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Transcript of Faisal Shahzad Guilty Plea

Court Transcript June 28, 2010.

Print: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

The former Elizabeth Arden account analyst testifies to being a “Muslim soldier” intent upon punishing the West for attacking “Muslim lands.”

No mosque at Ground Zero

Pat Condell June 9, 2010.

Video: YouTube

Pat Condell tells Americans why they should stop the planned building of a Mosque at Ground Zero.

The Making of a Terrorist

By ROBERT WRIGHT May 12, 2010.

Print: The New York Times

Robert Wright discovers (again!) that Islam is not a problem.

Militant Views Online Were Unknown to Neighbors

By IAN URBINA March 10, 2010.

Print: New York Times

Seemingly normal Pennsylvania woman turns into a radical jihadist after turning to Islam.

The Jihadist Next Door

By ANDREA ELLIOTT January 30, 2010.

Print: New York Times

This in-depth article tells the story of the transformation of Omar Hammami from a very Americanized child growing up in Alabama into a radical jihadist in Somalia.

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed with Secret “Jesus” Bible Codes

by Joseph Rhee, Tahman Bradley and Brian Ross January 19, 2010.

Print: ABC News

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. Biblical citations inscribed on U.S. military weapons is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament that reads “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Danish Cartoonist Calls Home Attack ‘Really Close’

By JOHN F. BURNS January 1, 2010.

Print: New York Times

Somali Muslim tried to kill the Danish cartoonist who drew cartoon of Mohammed, but was shot by the police in the attempt.  The Somali Islamist insurgent group Shabab applauded his efforts.

Jihad: The Musical is to open in London

Tim Walker December 20, 2009.

Print: The Telegraph

Even before it opened on the Edinburgh Festival fringe in 2007, there were calls for Jihad: The Musical to be boycotted by theatre-goers. Now Mandrake hears that the controversial production will open in London at the Jermyn Street Theatre early in the New Year. Although it features songs such as Building A Bomb Today and I Wanna Be Like Osama, Ben Scheuer, its composer and co-lyricist, insists that it is not in the worst possible taste.

Pakistan Detains Five Americans in Raid Tied to Militants

By SCOTT SHANE December 10, 2009.

Print: New York Times

Five American Muslims were recently arrested in Pakistan.  Before they left the U.S., one created a video calling for the defense of Muslims in conflicts with the West and suggesting that “young Muslims have to do something.”

Hard Evidence: Seven salient facts about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

By Christopher Hitchens November 17, 2009.

Print: Slate

Hitchens points out that the military leadership, in its call to “not jump to conclusions about Major Hasan”, are all bending over backwards to avoid linking Hasan’s religious faith to his killing spree.  He then duly lists out several obvious reasons to conclude that Hasan was, in fact, driven to his crime by his religion.

An interview with a Taliban Trained Suicide Bomber

Jirga November 13, 2009.

Video: Jirga

A Pakistani correspondent interviews an aspiring suicide bomber.

CFI Releases Statement from Ibn Warraq in Response to Fort Hood Tragedy

Ibn Warraq November 12, 2009.

Print: Center For Inquiry

Ibn Warraq discusses the terrorist attack at Fort Hood.

“They are black-eyed virgins ready for you”

MEMRI TV November 3, 2009.

Video: www.memritv.org

Following are excerpts from addresses by several Egyptian clerics on the subject of martyrdom and love of death. The programs aired on Al-Rahma TV and Al-Nas TV on January 2, 8, and 11, 2009.

A Call to Jihad From Somalia, Answered in the U.S.

By ANDREA ELLIOTT July 12, 2009.

Print: The New York Times

A far-flung jihadist movement has found a foothold in America’s heartland.

Meeting Somalia#8217;s Shabab: The next jihad

July 1, 2009.

Print: Economist

Fear and beheadings in the heartland of the militants

An alarming video every Westerner should see

memritv.org April 20, 2009.

Video: memritv.org

Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Nafisi Suggests a Biological Attack at the White House and Prays for the Bombing of a Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan.

My persecution by the Muslim McCarthyites

Taj Hargey April 9, 2009.

Times Online

Islam in Britain has been taken over by the followers of a distorted faith. We need a reformation to rescue it

Peace or Jihad? Abrogation in Islam Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience War and Peace -

Raymond Ibrahim February 15, 2009.

Pajamas Media

Jihad

March 10, 2009.