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After all, who wouldn’t rather be in Paris?

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Yeah, but you’d still be living in Dubai. Put it in New Jersey and then we can talk.

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Used to be that European navies, especially the British, kept piracy suppressed. Apparently that’s not an option any more.

“Somalia has no central government. We are worried that more may join the pirates to hijack ships because it’s very lucrative and there is no deterrent,” said Noel Choong of the International Maritime Bureau.

And these pirates, being Somalis, are probably … what? Presbyterians? Methodists?

“The United Nations is the only agency that can stop this menace,” said Mr Choong.

Oh, right. They’ve been such an effective force for peace in the past. Ask the corpses in Rwanda and Bosnia.

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Robert Spencer reports that “the MSA of the University of Southern California became a focal point of this effort [to repudiate the genocidal hadith about Muslims killing Jews to bring on the end times] because it hosts a major online hadith collection here, which of course included the genocidal hadith. When this was brought to the attention of USA Provost, C. L. Max Nikias, he declared that ‘the passage cited is truly despicable…The passage in the Hadith that you brought to our attention violates the USC Principles of Community, and it has no place on a USC website.’ Said Nikias: ‘I have ordered that the passage be removed.’ You can see a pdf of his letter here. The USC MSA complied.”

There’s respect for scholarship.

That Hadith may have been taken off the website of the Muslim Students Association. But, like hundreds of similar Hadith, it has not been removed from the minds of Muslims. It has not been removed from the collections of the most authoritative muhaddithin or from this list of those hadiths that are often labeled as among the most “authentic.”

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Your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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The Philippine peace process was thrown into disarray Wednesday, with the government saying a proposed deal with separatist Muslim rebels must be renegotiated after the guerrillas shot or hacked 37 people to death Monday.

Oh, ya think?

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Just another garden-variety honor killing, nothing to get excited about.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here.

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Most people think of clubs as recreational groups, but Laitin and Berman are using a more subtle definition. Clubs are groups that tend to be selective about their members. Unlike political parties and book-reading groups, which allow anyone to join, clubs make it difficult for people to sign up. And once admitted, members must make personal sacrifices to stay. In the case of an exclusive golf club, the sacrifice might involve paying sizable dues. In the case of some religious orders, would-be members might have to go through lengthy periods of initiation.

The “club model” of terrorism explains why cogs such as Hamdan stay loyal. Across all kinds of clubs, when members make sacrifices, they are much more likely to become intensely loyal to fellow members. Berman and Laitin think this is because the sacrifices that members make to join a club reduce their value outside the club. If you devote years to learning a religious text, that knowledge can give you social cachet within your club, but your effort counts for little outside the club.

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My, what a surprise. I’m sure surprised. Aren’t you surprised?

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Perhaps we could do that with the guys down in Gitmo. Shave ’em bare. For health reasons, of course.

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MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Badr al-Hasnani was 18 when he got into a fight with a soccer rival and fatally stabbed him. He confessed and was sentenced to death by beheading, as prescribed by sharia, or Islamic law.

For more than two years, Hasnani has been in a juvenile detention center awaiting execution while his family has tried to save him.

The parents of the victim, Majid al-Mahmoudi, have three options under sharia: to demand punishment, to spare Hasnani’s life to receive blessings from God, or to grant clemency in exchange for diyah, or blood money.

When I was a kid, I always wondered what it would be like to go back to the Middle Ages, only taking modern technology with me. Little did I know that I could do that today, by visiting Saudi Arabia. It’s the 7th century, with AK-47s.

The Mahmoudis agreed to accept diyah, setting the sum at $2 million in cash, much more than Hasnani’s family can afford.

I guess “blessings from God” don’t compare to cold cash in Muslim lands. Perhaps they aren’t so medieval after all.

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I’m offended by the common habit of referring to al-Azhar as a “university”, just because a lot of people go there to study. A real university has an entirely different purpose, which no Muslim institution would touch with a ten-foot pole.

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Hey, they’re still Muslims.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Not really news, but still.

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I guess Pakistan is to be the next Afghanistan. Fortunately, although their nuclear weapons cannot reach us, ours can reach them.

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Remember that next time some Muslim whines about women being made to remove head coverings for identification purposes. Muslims are great at gaming a system that allows them to do what they themselves wouldn’t be foolish enough to allow.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Steve Sailer makes the excellent point that Iran, by threatening America and Israel, is driving up the price of the only product that will bring them in hard currency.

They may be crazy but I’m not convinced that they’re stupid.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Relatives of Shehzad Tanweer, who is buried there, staged the feast to ‘celebrate his life’ and ‘remember him as a martyr’ on the third anniversary of the terror attacks which killed 52 people and injured many more.

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Oh, as if they really have a choice.

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A female Muslim councillor has been subjected to a hate campaign by Muslim men in her ward, leaving her unable to visit some of the streets that she represents.

Your future under Islam. Take the hint.

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You truly can’t make this stuff up.

The PowerLine guys are on the case.

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Yeah, they’ll be able to do that for about 4 hours. Then the U.S. Navy turns their piss-ant maritime force into scrap, and the Air Force does the same with anything Iranian that flies — not to mention their only refinery that can produce gasoline, and pretty soon they all start walking

I rather hope they try it. Could prove amusing. And our guys need the practice.

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Ajmi was released from Guantanamo Bay and was searching for “a way to reconnect with the jihad.” He claimed he was tortured while at Guantanamo Bay.

Thirteen Iraqi soldiers were killed and 42 were wounded after Ajmi drove an armored truck packed an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 pounds of explosives through the gate of the outpost and detonated in a spot between the three main buildings of the compound. The blast destroyed the facades of the three buildings, including the building housing the battalion headquarters.

Sounds like they didn’t torture him enough.

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Muslims have more ways to wrap women than the Brigade of Guards has uniforms. Take a look.

Yaakov ben Moshe points out that Hamas has a plan that very carefully games the “international community”.

Here is a chilling formulation of something you already know to be true.

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Rather like environmentalists, in their own way.

Your life under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Busted.

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I am not making this up.

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Which would be more entertaining?

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The Surge must be working.

But there was a furious reaction from some members of the Islamic community which is already antagonised by the Scandanavian nation’s role in a cartoon scandal involving the Prophet Mohammad.

Bunch of sore losers.

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We may have seen the Year of the Pig fully celebrated in accordance with the Chinese calendar for the last time. References to pigs were banned in China’s television advertising in 2007, the official Year of the Pig, to prevent offending the Muslim population. In Taiwan citizens were put on notice about using ‘pig’ postage stamps for mailings to Muslim countries or recipients.

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A new Crusade might be in order here.

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Imagine what would happen if a civilized country tried to do that to Muslims.