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You may have noticed that the site has been down for considerable periods over the last week, and now it appears to be impossible to comment. We seem to have been subjected to a concerted DOS attack from the freedom-loving people who dislike our message of resistance to jihad and Islamic supremacism.

This has been very difficult, as I have no technical knowledge, and am trying to figure out the best course of action among several differing recommendations made to me by different people. In any case, I hope the site will be fully operational very soon, and ask for your patience.

And many thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for his show of support.

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Testing to see if this comment sticks. I haven't noticed the site having problems, but I'm glad that it appears to have returned!

Well, I've gotten through after a few failed attempts last evening and today. You can always count on the totalitarian mindset, be it the Far Left, Muslim, Neo-Nazi, whatever, to eradicate free speech whenever given the chance. Liberty and totalitarianism must, by default, be eternal enemies of one another.

Welcome back, Robert!

I tried to log in using Typepad several times during the day, and had assumed that the fault was theirs! In fact, the error I was getting suggested that a file was lacking the correct permissions.

I'm glad it was only the jihadis being their usual vile selves, and not a serious technical problem!

Site must have been done in your time zone. Have seen none of it from here so far.

i'm happy that Robert and JW "are back" as well

i received a similar message. followed a link to seek "their" explanation about what was happening. after some time, received and answer back: they couln't help me without my establishing an account and signing in with a whole bunch of info i know nothing about ... and another link wanted to sell something

at any rate, it doesn't appear that the Allah god (unknowable; as imagined) has changed from charging its subject to fulfull its blood lust.

that's subjects and probably should read SLAVES

Yes—I had trouble yesterday. The trouble seemed to start right as I had finished composing a lengthy comment, and before I could post it. Those words are now lost to the ages...

After that, I couldn't access anything but the home page for Jihad Watch for several hours—I couldn't go into the stories or read any of the comments.

I also got an email from Dumbledore's Army saying that she could not post or even read comments here.

Even before this, it has become a lot harder to post here at JW—up until the crisis a couple of months ago, I had to re-sign-in maybe once a week—now it's usually several times a day.

I've even signed in, and found that by the time I've written my comment that I have to sign in again—that the system doesn't recognize that I'm already signed in.

I know a lot of other people have had trouble, too—which is probably why the comments streams are in general so much shorter than they used to be.

And—a minor issue in the scheme of things, I realize—we're back to "submit", rather than "publish". The former seems a bit ironic for a site that resists submission...(and yes, I understand the various meanings of the word).

And I know it is even worse on other Anti-Jihad sites—Ali Sina's "Faith Freedom" site gets hacked and shut down all the time.

Thanks for the update, Mr. Spencer—and best of luck with this ongoing issue.

yes. me too. I had a couple of minor problems but managed to log in. and I am in the 1950's technology, so if I could get in that means there is not much of a probelm.
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I am in. So the war of information is increasing day by day. Our administration is still trying to whitewash the Islamic war on us. What a surreal time we live in. I am still amazed the willing ignorance we have towards our sworn enemies, Islamists.

I had all sorts of problems yesterday, and eventually contacted Mr Spencer and got a brief reply letting me know that the site *was* under attack (i.e. that the problem was not with me at my end, that there really was something going on).

But all is well at the moment.

it seems Mr Spencer needs a few good cyber-savvy folks within call at all times.

Do we have any cybernerds out there, lurking and reading, who might be able to offer their assistance in future, pro bono?

With the number of jihadis employed in the IT industry, I'm not surprised that computers are hacked and bought down. What is of concern is their ability to strip out the mailing list and along with it private details and email addresses of subscribers. It is only a short step from there to get residential addresses and phone numbers of those who support Robert and JW.

I too found the connection yesterday a bit sticky, and assumed it was system overload.

Welcome back everyone...

Testing...seems routine o.k. from here in Deepest Central Maryland via Typepad.

It looks like Jihad Watch had more trouble this morning. Glad to see it back—hope this time it's for good.

"With the number of jihadis employed in the IT industry, I'm not surprised that computers are hacked and bought down. What is of concern is their ability to strip out the mailing list and along with it private details and email addresses of subscribers. It is only a short step from there to get residential addresses and phone numbers of those who support Robert and JW."

I use email accounts that contain false information about my name, address, etc. Who in their right mind would dutifully put in their real information into an email account that they would then use for showing support in an anti-Islam forum...?

Well, David, you bring up an interesting aspect of the overall problem. I'm not sure, though, that the Counter-Jihad unanimously agrees to disparage those of its members who choose to remain anonymous. We in the West continue to be in a situation where the people who's job it is to protect our right to free speech on this issue are not doing their job. Secondly, I beg to differ that this war of ideas we are in cannot be advanced (and may even be necessarily hampered) unless everyone "outs" themselves at this stage of the process we find ourselves in currently.

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