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A prominent Islamic apologist named Jamal Badawi, renowned as a moderate Muslim has offered one million dollars to anyone who can find references in the Qur'an that condone religious war, or jihad. The Bergen Record reported this at face value, so even though it noted that Badawi made the challenge jokingly, Badawi's point was made: the Qur'an does not teach religious warfare, and it is only media distortion that gives any other impression. Badawi almost certainly knows better. But his joking offer only obfuscates the truth about how jihadists use the Qur'an to recruit and motivate terrorists thereby blindsiding gullible...

A note on the Armanious case At Jihad Watch we have received a large number of inquiries, both sober and frenzied, about the Coptic family found murdered in Jersey City last week. As is well known, the Copts in Jersey City and elsewhere have many suspicions about this crime. But when they have voiced these suspicions, they have been frequently denounced as Islamophobes; an all-purpose term of abuse used to silence criticism of Islam and of Muslims. And Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio is dismissive of the idea that the killings were religiously motivated: “Is it possible? Yes. Do we...