Kina angriber Salman Rushdie

China hits back at Salman Rushdie

China has hit back at the novelist Salman Rushdie after he argued that China had become “the world’s biggest threat to freedom of speech” in an article published earlier this month in The Daily Telegraph.

By Peter Foster – 29 Apr 2011

In an open letter titled “Human Rights lecture not needed”, China’s embassy in London attacked Mr Rushdie’s call for the release of Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist behind the Tate Modern’s Sunflower Seeds, who has been detained since April 3.

“This is a blatant interference in China’s judicial independence and violates the country’s judicial sovereignty. This cannot and should not be accepted by any sovereign country,” said the letter published in China Daily, the Chinese government’s English-language mouthpiece.

Mere HER i The Telegraph. Salman Rushdies artikel kan ses her:

• China must set Ai Weiwei free

Andre kilder: China Daily USA, Human Rights in China, Human Rights in China, The Australian,

Phyllis Chesler: Sig sandheden om islam

Fund the Truth About Islam or Lose the War of Ideas

by Phyllis Chesler on April 28 2011

One cannot tell the truth or venture one’s opinion about Islam or about Muslim behaviors without risking being slandered, heckled, censored, sued, impoverished, physically attacked, and, more rarely, murdered.

And that’s for those of us lucky enough to be living in the free West. What happens to dissident and feminist thinkers and writers in Muslim-majority countries is far worse; their bravery continues to inspire me at a very dark moment in history.

The Western punishments are as follows:

One loses one’s left, liberal, and feminist friends. One is not invited to their parties, funerals, or conferences. One is not invited to lecture. One’s past contribution is written out of their history. Meanwhile, one is forced to debate vicious liars and propagandists in order to be “heard” at all. One is shouted out of classrooms and lecture halls or forced to speak under hostile, tense, oppressive, and potentially dangerous working conditions. One requires bodyguards on campus.

Mere HER på NewsRealBlog. Kan også læses her hos Arutz Sheva eller her hos Campus Watch.

Video: Douglas Murray om Libyen

Fra BBC Newsnight den 28. april 2011:

Douglas Murray discusses interventionism in the light of the current conflict in Libya.

Opdatering – ser ud til at være fra 7. april 2011 lavet af The United States Studies Centre at the University in Sidney:

Robert Putnam on America’s social fabric and meeting Gaddafi

As one of the best known the social scientists of the last half century, Professor Robert Putnam has performed research into American society and how it has evolved over recent decades. In this interview he discusses his latest book American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, as well as explaining how levels of connection and trust among people (known as social capital) have far reaching implications for how a nation like America handles terrorist attacks, financial crises and presidential elections. Professor Putnam also recounts his experience of meeting Colonel Gaddafi in the Libyan desert and what it told him about the now infamous dictator

Video: “Kung Fu Fighting” – Carl Douglas & Vivian Hawke 1974

Video: Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant & Michael Coren om “Kung Fu Fighting”

Mark Steyn synger “Kung Fu Fighting”:

Mark Steyn Comments on Man Charged with Racism for Singing “Kung Fu Fighting” Song

Mark Steyn guest hosted The Rush Limbaugh Show, and one of the things he talked about, was the man who was charged with racism for singing the classic disco hit “Kung Fu Fighting”.

Broadcast on: Apr 28, 2011.

Ezra Levant laver lidt “Kung Fu Fighting”:

Ezra Levant was Kung Fu Fighting

“We’re putting the ‘Jew’ back in judo today . . . I’m sorry you have to see a little fur on the brisket”

Interview med Simon Ledger og Kathy Shaidle:

Ezra Levant with “human rights” victim Simon Ledger

Michael Coren on Kung Fu Fighting

Caroline Glick om Fatah og Hamas

Netanyahu’s time to choose

By Caroline B. Glick – April 29, 2011

The time has come for the vast majority of Israelis who aren’t interested in the Nobel Prize for Literature or a sabbatical at Berkeley or the University of Trondheim to call a spade a spade.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren’t tragic. Immediately after the news broke of the deal Netanyahu announced, “The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both.”

Netanyahu’s statement is funny because it is completely absurd. The PA has chosen.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Kan også læses her hos Caroline Glick eller her i Jewish World Review.

Trifkovic: Intet forår i Syrien?

Syria: Nowhere Near Regime Change

by Srdja Trifkovic – April 28th, 2011

“Unrest in Syria has discomforted rather than shaken the regime of Bashir Al-Assad,” I wrote in the May issue of Chronicles (Cultural Revolutions, p. 6). “On current form it is an even bet that he will survive, which is preferable to any likely alternative.” The violence has become far worse since the editorial was written in mid-March and the regime looks somewhat shaken by now, but the overall conclusion still stands.

What was “last but not least” a month ago needs to be stated first now: the army and the internal security apparatus remain reliable in spite of several weeks of intense pressure. Contrary to the protesters’ claims of a split within army ranks, the soldiers are loyal to Bashir and to the regime—rather than to the Army as an institution (like in Egypt), or to whoever appears to be winning in the streets (like in Tunisia). The soldiers appear singularly unintimidated by mob violence, which is often instigated by the Islamists who treat “martyrdom” as an essential element of their destabilization strategy. The Syrian deaths are now in the low hundreds. This is well below the bimonthly score of our NATO “ally” Turkey during its clampdown on the Kurds in the 1980s, and less than the death toll of a single day of rioting in Saudi Arabia in 1987.

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine eller her hos Global Research.

Raymond Ibrahim om vantro som syndebuk

Islam’s Christian Scapegoats

by Raymond Ibrahim – April 29, 2011

After mentioning the sort of atrocities Christians in Pakistan suffer—including being killed by “blasphemy” laws, constantly “abused in public and harassed in the street by groups of Muslim youths,” ostracized and impoverished by the government—a recent Fox News report reminds us that Christian persecution is further exacerbated by anti-Americanism:

Life on any given day for Pakistani Christians is difficult. But members of Pakistan’s Christian community say now they’re being persecuted for U.S. drone attacks on Islamic militants hiding on the border with Afghanistan. The minority, which accounts for an estimated one percent of the country’s 170 million population, says because its faith is strongly associated with America, it is targeted by Muslims. When America does a drone strike, they come and blame us, Faisal Massi, a 25-year old student from Sau Quarter, a Christian colony in Islamabad. They think we belong to America. It’s a simple mentality.

Mere HER i Middle East Forum eller her i FrontPageMagazine.

Video: Francis Fukuyama – forelæsning om ny bog

Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

SAIS Hosted Book Launch Event With Francis Fukuyama on April 25

Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University; Adam Garfinkle, editor of The American Interest; Michael Woolcock, lead social development specialist for the World Bank’s Development Research Group; and Cinnamon Dornsife (moderator), acting director of the SAIS International Development Program, discussed Fukuyama’s new book, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution.

Tillykke til prins William & Catherine

Engelsk Google og YouTube fejrer det kongelige bryllup i England. Veritas Universalis siger også tillykke!

Sappho om Melanie Phillips, Bo Lidegaard og franske islamister

Politikens nye mand

28. april 2011 – klumme af Katrine Winkel Holm

Politiken, Danmarks mest indflydelsesrige avis, har fået ny redaktør. Betyder det ny kurs i den kroniske Muhammedkrise?

Mere HER i Sappho.

Kampen mod fornuften

27. april 2011 – anmeldelse af Lars Christiansen

Hvis det moderne menneske er så rationelt, hvorfor er det så så irrationelt, spørger Sappho-prismodtager Melanie Phillips i sin seneste bog om fornuftens fordrivelse. Læs anmeldelsen.

Mere HER i Sappho.

På besøg i islams hus

28. april 2011 – artikel af Helle Merete Brix

Helle Merete Brix har været til stor islam-konference i burkaforbudets fædreland, Frankrig. Læs hendes rapport.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Den 8. maj 2011 er der konference i Trykkefrihedsseskabet. Mikael Jalving er moderator:

International konference – kvindens status i islam

Kom og hør den syrisk-amerikanske psykiater Wafa Sultan, der under Muhammedkrisen gav de islamiske retslærde tørt på, den norske menneskeretsforkæmper Hege Storhaug, den hollandske Koranekspert, professor Hans Jansen, der er Geert Wilders’ kronvidne i retssagen mod den hollandske parlamentariker, og vores egen formand, Lars Hedegaard, bryde tabuet om kvindens status under islam.

Tilmelding HER.

Nigeria: Kristne myrdes efter valgsejr

Violent Muslim protests continue in Nigeria following re-election of Christian

Barnabas Fund – 27 April 2011

Hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in Nigeria as enraged Muslims continue to protest against the re-election of Christian president Goodluck Jonathan

Mobs armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows have been wreaking havoc across the Muslim-majority Northern states following the defeat of Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim candidate from the North, in the poll on 16 April. Christians have been killed, houses and churches torched and property looted by the Muslim rioters. The Red Cross estimates that 74,000 people have been displaced by the violence. Many Christians had to celebrate Easter in military barracks where they had taken shelter from the riots.

A Christian leader in the Northern Nigerian state of Kaduna said:

Mere HER hos Barnabas Fund. ABC News melder om 500 dræbte siden valget…

Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch, BBC, Yahoo, Washington Post, Reuters, DR, Jyllands-Posten, Vlad Tepes, Barnabas Fund,

Melanie Phillips med seneste nyt fra Londonistan

Sadly, I’ve been proved right. Britain IS a centre of terror. Tragically, our rulers can’t see the truth

By Melanie Phillips on 27th April 2011

So now we are all finally able to see just why Britain’s capital came to be known contemptuously as ‘Londonistan’.

Some five years ago, I wrote a book by that name which laid out the extent to which Britain had become the global hub of Islamic terrorism outside the Muslim world itself.

So bad was this phenomenon that the French secret service, which had tried in vain to alert Britain to the dangers, dubbed it ‘Londonistan’ in a sarcastic reference to the flow into London of Muslim extremists who had been radicalised in Afghanistan.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Og endnu en artikel om ekstremisme i England:

University campuses ‘a hotbed of Muslim extremism’, claims Parliamentary security group

By Kate Loveys on 28th April 2011

Universities are failing to tackle the growing menace of Islamic extremism on campuses.

Although they have been aware of the problem for many years, university authorities are reluctant to combat it because they fear a decline in the number of foreign students, from whom they make millions of pounds every year, it has been claimed.

A report by a Parliamentary homeland security group said the evidence against universities was ‘damning’ and that there was no sign of the risk of student radicalisation diminishing.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Andre kilder: BBC, London Evening Standard,

Video: Bruce S. Thornton om terror, Iran, Israel, USA og mere

Fra Newsmax TV:

Historian Thornton: Obama Appeasing Terrorists, Iran

April 11, 2011 — Iran is waging war against the United States, but President Barack Obama is pandering to the terror-sponsoring state, says historian Bruce Thornton. Obama’s shifting foreign policy away from Israel and toward the Middle East is a “disastrous move,” Thornton says.

Egyptere vil i krig imod Israel

Egyptians’ Lust For War With Israel

by Robert Spencer on Apr 27th, 2011

In yet another blow to the hopes of those who confidently told us that the Egyptian uprising heralded the dawn of a new, secular democracy there, a new poll shows that 54% of Egyptians want to scrap the Camp David accords that have kept an uneasy peace with Israel since 1979. If you thought that supporters of Western secular pluralism would have no problem with the Camp David accords, you’re right: the poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center, reveals that a significant number of Egyptians don’t actually support secularism and democracy at all. Instead, they manifest a deeply ingrained Islamic antisemitism that leads them to hate Israel – and the Camp David accords – for religious, not political reasons.

“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews…” — Qur’an 5:82. The Qur’an contains a great deal of material that forms the foundation for a hatred of Jews that has persisted throughout Islamic history. It portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims — and there is no Islamic authority that has moved to mitigate the most destructive interpretations of all this. The Qur’anic material on the Jews remains the prism through which far too many Muslims see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Camp David accords, and Jews in general to this day.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her i Human Events. Se eventuelt også denne:

UN Workers “Adamantly Opposed” to Holocaust Education

Will “Confuse the Thinking” of Children

by Itamar Marcus – April 28, 2011

The UNRWA workers in Palestinian schools have announced their “adamant opposition” to teaching Palestinian children about “the Holocaust of the Jews.” This announcement by the UNRWA Workers’ Union was in response to UNRWA’s decision to include Holocaust education in its curriculum in the topic of “human rights.” According to the UNRWA Workers Union, teaching Palestinian children about the Holocaust will “confuse the thinking” of Palestinian children.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

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Sappho om Mogens Camre og Lars Hedegaard

Han har opført sig som en bombemand

27. april 2011 – artikel af Helle Baldersbæk

Lars Hedegaards udtalelser om familievoldtægter var en ”bombe”, som han bør straffes for at have detoneret, udtalte anklageren i landsretten.

Mere HER i Sappho. Og Mogens Camre har udgivet en ny bog, “Knus tyrannerne”:

Om bogen

Mogens Camres far kæmpede mod nazisterne under krigen og kom i Frøslev-lejren. Det blev en skelsættende begivenhed for den unge Camre. Så skelsættende, at den for altid bestemte kursen for hans liv.

Mere HER hos Sappho. Samme steds kan man i øvrigt også købe Lars Hedegaards nye bog, Muhammeds piger.

Finland går snart tabt i multikultur

Noget af det mest absurde, jeg har læst længe:

Muslim Immigration Transforms Finland

by Soeren Kern – April 28, 2011

As in other European countries (here and here), the politically correct guardians of Finnish multiculturalism have tried to silence public discussion about the escalating problem of Muslim immigration.

In March 2009, for example, Jussi Kristian Halla-aho, a politician and well-known political commentator, was taken to court on charges of “incitement against an ethnic group” and “breach of the sanctity of religion” for writing that Islam is a religion of paedophilia. He was referring to the Islamic prophet Mohammed, who is believed to have married a six year old girl and consummated the marriage when she was nine.

A Helsinki court later dropped the charges of blasphemy but ordered Halla-aho to pay a fine of €330 ($450) for disturbing religious worship. The Finnish public prosecutor, incensed at the lower court’s dismissal of the blasphemy charges, appealed the case to the Finnish Supreme Court, where it is now being reviewed.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Barnabas Fund har mere om den uforskammede behandling af den finske præst her.

Hver tredje i Oslo har indvandrerbaggrund

Det skriver TV2. Heldigvis fik jeg set Oslo, dengang byen stadig var norsk og havde en autentisk lokalbefolkning. London og Paris fik jeg derimod aldrig besøgt mens tid var. Det enorme kulturtab er en forbrydelse imod menneskeheden. Man bør skynde sig at se Europa, før det er for sent…

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Video: Akbar Ahmed & Bernard Lewis

Fra World Affairs Council primo november 2010:

World Affairs Today

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed & Dr. Bernard Lewis discuss differing viewpoints on “The Role of Islam in International Relations”