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Andy McCarthy rightly excoriates the dhimmis in the Bush administration for pandering to CAIR:
On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavory Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The Transportation Security Administration is the executive agency created after [...]

This unintended-consequences nightmare makes my stomach turn (via the London Times):
WHEN people around the world sent millions of pounds to help the stricken Indonesian province of Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, few could have imagined that their money would end up subsidising the lashing of women in public.
But militant Islamists have since [...]

Merriam-Webster announced theirs over the weekend. Here are your nominations. Readers sent in a few entries coined in previous years, but they’ve held their currency, so they made the cut:

What’s the word/phrase of the year?

Absolute Moral Authority

Cartoon Rage

Culture of corruption

Cut and run

Fauxtography

[Fill-in-the-blank]-gate (Plame, Foley, Jamil, etc.)

[Fill-in-the-blank] Derangement Syndrome (Bush, Rove, Diebold, etc.)

The flying imams

Reconquista

Sharia

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More end-of-the-year [...]

Well, well. Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times reports that an internal investigation by US Airways, plus two other probes, so far conclude there was no wrongdoing by the crew in its treatment of the six flying imams:
Three parallel investigations into the removal of six imams from a US Airways flight last month have so [...]

Bow down
The flying imams have inspired Muslim mau-mauers across the country. Now, there’s this via the Detroit News (hat tip- Debbie Schlussel):
Fitness USA, a gym chain, is investigating an alleged civil rights violation involving a local Muslim woman who says her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron, and that her complaint to management [...]

Looks like Pope Benedict XVI is safe so far. Via Breitbart.com:
He began his first visit to a Muslim country Tuesday with a message of dialogue and “brotherhood” between faiths, and Turkey’s chief Islamic cleric said at a joint appearance that growing “Islamophobia” hurts all Muslims…
… The pope is expected to call for greater rights and [...]

In between breathless condemnations of the Bush administration for stifling its free speech, endless court filings demanding classified and sensitive information from the military and intelligence agencies, and self-pitying media industry confabs bemoaning their hemorrhaging circulations (with the exception of the New York Post), my colleagues in the American media don’t have much to time [...]

Go read this post at Protein Wisdom.
Writes Jeff Goldstein: “We’ve already seen what happens when so-called free speech is pressured in Europe. We simply cannot let it happen here — and that includes the prospect of silence by bankruptcy.”
Pay attention.

I’m hanging it up for the night, er, morning. Unlike Michael Moore in 2004, however, I will not be staying in bed for three days in a catatonic state. I will not need PEST shock therapy. I will not move to Australia.
A moonbat reader e-mailed a taunt earlier this evening:
How’s it feel to be [...]

Don’t measure your drapes yet, lady
A few weeks ago, while blogging on the road (always a somewhat risky thing to do), I glibly mentioned the possibility of sitting at home for the midterms over heated disagreement with the Bush administration on immigration. Many grass-roots conservatives have grievances with how the White House has handled a [...]

Coming up in 15 minutes. Allah will have vid at Hot Air and I’ll have more to say after it starts. Stay tuned.
Rich Lowry thinks Bush will “help himself” with this appearance. Will it help Republicans? John McIntyre examines: “How Bad Will Iraq Hurt the GOP?”
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10:36am. “As the enemy shifts tactics, we are shifting our [...]

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 [...]

First, read the latest headline:
One in 10 Indonesia Muslims back violent jihad: poll
The details:
Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed.
Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country, with 220 million people, 85 percent [...]

The New York Times looks at government-funded Islamic-only schools in Britain:
The sports hall doubles as a prayer room and dining hall for male teenagers, at other times for young women, but never the two together. In the kindergarten, female teachers, warned of an impending visit by a man, draw full facial veils before receiving their [...]

Pieter Dorsman looks at how political expediency has replaced political correctness in the Netherlands:
A few weeks ago, Justice Minister Donner – known for his legalistic approach to most issues – said in an interview that if two-thirds of the Dutch population would support it, the Dutch constitution would have to be amended in order to [...]

I asked yesterday for translations of the op-eds criticizing Islam that have been banned in Egypt and that have forced one of the authors, Robert Redeker, into hiding in France.
Thanks to all the readers who have e-mailed their translations. Spread these far and wide. E-mail them to your friends. Post them on Egyptian online forums. [...]

Robert Redeker: In hiding after “insulting Islam”

Ancient historian Egon Flaig: Banned in Egypt

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: May face death for criticizing Islam
The Danish cartoonists aren’t the only ones living in fear for offending the global jihadi mob. Now, French philosophy professor and secondary school teacher Robert Redeker is under police protection for penning a piece [...]

This post by Dean Esmay, “calling out Michelle Malkin,” is what is known in the business as traffic bait.
So go ahead and click it and give Esmay more of the traffic he wants. I highly recommend you read his post as the classic blogospheric example of how not to argue about Islam.
Or anything else, [...]

Still traveling and catching up on news/mail. The three Christians in Indonesia I blogged about last week were executed yesterday by firing squad. Indonesian blogger Stan liveblogged the day’s events. BBC coverage here. Context here and here and here.
My initial post prompted much caterwauling from tone-deaf moonbat bloggers who accused me of hypocrisy for [...]

Barbara Walters and her gang ain’t the only ones who speak for women. Thanks to the miracle of Internet technology (and the wizardry of Bryan Preston), my right-wing gal pal Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall and I talk back to Rosie O’Donnell over her equation of “radical Islam” with the threat of “radical Christianity in [...]

I guess I’m not going to be sending the Dutch minister an “I will not submit” t-shirt:
AMSTERDAM — Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner has provoked an angry response by stating it has to be possible for Sharia Law to be introduced in the Netherlands via democratic means.
The Christian Democrat (CDA) minister made the suggestion [...]

Readers, you know of my strong views and work debunking the “myth of the lone Muslim avenger;” reporting on the rash of “lone” Muslim shooters who have murdered Americans; and combating P.C. whitewashing of jihad. Most recently, I’ve extensively covered the Jeep Jihadi Mohammed Taheri-Azar in North Carolina and Seattle’s Jew-hating killer Naveed Haq.
But [...]

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 [...]

Since Michelle has so generously launched me into GuestBlog-dom as someone who, as she puts it, gave her a nudge “in the right direction on jihad and dhimmitude,” I’ll take the bait and hit the topic straight off. Above all else, understanding jihad and dhimmitude is crucial to understanding what we call the war on [...]

***scroll for updates, including new info from Annie Jacobsen (remember Flight 327?)…who were the ringleaders of Bojinka II (is there a better name? let me know)…here’s the reason for the liquid ban: ABC says the jihadists were going to hide the explosives in sports drink bottles…reports of dry runs…USNews now also reporting details involving hydrogen [...]

Many readers across the pond are sending good reviews of a BBC program that aired this week about Atefah Sahaaleh, a 16-year-old girl hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka. Her death sentence was imposed by Islamic mullahs for “crimes against chastity.” I hope there’s an American station out there that [...]

I did a double-take this weekend reading the print edition of Time magazine. On page 4 is this photo:

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The caption in the print edition reads: “Photographer Kate Brooks went from Iran to Oman to capture the diverse fashions of Muslim women.”
“The diverse fashions.”
Brooks’ multimedia photo essay at Time.com plays like an apologia [...]

Remember?
It’s the one-year anniversary of the 7/7 London jihadi bombings. Pajamas Media has extensive, extended coverage throughout the day. Andrew Ian Dodge expresses my feelings today:
“I am still incensed that the Muslim community spends more time whingeing about “islamophobia” than they do trying to route out extremism. I am incensed that whenever question about terrorist [...]

Not good:
Islamic militias declared victory today over Somalia’s traditional warlords in the battle for control of Mogadishu, quelling months of fierce fighting in the lawless capital but raising new questions about whether this regime, which American officials have accused of sheltering terrorists, will steer the country down an extremist path.
“We want to restore peace and [...]

Compare and contrast…
In Dallas, a school district strikes the words “In God We Trust” from the photo of an enlarged nickel on a yearbook cover for fear of offending students of differing religions.
In California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (the one that outlawed the Pledge of Allegiance for its reference to God) approved putting [...]