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I wanted to take an opportunity today (and hopefully every subsequent day) to do a round-up of just a few of the interesting things our Vigilant Freedom/910 Group Blogroll is up to.

Civoc has his eye on the most recent violence in Thailand (and search his site for previous Islamic Fascism in Thailand news)

Rob from Red Alert has a disturbing video of the Mullahs’ Fashion Crackdown in Iran 

Beach Girl Talks about The Turkish Army’s Take Down of Islamists

Also, VF Blogroll headlines were down earlier today, but they are back up now, so please enjoy.

Last week I was considering posting something about Egyptian Sandmonkey Signing Off, but blogosphere-wise I simply don’t have the street cred for that. But Atlas Shrugs does. (H/T Wake Up America). I am familiar with the Egyptian blogosphere only through VF/910’s participation in efforts to Free Kareem, an Egyptian blogger in prison for defaming Islam, and President Mubarak, but from that one example, you can see immediately that unlike from where I sit, blogging in the Middle East truly is a revolutionary act. From our safe vantage point, we have a duty to support and stand united with these folks on the front line of the battle. And as Wake Up America highlights, creating even the smallest illusion of acceptance of these terrorist regimes has real consquences:

Atlas: Where (sic) you shocked when Hoyer met with the Muslim Brotherhood?

SANDMONKEY: Let me tell you something. I was in Turkey a couple of weeks ago and I met a couple of Syrian activists. They one thing they told me that was really funny about the Pelosi visit. After Pelosi came to Syria two things happened. People on Syrian TV were saying, “We forced the Americans to knock on the Damascus gate!” Sort of like an admission that we messed things up in Iraq so much that America had to come and beg for their help.

But the day after Pelosi’s visits there were immediate arrests of Syrian activists. That was the fruit she yielded. “Oh the Americans came over and they said they have a different foreign policy and they’re more interested in placating Bashar’s ego.” And he went out and got [arrested] everyone he wanted because he knew he had an ally in Washington that wouldn’t pressure him as much.

ATLAS: Isn’t that disgusting?

SANDMONKEY: Yeah, but what are you going to do?

ATLAS: We have to educate the American people. You think the American people know this?

SANDMONKEY: No, but do they even care at this point? I don’t think they are interested in the discussion any more. There are people that have made up their mind, they think we need to placate the dictators because America is wrong and everyone else is always right. That’s how they operate. (Emphasis in the original)

To quote one of the surrenderist’s favorite speakers, Gandhi:

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.

It seems like the only quote they know of Gandhi’s is the one about an eye for an eye. But remember, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and we have willfully blinded ourselves to the very real fact that the recognition of dictatorial states costs the freedom, and even lives of the very people we claim to support.  Recognition of these regimes undermines the very people who the defeatists say should be standing up and doing the heavy lifting of freedom themselves.

Think about that the next time you hear a politican say we need to “dialogue” with one of these states, and ask the question, “whose blood is paying for this photo-op?”

Danish MP and moderate muslim Naser Khader, (who you would see on the PBS special Islam Vs. Islamists if the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would release it) has been attracting attention lately. Blogger Exile took note of a speech in which Khader called for the need for a  Muhammad cartoon incident in America. GOV, who always has the pulse of all things Danish, also has noted Khader’s message and its importance.

What struck me was Mr. Khader’s statement that it was the cartoon controversy which spurred Danish democratic muslims to action. In absurdity lies truth, I suppose. Time and again we have seen that the islamists will always, without fail, over-react. If the incident might call for a polite discussion between neighbors, its a lawsuit. If a well written op-ed would suffice, its the threat (or practice) of decapitation.

This is of course why the political correctness crowd in general, and the grievance industry, in particular, is a massive threat to the counter-jihad movement. A simple search reveals the number of times the word “offensive” appears on the Council of American-Islamic Relations Website. The word “Hate Crime” is even more common.

This reminds me of an incident in Tennessee, which was related to me by Christine this afternooon, which occurred a while ago, and which she blogged about here. Bacon is not, cannot, be a hate crime. Neither can cartoons, or the use of ACTUAL Koran quotes. Free speech, and its consquences, are our very best weapon. The Islamists know this, and are coming for it.

The wider the gulf between a rational response to a provocation, and the Islamist response to a provocation, the more people awake to the simple fact, that a large number of people out there subscribe to a violent, intolerant and anachronistic ideology. And, perhaps as Mr. Khader suggests, such provocations can also awaken a large number of otherwise passive muslim immigrants to point out that it is time for a real “islamic revolution.” As Exile says of Khader:

Could it be that this relatively quiet man, in his modest way, can start the revolution that Islam is so seriously in need of? Someone has to. If it should be him, then I can only applaud him and continue to support him.

Anyone else would recieve my blessing too.

To that I would add not only “Anyone” else, but ”Everyone” else.

my enemy’s enemy. Sharon Chadha has an interesting post up today about some inter-Jihadi squabbling between a radical cleric from Kuwait named Sheikh Hamid al-Ali, and the Al Qaeda in Iraq. (I’ve always questioned why we bother to add the “in Iraq” part. Isn’t Al Qaeda simply Al Qaeda? The Mcdonald’s down on the corner has a franchise owner, but its still a Mcdonald’s.) It’s here, and I suggest you take a read.

 Jihadist cleric says the Islamic State in Iraq is illegitimate

Sharon includes a bit from MEMRI where at least one of the Sheikh’s followers isn’t too happy about the red on red targeting, expressing concern about appearances. Says Sharon:

 I, for one, hope he’s right about this - that the media will exult about this “fitna” (dissent) in the jihadist corps - but I won’t hold my breath. I sometimes get the impression the mainstream media is almost as invested in the Americans losing as al Qaeda is.

Well I wouldn’t hold my breath either. It is interesting to know for certain, after we have always suspected, that the islamists are highly sensitive as to their appearance in the press, particularly as regards any show of dissent or disunity. Still, as The Freedom Fighter’s Journal points out, counting on red or red jihadi disagreement to save us from islamo-fascism and the global caliphate (or to make ourselves feel better about surrender on the battlefield in places like Iraq) is a hope in vain. 

First, no matter what happens inside Iraq, any US decision to withdraw will be celebrated as a victory by al Qaeda. Whatever way the spin doctors in Washington dress it up, bin Laden is certain to portray the pullout as another example of what he once described as the “low spiritual morale of the American fighters.” Al Qaeda, in other words, will be emboldened—even if it fails to set up a permanent safe haven or establish an Islamic theocracy. Most worryingly, the foreign fighters—now experienced and battle-hardened veterans of the “global jihad”—will soon turn up and cause trouble in other places, such as Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan.

 FFJ is correct here as well. The continued, foolish belief, that the enemies of our enemies are our friends seems to be a hallmark of the West, at least in the 20th and 21st centuries.  Particularly in regards to the threat from Islamists, many of the rationalist, policy-making types, have presumed again and again that Sunnis can be played against Shiites, and the radicals can be played against the even more radical, when to all of those involved in the jihad the main target will always remain western civilization as a whole, from the Great Satan to the smallest european state.

 Update: Silly me. This post talking about efforts to split and undermine the Islamist movement, is the perfect opportunity to mention yet again, the vital importance of the “Islam against the Islamist” film, which is being censored and blacklisted. As Christine reported here a screening of the video was shown to congress members and their staff this week, as part of the effort to force the corporation for public broadcasting to either show the video, or release the rights for the film back to its producers, so that the film can be shown somewhere. Remember this film was produced with a PBS grant, which essentially means its US tax-payer property. The film screening was Wednesday, but there is still time to contact your representative or senator and tell them that you want this film released.

 http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Note: this is an update of a list originally posted on 12/15/2006.

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