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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 [...]

***scroll for updates…Fox News Sunday interviewing Centanni…Allah with all the latest and the conversion vid (thanks to Rusty)…we’ve YouTubed the conversion video…embedded below…***

Thank God. Fox News Channel reporting:
The two journalists were dropped off at Gaza City’s Beach Hotel by Palestinian security officials. A tearful Centanni embraced a Palestinian journalist briefly as he entered, then rushed [...]

***scroll for updates…keep sending your finds and i’ll keep adding to this post (which I’ll send to Reuters’ global picture editor tomorrow for comment)…second Hajj Photoshop unmasked below involving Israeli F-16…will Reuters address the second photo? Contact info here…1120pm Eastern: another catch from Power Line…Beth at MyVWRC has a caption question…***

Thanks to reader THX [...]

I’m getting lots of moonbat mail from people who finally discovered the Seattle P-I’s article mentioning that accused Jew-killer Naveed Haq had reportedly been baptized at one point at an evangelical Christian church. Yeah, I noted that two days ago, Sherlocks. (Thought: Have you heard of taqiyya?) I also noted that the article reported that [...]

It’s old news to anyone who’s been reading this site, but I’m glad to see the truth about Gitmo guard abuse getting out. And I’m glad it’s getting a siren from the Drudge Report. AP has the report with thanks to the Landmark Legal Foundation for pursuing the FOIA requests. I’ve mentioned before the detainee [...]

Thanks to my wonderful web guy, Mark Jaquith, you’ll notice a new feature at the end of every post that I started including over the weekend. It says “Digg This.” If you click on it, it’ll take you to Digg, the hot user-powered content site that now has a Politics section.
Registered members of the site [...]

The manipulative detainees at Guantanamo Bay reportedly used the generous civil liberties protections we gave them to plot their suicide pact. Are you surprised? WaPo:
Three suicides at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may have been part of a broader plot by detainees who were using confidential lawyer-client papers and envelopes to pass [...]

Dan Riehl sends links to the story. And the video. Warning: Only watch if you are prepared to look the evils of jihad in the eye.
ABC:
In the footage, two men clad in black and wearing black ski masks shout “God is great!” before beheading the first man. Then one militant appears standing over the decapitated [...]

I bring you my boo-freakin’-hoo moment of the day, courtesy of Esquire writer Tom Junod’s nauseating profile of John Walker Lindh a/k/a “Suleyman al-Faris” a/k/a “Abdul Hamid a/k/a “Hamza.” Junod laments an order forbidding Lindh/al-Faris/Hamid/Hamza from speaking Arabic and describes his typical day in prison:
At seven o’clock in the morning he goes to work in [...]

But don’t worry. He’s been sent to…Saudi Arabia!
Great, just great:
New Zealand has deported a Yemeni man identified as having direct links with the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States who was taking pilot training in the country this year, the government said Saturday.
Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali was deported to [...]

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 [...]

Oh, dear Lord. A jihadist plot, possibly of global scale, possibly imminent, unravels in Canada…and what do law enforcement officials do? Try to whitewash the obvious jihadi profile from the public’s mind.
At the press briefing held by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police today, the suspects who appeared in court–all sporting traditional Muslim male beards and [...]

Charles Johnson at LGF has the outrageous details: “The guards were lured into a cell by a staged suicide attempt, then ambushed by the prisoners.” He highlights this passage from the Reuters report:
“The detainees had slickened the floor of their block with feces, urine and soapy water in an attempt to trip the guards. They [...]

Drudge siren up. Breitbart/AP reports:
Inmates at the US “war on terror” detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba tried to prevent US forces from helping one of four detainees who tried to commit suicide, a spokesman said.
One inmate tried to hang himself and three others took overdoses on Thursday.
All four were being treated and their [...]

***update: we’ve got audio of Ali’s Harvard remarks at Hot Air…Charles Johnson gets a shout from Ali plus a first-hand account…Miss Kelly was also in attendance***
Reader Michael S. writes in:
I just went to Hirshi Ali’s presentation at the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard. It was held in the form of an interview with a member [...]

Read this.
Background:
London Sunday Times–”Part of me died when I saw this cruel killing.”
Jihad Watch–”Her cries — ‘Ah, ah, ah’ — can be heard above the ‘Allahu akbar’ intoned by the holder of the mobile phone.”
Robert Spencer writes:
Anyone who thinks that God’s greatness is established by such acts of barbaric cruelty must be resisted at [...]

Allah Pundit has video, docs, analysis, blogger reaction, and everything else you need/want to know about the Moussaoui verdict. Breitbart/AP coverage here. WaPo. NYTimes.
Update: So much for my “No tears for Moussoui” warning. Go look at what Allah found in the jury questionnaire (scroll to the bottom for screenshot).
Ugh.
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My parting shot on the Moussaoui defense [...]

I mentioned Mohammed depicted in classical artwork earlier this week when the latest cartoon jihad erupted in Italy. Matthias Storme at The Brussels Journal posts photos of another depiction of Mohammed, a 17th century sculpture housed at a Belgian church, that is sure to set off the jihadists:

Writes Storme:
The person subdued by the angels and [...]

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 [...]

***updated…Cori Dauber at Rantingprofs points to another missive from Taheri-azar to the Durham Herald Sun…***

Mohammed Taheri-azar speaks again–this time in a letter to local ABC TV affiliate 11 in Raleigh:
The suspect in this month’s attack on the UNC-CH campus has written a letter to ABC11 Eyewitness News. Eyewitness News received the letter Monday, in response [...]

Judging from my e-mail, one of the hottest downloads of the past week has been the stunning video of Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan, who administered quite a tongue-lashing to an Islamist host on Al-Jazeera TV.

MEMRI has it. Transcript excerpt below:

***scroll for updates…Paul Belien at the Brussels Journal has a dissenting take on the manifesto…***
Danish reader P.H.N. sends an important document published today in the Jyllands-Posten from 12 brave intellectuals:
MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call [...]

Paris mourned the death of Ilan Halimi today (via Haaretz):
Cries of “vive la France” and “la justice” accompanied President Jacques Chirac, his wife Bernadette and Premier Dominique de Villepin last night as they left the memorial evening held here yesterday for Ilan Halimi.
The ceremony, which was held in the Grand Synagogue on rue de la [...]

Committed “in the name of the prophet Mohammed:”
Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.
It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa’s most populous [...]

***scroll for updates, blog reax***
Cartoon Jihad continues.
Via Breitbart/AP:
A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country.
Police confined the former leader of an Islamic militant group to [...]

The Islamists’ Bogus Anti-Muslim Art (Large images here, here, and here)
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Danish TV station, DR 1, aired a valuable news segment yesterday on the manufacturing of the Cartoon Jihad yesterday.
The station took the BBC to task for erroneously attributing the now-infamous French pig-squealing contest photo–exploited by a delegation of Danish imams to foment fear of anti-Muslim [...]

Because freedom of speech is the freedom to laugh at human follies–or at least it should be in the civilized world…
The Mohammed Dance

Iowahawk spoof: Seething Midwest Explodes Over Lombardi Cartoons
Scrappleface spoof: Cartoon Riots Caused by Looney Tunes, Not Koran
And here’s an amusing video clip from The Daily Show’s “resident cartoon analyst:” (hat tip - my [...]

The Islamists’ Bogus Blasphemous Cartoons (Large images here, here, and here)
I just received a tip from a reader in Denmark with more info about the lying delegation of Danish imams who fabricated anti-Muslim artwork and pinned it on the Jyllands-Posten in December to stoke the jihadists. (See Scott Johnson’s round-up at Power Line.)
In addition to [...]

It seems that every major TV news report on the Muhammad Cartoons that I’ve seen ends with a tiptoeing disclaimer that Islam considers any depiction of Muhammad sacrilegious (and, therefore, vulnerable to arson, vandalism, and mass riots).
But as Zombie notes in his Mohammed Image Archive, linked last week, “hundreds of paintings, drawings and other [...]