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The Atlantic has a very interesting, and increasingly familiar story of a jihadist who is now arguing against Islamism.
A Dutch convert, Jason Walters – who once preferred the more exotic “Abu Mujahied Amrik” – was a member of the “Hofstad Group”, and received a 15 year sentence for some pretty horrifying conduct, culminating in the [...]

Katey Dyck of Philadelphia waits with family at the Greenbelt Metro station as they prepare to attend the Jon Stewart rally on the Mall.
Does anyone recognize the flag at the lower right of the sign?
(Via The Washington Post)
Michael Ezra adds:
Nick Cohen laments that Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens was a featured act at this rally. [...]

Karl Pfeifer was in Israel and on October 24 interviewed Dana Drori, 26, a student of communication at Sapir College in Sderot, where she also works for the educational radio station, “Kol Hanegev” (106.4FM).

Why did you choose of all places Sderot? You could have enrolled at other universities where no rockets are fired at?
I [...]

This is a guest post by ‘Malatesta’
Well, what a wash out. After months of trumpeting and blether the English Defence League’s band of hooligans and ‘chav scrotes’ were humiliated in Amsterdam yesterday,  attacked by antifascists and Ajax fans and harried by the cops. At least they didn’t have time to fight amongst themselves as they [...]

The following advertisement appeared on the front page of the February 3, 1979 issue of Socialist Worker, the newspaper of the totalitarian Socialist Workers Party. (SWSO is an abbreviation for the Socialist Worker Student Organisation):

DEATH TO BAKHTIAR!
Death to the Generals!
SOLIDARITY
with the struggle in Iran.
Demonstration: Saturday 3 February,
Trafalgar Square, 1.30pm.
SWSO and London, Home Counties SWP to [...]

This is an ICSR Instant Analysis by Senior Fellow, Shiraz Maher
Details of the latest plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) continue to emerge and it will be some time until a full picture emerges of this abortive attack. However, there are some salient conclusions that can be drawn at this early stage.
The current [...]

On Monday 8 November, the Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre will host a meeting on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. That meeting will feature Ewa Jasiewicz  who is billed as a “Member of UK Committee”
Ewa Jasiewicz was the spokeswoman who justified the desecration of the Warsaw Ghetto earlier this year:

The Tribunal will then hold its [...]

A reason to be thankful that suspicious packages have become a major cause for concern worldwide. And a reminder who Al Qaeda’s principal target still is.
CNN reports:
Suspicious packages found in at least two locations abroad that were bound for the United States “apparently contain explosive material,” President Barack Obama said Friday, calling the discovery “a [...]

As a resident of Washington, DC, I have to say it’s uncanny how this radio ad for Republican Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson captures the way folks talk and think in this city. Especially the fluty, quasi-upper class English accent that everyone has here. It’s incredible.
It’s as if the ad’s producers were flies on [...]

This is a cross-post by Mark Gardner of the CST Blog.
There was a time, not so long ago, when Holocaust denial was considered too toxic for secular leftist anti-Israel activists to touch. Not any more, because the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) is now using the winning entry from Iran’s notorious Holocaust cartoon competition of [...]