Copyright 2012 Islamist Watch Wed, 16 May 2012 10:30:06 -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/2012/05/fox-news-best-buy-boycott Sun, 13 May 2012 20:39:38 EST Pressure on Best Buy Intensifies – CAIR's Lawfare Fails Despite thousands of protest emails, phone calls and petition signatures, Best Buy continues to hide behind diversity-speak in defense of their "platinum sponsorship" of the Council on http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/05/the-bbc-broadcasts-its-own-dhimmitude Thu, 10 May 2012 09:24:02 EST A new Islamist Watch article by David J. Rusin on the BBC's fear-driven pandering to Islamists was published on May 8 by PJ Media: Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for http://www.islamist-watch.org/9972/the-bbc-broadcasts-its-own-dhimmitude Thu, 10 May 2012 09:03:34 EST Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias. Even more striking than the number of controversies involving suppression of http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/04/islamism-in-the-news-04-26-12 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:44:28 EST News Summary Islamist Watch maintains an extensive database of news articles concerning Islamism. The links below are a small sample. For a complete list of articles by date, please click here. Also, please click here for a listing of "creeping http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/04/best-buy-doubles-down-for-now Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:22:36 EST Best Buy Defies Thousands of Protests;Internal Best Buy Email Addresses Revealed Yesterday's Islamist Watch article (below) documenting Best Buy's financial support for the Hamas-linked Islamist group CAIR continues to make waves. The article has been http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/04/gay-marriage-has-islamists-eyeing-polygamy Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:08:26 EST A new Islamist Watch article by David J. Rusin on Islamists viewing same-sex marriage as a gateway to polygamy was published on April 16 by National Review: Presidential candidate Rick Santorum got jeered for comparing the legalization of same-sex http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/04/action-alert-best-buy-tvs-computers-hamas Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:13:20 EST Ailing Retail Giant Sponsors Hamas-Linked Islamist Group,Refuses to Rule Out Future Funding to Islamic Radicals http://www.islamist-watch.org/9764/gay-marriage-has-islamists-eyeing-polygamy Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:01:05 EST [NOTE: The National Review title is "Polygamy, Too: Muslims have started seeking their own redefinition of marriage"; the following text includes some material cut from the published version.] Presidential candidate Rick Santorum got jeered for comparing http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/04/islamism-in-the-news-03-14-12-04-03-12 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:05:09 EST News Summary Islamist Watch maintains an extensive database of news articles concerning Islamism. The links below are a small sample. For a complete list of articles by date, please click here. Also, please click here for a listing of "creeping http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/03/western-survival-depends-on-western-pride Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:02:48 EST A new Islamist Watch article by David J. Rusin on cultural self-confidence being the key to defeating Islamism was published on March 28 by FrontPage Magazine: Claude Guéant, the French interior minister, sparked a firestorm last month when he praised http://www.islamist-watch.org/9604/western-survival-depends-on-western-pride Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:56:28 EST Claude Guéant, the French interior minister, sparked a firestorm last month when he praised Western values as "superior" to the oppressive ones found elsewhere, namely the Islamic world. Yet the controversy did more to spotlight an area in which the West http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/03/pennsylvania-colludes-hamas-linked-islamist-group-chill-free-speech Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:24:41 EST Islamists Team With Government to Monitor Your Speech Residents of Pennsylvania and civil libertarians everywhere might be shocked to learn that a quasi-governmental task force, that includes officials from the state police and attorney general, has been http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/03/islamism-in-the-news Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:08:14 EST News Summary Islamist Watch maintains an extensive database of news articles concerning Islamism. The links below are a small sample. For a complete list of articles by date, please click here. Also, please click here for a listing of "creeping http://www.islamist-watch.org/9473/keystone-cronies-state-agency-colludes-with-cair Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:15:26 EST Tasked with administering and enforcing the state's anti-discrimination laws, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) has become entangled in aiding an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in its goal of stigmatizing and silencing any criticism http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/02/cair-fight-against-pennsylvania-foreign-law-bill Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:01:16 EST A new Islamist Watch article by David J. Rusin exploring the standard tactics Islamists employ to oppose bills restricting the use of foreign law was published on February 13 by FrontPage Magazine: Resistance to a new bill aimed at limiting foreign law http://www.islamist-watch.org/9192/cair-fight-against-pennsylvania-foreign-law-bill Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:56:52 EST Resistance to a new bill aimed at limiting foreign law in Pennsylvania courts serves as a case study of how Islamists and their allies operate: peddling falsehoods about Shari'a, painting Muslims as victims, and denying that anyone seeks to http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/01/denying-islamists-federal-security-clearances Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:58:15 EST A new Islamist Watch article by David J. Rusin on keeping Islamists out of sensitive government jobs was published on January 27 by PJ Media: Federal departments and agencies tasked with safeguarding the U.S. must first safeguard themselves against http://www.islamist-watch.org/9062/denying-islamists-federal-security-clearances Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:52:56 EST Federal departments and agencies tasked with safeguarding the U.S. must first safeguard themselves against Islamist infiltration. Recent news items about Muslims having security clearances rejected or revoked suggest that at least some government http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2012/01/moderate-muslim-group-backs-nypd-from-islamist-group-cair-liberal-media-enablers Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:18:52 EST The American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) Defends the NYPD's Use of The Critically-Acclaimed Documentary The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America in Counterterrorism Training. A firestorm manufactured by New York Times (all the news that http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/12/befogging-the-enemy-us-officials-as-human-pretzels Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:26:35 EST The most vexing video of 2011 may be this clip of Congressman Dan Lungren questioning Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Stockton on December 7. Though Stockton's evasiveness is in line with the government's history of not calling Islamism the enemy —