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    JW/DW Digest 12th, 13th May

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    115 days ago in Fortress Australia Outpost · Authority: 27

    Israel Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest Tuesday, May 13, 2008 ***** JIHAD WATCH ***** Home page: <http://jihadwatch.org/> The State Department's Jihadist Exchange Program State just keeps going from bad to worse. Patrick Poole reports at Pajamas Media: State Department diplomats are taking full advantage of their new rules prohibiting the use of "jihad," "jihadist," and "mujahedeen" to describe Islamic extremists and terrorists, which... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020991.php> Jihadists kill five in Jammu, including a woman hostage and a press photographer The Jihad is back in Jammu and Kashmir. "Terror returns to Jammu," by Arun Joshi for the Hindustan Times, May 12 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist): In a dastardly attack, the biggest in Jammu region since 2002, militants struck in... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020990.php> The New York Times notices the Islamic death penalty for apostasy, wonders if Obama will incur it Well over a year after I wrote about this possibility, and six months after Washington Post "journalist" Perry Bacon completely misrepresented my position in order to blame me for the "Obama is a Muslim" rumors, and many many months after... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020987.php> MILF welcomes Libya's offer to lead peace mission Fox Guarding the Henhouse Alert: sure, says the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Libya would be a great choice as a mediator! "Philippines: Rebels welcome Libya's offer to head peace monitoring mission," from AKI (thanks to Sr. Soph): Cotabato City, 12... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020984.php> Fitzgerald: The respected cleric's deportation trial "Deportation trial under way for respected Passaic cleric" -- headline of this article about Qatanani "Respected" by whom? For what? It is not the job of the reporter to tell readers what to think about Qatanani. If he is "respected"... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020983.php> "Allah hath promised such of you as believe and do good work that He will surely make them to succeed (the present rulers) in the earth..." That imperialist headline is Qur'an 24:55, discussed in the latest installment of my Blogging the Qur'an series at Hot Air: Sura 24, "The Light," verses 21-64. This section also contains the instructions to women to veil themselves. There are... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020980.php> ***** DHIMMI WATCH ***** Home page: <http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/> Another honor killing in Jordan: Man drowns sister in Dead Sea The second reported honor killing in Jordan in less than a week. "Jordan charges man with killing sister suspected of having extramarital affair," from the Associated Press, May 12: A Jordanian judicial official says the country's state prosecutor has charged... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020989.php> Fitzgerald: When The Fool of Chelm Is At The Helm, Or, What Peres Did, He Undid "Although in '98 everything seemed dark because of Rabin's murder, I believed we could still move the peace process ahead more quickly. I did not think we'd have so many problems. I believed the separation between the West Bank and... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020986.php> Fitzgerald: Deceiving ourselves by our own propaganda Ordinarily in a war, when one conducts propaganda both black and white, there is always the danger that one will end up deceiving oneself. This is particularly true where the "war" does not look like a war as we have... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020985.php> Islamic supremacists killing singers, actors, and artists in Iraq Their work is un-Islamic, you see. Imagine what fun Muslims who share this perspective could have once they gain control in Europe! "Iraqi artists and singers flee amid crackdown on forbidden culture," by Afif Sarhan and Caroline Davies in The... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020981.php> Jihad Watch / Dhimmi Watch Digest Monday, May 12, 2008 ***** JIHAD WATCH ***** Home page: <http://jihadwatch.org/> Hizballah attacks Druze villages A Whose-State-Is-It-Anyway Update. "Hezbollah rocks eastern villages," from the BBC, May 11: Control of several villages loyal to Lebanon's pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has been handed to the army after an attack by Hezbollah. The group's fighters used heavy... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020979.php> Guess who's speaking at the local mosque Nope, guess again Unless you live in a rural area, there is probably a mosque (or more than one) in your town, and most people -- including local law enforcement officials -- regard them in much the same way... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020978.php> Israeli Leftist discovers jihad In "From Dove to Hawk" in Newsweek, May 8 (thanks to Paul Green), controversial Israeli historian Benny Morris finally notices that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not about land, but is fueled by a religious imperative: ...Con­trary to current historiographic discourse... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020974.php> U.S. soldiers learning Arabic at Wahhabist Islamic Saudi Academy Just when you thought the world couldn't possibly get crazier, yes, it's the Islamic Saudi Academy about which the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom expressed "significant concerns" that the school was promoting, according to Cinnamon Stillwell, "a brand of... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020973.php> New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot Altered Face? Really? The New York Times, true to the New Duranty Times moniker Hugh Fitzgerald has given it, has run a gushing profile of Ali Ardekani, the young Muslim filmmaker who made "Who Hijacked Islam?," (linked in the... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020970.php> Somali jihadists retake parts of Mogadishu, enforce Sharia on pain of death The Islamic Courts Union are back -- in some areas of Mogadishu. "Islamists target Somalis in terror campaign: Islamists target white aid workers," by Alex Strick van Linschoten in the Sunday Times, May 11 (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair): When Ibrahim... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020968.php> ***** DHIMMI WATCH ***** Home page: <http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/> Saudis hold "women in the workplace" forum -- with no women present And meanwhile, at the forum a scholar calls into question the commonly articulated view that Islam improved the lot of women in the seventh century. Of course, the blame is rather characteristically placed on the Greco-Roman tradition, but the subtext... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020977.php> Scotland: Police bid to tackle Islamophobia Hmmm. How are they going to tackle Islamophobia? Will they go right to its root cause -- will they get Muslims to stop blowing stuff up in the name of Islam and announcing that they will soon dominate the land... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020976.php> Attempts to stem trafficking of teenage girls in northern Nigeria hampered by... Sharia law "The [Child Rights Act] has been endorsed by the Nigerian federal government but not as yet by the predominantly Muslim northern state legislatures because it contains clauses which many northerners see as going against their religious and cultural values." But... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020972.php> Amnesty International to Saudi Arabia: No lashes for coffee klatsch Earlier coverage suggested Muhammad Ali Abu Raziza was "framed by the religious police after he angered some of their members at a training course." In any event, public pressure may again work to spare individuals the cruel and unusual punishments... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020971.php> 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love' "If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her." An update on this honor-killing story. By Afif Sarhan and Caroline Davies in The Observer, May 11 (thanks to Cindy):... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020969.php> US public school history books whitewashing and promoting Islam "Islamic activists use multiculturalism and ready-made American-made political movements, especially those on campus, to advance and justify the makeover of Islam-related textbook content." "History textbooks promoting Islam: New report says Muslim activists 'succeeding' in expunging criticism," by Bob Unruh at... Full article: <http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020967.php>

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    NYT Presents Extremist As 'Moderate'

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    116 days ago in Little Green Footballs · Authority: 1,452

    In their quest to find showcase “moderate Muslims,” the New York Times strikes out again with an article that completely glosses over the radical opinions of their latest poster boy: Jihad Watch: New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot.

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    New York Times presents Islamic supremacist as moderate non-zealot

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    116 days ago in Muslims Against Sharia · Authority: 166

    By Robert Spencer The New York Times, true to the New Duranty Times moniker Hugh Fitzgerald has given it, has run a gushing profile of Ali Ardekani, the young Muslim filmmaker who made "Who Hijacked Islam?," (linked in the picture above) among other shorts designed to stir up righteous indignation against the venomous Islamophobes who misrepresent Islam as anything other than a Religion of Peace. "Who Hijacked Islam?," as you can see, is a herky-jerky, hectoring, eye-rubbing affair, but it has been wildly popular -- and now the Times has anointed Ardekani as the alternative to the "bloodthirsty zealots" and defensive bowers-and-scrapers who supposedly dominate the public image of Islam in the West. (Which of those two categories do high-profile, ubiquitous Muslim spokesmen such as Ibrahim Hooper and Edina Lekovic fit into? But I digress.) Read more ... Source: Jihad Watch

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    We’re mad. We’re glad. Get used to it!

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    117 days ago in Roger’s Rules · Authority: 305

    cheerful story about “mad pride,” the effort by various lunatics (I use the term in the way Mr. Blotton used “humbug,” in its Pickwickian sense) to reverse the unfair stigmatizing of insanity by “embracing their madness,” so to speak. Just as certain homosexuals now proudly employ the word “queer”–once a term of disapprobation–to describe themselves, so some of the hallucinatorily-inclined want to dust off and revel in (not to say “rave about”) words like “mad.” It is worth noting not only how widespread these efforts at semantic rehabilitation are in the Times and other organs of political-social orthodoxy, but also how uni-directional they are. The “fashion and style” story about Mad Pride exhibits one slightly preposterous aspect of the phenomenon. A more sinister aspect is on view in the Times’s effort to normalize the pathology of radical Islam. As Robert Spencer points out in an excellent post at JihadWatch today, the Times was up to its old trick of defining deviancy down in its recent flattering profile of Ali Ardekani by Neil MacFarquhar. MacFarquhar compares Ardekani to Bill Cosby, claiming he is an exemplary “moderate” who provides a good role model for Muslim youths. Quoth MacFarquhar, “Mr. Ardekani is among the most visible of a new wave of young American Muslim performers and filmmakers trying to change the public face of their religion. His most popular video posting — “Who Hijacked Islam?” — has garnered more than 350,000 hits on YouTube since July 2006. . . . The role model is Bill Cosby, who young Muslim filmmakers believe changed the perception of African-Americans by depicting them as ordinary.” How sweet! Let’s get out the cardigan and slippers and have a cup of hot chocolate before turning it. Unfortunately, as Spencer points out, Ardekani is an Islamic supremacist whose songs glorify jihad and Islamic triumphalism. Spencer quotes some lyrics from Ardekani’s now-disbanded rap group “Soldiers of Allah“: Even if all the kafirs got together… They still couldn’t stop this Ummah! We love Islam More than we love life No more kufur system to be run All of these belong to one land Part of once mighty Islamic span More than 52 nations we fall One nation strong we stand tall Waiting for the Ummah’s call Once again and for all Reestablish Islam to rule all over a billion But oh so weak We need to rise up And get back on our feet We’ve been fooled too long This what happens When we let kafirs lead et very much cetera. As Spencer notes, you’ll find none of this in MacFarquhar’s valentine. Like Tariq Ramadan, Ardekani seems to have be anointed a “moderate,” notwithstanding his very un-moderate sentiments. Now that I think of it, I can see why the Times should be so keen to run flattering pieces of people embracing their madness. Their own coverage is increasingly insane: why not make endeavor to make a virtue out of a vice and pretend that insanity is something to be proud of. What makes a typical New York Times story so awful? Well might you ask. Connoisseurs of cant have devoted many hours to the question. Some have proposed detailed criteria, noting that a peculiar union of smugness and political correctness accompanies most characteristic specimens of the genre. Other critics point out that such typologies tend to be hopelessly ad hoc, that the Times is awful in so many ways simultaneously that to focus on smugness and political correctness is to ignore the contributions of many other aspects of journalistic and rhetorical failure, not to mention intellectual shallowness and blatant political animus. The best we can do, these critics say, is to acknowledge, as St. Augustine did with respect to the mystery of time (or Justice Potter Stewart did with respect to pornography), that we “know it when we see it” but are–such are the limitations of human intelligence (to say nothing of the human stomach)–utterly unable to provide anything like an accurate and comprehensive definition of the phenomenon. Still, like a coleopterologist in the field, we can all do our little bit towards building up a library of examples in the hope that some future social Linnaeus will appear among us to impart system and order to these apparently miscellaneous scraps of pathology. It is in that humble spirit that I direct my readers’ attention to “‘Mad Pride’ Fights a Stigma,” a story in the “Fashion and Style” section today. Allow me to begin by noting how appropriate it is that a story about reclaiming pride in insanity should appear in a section devoted to “Fashion and Style.” Some enterprising investigators will want ponder the metastasis of fashion and style in elite liberal culture. They will want to pay particular attention to the way fashion and a certain species of left-wing politics have joined forces, or perhaps “inter-married” would be a more accurate description. Here I will only point out the relevance of an earlier study by the social pathologist Tom Wolfe, whose work among the natives resulted in an important monograph on the phenomenon of Radical Chic, a fertile concept whose emanations and penumbrae have yet to be fully catalogued. But that is work for another day. For now, let me simply recommend to your attention the Times’s latest entry in (as Nietzsche put it) the Transvaluation of All Values. My executive summary: once upon a time, in the bad old days, being mad was “stigmatized” by small-minded cretins, er, I mean small-minded bigots. Back then, it was critical The Elect not acknowledge that someone who seemed, you know, STARK RAVING BONKERS was mad or insane. Those are prejudicial terms, and we members of The Elect have read Thomas Szasz and R.D. Laing and we know that sanity is a social construction. Despite George W. Bush, we members of The Elect have been eagerly spreading enlightenment and now it is time for this traditional victim group to reclaim its heritage and take pride in its “differently-abled” mentality. In short: We’re mad. We’re glad. Get used to it. Lest that precis seem too schematic, let me quote from the story by the Times reporter Gabrielle Glaser: Just as gay-rights activists reclaimed the word queer as a badge of honor rather than a slur, these advocates proudly call themselves mad; they say their conditions do not preclude them from productive lives. Mad pride events, organized by loosely connected groups in at least seven countries including Australia, South Africa and the United States, draw thousands of participants, said David W. Oaks, the director of MindFreedom International, a nonprofit group in Eugene, Ore., that tracks the events and says it has 10,000 members. Recent mad pride activities include a Mad Pride Cabaret in Vancouver, British Columbia; a Mad Pride March in Accra, Ghana; and a Bonkersfest in London that drew 3,000 participants. (A follow-up Bonkersfest is planned next month at the site of the original Bedlam asylum.) Of course, every revolution spawns factions and splinter groups. And so it is no surprise that what Freud called “the narcissism of small differences” should taint the pride and happiness of these newly enfranchised lunatics, if I may employ another traditional epithet that is in need of semantic rehabilitation. Members of the mad pride movement do not always agree on their aims and intentions. For some, the objective is to continue the destigmatization of mental illness. A vocal, controversial wing rejects the need to treat mental afflictions with psychotropic drugs and seeks alternatives to the shifting, often inconsistent care offered by the medical establishment. Oh, the mad, bad “medical establishment.” It not only keeps harping on the difference between sanity and insanity but also insists on “privileging” one over the other! How judgmental. How prejudiced. How unlike The New York Times.