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“Defensive Jihad” Is A Threat to All Human Rights

By Effendi | Published: April 26, 2010
“Jihad, whether of the defensive or offensive variety, constitutes a profound threat to all human rights. Amnesty International cannot afford to equate views that are underpinned by systematic discrimination towards women and minorities with those that respect all human rights. Senior human rights advocates and many people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America understand this [...]
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Amnesty Prefers Jihadists to Feminists

By Faisal | Published: April 12, 2010
It’s official. Amnesty International’s policy on human rights advocacy in Afghanistan or Pakistan encompasses your average jihadist’s right to wage “asymetrical resistance”. This means is that Amnesty has now decided that indiscriminate attacks by jihadists on their “enemies” which often includes the loss of life of innocent civilians is not antithetical to human rights. For [...]
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London Demonstration Against Attacks of Pahari People

By Effendi | Published: February 25, 2010
There is to be a demonstration for calling for protection of the Pahari people and peace in Chittagong Hill Tracts on Sunday 28 February. On Saturday 20th February, an outbreak of violence against the Jumma people of Khagrachari in Rangamati caused the deaths of 4 people, hundreds of homes torched, destruction of a temple and a [...]
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Abdulmutallab: Anwar al-Awlaki Told Me to Bomb Jet

By Effendi | Published: February 5, 2010
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has turned on his mentor, Anwar al-Awlaki: According to the source, Abdulmutallab told investigators he obtained the powerful explosives PETN and TATP in Yemen and was left on his own to decide when and how to bring down a plane, Milton reports. Abdulmutallab has apparently disclosed to investigators he picked Northwest Flight 253 [...]
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BREAKING NEWS: Attempted Terrorist Attack on Delta Airlines

By Guest | Published: December 26, 2009
This is a cross-post by Shiraz Maher from Standpoint Magazine. ******************** Peter Neumann from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College, provides some instant analysis of the attempted bombing of a Delta Airlines flight travelling from Amsterdam to Detroit. He’s got all the main bases covered, so I’ll only provide some footnotes [...]
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Merry Christmas

By admin | Published: December 24, 2009
The Spittoon would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and restful holiday period. Remember not to eat too many mince pies!
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Hope not Hate in Harrow

By Faisal | Published: December 14, 2009
SIOE Leader Stephen Gash had said that the SIOE demo at Harrow Central Mosque yesterday would attract 2,000 supporters out of the 3,200 he claimed as total membership for his organisation. However, the BBC reports that fifteen SIOE protesters turned up in Harrow. Although from my estimates, fifteen is possibly overly generous of Aunty. Asim Siddiqui [...]
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Combat 18 claims responsibility for terrorist attack

By Guest | Published: November 30, 2009
Combat 18 Russia is claiming responsibility for the recent terrorist attack on a passenger train. Many analysts are unconvinced. If it turns out the C18 claim is false, this is nonetheless a worrying development insofar as C18 Russia is clearly seeking to position itself as an active terrorist organisation. According to this report, the C18 statement reads: We, [...]
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Eid Mubarak

By admin | Published: November 27, 2009
The entire team here at the Spittoon would like to wish all our readers a very happy and blessed Eid ul-Adha.
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Followers of Anwar Al-Awlaki

By Effendi | Published: November 10, 2009
Over the next few days, The Spittoon and our friends over at Harry’s Place and Focus on Islamism will be looking at some of the British Islamist organisations and activists who admire, defend, campaign for, broadcast, showcase and otherwise support the jihadist preacher, Anwar Al-Awlaki. The list is extensive. Not least because Al-Awlaki, who is based [...]
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