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Groups of youths torched schools and cars in a sixth consecutive night of violence across Denmark, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods, police said Saturday. Forty-three people were arrested. The spate of vandalism started last weekend, and some believe it intensified with the reproduction of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers Wednesday. The unrest spread across Denmark, with youths torching dozens of cars and buildings and lobbing rocks at police and firefighters in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Ringsted, Slagelse and other cities, officials said. Police said they were not sure what triggered the unrest. Some observers said immigrant youths were protesting...

Newly Formed Terrorist Group Busted In Pakistan - Had Plans To Target Charity Groups Ten members of the newly formed Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi were arrested Friday with weapons, explosives, chemicals and poison, Jihadi literature, and hit lists of high-profile people, politicians, international and national NGOs and police officials. The organization is anti-Semitic.The group apparently wanted to target charity groups for what they say are links to the Free Masons and other groups. Read more »

TEHRAN, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) — An Iranian ayatollah died suddenly of a heart attack during an impassioned speech lashing out at insults against the family of revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the run-up to elections, the press reported on Sunday. Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli, a former head of Khomeini's office, died while delivering the speech to Iran's main arbitration body, the Expediency Council, of which he was a member, the Kargozaran daily reported. He had been responding to unprecedented ultra-conservative attacks against Hassan Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini's respected grandson, who had criticised mass disqualifications in the March election and...

Sharia law at the Treasury and a drift to Islam Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has described terrorist activity as 'Anti-Islamic' It is strangely shocking to find that Her Majesty's Treasury, that very matter-of-fact department, should be issuing bonds that comply with the ancient rules of sharia law. It is as if your bank manager were suddenly to break off from warning you about your overdraft, fetch out a prayer mat and start offering devotions in the direction of Mecca. As it happens, the decision makes sense on business terms. Many major investors are Muslim and it would be foolish to...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that God would punish Iranians if they did not support the country's disputed nuclear program, state radio reported. "The Iranian people openly announce that they will defend their rights... God will reprimand them if they do not do so," state radio quoted Khamenei as saying. The 68-year-old ayatollah, who has the final say on all state matters, said Washington's claim that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon was false. The Iranian government has long insisted its nuclear activities are only for peaceful generation of fuel. "They know that Iran is...

U.S. Says Iran-backed Groups Using Secret Arms Stores February 17, 2008 Reuters Mohammed Abbas The U.S. military said on Sunday it had evidence Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq were increasingly using secret weapons stores to attack U.S. and Iraqi forces. The accusation comes days after Tehran postponed talks with the United States on improving security in Iraq for "technical reasons", a move that prompted rebukes from U.S. officials. "In just the past week, Iraqi and coalition forces captured 212 weapons caches across Iraq, two of those inside Baghdad, (which have) growing links to Iranian-backed special groups," military spokesman Real Admiral...

A second 18-year-old has been charged with murder in the September fatal shooting of Lon Dell Wilson on Highway 101 near Burlingame. Prosecutors allege "Mohammad" Rabah of Hayward supplied the handgun that Doyal "Ali" Webber used to shoot the 25-year-old Wilson in an apparent road rage incident. Rabah was arraigned Friday in San Mateo County Superior Court after being arrested Thursday morning. He did not enter a plea and will be held without bail pending a Feb. 8 hearing for identification of counsel. The two murder suspects were part of a caravan of three cars driving up Highway 101 toward...

Gadhafi son may be linked to Iraq attack By MUHEIDDIN RASHAD, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 42 minutes ago A devastating explosion in northern Iraq was spearheaded by foreign fighters under the sponsorship of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the Libyan leader, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen who rose up against al-Qaida in Iraq said Saturday. Col. Jubair Rashid Naief, who also is a police official in Anbar province, said the Anbar Awakening Council had alerted the U.S. military to the possible arrival in the northern city of Mosul of the Seifaddin Regiment, made up of about 150 foreign...

As Islamic scholar Robert Spencer can tell you, the mainstream media has barely noticed that Google, the Internet search engine giant, is now deciding for its users which ideas are acceptable and which are not. It’s never been a secret that Google leans left and won’t tolerate ideas it doesn’t agree with. The company hired global warming profiteer Al Gore as senior advisor and has a history of purging content based on ideology. More evidence of the company’s thinly-veiled, warm and fuzzy politically correct authoritarianism keeps popping up. Now Google Video has suppressed a video of a speech that Spencer,...

37 months for brother of man who 'exploded' at OU game By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News October 5, 2007 A Colorado Springs man whose brother blew himself up outside an Oklahoma football game in 2005 was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison today for threatening an FBI agent. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn called Thomas C. Hinrichs, who had an AK-47 assault rifle and other paramilitary gear in his car when he was arrested, "a time bomb for our community." He also said Hinrichs should have a full mental evaluation and treatment while in prison and be...

You know, this video is damn-near priceless. I laughed and laughed and watched it over and over. Thanks to Emperor Misha at Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler for that one! Follow link

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War On Terror: The Mercedes Jihad in London smashes the media-peddled myth that the terrorists are poor, uneducated and oppressed. At least five of the suspects are Muslim doctors. Since 9/11, the PC elite have lectured us to avoid drawing a connection between the terrorists and Islam. Don't blame their religion, we're told. Blame poverty and ignorance. The Islamic apologists claim there's nothing in the Quran that justifies jihadi violence in the name of Islam. Apparently these devout doctors — all of whom practiced in Western hospitals — have found something in the Muslim holy book that does.

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Media: In covering the Jersey Jihadists case, pundits did their best to play down the religious factor that screamed as loud as the suspects' "Allah Akbar!" shouting and shooting in the Poconos. Others yawned at the news of several Muslims plotting to kill 100 soldiers on U.S. soil. "Lot of hoopla," sniffed a spokeswoman for the NYU Center on Law and Security during a segment on the "CBS Evening News." Such skepticism was music to the ears of left-wing bloggers who posit that such publicized arrests are part of a Karl Rovian conspiracy to frighten Americans into supporting the Iraq...

From The Washington Post comes this story: Probe of Al-Qaeda Leader's Handling Sought Two senators who observed last week's closed military proceedings against al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed called for an investigation into allegations that the accused planner of the Sept. 11 attacks was physically abused while in CIA custody. "Allegations of prisoner mistreatment must be taken seriously and properly investigated. To do otherwise would reflect poorly on our nation," Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a committee member, said in a statement issued yesterday. You have...

According to reports in Arab media, personnel from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) visited the Moroccan city of Rabat last week to investigate an apparent increase in the number of Moroccan mujahideen volunteers traveling to Iraq in order to join Al-Qaida. CIA officials allegedly scheduled the visit after Moroccan intelligence services presented them with the names of two young men from the northern Moroccan town of Tetouan who had recently executed suicide bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Reportedly, the men were accompanied on their journey to Iraq by at least seven other would-be jihadist companions from their...

Like Douglas Farah, I roll my eyes when I hear apologist groups airbrushing the meaning of the word “jihad.” The historical sources I’ve seen indicate that the word has always refered primarily to a military campaign against infidels, not some touchy-feely Oprah-type journey of self-reflection.But here’s another issue: In the context of terrorism, should we be refering to “jihad” at all? That’s the question I was asking myself after listening to this interesting Oct. 30 segment on NPR’s All things Considered. The segment profiles Islamic history expert Douglas Streusand, who last year wrote a paper for the Pentagon in which...

Worse, more and more people are falling for the Grand Delusion - the notion that if we just leave the extremists alone, they will leave us alone. On the right, some believe that if we just stop this Wilsonian madness of trying to introduce democracy into the Arab world, we can return to an age of stability and balance. On the left, many people can't seem to fathom an enemy the United States isn't somehow responsible for. Others think the entire threat has been exaggerated by Karl Rove for the sake of political scaremongering. Perhaps it's understandable that many Americans...

Spencer on the Redeker death threats at HotairTwo guys they want deadToday's Jihad Watch videoblog at Hotair deals with the strange contradictions of the death threats against French philosophy teacher Robert Redeker