Which Muslims Share Nidal Hasan's Vision of Islam?Source: Andrew Bostom blog
Nidal Hasan's June 2007 presentation concludes, in full accord with classical (and unrepentant, let alone unreformed) Islamic doctrine regarding jihad war, (slide 49):
"Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please Allah, even by force is condoned by (sic) Islam."
Lieberman Suggests Army Shooter Was 'Home-Grown Terrorist'Source: Wall Street Journal
A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.
42 killed in police, Nigerian 'Taliban' gunfightSource: gulf-times.com
They were victims of "fighting between security personnel and members of the Taliban," he said, alluding to the sect founded in Nigeria in 2004 with a mission to set up an Islamic state in Nigeria.
The Quranic Concept of War Source: globalpolitician.com
Political and military leaders are notoriously averse to theory, but if there is a theorist about war who matters, it remains Carl von Clausewitz, whose Vom Kriege (On War) has shaped Western views about war since the middle of the nineteenth century."3 Both points are likely t …
Al-Qaedastan : the new SomaliaSource: frontpagemagazine.com
The Obama administration yesterday announced that it will increase assistance of arms and funds to Somalia's government, as it tries to beat back a terrorist insurgency that includes an international who's-who of jihadists, including Al-Qaeda.
It does not exaggerate the s …
India tightens the screw on MaoistsSource: atimes.com
The stakes in the bloody battle raging in the hinterlands of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh and Orissa - India's mineral-rich states - have been raised, with New Delhi this week declaring the Naxalite group, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a …
Muslim leadership in India is a myth, says renowned scholarSource: Two Circles
Hyderabad: A prominent Muslim scholar Prof Anwar Moazzam has questioned the common notion that the dearth of an effective Muslim leadership in India was the cause of the socio economic backwardness of the community and stressed that resolving of the problems of one community or g …
Pakistan : Taliban Bribes Boy to Carry Bag Containing Bomb Into MarketSource: FOXNews.com
On his face is an angelic smile, in his pocket a blood-stained 50-rupee note. Ishaq Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy, was given the money – equivalent to just 40p – to carry a bag to a spot in a busy bazaar in Kohat, a town in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Moroccan Muslims are a tad excited. Having seen their co religionists in Yemen finally force out the tiny Jewish community there, they seek to accomplish the same thing in Morocco:
From Agence France-Presse, May 21:

A Philippine Navy Lieutenant is currently in hiding out fear for her life after exposing her country's military embezzling of millions of dollars in US aid intended to fight Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the region.
Re-Arrest Of Mas Selamat Of Ji: A Wake-Up Call For Singapore & Malaysia Source: southasiaanalysis.org
Mas Selamat Kastari, said to be a leader of the Singapore branch of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), who escaped from a high security detention centre of Singapore on February 27, 2008, and had remained undetected since then, is reported to have been traced by the Malaysian police afte …
Clinton and the TalebanSource: Khaleej Times Online
The Taleban are coming! The Taleban are coming!
Last week, a bunch of lightly-armed Pashtun mountain tribesmen rode down from Afghanistan's Malakand region on motorbikes and pickup trucks and briefly swaggered around Buner, only 100 km from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
The "Idea of India" after MumbaiSource:
In 1947, as the British Raj prepared to devolve its former colony to the newly independent Republic of India, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi envisioned a modern, multicultural, and secular democracy whose first priority was economic progress, not ethnic communalism.[1] Nehr …