* An important essay for all the misunderstanders of Islam, thanks to Jihad Watch:

Interior Spiritual Struggle Update: here is an exposition of jihad from Islam Q & A (thanks to Bill). That site is operated by Sheikh Muhammad Saleh al-Munajjid, a Saudi Wahhabi cleric.

You can see from the material below that he bases his case on the Qur’an and Sunnah. It is incumbent upon those who claim that Islam teaches peace and tolerance to demonstrate in what ways his case is Islamically incorrect. Those who hold that position are invited to contact me at director@jihadwatch.org with their refutations.

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Canuckistan : Islamic terrorist found guilty of “some” charges

“Duped” into thinking he was only killing NATO forces, not UK civilians

His “high-profile” lawyer insists that his client “was duped by the extremists into believing the group intended to wage an attack on NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, rather than targeting civilians in the U.K.” More telling is the fact that the word “Islam” does not even show up anywhere in this report. Rather, we are told that the accused followed a “unique brand of ideological hatred.” What, pray tell, could that be?

“Khawaja guilty on some but not all terror charges,“ from CTA.CA, October 29 (thanks to JW):

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Six driven to wage jihad, court told

Jihad by arson the next big thing?

* But remember: Islam is a “Religion of Peace”, Jihad is “inner struggle”,- its only a “tiny minority of extremists”- we cannot paint all Muslims with one brush and Islam is not a monolith and….

AAP

SIX Sydney men accused of conspiring to commit a terrorist act were strong adherents of the Islamic faith, driven by religion and ideology to carry out violent jihad against the Australian public, potential jurors have been told.

* Terror accused ‘planned fiery jihad’

* Nation at risk from ‘dirty bomb’

From Andrew Bolt: Extremists meet

Professor Steve Keen has had plenty of eager takers - not least at the ABC - for his message that our economy is doomed. But few audiences have been as keen to hear him as the militant Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir: 

What an opportunity Keen missed to put the crowd wise on the “Islamic alternative” to capitalism.

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Terror suspects take Mounties, CSIS to court

* All according to the Al Qaeda playbook lesson 18: PRISONS AND DETENTION CENTERS

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France has now joined the US and UK as pivotal points in the scheme of international jihad. Terrorist cells are active in the French Republic as recruitment increases.

France’s war with the jihadis is more intense than most Americans or even most Europeans would imagine. 

Archive Photo: French carbeque

With French troops engaging the Taliban in Afghanistan often coming under attack, jihadist cells have started targeting France as well as French presence in the Sahel, the north African Sahara. Now active jihadist cells are indeed deploying inside France just as they are inside many other Western European countries. 

Related link: The Islamification of France

Danish Police: 20 Arrested at Asylum Camp Protest (you’ll be looking for words like “Islam” or “Muslims” in this NYT article, but you won’t find even the tiniest hint/ed)

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Casablanca/ Ingushetia, Russia

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Strange Cargo:

* Iranian ship was floating radiological bomb meant for Israel

* In crisis-ridden Somalia, enjoying the ‘piracy bubble’

MOGADISHU (AFP) — As Somalia sinks ever deeper into hunger and despair, attacking foreign ships bottle-necking into the Gulf of Aden is proving to be one of the few profitable activities in the country.

Abdi Garad, who describes himself as the commander of one of the first groups of pirates who started marauding Somalia’s much-frequented waters, has no qualms about listing the personal advantages derived from piracy.

“We enjoy life with the money we get as a ransom,” he told AFP from an undisclosed location in the semi-autonomous breakaway region of Puntland.

More

• Crew of hijacked Japanese ship receive food supplies
  Xinhua - 19 hours ago
• Yemen Needs Outside Help To Tackle Piracy
  Bernama - 21 hours ago
• Somali pirates get ransom, release Thai cargo ship
  The Associated Press - Oct 19, 2008

“Yes to jihad, just not now.”

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen close shop and line up in rows to pray.

Business grinding to a halt for daily prayers is not unusual in conservative Saudi Arabia, but until recently it was rare in the Egyptian capital, especially in affluent commercial districts like Mohandiseen, where the mall is located.

But nearly the entire three-story mall is made up of computer stores run by Salafis, an ultraconservative Islamic movement that has grown dramatically across the Middle East in recent years.

“We all pray together,” said Yasser Mandi, a salesman at the Nour el-Hoda computer store. “When we know someone who is good and prays, we invite them to open a shop here in this mall.” Even the name of Mandi’s store is religious, meaning “Light of Guidance.”

Critics worry that the rise of Salafists in Egypt, as well as in other Arab countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, will crowd out the more liberal and tolerant version of Islam long practiced there. They also warn that the doctrine is only a few shades away from that of violent groups like al-Qaida—that it effectively preaches “Yes to jihad, just not now.”

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