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Protecting Western Values From Encroaching Sharia

Research – Activism – Community Outreach – Support of Moderate Muslims

A Project of the Middle East Forum

Islamist Watch is devoted to unveiling and combating "Lawful Islamists" who exploit our Constitutional freedoms to incrementally and non-violently undermine American and Western values while imposing aspects of Sharia law, creating special rights for Muslims, preventing criticism of Islamists, intimidating moderate Muslims, depriving women and non-Muslims of their civil and Constitutional rights, and creating "no-go" autonomous zones within the United States and other Western countries.

Lawful Islamism is a radical and supremacist interpretation of Islam that seeks to destroy Western society from within -- culturally and politically rather than violently. Methodically and patiently. With words not bullets. Activism not bombs.

The goals of Lawful Islamists and Islamic terrorists are the same. Only their methods differ.

Islamism in the News: 01/16/12 – 02/05/12:

Media Bias

• "NBC, AP Avoid 'M-word' in Report About 'Honor Killings,'" by P.J. Gladnick. Newsbusters, January 30, 2012. (Liberal, "mainstream" media continue to enable Islamists and take political correctness to absurd levels.)

Women's Rights

• "Twisted Concept of Honor Shames Any Civilized Society," by Ruth Dudley Edwards. Independent Ireland, February, 5 2012. (Study finds alarming rates of family violence against Muslim women for being "too Western," including being insufficiently subservient, rejecting Islamic dress, wanting a career, having non-Muslim friends or boyfriends, rejecting an arranged marriage or leaving an abusive husband.)
• "Sisters of Muslim Teenager Branded Her a Whore, Kidnapped Her and Cut Off Her Hair for Kissing a White Man," by Suzannah Hills. Daily Mail, January 31, 2012. (Shamima's family did not allow her to have any contact with males of a different culture. But she considers herself western and did not want to live her life that way.)

Education

• "The Muslims Next Door," by Mark Tapson. FrontPage Magazine, January 30, 2012. (Pushing the usual disinformation about Islam and whitewashing of its darker aspects, "Silicon Valley Reads," presented by the Santa Clara County Office of Education, Santa Clara County Library and the San Jose Public Library Foundation is launching a "Muslim and American" campaign targeting children and adults. What could go wrong?)

Free Speech

• "CAIR Pressures Retired General, Critic of Islam, to Back Out of West Point Event," by Caroline May.Daily Caller, January 31, 2012. (The U.S. Military Academy initially defended its selection of Four-Star Lieutenant General and counter-terrorism expert William G. "Jerry" Boykin to speak at a prayer breakfast).
• "Death Threats For Singer of Burqa Song," by Johan Van Der Tol. Radio Netherlands, January 27, 2012. (Dutch satirist Johan Vlemmix has decided not to perform his latest YouTube viral hit "Do the Burqa" onstage following death threats.)

Law Enforcement

• "Muslims and their Allies Seethe Over NYPD Secret Report, Demand Kelly's Resignation," by Maura Grunlund. SI Live, February 3, 2012. (Islamist groups continue their multi-front assault on the NYPD, this time trying to prevent the surveillance of radical mosques involved in terrorism.)
• "New York officials apologize for telling the truth," by Robert Spencer. Human Events, January 31, 2012. (Islamist groups and their liberal allies in the media forced the NYPD to remove from counter-terrorist training the critically acclaimed move, The Third Jihad. For more, see the Islamist Watch blog article about moderate Muslim groups backing the NYPD.)

Sharia Law and Courts

• "Sharia in Germany? Politician Blasted for Support of Islamic law in Germany." Der Spiegel, February 3, 2012. (Interior minister of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate suggests Sharia law in some "modern form" would be acceptable in German Courts.)
• "Muslim Arbitration in Germany," by Regina Brinkman. Deutsche Welle, February 2, 2012. (The danger of a parallel, Muslim judiciary.)
• "Growing Use of Sharia by UK Muslims," by Divya Talwar. BBC News, January 16, 2012. (An estimated 85 Sharia councils are operating in Britain amid increasing opposition by groups who argue that the practice discriminates against women.)

Amercian Law for American Courts Bills

• "Critics: Bill to Shun Foreign Law in Courts is Anti-Muslim," by Julian Walker and Kathy Adams. The Virginian-Pilot, January 21, 2012. (Virginia's version of American Laws for American Courts bill does not single out Sharia and does not forbid the private right to contract for religious governing law so long as it does not violate Constitutional rights or public policy.)

Islamist Watch maintains an extensive database of news articles concerning Islamism. The above links are a small sample. For a complete list of articles by date, please click here. Also, please click here for a listing of "creeping dhimmitude" articles by topic (see box at right of page).

The Lawful Islamist "is the polite collector you pay in the hope that the leg-breaker won't be next at your doorstep. And even as he sneers in his nice suit at the leg-breaker's crudity, you somehow know all your money is going to the same place." -- Andrew C. McCarthy, The Grand Jihad, p.14