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It was hardly noticed at the time, but its consequences could be catastrophic. Late last September, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which assigns internet domain names, approved a huge change in the way it operates. Europe and North America will now have five seats on its Board of Directors, instead of ten, and a new "Arab States" region will have five seats as well. How big a deal is this? ICANN at the same time took a reference to "terrorism" out of its Draft Applicant Guidebook. Why? Because Arab groups complained. And so now jihad terror...

From Gates of Vienna: Here’s a Sky News interview with an intelligent, well-spoken, brave young man named Tommy Robinson. He’s the leader of the upstart anti-Islamization 66,000-members-strong (by his estimate)English Defence League (EDL). http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/12/tommy-robinson-on-sky-news.html The EDL has become the center of controversy once again for accepting American Pastor Terry Jones’ request to go and speak at an EDL rally. Jones recently lit an international firestorm by setting aside a day at his church to burn copies of the Koran – an event he finally cancelled. Here are a few of Robinsons’ comments in response to the host’s questions, with my...

President Barack Hussein Obama, in a determination letter to Congress, has announced that he will allow an additional 80,000 immigrants – - mostly from Islamic countries – - to resettle in the United States during fiscal year 2011. Mr. Obama says that the increase in Muslim immigrants “is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”

Iranian-backed TV broadcasts US Koran desecrations, inflames deadly Kashmir riots; 15 dead The Iranians seized on reports of Koran burnings near Ground Zero and elsewhere in the U.S. to fan deadly riots Monday in mostly-Muslim Kashmir. Indian forces killed more than a dozen people and wounded scores more rampaging rioters, who chanted "Down with Koran desecrators" as they attacked a Christian school in one town and government buildings in other cities. They also chanted "Down with America" and "Down with Israel," cries rarely heard in Kashmir where Muslim rebels have long waged a bloody rebellion against Indian rule. U.S. Ambassador...

THE BALLAD OF MIKE MORAN FReeper John Moran was killed by the evil that is Islamofascism. His brother Mike, in front of the whole world at the concert for NY, told Osama bin Laden to kiss his royal Irish ass. It became a song that has been played around the world. Many people who were asleep got a wake up call. Others have now forgotten and think it is no problem for a mosque representing conquest to be built on sacred ground. They are the enemy within and, as leftists were and are in the battle we have had...

  Three men arrested Wednesday were preparing to build improvised explosive devices for attacks within Canada, police say. They were also raising money to fund improvised explosive device, or IED, attacks on Canadian troops in Afghanistan, RCMP chief superintendent Serge Therriault said Thursday at a news conference in Ottawa. Two of the accused, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, 30, and Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, were taken into custody in Ottawa on Wednesday. The third, 28-year-old Khurram Syed Sher, was arrested in London, Ont. The three men arrested are accused of conspiring with at least three others — identified as James Lara, Rizgar Alizadeh...

The widow of a July 7 suicide bomber yesterday launched a High Court bid to be represented at the victims’ inquest - saying she had also suffered the loss of a loved one in the atrocity.  Hasina Patel, whose husband was terrorist mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan, is seeking legal aid to challenge the coroner’s decision to exclude Khan’s death from the hearing for the 52 victims of the 2005 London bombings.  If the mother of one’s application is granted, October’s long-awaited inquest could be delayed by months of legal wrangling, to the distress of those who have waited more...

There is a term which you may have seen or heard mentioned in the news, the blogosphere or on talk radio lately that you should know more about: Shariah. (Sometimes spelled Sharia or Shari’a, as well as some other variations.) Readers of The Hayride may also be interested to learn that Louisiana is actually at the forefront of the fight against Shariah.

Iran is advancing a program for enhanced security cooperation with Turkey. "Our relations are excellent," Iranian Interior Minister Mustafa Najar said. On June 19, Najar said Iran and Turkey were preparing for their annual security cooperation session. The interior minister said the two countries would discuss counter-insurgency as well as efforts against drug traffickers and organized crime. In a meeting with Turkey's ambassador to Iran, Umit Yardim, Najar said the groundwork has been prepared for a significant expansion of cooperation between Ankara and Teheran. He cited the need for additional CI and anti-crime measures in an effort to improve border...

Seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, will be monitored and 17 lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material under court orders. The moves follow a temporary ban that Pakistan imposed on Facebook in May. The sites to be monitored include Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Amazon and MSN, Hotmail and Bing from Microsoft, according to a spokesman for the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. He added: "If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the (link) shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website." Scott Rubin, a spokesman for Google, responded that the company intends, in...

US officials made it clear they expected Sudan to capture and punish four prisoners who escaped after being sentenced to death for the 2008 murders of a US diplomat and his driver. The four Sudanese Islamists escaped on Thursday from the Kober jail in northern Khartoum, a security source in the Sudanese capital told AFP. The escapees exchanged fire with police at the Abu Halif checkpoint, southwest of Omdurman, police spokesman General Mohammed Abdel Majid al-Tayeb said Friday.

STOCKHOLM — Swedish dockworkers are set to launch a week-long boycott of Israeli ships and goods to protest Monday's takeover of a Gaza-destined aid flotilla, a union spokesman said Saturday. Nine activists died after IDF troops intercepted the convoy. Nearly 700 activists had joined that operation, most of them aboard the lead boat from Turkey that was the scene of the violence.

Via Ace, whose post you should read if only for the brilliance of his headline. Some of you will be tempted twice over to skip this: It’s long, and you’ve already seen the most dramatic bit. Don’t skip it. Force yourself through it, because it happens to be one of the most genuinely depressing clips ever posted on Hot Air. Everything about this is an utter, unmitigated disgrace — the attack on Vilks, the excruciating passivity of most of the crowd, the sheer thuggery of these shrieking, lunatic, barbarian bastards, and of course the killer moment at around 8:45 when...

Women screaming “Allahu Akbar” The "Religion of Peace" goes to church. [view video] But the video is remarkable in a different way: It shows dozens of Muslims repeatedly screaming “Allahu Ackbar” in what looks like religious ecstasy over violence committed in their name, and joy over witnessing an attempted murder as punishment for blasphemy. This happened today in Sweden, mind you, not during the Middle Ages nor even in 2001 in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Right now, in what is supposed to be the most liberal and progressive nation in the world.

Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances. The trouble began on Monday after a group of youths in a suburb with a mainly immigrant population were refused entry to a school dance. ... 'Little Mogadishu' Police said the rioters threw stones at the fire engines, preventing them from reaching the school building before it burned to the ground. The youths also attacked a police station. Rinkeby is home to a large number of first- and second-generation immigrants. Many of them are from Somalia, so...

Immigrant Youths Riot In Sweden, Burning Down School 9 June 2010 16:31 UK Youths rioted for a second night in Rinkeby, Stockholm Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances. The trouble began on Monday after a group of youths in a suburb with a mainly immigrant population were refused entry to a school dance. Police say up to 100 youths went on the rampage, throwing stones and setting several cars alight. Two people were detained but later released. 'Little Mogadishu' Police said the rioters...

In response to the coordinated attack against Israel around the world by pro-Jihadist forces, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, syndicated columnist, blogger, and frequent Fox News guest has announced a major 'Stand with Israel' rally in New York City today at 6 PM outside the office of the Israeli Consulate. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamen Netanyahu.

The Egyptian Army has come under the steady domination of Islamists. Egyptian sources said Islamists have risen to mid- and high-level ranks in the Army and Navy. They said many of these officers pressure their soldiers to demonstrate a devotion and observance to the Muslim religion regardless of their faith. "There is an acceptance in most of the military that fundamentalist Islam is legitimate and becoming the dominating trend," a source familiar with the Egyptian military said. The sources said the Islamist trend in the military began in the Egyptian Navy during the 1990s. They said the Islamic influence spread...

Israel has become concerned over declining stability in neighboring Jordan. Government sources said the intelligence community has detected a sharp increase in Islamic unrest as well as insurgency activity. The sources said several opposition groups were believed to be cooperating to destabilize the Hashemite regime. "The situation in the kingdom is not stable and the friction between the government and the terror groups there is growing," former Mossad director Danny Yatom said. In 2010, Israel has come under at least two attacks in Jordan. In April, two Katyusha-class rockets were fired from the area around the southern Jordanian port of...

*snip* New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the device was found after a mounted policeman spotted a box smoking in the back of a sport utility vehicle about 6:30 p.m. "This appears to be a car bomb that the bomb squad is in the process of dismantling," police spokesman Paul Browne said. "We do not know the motive."