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Entertainment Industry Urged to Hire More Muslims

Or Else…!!

By Susan Jones

CNSNews.com Senior Editor

CAIR, unindicted co-conspirator and Islamofascist front group for Hamas in the US, demands Hollywood produce (more) Islam-positive propaganda. It is not that Hollywood produced anything Islam-critical recently, quite the opposite. Everything we’ve seen after 9/11 was dripping with PC and Arab ‘petro-dollars certainly played a large part in that. Looks like we’re going to see more of that shortly:

(CNSNews.com) – An Islamic advocacy group wants the entertainment industry to present a more positive image of Muslims and Arabs, who often play terrorists on television and in the movies — especially after 9/11, when Arab Muslims attacked the United States.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles office (CAIR-LA) and FOX Television recently co-hosted a “Hollywood 101” workshop to introduce aspiring Muslim writers, directors and actors to the entertainment industry.

The event, held at FOX Studios in Century City, was intended to promote a positive change in Hollywood’s portrayal of Muslims and Arabs, CAIR-LA said.

In January, CAIR complained about the storyline on the Fox network’s popular television drama “24,” which depicted terrorists attacking the United States. CAIR said the Fox show would increase anti-Muslim prejudice in American society.

The recent “Hollywood 101” event — a result of CAIR’s discussions with Fox — included students and entry-level professionals who are hoping to build contacts and advance their careers in the entertainment industry.

Participants were given a tour of the studio lot, a presentation on FOX internships and a one-hour interactive seminar featuring five industry professionals, CAIR said in a news release.

CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush said the best way to promote an “accurate and balanced portrayal of Muslims in America and around the world” is thought media outlets that shape popular culture.

* Aylush is a CAIR frontman, a Muhammedan da’awa doctor and well versed in kitman & taqiyya, because ‘war is deceit’ and Islam is at war with mankind since its inception…
“Our goal is to help nurture aspiring Muslim artists and to act as facilitators in providing support to emerging Muslim talent in the entertainment industry,” said Ayloush.

Ayloush thanked Fox and its Diversity Department for co-hosting the event – “and realizing the importance of engaging young American Muslims who seek to work as entertainment content creators.”

Related story:

Islamic Group Expresses Concern Over ’24’ Terror Storyline

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This is not the first time Fox has kowtowed to the Council on American Islamic Relations. Do Fox execs know that the group has been named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case? Do they care?

Here’s the story from DW:

Fox TV reaches out to unindicted co-conspirator in terror funding case

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Fox Kowtows to CAIR     

By Robert Spencer

FrontPageMagazine.com

It is frequently a bit of knee-jerk paranoia on the part of the defenders of Islamic jihad: that anyone who opposes them must be Jewish. This paranoia about the Jews is nourished by the Qur’an’s portrayal of them as crafty, untrustworthy — and accursed. And of course today jihadists would have us believe that the trouble between Muslims and non-Muslims is all because of Israel.

Although I am not in fact Jewish, I have been frequently labeled as such by Muslim spokesmen who evidently can’t conceive of a non-Jewish opponent of jihad ideology. So have Victor Davis Hanson and Paul Marshall: both have told me that they too have been labeled Jewish by Muslims after writing about Islamic jihad. One day perhaps such Muslim writers will awaken to the fact that the jihad ideology and the depredations of dhimmitude have won them a considerably larger spectrum of opponents than they care to imagine.

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* LABOR yesterday attacked John Howard for supporting the death penalty for the Bali bombers as it launched a campaign to “stop all executions in Asia”- an absurd demand, but it just shows how out of touch with reality the socialists are.

* Update: That was yesterday!

* Women and children are allowed to change their mind, no?

KRudd just changed the tune:

“Let Bali bombers die”, says Kevin Rudd

* Today, Labor supports death penalty for terrorists
* Yesterday, Labor launched no-execution campaign
* Friday is the anniversary of Bali bombings

* This is of course the result of a concerted effort by Amnesia Intentional’s Irene ‘Gulag” Khan to keep the Bali bombers alive, because they’re good Muslims. Because Irene is a good Muslim too, just like Mohammed al-Baradei, this valiant ‘nuclear watchdog’ who is always so over-eager to protect Muhammedan ‘rights’ to produce nukes…

…to nuke US, of course..!

Don’t laugh. This turd got a nobel price.

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Some pretty hilarious comments on the Bolt blog here

Chrisopher Hitchens is disgusted with the Dutch government, and calls on Americans to stand behind Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

* Good on ya, Chris!

Ayaan Ali Hirsi

If any country has enjoyed a long reputation for peaceful and democratic consensus combined with civic fortitude, that country is the Netherlands. It was one of the special countries of the Enlightenment, providing refuge for the family of Baruch Spinoza and for the heterodox Pierre Bayle and René Descartes. It overcame Catholic-Protestant fratricide with a unique form of coexistence, put up a spirited resistance to Nazi occupation, evolved a constitutional form of monarchy, and managed to make a fairly generous settlement with its former colonies and their inhabitants.

Tons of people are asking how to pitch in and help Hirsi Ali pay for private security. Here’s her AEI page and public contact info:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
American Enterprise Institute
1150 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Assistant: 202-862-5941
Fax: 202-862-5924
E-mail: ayaan.hirsiali-at-aei.org

In the last few years, two episodes have hideously sullied this image. The first smirching was the conduct of the Dutch contingent in Bosnia, who in July 1995 abandoned the population of the U.N.-protected “safe haven” at Srebrenica and enabled the worst massacre of civilians on European soil since World War II. Dutch officers were photographed hoisting champagne glasses with the sadistic goons of Ratko Mladic’s militia before leaving the helpless Muslim population to a fate that anyone could have predicted.
Those of us who protested at this slaughter of Europe’s Muslims are also obliged to register outrage, I think, at the Dutch state’s latest betrayal. On Oct. 1, having leaked its intention in advance to the press, the Christian-Democrat administration of Jan Peter Balkenende announced that it would no longer guarantee the protection of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

To give a brief back story, it will be remembered that Hirsi Ali, a refugee from genital mutilation, forced marriage, and civil war in her native Somalia, was a member of the Dutch parliament. She collaborated with Theo van Gogh on a film—Submission—that highlighted the maltreatment of Muslim immigrant women living in Holland. Van Gogh was murdered on an Amsterdam street in November 2004; a note pinned to his body with a knife proved to be a threat to make Hirsi Ali the next victim. Placed inside a protective bubble by the authorities, she was later evicted from her home after neighbors complained that she was endangering their safety and then subjected to a crude attempt to deprive her of her citizenship. Resolving not to stay where she was not wanted, Hirsi Ali moved to the United States, where she was offered a place by the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and where the Dutch government undertook to continue to provide her with security. This promise it no longer finds it convenient to keep. The ostensible reason for the climb-down is the cost, which involves a basic 2 million euros (not very much for a state), which can admittedly sometimes be higher if Hirsi Ali has to travel.

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Britain’s most disgusting communist-Islamist Member of Parliament, George Galloway, ranting on and on at the Al Quds Rally 2007 in London, next to a big photograph of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Neturei Karta phony rabbis.

What a corrupt, demented, hateful PoS! Watch if you can bear it…

If only Che had been more gay 

* Another Wakademic F*kcwit, aptly named a ‘public inellectual’, proves that Che was almost perfect, if only he had been more in touch with his gay side:

Andrew Bolt:

An academic gives Che Guevara all the damnation he can muster for personally executing prisoners and class enemies as he helped to install one-party police state and beggar Cuba with a totalitarian political economy:

Asked to comment on Guevara, Jeff Browitt, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, said:

Now we all know the good things about Che, but let’s look at a couple of problems: the New Man had no room for the New Gay Man and besides that, Che contributed towards the silencing of critics of the Revolution … and if one thing undermines revolutionary gains it is the unwillingness to listen to internal criticism.

If Che had got more in touch with his gay side and consulted a little more, he’d have been perfect.

* Almost like Muhammed: “Killing people is a small matter to us…” 

Only a ‘public intellectual’ could arrive at that brilliant conclusion.

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The Terrorist supporting Islamo-fascists of Londonistan

Britain’s huge problem, graphically illustrated.

Gateway Pundit has more

* Make yourself comfy. Are you lying down yet?

* How much longer will the plucky little king of Jordan and his regime remain in power?

* The value of treaties with Muhammedans

The Israelis and Palestinians have reached an agreement by which, in a final peace deal, the Temple Mount’s holy sites will be transferred to Jordanian custody, Al-Quds al-Arabi reported on Monday morning. Also, according to the London-based newspaper, it was agreed that Jordanian citizenship would be granted to 90,000 east Jerusalem residents.

Temple mount still desecrated and dominated by the Muhammedan Imperialist bunker

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” – Albert Einstein

According to the report, it is also likely that a supreme supervisory commission will be established, which will include representatives from the UN, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

When Israel and Jordan signed a peace deal in 1994, it was agreed that Israel would honor the special role of the Hashemite Kingdom over the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem and in a final Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, Israel would give high importance to Jordan’s historic role over the holy sites.

Israel Radio reported that Jordan had recently set up a new fund for the renovation of Al Aksa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. The head of the fund even proposed that Jordan give Jordanian passports to some 90,000 east Jerusalem residents.

Meanwhile, Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio that the question of who will have custody of Jerusalem’s holy sites must not be discussed at the moment. “We must decide that in that area there will be a special body which we will discuss in the future,” he said.

Also Monday, in an interview with Army Radio, Ramon said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition would support his plan to give the Palestinians several east Jerusalem neighborhoods in exchange for territory in the West Bank.

JP- read more

Ol-merde sez “current Palestinian leadership is not a terrorist leadership”

Or better: How I Became a Rich and Famous Peddling Garbage

* From the ‘wakademia in ivory towers’ department:

* Paul Rogers is the report’s author and professor of global peace studies at Bradford University in northern England.

* another wankfest from a guy who has his head up his ass:

The so-called war on terror has been a “disaster” and British military policy in Iraq and Afghanistan must be fundamentally changed if al-Qa’eda is to be defeated, a report claims today.

The Oxford Research Group calls for major changes in foreign policy and warns of the dangers of military action against Iran.

Iraq has become a training ground for violent jihadists and British and US forces should withdraw from the country immediately, the think-tank adds. The Prime Minister announced during a visit to British troops in Iraq last week that 1,000 of them would be back in the UK by Christmas. He will update MPs on the situation today in a Commons statement.

The Oxford Research Group’s report claims that the fight against international terrorism has failed and has instead played into the hands of al-Qa’eda.

The dismantling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001-02 was of “direct value” to al-Qa’eda and the “extraordinary rendition” and detention of terror suspects is a “constant source of propaganda”, it adds. The report calls for a complete withdrawal from Iraq, a scaling down of military operations in Afghanistan and the ending of “extraordinary rendition” — sending suspects to another country to be interrogated —and detention without trial.

Paul Rogers, the report’s author, said: “Every aspect of the war on terror has been counterproductive in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the loss of civilian life through to mass detentions without trial. In short, it has been a disaster.”

* Paul Rogers recommends diplomacy. With the Taliban.

* Global jihad? Never heard of it…

* Xero G got it all worked out: Crime is being fueled by policemen and the justice system that incarcerates criminals. Normally law abiding citizens are inspired to become criminals as a response to tough law enforcement and high prison populations.

The best way to end crime is to disband the police and justice system, release all inmates from the prisons and invest more money into education and job-training for all the former inmates who would then have no reason to commit crimes.

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According to Rogers the real problem is CLIMATE CHANGE.

Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World
Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda, April 2007 (Rider)

And his next book …

How I Became a Rich and Famous Peddling Garbage

Update: Eddy just sent this in:

The author of this report is ‘Professor of global peace studies’ from BRADFORD university. For our US friends, Bradford is pretty well 90% Muslim.

Perhaps the man fears for his safety, or else he has lived too long in the Asylum called Bradford and is becoming like the inmates!

* Conclusion: This is another Mearsheimer and Walt propaganda piece, in the corrupt and sinister tradition of the hopelessly corrupt Jimmy Carter, who has long sold his soul to his Muhammedan overlords

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* Today’s Koran lesson:

* Allah allowed the believers to cheat unbelievers and to make treaties that would be broken as soon as the Muslims regained strength:

* Qur’an 66:1 “Allah has already sanctioned for you the dissolution of your vows” is an abandonment of sworn oaths, or verbal testimony.

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“Experts” claim that “Islamophobia” is on the rise in Europe 

AEN -(AFP) – Islamophobia is on the rise in Europe and governments should do more to protect the continent’s 15 million Muslims from discrimination, experts meeting in Spain said Monday.
“The situation is very serious,” said Mustapha Cherif, an expert on Islam at the University of Algiers who is known for his commitment to battling religious hatred.

“Islamophobia is a rising phenomena,” added Jasser Auda of Britain’s Forum Against Racism and Islamophobia, which is made up of representatives of the British Muslim community.

* Cool! Here’s the cure for Islamophobia, right here: click!

The two were speaking at a meeting in the southern Spanish city of Jaen of some 30 non-governmental organisations from across Europe….

“It is good to attract the attention of governments on the issue, to increase their level of awareness,” said Aydin Suer, the spokesman for Femyso, a confederation of Muslim youth groups from 22 European nations.

Participants said there was no easy solution to fighting Islamophobia.

“The problems are complex, the solutions themselves are complex,” said Suer. Muslims could not just blame media stereotypes for the problem, he added.

“We Muslims need to question ourselves,” he said.

Now there at last is a true statement.

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Mohammed and the Heroin Jihad

Drug lord ‘waged jihad’,” from the Associated Press:

An Afghan drug lord accused of plotting to poison U.S. neighbourhoods with heroin was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison yesterday.

Haji Baz Mohammad, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin after he admitted violating drug laws from 1990 to 2005 by shipping heroin from Afghanistan and leading a drug ring that stretched into neighbouring Pakistan. He was the first Afghan heroin kingpin extradited from Afghanistan, authorities said.

Mohammad pleaded guilty in July to a charge of conspiring to violate drug laws. Without the plea, Mohammad could have faced up to life in prison.
Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Karen Tandy said in a news release that the sentencing demonstrated U.S. resolve “to destroy the hold opium lords have on Afghanistan.”
It would be great to see much more of that resolve.

She added: “This drug kingpin bragged that he waged jihad against Americans by poisoning them with his heroin. His attack was unconventional, and his massive drug profits funded the Taliban and other extremist organizations dedicated to destroying freedom and justice.”
Mohammad has been in custody since his 2005 arrest in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Just in thanks to Edgar from London:

No hate fest is complete without the wankers from Neturai Karta, who march in cahoots with genocidal Muhammedan clerics

Edgar has more here

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Not to worry:

The Islamization of (once Great) Britain is well on the way:

In Gordon Brownnose’s UK you can’t call it ‘Islamic terrorism’ anymore because that is not politically correct and might incite the Muslims to engage in…. Islamic terrorism.

Appeasement, feeding the crocodile, extreme cowardice, pandering, self-censorship and outright prostration is the order of the day.

Like here:

Prayer facilities to be set up along highways to help Muslim travellers

Why not turn the gas stations into mosques?

In a UK for first time, Muslim motorists will have a purpose built prayer facility to offer daily prayers, courtesy efforts of a Preston-based charity. It has been granted the necessary licence to accommodate Muslim travellers, who up until now had struggled to follow their faith when on the road. If successful, the charity hopes to acquire other prayer facilities at other busy UK service stations for that moment of solace and reflection before you hit the road again.

Da’awa:

Non-Muslim Britons are becoming familiar with the fasting their fellow Muslim work colleagues undertake during the holy month of Ramadan. Many now recognise the words Iftar, Suhoor, and Traweeh.

Now we can find better engagement and dialogue among Britons of all faiths and backgrounds, dispelling the negative Islamic stereotypes portrayed in the British media.

Fasting British Muslims have seen their needs better taken care of than ever before with many big British companies offering prayer facilities, halal catering and giving workers time off for Friday prayers as long as that time is made up later in the day.

* The caliphate is well on the way folks! Get ready and order your burka now while they’re cheap!

By Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler
FrontPageMagazine.com |
The booklet that you are about to read details some of the principal ways in which women suffer in the Islamic world – often with religious and cultural sanction. Many of these crimes against women, such as wife-beating, are ordained by the Qur’an itself; others, such as female genital mutilation and honor killing, are praised by Islamic clerics and hallowed by Islamic culture. That feminists in the West remain silent about this deeply ingrained and institutionalized mistreatment of women, and even ally with groups that have devoted themselves to the spread of Islamic law that justifies this mistreatment, is one of the unconscionable scandals of our time.
This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26.

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad — as well as to counter the lies of the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and to enable them to rally to defend their country.

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“I Could Scream on the plight of Islamic women”-

from the Gates of Vienna

…Kobrin, and her Israeli co-author, counter-terrorism expert Yoram Schweitzer, describe barbarous family and clan dynamics in which children, both boys and girls, are routinely orally and anally raped by male relatives; infant males are sometimes sadistically over-stimulated by being masturbated; boys between the ages of 7-12 are publicly and traumatically circumcised; many girls are clitoridectomized; and women are seen as the source of all shame and dishonor and treated accordingly: very, very badly.

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Today’s Koran Sura:

“It is not fitting for a Muslim man or woman to have any choice in their affairs when a matter has been decided for them by Allah and His Messenger. They have no option.”  Qur’an 33:36 

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Saudi’s Abuse Their Maids Slaves

‘Be nice to your maid’ say new Saudi ads

RIYADH (AFP) — An advertising agency in Saudi Arabia plans to air public service commercials to promote kinder treatment of domestic helpers in a country where reports of abuse of foreign workers abound.

“We deal with helpers as if they are not humans and have no feelings,” said the 37-year-old electrical engineer.

Reports of exploitation ranging from the withholding of salaries and passports to physical assault and sexual abuse are increasingly appearing in the local press as it makes use of a measure of freedom allowed by authorities in recent years.

New York-based Human Rights Watch charged in August that the beating to death of two Indonesian female workers by a Saudi family highlighted the “atmosphere of impunity fostered by government inaction” toward abusive employers.

Foreign workers are systematically exploited, many of them living in slave-like conditions.

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Michelin families leave Algeria

French tyre company Michelin has said it is evacuating families of French nationals working for the firm in Algeria because of security concerns.

The move comes after nine people, including two French nationals, were injured in an attack on a convoy of foreign workers in September.

Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it had carried out the attack.

Michelin said its Algeria operations would continue and that none of its employees were leaving.

Bus attack

A spokeswoman for the company confirmed that families of staff who had settled in Algeria were being – or had already been – evacuated to France.

The BBC’s David Bamford says some other European companies have adopted the same policy as it becomes clear that the return this year of Islamist-inspired violence in Algeria may not be a short-term phenomenon.

In the mid-1990s, many Westerners were abducted or killed, forcing a mass evacuation, he says.

In a recent video, al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, called on militants in North Africa to “cleanse” their lands of Spanish and French.

In March, a Russian gas pipeline worker was killed in an attack on a bus.

Just another attack by the ‘Religion of Peace’

Stupid is as stupid does:

Forrest Gump would be a mental giant compared to this obstinate, stubborn man who refuses to learn anything about jihad, the Quranic Concept of War or Jihad and Dhimmitude

President George Bush has repeated his belief all religions, “whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God” –-Bush made the statement Friday in an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi.

Al Arabiya is Al Jazeerah’s top competitor another hate channel in the Mideast.

” I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace. And I believe people who murder the innocent to achieve political objectives aren’t religious people, whether they be a Christian who does that –- we had a person blow up our -– blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City who professed to be a Christian, but that’s not a Christian act to kill innocent people.”

“And I just simply don’t subscribe to the idea that murdering innocent men, women and children -– particularly Muslim men, women and children in the Middle East -– is an act of somebody who is a religious person.”

In Friday’s interview with Al Arabiya, Bush emphasized his outreach to Muslims.

The Decider: All religions pray to “same God” 

“We are having an Iftaar dinner tonight –- I say, ‘we’ –- it’s my wife and I,” Bush told Nakouzi. “This is the seventh one in the seven years I’ve been the president. It gives me a chance to say ‘Ramadan Mubarak.’ The reason I do this is I want people to understand about my country. In other words, I hope this message gets out of America. I want people to understand that one of the great freedoms in America is the right for people to worship any way they see fit. If you’re a Muslim, an agnostic, a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, you’re equally American.

* Too embarrassing. 6 years after 9/11 this president (still) invites subversive elements representing the enemy to the white house and makes idiotic statements to the world. Bush will go down in history as the dumbest US president ever.

Link to World Net Daily

or read the comments at DW

More bad news:

Bush sells out to Turkey

Bush rejects Turkey ‘genocide’ tag

Shameful Dhimmitude From Washington Update. For the reality of the Armenian genocide, see here. From AFP thanks to DW

THE US President has opposed moves to legally term the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a “genocide”, backing Turkey’s stand on the issue.
“The President has described the events of 1915 as ‘one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century’, but believes the determination of whether or not the events constitute a genocide should be a matter for historical inquiry, not legislation,” said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe.

* Erdogan and Gul along with their Islamo-fascist supporters in Turkey were literally laughing their asses off…

* Winds of Jihad features the Armenian Genocide here and here

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* Jihad and Dhimmitude

Andrew Bostom on Diana West’s superb book

Jihad — as sanctioned by Islam’s core texts, the Koran, hadith and sira, and actualized by the Muslim prophet Muhammad himself — is the eternal, aggressive quest for totalitarian Islamic hegemony, i.e., the imposition of Islamic law, over the entire world, including via terrorism and genocide. Dhimmitude is the permanent state of legal, social and psychological inferiority imposed, coercively or by threat of force (i.e., resumption of the jihad), upon the non-Muslim survivors vanquished by jihad war, and neither converted to Islam nor enslaved.

Julien Benda, in his 1928 classic “La Trahison de Clercs,” decried with prophetic accuracy how the abandonment of objective truths abetted totalitarian ideologies, which led to the cataclysmic destruction of World War II. The author identifies the “Trahison de Clercs” of our time: The complete failure of Western intellectuals to acknowledge the heinous consequences of the living Islamic institutions of jihad war and dhimmitude.

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Fitzgerald: “Radical behavior in the Muslim world” is Jihad

The United States invading a number of Muslim countries was believed to have created radical behavior in the Muslim world, the speakers said.” — from JW

“Radical behavior in the Muslim world” — i.e., the conduct of Jihad through violent combat, qitaal, or its (for Muslims) perfectly acceptable variant, terrorism (that is, indiscriminate killing of Infidels, especially of civilians) — was not “created” by the United States. The Jihad through violence predates — as a doctrine, and as a doctrine put immediately into practice by the earliest Muslims — the existence of the United States by more than a millennium. It has been conducted in the Middle East, in North Africa, in the Iberian peninsula, in sub-Saharan Africa, in Sassanian Iran, in Hindustan, in parts of East Asia. For a time, when Muslims were defeated in conventional combat (as near Poitiers by Charles Martel), the Jihad then took the form of raiding parties by sea, the destruction of Christian coastal villages, and killing and looting and the seizing of Christians in Western Europe. One to two million were taken back to be enslaved by their Muslim masters. And in Eastern Europe, millions of Slavs were taken, and women from Circassia and Georgia, for the slave-markets and then the harems.

Jihad does not end. There is no, pace the thrusting young academic entrepreneur Noah Feldman, an “After Jihad.” Jihad never ended as a doctrine; it merely fell, for a while, into desuetude when the non-Muslim powers — the Christian powers — proved too strong, too strong to be fought militarily. But the texts of the Qur’an and Hadith underwent no change. The details of the life of Muhammad, in the Sira, were not changed. No, the only thing that changed was that Muslims could not successfully conduct Jihad against the European powers.

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Strange Pictures From Jakarta

A steam roller destroys bottles of alcohol, during a ceremony in Jakarta, 04 October 2007. Jakarta authorities destroyed some 35,065 bottles of alcohol seized by police in the capital from illegal alcohol vendors, during [the] Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, when practicing devotees abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and any sexual activity from dawn to dusk.

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Giving Peace  Jihad a chance in Muslim suburbia

Peter Kuitenbrouwer
National Post

VAUGHAN -Before dawn in this sprawl north of Toronto, McDonald’s is locked and Tim Hortons is empty. The fake mountain of Canada’s Wonderland, the amusement park, peeks from the gloom. Across the street looms the white minaret of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at mosque.

A speaker in the parking lot crackles and broadcasts the Arabic call to prayer. Suddenly, silent life fills the dark streets. Men dressed in the long white shalwar camise of their native Pakistan and women in head scarfs emerge from their brick homes.

The only sound is the squeak of hundreds of soles on the asphalt. At the mosque, couples separate: women to their basement prayer hall, men headed upstairs. Before sunrise on this day of Ramadan, they are coming to pray.

Welcome to Peace Village, Canada’s first Islamic subdivision, where all 260 homes belong to members the Ahmadiyya sect, who flooded to Canada in the 1980s after persecution in Pakistan. It looks ordinary, with basketball nets and minivans in the driveways, until you notice the street signs: Mahmood Crescent, Ahmadiyya Avenue and Noor-Ud-Din Court.

“There is nothing like this in North America,” boasts Naseer Ahmad, a real estate agent from Pakistan who dreamed up this community of Islamic dream homes (including oak stairs and central air conditioning) on the edge of Toronto. “You have a mosque, and people are walking to enjoy their faith.”

The houses, with some modifications, such as increased ventilation (for spicy food) and separate living rooms for women and men, are so successful that, six years after Peace Village opened, Mr. Ahmad plans to double the mosque’s size and is now selling 55 townhomes, 1,700 square feet each, for around $350,000 with a garage and a yard, as “Peace Village Phase II.”

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Muslims And Pigs

The Muslim neighbors of this farmer in Kosovo hanged his pig after robbing his house.

* From Jihad Watch Deutschland