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“The miracle of the resurrection of Christ reverberated in my soul.”

Christian Bible publishers in Turkey murdered by throat-slitting jihadists.

“The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity.”

Apostates speak.

“”The Taliban won’t have any option but to kill the hostages.” Plus: Taliban talks to AP by satellite phone.

SITE reports: Zawahiri views the knighting as an act motivated by sheer anger towards Islam, claiming that Queen Elizabeth II and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair implicitly delivered a message to Muslims that though their forces may be defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, they can take revenge by cursing their prophet. In response, Zawahiri threatens that a “very precise response” is in the stages of preparation…

The manufactured outrage over Britain’s knighting of Salman Rushdie continues. It’s Friday prayer time. Mosques in Pakistan and Kashmir have stocked up on extra matches, effigies, and yes, American flags. Plus: Islamic Rage Boy is back!

Courageous apostates risk death to expose the threat of sharia law.

The Religion of Perpetual Outrage strikes again.

No, you cannot convert: Three cheers for sharia!
Last August, I wrote about the plight of an ex-Muslim woman in Malaysia named Lina Joy. She had converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Christian man. As the Abdul Rahman case made chillingly clear to the world, there are dire consequences for leaving Islam. Joy bravely […]

Via Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty’s Iran Report:
Iranian state security agents arrested 14 Christians in three cities on December 10, apparently to prevent them from celebrating Christmas and New Year, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reported on December 17, citing the group Human Rights Activists in Iran. The group issued a December 16 statement to report the […]

This entry at Isaac Schrodinger’s blog is a fascinating and inspiring look at how an ex-Muslim realized that his life was in danger if he returned home to Pakistan as an apostate. So he applied for Refugee status in Canada.
Now here’s the kicker: most blogs are just people blowing off steam and noodling around. […]

Since January 1, I’ve published nearly 2,400 blog posts of all shapes, sizes, and subject matter. Many readers have asked for follow-ups on stories that especially touched their hearts, boiled their blood, and otherwise piqued their interest in a lasting way. Here are a few updates:
What ever happened to Haleigh Poutre?

The state of Massachusetts almost […]

***update: blogger Ali Eteraz issues a call to action***
ranian jihadists are calling for the death of another writer charged with–yup, you guessed it–insulting Islam. Via BBC (hat tip- Jihad Watch):
One of Iran’s most senior clergymen has issued a fatwa on an Azeri writer said to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
The call on Muslims to murder […]

The stalwart Robert Spencer, author of yet another best-selling book the MSM doesn’t want to talk about, reports on continued death threats against Afghanistan apostate Abdul Rahman. Watch and learn.
Meanwhile, the Jyllands Posten has prevailed in a Danish court, which dismissed a lawsuit by Muslims offended by the paper’s publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed, Islam, […]

President Bush honored Muslims who have assisted the War on Terror at an iftar dinner Monday night at the White House. He praised “New York City police officers and a EMT worker who risked their lives to save their fellow citizens on 9/11; a military doctor and a member of the Navy’s Chaplain Corps; members […]

Christian convert Abdul Rahman: Still a marked man
Remember Abdul Rahman, the Christian convert who fled Afghanistan and found safety in Italy after Muslim mobs demanded he be killed for abandoning Islam?
Well, while the rest of the world has forgotten about Rahman, the sharia-embracers and Koran-thumpers who believe all apostates should be murdered have not forgotten […]

The SITE Institute has details of the new al Qaeda audiotape:
The speech, 20:31 in length, is titled: “Come to a Word that is Just Between Us and You,” which is taken from the Qur’an, Surah al-Imran, verse 64. On the occasion of the month of Ramadan, al-Muhajir calls upon every “free Mujahid” to come to […]

The NYTimes and WaPo went big yesterday with news of a leaked classified National Intelligence Estimate report, which reportedly claims that the Iraq war is exacerbating Islamic terrorism. WaPo:
The war in Iraq has become a primary recruitment vehicle for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential terrorists around the world whose numbers may […]

I don’t need to see it, but in case you are one of those people who needs to be reminded how evil and bloodthirsty our enemies are, click on the photo for more images and video of al Qaeda’s latest death porn production. Jawa Report has the lowdown. AP report here:
An al-Qaida-linked group posted […]

***updated: Spencer and Pipes respond…***

R.S.V.P, infidels
Watch the new al Qaeda video to see what an “invitation to Islam” sounds like. I’ve transcribed a sample of American al Qaeda Adam Gadahn’s rant:
“Islam is the only religion acceptable to God and came with the revealed book, the Koran, which abrogates all previous revelations, like the Torah and […]

Read Andrew Bostom at Front Page mag today, please:
Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries. Orders for conversion were decreed under all the early Islamic dynasties—Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, and Mamluks. Additional extensive examples of forced conversion were recorded under both Seljuk […]

Fresh air, no tiptoeing from Brit during Fox News Sunday’s discussion of the Centanni/Wiig kidnapping (hat tip: Ms Underestimated):
Hume: Yes, and what an appealing faith these thugs must believe Islam is, that conversions have to be effected at the point of a gun. And what of the argument that all of the ills and troubles […]

Apostasy. The last time I visited the subject, an ex-Muslim man’s life was at stake in Afghanistan. Remember Abdul Rahman?
Now, meet Lina Joy. Like Rahman, she was born Muslim, converted to Christianity, and is facing death threats for abandoning Islam. She wants to marry a fellow Christian man in her native Malaysia. A Muslim legal […]

Paul Marshall shines light on apostates from Islam.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross at The Counterterrorism Blog has much, much more.

AP reporting this morning:
An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity quickly vanished Tuesday after he was released from prison, apparently out of fear for his life with Muslim clerics still demanding his death.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said he would ask his government to grant Abdul Rahman […]

***scroll for updates…Video: Condi Rice thinks Afghanistan has “come a long way” because when the Taliban ruled, they “wantonly” executed people for playing music (as opposed to now, you know, where executions of people for abandoning Islam are contemplated in a much more civilized, non-wanton manner.)…Kofi Annan dodges…***

Abdul Rahman: Still not safe
Just in…But this story […]

Abdul Rahman: Marked for death
In Afghanistan at Friday Prayers, Muslim clerics prayed for murder (via NYTimes):
Afghan clerics used Friday Prayers at mosques across the capital to call for death for an Afghan man who converted to Christianity, despite widespread protest in the West.
As the international pressure on Afghanistan grew, the clerics demanded the execution of […]

***scroll for updates…CAIR calls for Rahman to be freed…yes, CAIR…Australia joins the fray***

Cam Edwards of OnTap e-mailed me yesterday with an excellent idea–a rally for Abdul Rahman outside the Afghan embassy in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the D.C. Freepers, a permit has been submitted to the D.C. police.
Cam reports:
The way it works is the D.C. […]

3/22 morning update: Afghan officials are accusing Rahman of being mentally unfit. Watch him for yourself. Who is insane: Rahman or the jihadists who want to kill him?
1015am EST: The White House is “watching the case closely.” Twiddle-dee-dum. Wash Times: “Mr. Burns and State Department officials were clearly struggling to condemn the prosecution without […]