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The jihadi’s guide to etiquette, MTV-style.

The series continues.
Previous: Intro, Overview, Sura 1.

Slate is blogging the Bible.
At Hot Air, we’ve launched a new Sunday feature with Robert Spencer blogging the Koran.
Be informed.

Baron Bodissey issues a call to action:
Most of our readers are aware of Rep. John Conyers’ efforts to pass a congressional resolution against the desecration of the Koran. One of the highest priorities of Muslim interest groups in the United States is to get this legislation and similar initiatives passed. They are following multiple strategies [...]

Danish newspaper editor Flemming Rose of the Jyllands-Posten–the publication that bravely printed the Mohammed Cartoons critical of sharia creep and the bullies of jihad–has received an award:
Copenhagen - The Danish newspaper editor who chose to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 was on Monday awarded a free press prize for his “determination [...]

Hassan Abujihaad, a Muslim American sailor who cheered the terrorist attack on the USS Cole, is accused of divulging ship locations to a suspected terror fund-raiser while serving aboard the USS Benfold, a guided-missile destroyer in 2001 and 2002:
A former Navy sailor is accused of supporting terrorism by disclosing secret information about the location of [...]

There’s a new member of the Banned By YouTube club. He’s Nick Gisburne, an atheist who posts videos criticizing religion. He had no trouble uploading anti-Christian monologues to YouTube. But when he criticized Islam by quoting the Koran?
YouTube account deleted. (You can seen the banned video at his site.)
Here’s Gisburne’s latest video (not yet banned) [...]

“Obsession” is, of course, a documentary about radical Islam. You may have caught it on Fox News or Hot Air.
Students:
Michael Abdurakhmanov, president of Pace Hillel, said two deans warned that showing the documentary film would implicate club members as suspects in two hate crimes involving the desecration of the Koran at the university’s lower-Manhattan campus [...]

***1:53am Eastern update…witness Mowaffak al Rubaie describes to FNC the execution scene…”meticulously adhered to Islamic practice and ritual…no foreigners, no coalition”…body carried to ambulance/helicopter…negotiating with family on burial location…he shouted “Long live jihad!”…I have to admit he looked frightened…”he was shivering, he looked broken, frightened”…***
***11:30pm Eastern update…CNN and Arab media reporting that pictures/video expected soon…Iraqi [...]

BMI to Saudi Arabia: Fly the unfriendly skies
First British Airways goes dhimmi on a stewardess who wore a crucifix on the job. Now, British Midland bans a Bible-carrying stewardess (via London Telegraph):
A second airline is embroiled in a religious row after a stewardess decided to take bmi to an employment tribunal because it refused [...]

Uh oh. I hope they don’t start tossing cellphones onto their perpetually burning bonfire:
LUCKNOW, India - Muslim clerics at a leading seminary in India have asked people to refrain from using verses from the Quran as ringtones for their mobile phones, saying the practice was un-Islamic.
Quran verses “are not meant for entertainment,” said Mohammed Asumin [...]

Meet Alberto Fernandez: State Dept. apologist for jihad
Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is al Jazeera’s favorite pet tool. He has been praised as “sassy” and is a fixture on Arab TV. From a Newsweek profile published in August, which proclaimed him “the [...]

If only CNN were honest enough to admit what the BBC now admits: They’re biased. They’re dhimmis. And they hate America! Via the Daily Mail:
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who [...]

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 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 [...]

Crikey, can they hurry up and get this over with? Now, he’s shouting Koran verses and inciting violence from the courtroom when he isn’t snacking on Cheetos in his cell. It’s a circus and a nightmare:
The chief judge at Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial has expelled the former Iraqi leader from court after he shouted out [...]

Back in February, you may remember, I cobbled together a little mini-movie called “First, They Came” inspired by the Mohammed Cartoon riots. It’s a simple slideshow highlighting the victims of Islamic violence over the years. We posted it at YouTube a while ago. No problems. Until last week, when I received this e-mail:

I asked YouTube [...]

I’m going offline the rest of the day, but had to blog this.

From fresco rage to book rage to film rage to beauty pageant rage to Koran-dropping rage to cartoon rage to Pope rage, it’s always something with the Religion of Perpetual Outrage (hat tip-Andrew Bostom via NY Daily News). Introducing…Bobblehead Rage:
A ceramic bobblehead [...]

Robert Redeker: Forced underground by the jihadi mob
There is a French petition of support for critic of Islam Robert Redeker.
Sign here.
Benedicte at Extreme Center has translated Le Figaro’s front-page editorial condemning the death threats that have forced Redeker into hiding.
The NYTimes’ Saturday edition, posted online now, boils it down:
A French high school philosophy teacher and [...]

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, [...]

***updated with my first read***
Here’s the link to the PDF document of the NIE’s key judgements at the DNI site. If the server is down, we’ve got it here.
Some of what you didn’t read in the NYTimes:
We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; perceived jihadist success [...]

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 [...]

Sister Leonella: Murdered by jihadists
There’s a new Associated Press report on the murder of Sister Leonella that confirms the bloody obvious:
An elderly nun who was gunned down at the hospital where she worked in Somalia’s capital was “specifically targeted before being executed by gunmen lying in wait,” a hospital official said Monday.
Willy Huber, regional director [...]

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 [...]

Read Emilio Karim Dabul in today’s NY Post:
WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn’t help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on [...]

Laura Mansfield has the lowdown on al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri’s new 9/11 anniversary call for every Muslim to “make use of every opportunity afforded him to take revenge on America for its imprisonment of Sheikh Umar Abdel Rahman”–mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing. There is also a generic warning:
He tells the people of the [...]

***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 [...]

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 [...]