“War is Over”– (just don’t mention jihad…)

Afghanistan

“We will never know what motivated him”

(CNN) – A (Musel-)man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform killed a U.S. coalition service member, the U.S. military said Thursday. It was the latest in a string of such attacks.

Afghan Clerics Defy Govt. Bid to Stop Preaching Violence… (TROP)

Muselmanic Potential

QUETTA: A potential suicide bomber was killed when a detonator he was carrying along with a suicide vest prematurely went off on Kirani Road near Hazara Town, pre-dominantly Shia Muslims’ neighbourhood in Quetta, on Thursday night.

Copenhagen, Denmark:

Three armed Muslims arrested “in the process of preparing a terrorist act”

Jihad Watch already reported about the other case from December 2010 mentioned in the end of the article (“Suspected terrorist in court: I came to Copenhagen to look at your famous fireworks“). Now a Jordanian, Turk and an Egyptian resident apparently wanted to attack somewhere in Copenhagen – possibly Jyllands-Posten:

Translated from Danish by Nicolai Sennels, Jyllands-Posten April 27: “Three arrested for terror plans“: (JW)

What’s this? I thought the “war on terror” was over!

Feds watching for jihad attacks around one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death

Didn’t the jihadis get the memo? “Feds urge vigilance 1 year after bin Laden’s death,” by Mike Levine for FoxNews.com, April 26 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

The war on terror keeps being declared over – here is an example from August 2009. How many times will it have to be declared over before the jihadis stop plotting mayhem against the West? Even more importantly, how many times will it be declared over before Islamic supremacists stop trying to impose Sharia in the West by nonviolent means?

They will never stop, of course. And official Washington, with more of its signature wishful thinking and myopia, is legitimizing those who want to impose Sharia by peaceful means, while stigmatizing only those who are less patient and resort to violence. “Can Obama Safely Embrace Islamists?,” by Michael Hirsh in the National Journal, April 23

In an article in the current National Journal called “The Post Al Qaida Era,” I write that the Obama administration is taking a new view of Islamist radicalism. The president realizes he has no choice but to cultivate the Muslim Brotherhood and other relatively “moderate” Islamist groups emerging as lead political players out of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere. (The Muslim Brotherhood officially renounced violence decades ago, leading then-dissident radicals such as Ayman al-Zawahiri to join al Qaida.)

It is no longer the case, in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to terrorists. “The war on terror is over,” one senior State Department official who works on Mideast issues told me. “Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism.” (In a Tuesday night update to this post, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor clarified that while the “war on terror” concept has been dropped, “we absolutely have never said our war against al Qaida is over. We are prosecuting that war at an unprecedented pace.”…