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The thing about websites, forums, and mailing lists, is that you can never get the true feel from a description designed to make it sound horrible. For all we know, the messages that they read could be considered the trolls of the mailing list. Even if they weren't, Internet forums is still a sticky subject. People say a lot of stupid things, discussions can get heated, people can troll, people can exaggerate their beliefs to get a better response, and sometimes there are just nuts who use the Internet to let our their ideas that no one will listen to in real life. The sites could have been designed to support and recruit terrorists, but you can never really know, and there certainly wasn't enough evidence to point fingers at a moderator of the mailing list.

The Quran is also available in MP3 format: In original Arabic (many reciters to choose from) and original Arabic with an English interpretation

The Quran is also available in MP3 format: In original Arabic (many reciters to choose from) and original Arabic with an English interpretation

From Is Jihad only permitted for the purpose of defense?:

I checked out your link. It seems that it is dead. I guess the good people at Islam Way never said any of that ominous sounding stuff about proactive Jihads. Pardon me while I breathe a sigh of relief.

I want to thank Baldrson for posting such a heavily linked article - it's always interesting what gems get turned up when such happens.

For instance, I randomly decided to check out the Islam Way webpage, and I found a really thoughtful essay concerning responsibility for last week's tragedy, which attempts to take an unbiased look at world grief and anger, and how we ought to respond.

Oh, and it's written by a CS student at UMich. Always intriguing. Mad respef to Tariq for this one.

May God have mercy on us all.

Islam might forbid it but islamway.com does not.

From Is Jihad only permitted for the purpose of defense?:
"Allah commands waging all-out Jihad against polytheists and fighting them even in their lands 'until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah' (Al-Baqarah: 193).... [Everyone] should realize that contemporary thinkers are wrong in claiming that Jihad has been permitted only for the purpose of defense (counter-attack)."

It was certainly not their attitude when terrorists killed 100 people in Kashmir (India) when they published this message which exhorts people to "come forward, join Jaish-i-Muhammads allallahu `alaihe wassalaam and enjoy the taste of this glorious Jihad."

If you have any lingering doubts as to islamway.com's attitudes, check out this article praising the Taliban for destroying the Buddhist statues.

For the record I'm opposed to censorship, both online and off, and agree with those who have suggested that's it's better to permit (and watch) such sites than to send them underground.

But make now mistake, islamway.com is an extremist group, advocating violence under the banner of 'jihad'.

Islam might forbid it but islamway.com does not.

From Is Jihad only permitted for the purpose of defense?:
"Allah commands waging all-out Jihad against polytheists and fighting them even in their lands 'until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah' (Al-Baqarah: 193).... [Everyone] should realize that contemporary thinkers are wrong in claiming that Jihad has been permitted only for the purpose of defense (counter-attack)."

It was certainly not their attitude when terrorists killed 100 people in Kashmir (India) when they published this message which exhorts people to "come forward, join Jaish-i-Muhammads allallahu `alaihe wassalaam and enjoy the taste of this glorious Jihad."

If you have any lingering doubts as to islamway.com's attitudes, check out this article praising the Taliban for destroying the Buddhist statues.

For the record I'm opposed to censorship, both online and off, and agree with those who have suggested that's it's better to permit (and watch) such sites than to send them underground.

But make now mistake, islamway.com is an extremist group, advocating violence under the banner of 'jihad'.

Theres an english link at the corner of the page Rogr. It seems pretty harmless to me

to the original National Post article (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.h tml?f=/stories/20010816/648534.html) is here. (http://www.islamway.com/eng/html/article.php?sid= 110&mode=thread&order=0)

The entire story is based upon a posting by a private individual on Islamway's English language discussion board, in the context of an ongoing dialogue between two individuals. There are over 28,000 postings on the discussion board, with more than 34,000 visitors to the page everyday, and over 4,000 active members. Islamway is in no way responsible for the content of postings by private individuals, anymore than CNN.com or Yahoo! are responsible for the postings found on the discussion boards on their sites...A reporter from an Ottawa television station conveyed to Islamway staff that the Canadian authorities have dismissed the issue as baseless, and B'nai B'rith has refused any further comment.

- IslamWay.com's response

So first, everyone relax. It wasn't like the owner of this site was actively recruiting.

Second, it sounds like the Canadian government isn't interested in pursuing the issue, which is a relief.

And third, I don't see anyone pulling for net regulation when assholes in our own country start shouting, "Nuke them sand-niggers back into the stone age! I'm gonna get me one tonight!"

As a brief side note: I'd like to remind everyone that the people of Afghanistan live in terror of the Taliban. Please think of the ways they're suffering before blindly calling for their annihilation.

Islam Way uses slash. Good work.