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Roger’s Rules, on the progression of the soft jihad. 

That sounds fair. For a public debate to happen, you must first admit you’re wrong and apologize. Oh, and remove the film in question. Then we can talk. 
From JihadWatch:
Amsterdam - Attempts by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders to engage in public debate with Muslims about his controversial film Fitna have so far not been successful, reports said [...]

We got the first inkling earlier this week from JihadWatch, but now it’s been confirmed by the AP.
From JihadWatch:
By Matthew Lee for AP:
[...] Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as “jihadists” or “mujahedeen,” according to documents [...]

I’ve received enough e-mails about my choice to cover less-mainstream aspects of Islam to address them all in a post. 
What the United States is dealing with in the Middle East is not a race war, as Robert Parker wrote yesterday. It is far deeper than race. It is a religious war, and radical Islam has [...]

Jihadists are learning how to prey upon the politically correct American liberals. They understand, at least on some basic level, that they must assimilate in order to infiltrate the realms of the non-believers they plan to eradicate. Jihadists are starting to wage war on the terms of the typical liberal activist. It’s like they’re reading [...]

Last Thursday, Andrew McCarthy and Roger Kimball hosted a conference on Free Speech in an Age of Jihad at the Princeton Club in New York. Check it out on Kimball’s blog, Roger’s Rules. 
H/T Instapundit.

The Crusades are thought of by many as one of the darkest episodes in European history; that’s simply how the Crusades are taught to us in school. Naturally, when President Bush compared the Iraq War to the Crusades, liberal voices all over the country expressed their disapproval, citing Bush ‘insensitive’ to Muslims. But the Iraq War is [...]

Remember the transatlantic bomb plot that was averted in London a few days ago? The would-be Muslim martyrs recorded videos, presumably to be shown after their death. Sweetness & Light has the transcripts.Know why we should stay in this war? Because of Waheed Zaman:
“I have been educated to a high standard and had it not been Allah had [...]

I can’t believe the wife shot this idea down [apologies for the bad pun].From Hot Air: 
According to testimony in the London trial of al-Qaeda jihadists, at least one of them wanted to take along his wife and baby on their suicide mission in order to get past security. That suggestion got nixed by his wife, who nevertheless seems [...]

You’ve gotta see this to believe it.