JihadWatch has inside information about the Egyptian Christian family of four murdered in New Jersey last week:

The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, as in Qur’an 3:28: “Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful — he that does this has nothing to hope for from Allah — except in self-defense.”

Of course, the family, not suspecting the deception, was happy to see the “converted” men and willingly let them in to their home. That’s why there was no sign of forced entry. Then the “converted” Muslims did their grisly work.

Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs comments:

If this is true, the killings in New Jersey are the American equivalent of the Theo Van Gogh murder in the Netherlands, a political killing motivated solely by the need to silence effective critics of radical Islam.

My previous posts are here and here.

Update: This morning, JihadWatch points to bias in New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott’s coverage of the slaying:

Did Andrea Elliott do such a sloppy job of reporting this case that she simply missed the death threat Armanious received and other evidence that points to a religious motivation in the case? Or is she deliberately spiking it, a la the Times’ great Duranty?

In a separate post, JihadWatch links to a story that states that a large amount of jewelry was still in the house following the murders, “thus making robbery less likely as a motive.”