness of the threat posed by Radical Islamism. Be this because liberals celebrate "diversity" and "multiculturalism" (the radical Islamism is "misunderstood" and "oppressed" arguments), or because liberals love "peace" (the "if we're peaceful, they'll be peaceful too because we won't cause more problems in the world leading them to hate us" arguments) -- as if republicans, independants, conservatives, etc don't value and desire peace as well. Whatever their reasons, liberals consistently take weaker positions when it comes to dealing and confronting Islamic Fundamentalism. Their solution is not to figh

Hundreds of Islamic hardliners including activists of Hizbut Tahrir, Islami Oikya Andolon, Chhatra Mukti Andolon, and Islami Shasantantra Andolon descended to the streets and later resorted to violence and arson to protest the publication of a cartoon that allegedly made fun of Mohammed, in a vernacular daily. The protesters said this was a deliberate attempt by the cartoonist and the news paper to ridicule Prophet Mohammad. The cartoon appeared on Sept 17 issue of Prothom Alo’s magazine Alpin. It...(read more)

Rohan Gunaratna, head of a Singaporean research center on terrorism, said Saudi Arabia has been financing much of the terrorism in Southeast Asia. Until 2003, funds went from the Saudis -- supposed U.S. allies -- to al Qaeda and through Pakistan to Southeast Asia. After the Pakistani channel was disrupted, the money was sent directly from Saudi Arabia. Mr. Gunaratna said terrorists in Southeast Asia are increasingly driven by an ideology that calls for setting up an Islamic state centered on Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. It would include the southern Philippines, Malaysia and southern Thailand, which also have large Muslim populations."Asian groups," he said, "are becoming Arabized."An Indonesian police unit, Detachment 88, has had "significant successes against terrorist operational cells," Mr. Gunaratna said. He added, however, that the political environment is "permissive," allowing terrorists "to rest, recover and strike back."Terrorist training in Indonesi

CHICAGO — A journalist for the Mississauga, Ont.-based newspaper The Pakistan Post was assaulted by two men, one armed with a cricket bat, who warned him to stop “writing against Islam” and a Pakistan-based religious organization, the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) reported Thursday. Journalist Jawaad Faizi was attacked on the evening of April 17 while sitting in his car outside

Here is one way. In 2002 President Bush said he would bring Democracy to the “Middle East.” In 2005, American Enterprise Institute wrote an editorial in L.A. Times bashing Bush for failing to deliver on that promise. Their evidence? Bush’s about-face on Mubarak regime. Bush went from challenging Mubarak to embracing him. Islamism keeps growing. Read more at eteraz

Not only because they are wrong, but because they are illogical. Please read the massive contradiction of this post: We all know the stories that bloggers in some countries are jailed for what they write, so its no wonder the BBC’s published an article on “Bloggers’ search for anonymity”.  But the fact remains that if you’re [...]

By Paul BelienThe Washington Times Daily11 Apr 2007For almost four decades, Muslims have been the fastest-growing segment of the population in Western Europe. As a consequence, the Muslim vote is becoming ever more important. This first became apparent in the September 2002 general elections in Germany, when Socialist candidate Gerhard Schroeder beat Conservative opponent Edmund Stoiber with the

We learn this week that in the latest scummy act at the United Nations, Islamic countries have pushed through a resolution "urging" global prohibition of "defamation" of religion with the help of the commies:GENEVA (AP) - Islamic countries pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion - a response largely to the furor last year over caricatures published in a Danish newspaper of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.The statement proposed by the Organization of Islamic Conference addressed what it called a "campaign" against Muslim minorities and the Islamic religion around the world since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.The resolution, which was opposed by a number of other non-Muslim countries, "expresses deep concern at attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human rights violations."It makes no mention of any other religion besides Islam, but urges countries "to

THE threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than at any time since the September 11 attacks in the US, according to a leaked intelligence document. More than 2000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks, according to a government threat assessment prepared this month and seen by The Sunday Telegraph.  The number is far greater than was previously thought by the security services.  “The scale of al-Qa’ida’s ambitions towards attacking the UK and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged,” the newspaper quoted the document as saying.”We still believe that AQ (al-Qa’ida) will continue to seek opportunities for mass-casualty attacks against soft targets and key infrastructure. These attacks are likely to involve the use of suicide operatives.”  The document was being circulated between the Home Office, Defence Ministry, M15 intell

The Ethiopian backed Somali troops routed the Isalamists in Samolia. Islamists Lose Somali Capital; Leaders Resign Written by The Media Line StaffPublished Thursday, December 28, 2006 The official government of Somalia, backed by Ethiopian forces has recaptured the country's capital...

Walid Pharees at the Washington Post has a good post about the islamists reaction to the elections. Pretty much the Islamists think that the Democrats win is also a win for them. They bel;ieve that the Democrats are going to...

This interesting piece was sent to me by a friend.  It is an interview of Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a former Islamic terrorist. Here is a quote that speaks volumes."Stop asking what you have done wrong. Stop it! They're slaughtering you like sheep and you still look within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with what they want."I find it maddening they many Americans, blame America for being hated and attacked by the Islamists.  Logically and historically, it is just not true.  They want to kill us for many reasons, most of which have nothing to do with us.  It is about them!!