Copyright 2010 Islamist Watch Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:16:14 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Islamist Watch :: Writings http://www.islamist-watch.org rusin@meforum.org (Islamist Watch) webmaster@meforum.org en-us http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/03/hijab-bullies-unveil-their-aggression Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:04:00 EST For some Islamists, freedom to wear Muslim attire is not enough; they also demand that others conform to their definition of modesty. IW refers to them as "hijab bullies," though their focus is not necessarily limited to headscarves. Examples highlighted http://www.islamist-watch.org/3438/islamists-respond-to-terror-cases-with-denial Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST As homegrown terrorism grabbed headlines at the end of 2009, Islamist pressure groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim American Society (MAS), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) felt the need to look as if they were http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/03/amnesty-international-mainstreams-the-jihad Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:38:00 EST Amnesty International famously advocates on behalf of people persecuted just for expressing an opinion. However, last month the group suspended Gita Sahgal, the head of its gender unit, after she expressed an opinion of her own: that by working with http://www.islamist-watch.org/3378/nyt-and-wapo-muhammad-is-the-prophet-of-god Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST Is Muhammad more deserving of reverential treatment than Jesus? The New York Times seems to think so. A Times article reporting on the collapse of Christian communities in the Middle East contains two references to Jesus. Not "Christ," which is a http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/03/objection-your-honor-european-courts-placate Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:39:00 EST Even as Shari'a courts sprout up like mushrooms on UK soil, secular ones across Europe increasingly bend to an Islamist worldview. Consider the phenomenon of exempting Muslims from the standard practice of rising before judges. In January, seven radicals http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/02/a-brief-taxonomy-of-campus-free-speech-foes Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:04:00 EST Efforts to suppress politically incorrect speech on campus continue apace, as seen in the hostility directed toward Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., during a lecture on February 8 at the University of California, Irvine. Based on this and http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/02/islamists-play-shell-games-with-security Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:16:00 EST Despite the countless terror attacks perpetrated by their co-religionists, some Muslims still have the chutzpah to demand that security protocols conform to supposed Islamic sensitivities. But like a typical shell game, every time we think we know which http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/02/muslims-confront-islamism-get-targeted-by Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:00 EST French imam Hassen Chalghoumi recently learned firsthand that Islamists despise non-Islamist Muslims as much as they do anyone else. Chalghoumi attracted their ire by coming out strongly in favor of a ban on face-covering veils, a prohibition that is http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/01/fearing-for-freedom-in-a-post-christian-europe Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:06:00 EST Sometimes it seems that European Christian leaders are more concerned with preparing their flocks for dhimmitude than with defending their faith and the civilization built around it. Among other infamies, prominent clerics have maintained that the http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/01/the-buffalo-beheading-case-and-other-odd-legal Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:08:00 EST "She made me do it." That pretty much summarizes Muzzammil Hassan's planned legal strategy to explain how his wife Aasiya ended up headless last February in the Buffalo-area studios of Bridges TV, the channel they had founded to counter negative http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/01/criticizing-islamists-can-be-hazardous-to-your Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:43:00 EST The first goal of Islamists is to silence all who counter their ideology. But while most radical Muslims in the West are content to intimidate anti-Islamists through smears or lawsuits, some do resort to violence, as in the 2004 slaying of Dutch http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/01/burqa-wars-erupt-on-campus Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:14:00 EST To ban or not to ban? That is the question being asked across the West regarding Islamic veils that cover the face. One of the more active fronts of this battle: college and university campuses. Daniel Pipes recently broke the news that a dean at the http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2009/12/honor-crime-in-america-2009-recap Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:03:00 EST Over the past year, Americans have heard much about honor killings on U.S. soil, as even the see-no-evil mainstream press could no longer ignore these crimes. A brief review is in order. The United States witnessed two high-profile slayings in 2009 that http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2009/12/not-jolly-good-ii-islamists-funded-by-the-uk Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:27:00 EST The British government's history of employing Islamists and placing them in sensitive positions, the subject of the previous IW blog post, is only part of the problem. Equally troubling is the record of UK bureaucrats sending money to Islamists in the http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2009/12/not-jolly-good-islamists-in-the-uk-government Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:54:00 EST Is there any degree of radicalism that disqualifies someone from holding a sensitive government post in the UK? Probably. But it would be difficult to tell based on two recent stories. First, Treasury official Azad Ali has begun advising the Crown