Counterjihadist blog Foehammer’s Anvil
is down for the time being.

This has happened before.

Evidently, someone at the Anvil’s current web hosting firm, LunarPages, does not want Foehammer’s message to get out.

Foehammer explains…

…unfortunately the trials of the Anvil continue. The site is down again. This time it may take me finding a new host in order to restore things. I’m done playing games with LunarPages.

The Anvil may be down for quite a few days, possibly weeks. Inform anyone that might inquire that I’m doing what I can, but this all comes at a very bad time for me to deal with and is not my doing.

Keep blogging!

Foehammer, we wish you the best and hope to see you back online soon. Of course, you are always more than welcome to post articles at 1389 Blog, or, if you prefer, when your own blog is back up, to post links to your articles from here.

More:

• Statement by Foehammer here and at his cached mirror site.
• More articles about Foehammer’s Anvil, and Foehammer’s battle against Islamic expansionism and pro-jihadist web censorship.

(Also at Fort Hard Knox.)

Update 1/22/08:

Foehammer’s Anvil is online! Be sure to visit!

What’s going on at Lunarpages?

The last time I tried to access Foehammer’s Anvil,
I got THIS:

Foehammer explains…

Foehammer recently answered a reader’s comment on his blog post, “Blog for a Year Contest Ends”:

Author: Foehammer
Comment:

Obviously Foehammer got the bug fixed.

I wish it had been a bug, but instead it was the intentional disabling of this site again by my hosting company Lunarpages. I am no longer going to hide their part in the several times that the Anvil has gone offline unexpectedly. They outsource their support but claim that they do not. I am quite suspicious that what is described to me in nebulous emails from Lunarpages as “script errors” that require blocking my site are simply transparent excuses made on the part of certain people that would much rather see this site off-line. Lunarpages should be supportive of my blog for the very simple reason that I am a good customer and pay my bills and run a clean blog, but apparently that is not good enough anymore. Instead, I am expected to be bled dry for what little I might be able to afford in order to maintain a blog that has seen its traffic dwindle in no small part but as a result of such mischief as transpired earlier this week.

Between sites like Digg and my own hosting troubles, vicious personal attacks from religious zealots masquerading as anti-hate police and all the rest of the nuts that even have gone so far as to threaten my life, it can be of little wonder to anyone that is paying even scant attention that I am disgusted and no longer view this fight the same as I did a year ago.

The Internet is a battle ground between those who dare to put forth the Truth and those cowards that would run from it or those enemies that would hide it. Well, as I have intimated before, the Net is no longer enough. I will take my message and put it into play in new ways over the course of the coming decades. In time I will be vindicated on multiple levels by way of the simple expanse of history as it unfolds before us, but beyond that, I will do my own part in creative ways to defeat Islamism and the lemmings that would bring it to the USA.

A few bumps in the Information Highway are not going to stop me and they shouldn’t stop any of us that care about the Truth and the Future.

Evading accountability at Lunarpages

1389, and other Foehammer fans, promptly contacted Lunarpages tech support by email at support@lunarpages.com, as indicated in their message.

Subject: foehammer.net DOWN – please restore access

Dear sir or madam:

I have repeatedly tried to access http://foehammer.net and I keep getting a message from Lunar Pages tech support saying that the site is down.

foehammer.net is a good anti-jihadist news and commentary site. Perhaps someone who wants to sabotage that valuable service is tampering with the site.

But all I got was some guff requiring me to prove that I was the owner of foehammer.net (which I obviously am not) in order to report a problem with accessing it. This insulates Lunarpages support staff from having to deal with multiple complaints if they have wrongfully taken down a site that is relied upon by a community of users.

For that reason, we have provided contact information for Add2Net, the parent company of Lunarpages/Lunarservers. Have at it, everyone!

Contact Information

(Add2Net is the parent company of Lunarpages/Lunarservers.)

Add2Net Corporate Headquarters
100 E. La Habra Blvd.
La Habra, CA 90631

Telephone: (714) 521-8150)

Fax: (714) 521-8195

• info@add2net.com
• sales@add2net.com
• support@add2net.com
• webmaster@add2net.com

Also see:

• Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Foehammer’s Anvil taken down by its provider
• Hartos de ZPorky: Suspendida otra web antijihadista
• Right Truth: Rudy Giuliani running out of money
• Right Truth: Gitmo plaintiffs lose lawsuit
• Shhhh Quiet! Censorship in Progress (The Coming of the Indoctrimemes)

(Also at Fort Hard Knox.)

Rolling Updates

• 1/12/08, 1:36 AM EST: The Anvil is up again. However, the issue is that the site has repeatedly been taken down, so we will continue to monitor it. It is not much use for a site that focuses primarily on US issues to be up only in the middle of the night in US time zones.

  Foehammer left the following comment, by way of explanation:
  

  The Anvil is back online but I do not know how long this will last. My hosting company is continuing to claim that my site is eating resources at an inordinate rate and I see no evidence of this on my end. I am at their mercy and I no longer have the patience to tackle the technical side of this any deeper than I have.

  Do not panic if the Anvil goes off-line again; in fact, expect it.

• La página de Foehammer suspendida por su proveedor
• 1/19/08: Foehammer’s Anvil blog taken down by LunarPages
• 1/20/08: Experiencing difficulties beyond my control

Update 1/22/08:

Foehammer’s Anvil is online! Be sure to visit!

This is no ordinary lawsuit.

Boycott Islam Shut Off Terror Funding

You may recall that CAIR recently launched a boycott against companies that advertise on Michael Savage’s radio show.

CAIR’s aim was to force him off the air for having exposed jihadist activity in the US and elsewhere.

Some of us have organized a counter-boycott – against those companies that have caved to CAIR’s bullying demands by withdrawing their sponsorship from Savage’s show. Together with Foehammer’s Anvil and Atlas Shrugs, 1389 Blog has been publicizing this counter-boycott against CAIR.

Here is the list of companies and products
(updates are in progress).

Savage also filed suit against CAIR for copyright violation.

But now, Michael Savage is taking the battle further into enemy territory.

Atlas Shrugs: Savage Lawsuit: CAIR and 9/11

Michael Savage deserves a medal.

While big, ginormous media talking heads like Bill O’Reilly and CNN et al continue to give CAIR respect and a platform to spout their treasonous garbage in attempt to spread the death cult of Islam, Savage is fighting the enemy in our midst and revealing them to be what they truly are – he Islamic enemy within.

And I don’t care if you like Savage or not, on this we are one and must all get behind it. He is righteous in this and deserves our full support.

CAIR uses the legal system to beat truth tellers into submission. We must respond in kind. Let’s use the discovery phase to get to the bottom of CAIR’s nefarious dealings. This is an opportunity. It is time we lifted up the rock ….SAVAGE!

Contribute to his legal fund.

Michael Savage lawsuit links CAIR to 9/11 plot – (WND hat tip wolf)

Talker amends lawsuit against organizer of Muslim boycott to include RICO charges

WASHINGTON – It’s no longer just a charge of copyright violation in the case of Michael Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Now the radio talk star is going for the legal jugular in his battle with the group that bills itself as a Muslim civil rights organization.

The San Francisco-based talker has amended his lawsuit against CAIR for misusing audio clips of his show as part of a boycott campaign against his three-hour daily program to include charges the group "has consistently sought to silence opponents of violent terror through economic blackmail, frivolous but costly lawsuits, threats of lawsuits and abuses of the legal system."

The amended lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, also charges CAIR with using extortion, threats, abuse of the court system, and obtaining money via interstate commerce under false and fraudulent circumstances – calling it a "political vehicle of international terrorism" and even linking the group with support of al-Qaida.

The federal government recently named CAIR, based in Washington, D.C., as an unindicted co-conspirator in an alleged scheme to funnel $12 million to the terrorist group Hamas.

Also see:

• 1389 Blog articles about Michael Savage
• Counterterrorism Blog: Summary of Special Panel on Holy Land’s Ties to Hamas & Muslim Brotherhood
• $156 million jihad terror damage award thrown out, CAIR thrilled, family issues statement

This just in:

Florida United American Committee (FLUAC) Set to Protest Outside Islamist Campout

Terrorist supporters CAIR and the ICNA are sponsoring an Islamist camping event in Florida which no one is allowed to attend unless they are Muslim. The Orlando chapter of the United American Committee will be holding a protest during the event on December 29th from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at the entrance area in front of of Wekiwa Springs State Park, 1800 Wekiwa Circle Apopka, Florida. For more information on the protest see the press release below or please contact the Florida UAC at florida@unitedamericancommittee.org.

For Immediate Release

GROUPS WITH TIES TO TERRORISTS SPONSOR MUSLIM YOUTH CAMPOUT. FLUAC SET TO PROTEST

Yaya Abous of ICNA said, “Non-Muslim children are put on an indefinite waiting list and discouraged from attending”. Florida United American Committee will protest against what they deem is a discriminatory camping event on December 29th from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at the entrance area in front of of Wekiwa Springs State Park, 1800 Wekiwa Circle Apopka, Florida.

(Orlando, FL) The Central Florida Branch of the United American Committee (UAC) has uncovered information the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have irrefutable ties to terrorist and terrorist supporting organizations. ICNA and CAIR will be sponsoring a Muslim Youth Camp at Wekiwa State Park on December 29-31, 2007 funded partially by your tax dollars via Doc Stamp revenue.

ICNA currently has deep ties with the Terrorist Group called The Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). ICNA was the top donor to a JI charity that, just one year ago, provided $99,000 to the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal.

CAIR national spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.” (Statement by Ibrahim Hooper, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 1993)

Randall Todd “Ismail” Royer, a former communications & civil rights specialist for CAIR, according to AP “Royer…admitted helping members of the conspiracy join the militant Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting use of a firearm in a crime of violence and aiding and abetting the carrying of an explosive during commission of a felony. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.” When ICNA, CAIR, and Young Muslims congregate at Wekiwa Springs State Park, Apopka, FL, they will be doing so under the guise of moderate, mainstream Muslim organizations, when in fact they are nothing more than support networks for terrorists domestically and overseas.

The FLUAC plan on making their voice heard at this event. Please join the United American Committee in protesting ICNA, CAIR, and their ties to international terrorism.

Official Press Release with Contact Information

A big stein hoist and a very merry Christmas to Foehammer!

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See yesterday’s blog post:

Websense(less) plays censorship games on the enemy team.

Websense is up to its old tricks again – blacklisting counter-jihadist sites by assigning them to the wrong categories. As a result, many workplaces, schools, and WiFi sites that use Websense “content-filtering” or “censorware” services will automatically block readers from accessing those sites.

We don’t know whether people working for Websense, or malicious outsiders, have been mislabeling these websites – but whoever it is, they are helping our jihadist enemies, and we will not tolerate that.

“What message did you send to Websense?”

Here it is:

I request that http://foehammer.net (Foehammer’s Anvil) be reclassified as a news site. It is currently misclassified as a “games” site.

There are NO games on Foehammer’s Anvil. Instead, it is a a hard news and commentary site with no fluff. The Anvil offers a news aggregator regarding jihadist activity, plus articles and commentary about the U.S. and worldwide political scene as it relates to confronting (or failing to confront) jihadism. Furthermore, the admin keeps an eye out to exclude obscene vocabulary, threats, spam, and the like.

In addition, I request that you also reclassify http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com (Gates of Vienna) as a news and commentary site.

Like Foehammer’s Anvil, it is a counterterrorist site, whose admins carefully screen out bad language, threats, spam, and so forth. It differs from the Anvil in that it focuses somewhat more on European (including UK) counterterrorism news and views.

Counterterrorism news and debate is something that everybody needs in order to make intelligent decisions in the business world, in the voting booth, and elsewhere. Making it too easy to suppress this information helps our jihadist enemies, at everyone else’s expense.

“So why do I need to write?”

Because one person cannot do it all…

Do you value and appreciate good blogs?

If you do, you should be aware that blogs – even nonprofit blogs – don’t remain active unless their intended audience can access and read them. Anything that keeps readers away from a blog will hurt the blog’s chances of survival. So if you want your favorite blogs to be around a few months from now, you need to support them by making sure that nobody is “gaming the system” to obstruct reader access.

Do you value and appreciate your freedom?

Yes, sometimes you have to fight for your freedom – sometimes with the sword, sometimes with the pen, sometimes with both. Okay, these days, the armaments are likelier to involve tanks and fighter planes – along with computers and the Internet. Your email and your blog, if you have one, can be an effective weapon to fight for freedom. Use it!

“How do I get in touch with Websense?”

They don’t make it easy, but we found a way…

Contact Websense to request that Foehammer’s Anvil and Gates of Vienna be reclassified as news/opinion sites:

Websense Corporate Headquarters
Gene Hodges, CEO
Douglas C. Wride, President and CFO
10240 Sorrento Valley Rd
San Diego, California 92121 USA
Tel: +1 800.723.1166 or +1 858.320.8000
Fax: +1 858.458.2950
Websense Email Form
(Note: Websense will not accept the form if your email address is on a web-based server, such as Yahoo. If that’s a problem, then write or call them up and complain!)

Investor relations:
Kate Patterson, VP of Investor Relations
Tel: 877-273-7379 or 858-320-8072
Fax: 858-458-2959
Email: kpatterson@websense.com

Learn More:

• Blocking Services as Censorship; Who Decides What’s Naughty or Nice?
  Reader’s blog post raises some interesting issues.
• Censorship Update 12/18/2007
  Reader email complains that WebSense is blocking Gates of Vienna.
• Censorware is Outta Control! (Calling all CyberWarriors)
  Use these links to find out which sites are being blocked.
• Stop Blog Censorship! Resource Page:
  Read our FAQ, join our blogroll, and get the badge!

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Here we go again…

Having just posted yesterday’s article about censorware vendor WebSense blocking access to Gates of Vienna, I emailed GoV about it to let them know. Seems that, like many of us in the counterjihad, they’d had trouble before with content-filtering firms blacklisting their site, but they couldn’t recall which one.

I didn’t have that information at my fingertips, so while I was waiting for further instructions at work, I thought I’d take a look at the censorship category at Foehammer’s Anvil. There was a good chance that a blog post or comment would identify the censorware firm(s) that had previously bedeviled GoV.

I was startled to find that Websense had blocked me from Foehammer’s Anvil:

Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
The web page you have attempted to access has been deemed inappropriate.
Accessing this material is a violation of [company's] Computer Usage Policy.

Reason: The Websense category “Games” is filtered.

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URL: http://foehammer.net/category/censorship/

Continued attempts to access this type of content will result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.
If this site has legitimate business value and needs to be unblocked please click here, select your site, System/Appl. Access, and select Internet Web Site Blocking/Unblocking request. The helpdesk cannot grant access.
Please note that internet radio, online shopping, and photo hosting sites are not considered to have legitimate business value.

No games at the Anvil

Games? The Anvil doesn’t offer any games or other entertainment. It’s a hard news and commentary site with no fluff. The Anvil offers a news aggregator regarding jihadist activity, plus articles and commentary about the U.S. and worldwide political scene as it relates to confronting (or failing to confront) jihadism. Foehammer keeps an eye out to exclude obscene vocabulary, threats, spam, and the like.

Suppose some joker who sympathizes with our enemies wants a clever way to keep Foehammer from exposing so many people to unflattering news about jihadist wrongdoing. So the joker calls or emails WebSense and asks them to categorize the Anvil as a games site. I suppose that, to someone at Websense who has never visited Foehammer’s Anvil, the name might sound as though it could possibly be a games site. So WebSense happily obliges. The Anvil is classified as a games site, so that any company or other venue that uses WebSense to block access to games sites will automatically lock out the Anvil.

In this way, we are letting our enemies game the system by manipulating these censorware vendors into muzzling our communications.

If anything, we should be curtailing the distribution of enemy propaganda and disinformation, such as videos that encourage children to become suicide bombers, instead of allowing our avowed enemies to censor communications that we need to defend ourselves effectively.

Too many games at WebSense

Websense unfortunately requires registration to use their site lookup tool, a policy which is highly objectionable in itself. Anybody should be able to see which sites are being blacklisted. So much for accountability to the public!

Therefore, the last time I contacted Websense in order to complain about another site they had misclassified, I used the Websense Email Form.

But when I clicked on that form to to send my message, the Websense email form rejected it because I had entered a “public” (i.e., web-based) email address. Another barrier to accountability!

Even though I was thoroughly disgusted by that petty little ploy, I went ahead and sent the form, but I had to give a personal email address that I would much rather not have used.

“What to do?”

• Contact Websense to request that Foehammer’s Anvil and Gates of Vienna be reclassified as news/opinion sites:
  

  Websense Corporate Headquarters
  Gene Hodges, CEO
  Douglas C. Wride, President and CFO
  10240 Sorrento Valley Rd
  San Diego, California 92121 USA
  Tel: +1 800.723.1166 or +1 858.320.8000
  Fax: +1 858.458.2950
  Websense Email Form
  (Note: WebSense does not accept the form if sender’s email address is on a web-based server, such as Yahoo. If that’s a problem, then write or call them up and complain!)

  Investor relations:
  Kate Patterson, VP of Investor Relations
  Tel: 877-273-7379 or 858-320-8072
  Fax: 858-458-2959
  Email: kpatterson@websense.com

Learn More:

• Censorship Update 12/18/2007
  Reader email complains that WebSense is blocking Gates of Vienna.
• Censorware is Outta Control! (Calling all CyberWarriors)
  Use these links to find out which sites are being blocked.
• Stop Blog Censorship! Resource Page:
  Read our FAQ, join our blogroll, and get the badge!

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From Foehammer’s Anvil:

The Religion of Peace Needs Our Help!

No, not that ‘Religion of Peace.’

This one.

An individual that I refuse to name here again (but many of my regular readers will know of and who’s name may be found quoted below) has targeted the gentle folks at The Religion of Peace in an effort to shut down the site just as he attempted to shut down the Anvil and Jihad Watch and others. The results of this phony reverend’s actions provoked a number of internet companies to incorrectly categorize The Religion of Peace. These incorrect categories have caused the site to be listed as a hate site, and consequently blocked by some servers. I know that the accusations made by Sutter, and the various companies are patently false. The Religion of Peace provides accurate facts about Islam – not lies. The site is not racist. Islam is not a race but a political and cultist ideology. The Religion of Peace speaks out against all violence that is directed towards non-Muslims and Muslims alike.

From the editor at TheReligionofPeace.com:

Anyone who has a blog that attempts to defend the west from radical Islam or Marxists knows that they are constantly at risk of being labeled racist, and shut down by individuals and organizations who do not want the truth to be known. The efforts to silence our voices will increase. We are all in this fight together. Therefore, it would be greatly appreciated if all of you would post a notice on your blogs, urging your readers to support The Religion of Peace by sending protest e-mails to the offending companies. Islam and the thought police are coming after all of us. Free speech is in jeopardy. We need to pull together into a strong and united force to combat those who intend to crush us.

I have permission to make this appeal on their behalf and I am happy to do so.

Please write to the email addresses listed below and state clearly that The Religion of Peace -

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

(include the url in the e-mails) is against violence, not racist and should be categorized appropriately under labels such as General News, Politics and Religion.

• Secure Computing: sites@securecomputing.com
• SonicWall: cfssupport@sonicwall.com
• SurfControl: customerservice@surfcontrol.com

Here is in-depth analysis of the situation and the problem:

Case Study: TheReligionofPeace.com

How did Jim Sutter manage to get an anti-violence and anti-hate website by an anti-racialist owner classified as “violent,” “obscene,” “hateful,” and “racist?” Here is the story from the preferably anonymous editor of TROP.

About TheReligionofPeace.com

From the Editor of TheReligionofPeace.com:

TROP was originally started in 2002 to help Muslims understand that there are more important things going on in the world than a woman being asked to remove her veil in front of a judge, or a Muslim man getting his feelings hurt at an airline security gate.

In an effort to spark moral perspective on the part of organizations like CAIR, we document acts of deadly violence committed in the name of Islamic supremacy, similar to the way other sites compile data on victims of all supremacist ideologies, whether racial, ethnic or nationalist.

In addition to maintaining a database of terrorist attacks, TROP presents news and articles from the Muslim world, as well as open reference information for anyone beginning research into Islam. We do not promote a particular religion and we try to stay non-partisan.

Although we obviously oppose the doctrinal elements of Islam that inspire violence or are in contradiction to liberal values, TROP has always taken a strong, documented stand against judging individuals by their group identity. In many places on our site we openly denounce harming, harassing or stereotyping any Muslim based on his or her religion.

Our site also has a record of acknowledging and condemning rare acts of violence against Muslims by American criminals, either in the U.S. or overseas. We publicly oppose desecrating the Qur’an and do not even use the term ‘Islamofascism” in our writings. Since we only want to publish truthful information, we welcome dialogue and post any corrections that are proven necessary to us.

We focus on the moral failings of Islam and its incompatibilities with Western values, including women’s rights, democratic freedoms, religious tolerance, and (ironically) freedom of expression among others. Nevertheless, we try to be balanced and accurate in our writing and to avoid using absolutes. We also make a documented effort to discourage bigoted thinking.

Although our site has nothing to do with race, we have let it be known that we are anti-racialist. Over the years, we have championed the cause of Africans, Arabs, Hindus, Buddhists and anyone else victimized in the name of Islam. We have received praise from liberals, conservatives, Jews, Christians, Hindus, atheists, gays and even a few disenchanted Muslims.

Jim Sutter Targets TheReligionofPeace.com

In July of 2007, I was contacted by a man eventually calling himself “Reverend Jim Sutter” regarding my website, TheReligionofPeace.com (TROP).

Sutter at first played the “Bad Cop” under an alias, claiming that ours site is a “hate site:”

“I will make it my business and consider it a solemn duty to condemn and expose the site called thereligionofpeace. IMO it is no different in any discernable way than a site run by Al Qaeda, the KKK, or the Nazi party.”

I replied politely to Sutter, pointing out that he was going to need to do more than just state an opinion, and I challenged him to support what he was saying. I told him that I was open-minded and would make any corrections that he could prove needed to be made. I also directed him to a page on our site in which we plainly separate ourselves from the insidious organizations to which he associated us.

In his reply, Sutter made it rather evident that he did not read the page to which we had directed him:

“You invite me to read “what to do about” which is just another bigoted exhortation to hate & violence. Wow. Then we have you writing this “this makes me suspicious”. That figures too, since paranoia usually accompanies bigotry.”

I then spelled out out for him what he was unwilling to read for himself – that TROP openly and unambiguously denounces all forms of violence and bigotry. The writings that we post which are critical of Islam are solidly supported by the Qur’an, Hadith, Sira (biography of Muhammad) and the historical record.

Sutter then contacted us the next day under his real name, pretending to have seen the site for the first time and clearly wearing the “Good Cop” hat. He complimented us on TROP, but suggested the changes that we needed to make in order to meet with his approval. I generously ignored his earlier correspondence and entered into a lengthy dialogue of about 20 e-mail messages, in which I challenged him to prove that his requested modifications were necessary.

(It is important to note that Sutter never once accused TROP of being either a “hate” site or a “racist” site once he began using his real name. I suspect that he told the URL search engines something entirely different in order to punish me for not backing down to his demands.)

Over the next week or so, I noticed a pattern with Sutter:

1. He would say things that weren’t true. A good example:

   “The FBI states that hate crimes against Muslims currently number higher than against any other group. Those hate crimes include murder, arson, rape, and kidnapping.”

   This is blatantly false, of course. No Muslims have been raped or kidnapped in America because of their religion, and 70% of the targets of religious hate crime are Jewish. (source)

2. When caught, Sutter would always ignore any lies, no matter how freshly told. This happened when I sent him the above link and asked three times where he got his erroneous information. I got no reply. It became obvious that he was making things up, but there was not the slightest bit of shame or even an attempt to divert blame. It was as if he felt entitled to say anything he pleased – all while making his usual claims of “fact, logic and evidence.”

3. Sutter would play games in his replies. Sometimes he would plagiarize entire sections of text from other sources and pretend that they were his own words. Often times he would ignore an argument that wasn’t going his way, and simply not quote it in his reply. Sometimes he would be intentionally naive, and pretend not to understand ideas that were made quite obvious.

When I realized that Sutter was not taking the conversation seriously, I let him know that there was no basis for our continuing the discussion. (I dialogue with sincere objectors, but I simply don’t have time to get into food fights with disingenuous hacks).

It was only about a week later that I began hearing from military families and ordinary Internet users who were unable to get to our site. Despite being unable to make his case against us in open debate, Sutter decided to make good on his original threats to us:

“I’m contacting the proprietors of several databases of internet hate-sites to report thereligionofpeace, this will have the effect of blocking your site from being referenced, linked or quoted on the many discussion forums that bar those listed hate-sites, such as democratic underground.”

After operating for five years without any sort of problems, Secure Computing, SurfControl and SonicWall had TROP blocked overnight by wrongfully classifying our site according to Jim Sutter’s demands… all because we would not adopt his political and theological positions!

The correspondence with Internet censors concerning our site is not public information, but it is obtainable through a court order, since these are public corporations. Only then will I know whether Sutter used his real name, an alias, or had one of his gullible groupies do the dirty work for him. I do know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he is behind the censorship and miscategorizing of our site as well as the many other anti-Jihad sites across the Internet that have suffered recent problems.

Sutter is very good at sounding important. He often recites a small handful of court cases in order to embellish his correspondence with the Internet’s largest censors (although even a small dose of legal research will find that these are not what they appear). Still, there is something terribly wrong with the system when one small bully is allowed to dictate personal ideological standards to large corporations and thus millions of Internet users.

Aftermath

The damage that Jim Sutter and others, including SonicWall, Secure Computing and SurfControl, have done is going to take months, perhaps years to rectify. For my site to be labeled as hate speech, “obscene” or “extreme” merely because we object to the extremist elements of the Islamic religion is anti-intellectual and smacks of McCarthyism.

How is it that a website primarily concerned with ending violence against people just because they worship a different god is labeled extreme and obscene? Have we really reached such a low point in America when one is not free to criticize violence and religious totalitarianism?

The association of TROP by SonicWall and the others with “racist” and “hate” sites is particularly slanderous to me, since I have a strong and provable record of actively opposing bigotry and racism, both professionally and personally. Anti-racialism and the utter ridiculousness of even categorizing people by race is one of the major themes of the novel that I wrote several years ago, for example. I also have a family member, who published a book about her childhood experience in a Nazi concentration camp, and who would be quite surprised by these public slurs.

For Jim Sutter to punish people like me for petty personal grudges is one thing. For companies like Sonic Wall, Secure Computing and SurfControl to go along with it is absolutely unconscionable.

Exhibits

How do the censors rate TROP against sites that are pro-Jihad or blatantly anti-Christian?

Let’s use answering-christianity.com and JihadUnspun.com as examples.

“Answering-Christianity” is a Muslim site that is dedicated to promoting Islam and trashing Christianity using distortion and misinformation. The author once started to create a list of “Christian Terrorist Attacks” that he promised would be “5,000 times worse” than our list. He quit after only a few dozen entries that included such gems as terror attacks by Columbian drug lords and a 40-year-old church bombing by the Klan.

The editors of Jihad Unspun are blatant apologists for Islamic terrorism. They proudly make the connection between Islam and terrorism a lot more forcefully than does TROP, and they even criticize other Muslims for not joining. Recently, they posted a flattering review of Osama Bin Laden’s videotaped address, complimenting the man who massacred thousands of Americans for inviting the survivors to embrace Islam.

Like TROP, Jihad Unspun reports Islamic terrorism. They report suicide bombings as ‘martyrdom attacks’ and provide justification for other ‘Mujahideen’ violence. They also inflate casualties from attack by several factors and even make up attacks that never happened.

So, how do Secure Computing, SurfControl and SonicWall feel about this?

Secure Computing

Secure Computing says that TROP is “Extreme, Violent, Obscene and Mature.” However, it merely categorizes “Answering Christianity” as “Religion and Ideology.” (Secure Computing and Answering Christianity).

Secure Computing also rates “Jihad Unspun” as “General News, Politics and Religion” (Secure Computing and Jihad Unspun)

SurfControl

SurfControl says that TROP is “Violent,” however, the pro-Jihad and consistently unreliable “Jihad Unspun” is categorized as “News.” (SurfControl) One also wonders why the list of terror attacks on TROP counts as violence, but not the list of attacks on IraqBodyCount.net (which is categorized as “Politics”) nor that of Antiwar.com (“News”).

SonicWall

SonicWall is particularly shameful. They say that TROP is “Violence/Hate/Racism” even though we are actually opposed to all three of these. But the company actually ranks the anti-Christian site, “Answering Christianity,” as “Religion” and the pro-terror “Jihad Unspun” site as “News and Media.” (SonicWall and TROP, SonicWall and Answering Christianity, SonicWall and Jihad Unspun).

PhonyRev.com

Also see:

Gates of Vienna: Sutter Strikes Again

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	Boycott Islam

Boycotts work both ways, bozos!

The radical Islamist pressure group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) has been organizing a boycott of the sponsors of radio talk show host Michael Savage because of his fine work in making everyone aware of the dangers of expansionist Islam. Sometimes he spoke a bit roughly with the more obnoxious and deluded callers who plague every radio host.

But keep this in mind, and remember it well: even at his harshest, Michael Savage goes far easier on his talk show callers than do Islamists when they talk about non-Muslims, all over the world, every single day.

Once again, CAIR is playing the poor, pitiful victim card, branding Savage as the bad guy here, as they always do.

We’re making a list, we’re checking it twice…

We can fight back by making it clear that we will NOT buy from any company that has pulled its advertising from Michael Savage’s show, or from any other medium, in response to pressure by CAIR.

Details here!

• Atlas Shrugs: Boycott OfficeMax: Submits to CAIR
  

  If CAIR can pressure companies, why can’t we? According to day’s CAIR alert, Scandal ridden Officemax succumbed to CAIR thuggery. What p–s! Never again will I shop there ……….. Contact their management and let them know what you think.

  OFFICEMAX DROPS MICHAEL SAVAGE ADS OVER ANTI-ISLAM BIAS

  (WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/15/2007) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced that OfficeMax, a leading office products retailer, has joined a growing list of companies that have stopped advertising on Michael Savage’s nationally-syndicated radio program because of the host’s anti-Muslim views…

  Now they are trying to bully JC Penney. Write JC Penney and let them know how you feel. NOW
  

• Internet Haganah: Jihadists notice Michael Savage
  

  We suppose congratulations are in order.

• AdWeek: Citrix Pulls Spots From ‘Savage Nation’
  

  NEW YORK Software maker Citrix Systems has pulled its ad support for syndicated radio talk show Savage Nation, the advertiser has confirmed.

• Foehammer’s Anvil: Boycott Islam!

  A wealth of information is available here at this category link.

• Islamic attacks on Savage target advertisers

  Added 11/28/07:

  Talk show trend-setter continues highlighting Muslim agenda

  Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Savage, whose program originates in San Francisco even though the city’s board of supervisors condemned his opinions, apparently is remaining largely unaffected by a campaign to put pressure on his advertisers.

  And Savage, author of “The Savage Nation” and several other books, now is getting some support in his face-off with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

• ACT! For America!

  Added 12/1/07: This site fights back against the CAIR boycott of Savage’s advertisers.

• Speaking of CAIR, they target Savage – Savage sues

  Added 12/3/07: Stop by Gulf Coast Pundit Forums and say hello!

• Atlas Shrugs: UNIVERSAL DROPS SAVAGE: BOYCOTT UNIVERSAL ORLANDO

  Added 12/4/07: Add Universal Studios to your boycott list!

• CVF: Counter-boycott against Officemax, Walmart, Sears, JC Penny, ATT, Auto Zone, Universal Orlando Resorts

  Added 12/10/07: Updated boycott list.

• 1389 Blog articles about Michael Savage

  Added 1/22/08: Follow our coverage.

Let’s start with some comic relief…

Click here to view the Mo-Hamster Dance
(Wildly offensive, un-PC, NSFW, but FUNNY!)

…before we catch up on the news, some of which is funny also!

Pig Day in Padua

The Northern League is going full throttle in its opposition to the building of mosques. This story reminds me of the notorious pig’s blood caper at the mosque site in Copenhagen back in 2006, and also the weekly Friday pig races in Katy, Texas.

From AKI:

Italy: Pig’s walkabout on planned mosque site sparks protests

Padua, 12 Nov. – Muslims and non-Muslims have slammed the attempted ‘desecration’ of a plot of land earmarked for a mosque in the northern city of Padua by members of the anti-immigrant Northern League party who paraded a pig on the site over the weekend…

Viva Italia!

News from Sweden? Not so good…

Swedish Post Office refuses to handle a Mo-doggie

The Post Office refuses to deliver the Sweden Democrats’ party paper in Svedala [outside Malmö]. The reason is that Lars Vilks rondellhund is pictured in the papers. The Post Office fears that the mailmen could be threatened.

Aren’t the Swedish police supposed to be protecting Swedish postal employees? How about arresting those who threaten postal employees? What a concept!

Update: Boycotting Sverigedemokraterna

I reported on Monday that the Swedish Post Office refused to deliver the party newspaper of Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats) because it contained one of Lars Vilks’ Modoggie drawings.

Now a private delivery service has also refused to deliver the SD newspaper. According to today’s Sydsvenskan:

New boycott of materials from SD

Swedish Direct Commercial has also said no to distributing a campaign newspaper of the Sweden Democrats in Svedala, according to a press release from the Sweden Democrats.

…Swedish Direct Commercial has stated that they only distribute political information to the parties currently in parliament, says SD in the press release….

Now that’s a mighty flimsy excuse for refusing to deliver those papers.

Help us combat censorship of antijihadist blogs!

Helping TheReligionOfPeace.com in order to help ourselves

The Religion of Peace Needs Our Help! No, not that ‘Religion of Peace.’

This one.

An individual that I refuse to name here again (but many of my regular readers will know of and who’s name may be found quoted below) has targeted the gentle folks at The Religion of Peace in an effort to shut down the site just as he attempted to shut down the Anvil and Jihad Watch and others. The results of this phony reverend’s actions provoked a number of internet companies to incorrectly categorize The Religion of Peace. These incorrect categories have caused the site to be listed as a hate site, and consequently blocked by some servers.

Please visit this website and learn what you can do to help!

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We win, they lose!

From the redoubtable Jawa Report:

• Cyber Report of Loser’s Super Cyber Dud
• Al Qaeda’s Coming Cyber Attack Cancelled
• The Jawa Report: Al Qaeda Declares Internet Jihad
• Al Qaeda’s “Jihadi Battalions to Attack the Internet” Declaration (translation is here)

AQ is making threats. So what else is new?

Suffice it to say that 1389 won’t be staying up nights worrying about this.

Jihadis of every stripe have been trying to shut down opposition blogs and websites all along! Ever since there have been counterterrorist/anti-jihadist websites and blogs, there have been problems with pro-jihadist activity. It goes with the territory. We’ve dealt with hackers, trolls, cyberstalkers, DDOS attacks, abuse of “censorware” to block access to our sites, slander and defamation, frivolous (albeit expensive) lawsuits, death threats, actual physical attacks – you name it!

Guess what? We have been aware of the risks all along, and we know how to fight back. (See Dancho Danchev: Electronic Jihad v3.0 – What Cyber Jihad Isn’t if you’re curious about the techie details.) We’re still here, and we’re here to stay!

That said, let me remind everyone to continue to take appropriate precautions:

• Make sure that the latest versions of your anti-virus/anti-malware products are installed and configured correctly.
• Make sure that your operating system is up to date with all security-related patches.
• If you have a blog or website, take backups of everything and keep the backups in several places.
• If your site is unexpectedly down or cannot be accessed, contact your hosting provider immediately.
• If you are being attacked, please refer to our Stop Blog Censorship and Reference Material resource pages for more information about how to report it and what to do next. Also, please let us know by using this form to send us email.

Why did AQ announce this now?

Here’s one possibility: AQ is upset about the way things are going in Iraq. They’re forced to acknowledge that their posteriors are being kicked not only by US and coalition troops, but by the Iraqis themselves. (See “The darkness has become pitch black” – Osama bin Laden on Iraq situation.) The Jawa Report says that sources indicate that AQ may be turning more of its attention to Afghanistan, because it has no future in Iraq.

Numerous AQ attacks have been thwarted in various other places around the world. Yes, AQ is dangerous, but certainly not invincible. Not if we put our minds and hearts and strength into stopping them!

Also see:

• McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Cyber Jihad Isn’t Here Yet
• The Jawa Report: Open Source Assessment of al Qaeda and Taliban
• The Jawa Report: Al Qaeda Taking Over Taliban?
• Michael Yon Online Magazine: Iraqi Islamic Party Says al Qaeda Is Defeated
• Audio: Michael Yon on the Defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq
• Terrorism: Latest bin Laden message ‘the most important in al-Qaeda’s history’
• Cyber Jihad, Litigation Jihad Cyber Litigation Foiled
• WashTimes: Web sites ready for al Qaeda ‘morons’
• AP: Experts convene to discuss terrorists’ use of Internet

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SonicWALL finally unblocks Jihad Watch!

This calls for a PARTY!

JihadWatch Unblocked

Other bloggers who have been wrongfully blocked by SonicWALL or other censorware providers should read this article carefully. Also, please read the comments that follow. If necessary, do as Robert Spencer did and consult an attorney!

Also see:

• Stop Blog Censorship! Resource Page

Blogger WiredPig faces a takedown request

Musings of Wired Pig 2.1: Takedown Request (Updated)

WiredPig is a retired sheriff who is a prominent Twitter user and a web design/mobile computing expert. He recently got a takedown request that he believes may be bogus. He’s currently trying to determine the legitimacy of the request.

If you get a takedown request on your blog, please make an effort to verify that the request is legitimate and is not coming from a prankster!

Lawsuit Jihad

This could happen to any of us.
That said, the consequences of failing to confront jihadism would be even worse!
For what you can do to help, see:
Litigation Jihad Update 10/31/07 – Let’s DO something about it NOW!

• Front Page Magazine: Sued for Terror Watching
• Atlas Shrugs: Litigation Jihad! Sueing Anti-CAIR Leader into Submission

Attempted Murder: The Ultimate Censorship

• Foehammer’s Anvil: Murder Attempt on Anti-Islamists in Denmark
• Danish Counter-Islamization Leader Was Target of Assassination Attempt

We have to keep going nonetheless. After all, they can’t kill us all!

Italian Government Caves

• LGF: Dreaded Italian Toilet Seats of Blasphemy Seized by Authorities

  This one comes from the Muslim Brotherhood propaganda site IslamOnline, where they applaud Italian authorities for doing the bidding of seething Islamists threatening violence over another incident of “blasphemy:” Italy Seizes Quran-printed Toilet Seats.

  (Please note: the IslamOnline site has been previously identified as trying to install worms/viruses on visitors’ computers. Click through only if your anti-virus/anti-malware software is up to date.)

• Foehammer’s Anvil: Flush a Koran Smilie
  Antidote to dhimmitude!

Wiki page for reformist Irshad Manji vandalized, then reverted

• Talk:Irshad Manji – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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