Scruton igen!

Roger Scruton med ny artikel om byer, natur og arkitektur:

The Wilderness Obsession

By Roger Scruton from the November 2010 issue

The environmental movement in America began as a defense of nature against man. But what we call “nature” is a human construct, and when Thoreau and John Muir set out to protect the unspoiled wilderness, they were really trying to create the unspoilt human being who would walk in it. All the most vigorous environmental initiatives in America, from the national parks movement and the Sierra Club to Earth Day and the Wilderness Society, have been dedicated to the wilderness idea. The motive has seldom been to protect or improve the human habitat, but to make trails into the pristine hinterland, where the American people can breathe the pure air of Eden, and cast off the burden of original sin, which is the sin of the city.

Mere HER i The American Spectator.

Audio: Roger Scruton i Tjekkiet

Roger Scruton fortæller om det undergrundsarbejde, han var involveret i før murens fald. Styret i det daværende Tjekkoslovakiet arresterede Scruton og smed ham ud af landet. Vi hører også om tiden efter murens fald og delingen af landet. Fra 31. oktober 2010 – man kan følge med i en komplet udskrift fra Radio Prague her:

Roger Scruton and a special relationship
 
31-10-2010 By David Vaughan

One of the most prominent guests at the Forum 2000 conference in Prague earlier this month was the conservative English philosopher and writer Roger Scruton. In the Czech Republic he is well known not just for his extensive writings on the history of modern philosophy, but also for close links he forged with Czechoslovakia in the years before the fall of communism. In this week’s Czech Books, Roger Scruton talks to David Vaughan about how his special relationship to this country has developed over the years.

Programmet startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 17 minutter.

Phyllis Chesler skriver igen om Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Will Global Protests Save an Iranian Mother from Imminent Execution?

By Phyllis Chesler – 2010 November 4

I have just been told that the global protests against the imminent execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani have been successful; her execution has, once again, been delayed.

These protests were reported by the major media everywhere. Mina Ahadi, the spokesperson of the International Committee against Stoning and Execution, and Maryam Namazie, Iran Solidarity Spokesperson as well as others gave non-stop interviews.

Yes, even the New York Times and the Washington Post covered this story online.

Mere HER hos FrontPageMagazines NewsRealBlog.

Video: Erick Stakelbeck om Eurabia

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff medvirker endnu engang, ligesom vi møder Lars Hedegaard, Ted Ekeroth og flere andre sverigdemokrater:

Stakelbeck on Terror Show: “Eurabia Rising”

• We kick off the show with a look at how Janet Napolitano recently appointed an outspoken Islamist to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
• We then head to Vienna for an exclusive look at how one Austrian woman is facing prison time…for criticizing Islam (2:38 into the show).
• Then it’s off to Sweden for another shocking exclusive. We visit a Scandinavian city that has become a hotbed of jihad and anti-Semitism (6:29 into the show).
• In our Inside Israel segment, we’re joined by former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer, who discusses his new Emergency Committee for Israel (14:13 into the show).
• The Sharia Flaw segment looks at how Somali jihadists recently executed two teenage girls for alleged “spying” (22:22 into the show).
• The Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America. A very overlooked recent development out of Egypt (23:49 into the show).
• Why Leftists embrace radical Islamists (26:14 into the show).

Fra den 3. november 2010: