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It is time to banish wishful thinking about Islamism
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali – February 8, 2012
A year ago many western commentators were celebrating an Arab spring. The internet generation personified by Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive, would take over power from military dictators and absolute monarchs in democratic elections. Those of us who warned that political Islam would be the principal beneficiary of elections in north Africa and the Middle East were dismissed as scaremongers.
Ever since 9/11, opinions in the west have been sharply divided on the popularity and legitimacy of political Islam. A minority – and I am one of them – argued that Islamism as a political doctrine was held by the mainstream in most of the House of Islam and particularly among Arabs; that violence was inherent in Islamist theory; and that if Islamists won state power they would not deliver prosperity.
We don’t need attempts at soaring rhetoric in a time of earthbound problems.
Round about this time in the election cycle, a presidential challenger finds himself on the stump and posing a simple test to voters: “Ask yourself — are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
But, in fact, you don’t need to ask yourself, because the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances has done it for you. Between 2007 and 2010, Americans’ median net worth fell 38.8 percent — or from $126,400 per family to $77,300 per family. Oh, dear. As I mentioned a few months ago, when readers asked me to recommend countries they could flee to, most of the countries worth fleeing to Americans can no longer afford to live in.
Mere HER i National Review Online. Orange County Register her.
Vivat Regina
Mark Steyn – 10 June 2012
The trick to monarchy is not queening it. In The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s great novel of the Habsburg twilight, the Emperor Franz Joseph has it down to a tee:
‘At times he feigned ignorance and was delighted when someone gave him a longwinded explanation about things he knew thoroughly… He was delighted at their vanity in proving to themselves that they were smarter than he …for it does not behoove an emperor to be as smart as his advisers.’
At dinner in Melbourne and Sydney, as in Toronto and Montreal, I have sat next to clever, dazzling politicians — the coming men of the coming republic — mimicking Her Majesty’s absurd voice and mocking her dreary stolidity. ‘If people smirked behind his back, he pretended not to know about it,’ wrote Roth of Franz Joseph. ‘It does not behoove an emperor to compete with wags and sophisticates.’ And a year or three later the coming men have come and gone, and there’s the Queen, opening a hospital, touring a school.
The Rochdale sex ring shows the horrific consequences of Britain’s ‘Islamophobia’ witch-hunt
By Melanie Phillips | 9 May 2012
So now we can see the outcome of the witch-hunt against ‘Islamophobia’.
With the conviction of nine men for organised sexual crimes from rape to sex trafficking, the full horrific details of more than two decades of sexual violence against young, predominantly white girls living in children’s homes in the north of England have been revealed.
The gang lured an officially estimated 47 girls (the figure may well be higher) aged 12 to 16 with gifts, alcohol and drugs before passing them around to have sex ‘with several men a day, several times a week’ in flats, houses, cars, taxis and kebab shops.
After phone calls inviting them to come and have sex with a girl, men would turn up to do so by the taxi-load. One 13 year-old was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Kan også læses her hos Melanie Phillips.
Asian grooming gang detectives hunt for FORTY more men who may have had sex with underage girls
By James Tozer and Nazia Parveen – 10 May 2012
Judge says gang preyed on five girls, aged between 13 and 15, partly because they were from different ‘community and religion’
Nine men jailed for a total of 77 years as police prepare to arrest four more
Judge Gerald Clifton dismisses defendants’ claims that prosecution was ‘triggered by race’ after ringleader brands him a ‘racist b******’
But legal counsel for one of the convicted men says he will launch an appeal on the basis of a tweet by BNP leader Nick Griffin
Opportunity to catch the paedophiles missed after complaint four years ago
As many as 47 vulnerable girls were plied with alcohol, gifts and money
They were then passed around for sex with ‘several men a day’
At least one victim forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, police say
Convicted men will be scattered in prisons across the UK and segregated from other prisoners over fears of revenge attacks
Former Labour MP Ann Cryer says gang were left to it because police feared being branded racist
Muslim leader warns that some British Pakistani men ‘think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought’
EDL – British Freedom – Muslim Rape and the complicity of the ‘Liberal Left’
Paul Weston, the Chairman of the British Freedom Party, has recorded this video in response to the recent arrest, prosecution, and conviction of vicious Muslim paedophile rape gangs who trafficked underage white girls in major cities all over Britain.
Fra 10. maj 2012:
Rochdale sex grooming racially motivated
Der følger en artikel med fra Sky News, som kan læses her.
Adil Ray investigates the controversial subject of on-street grooming of young girls for sex by Pakistani men in the UK. He speaks to members of his own community, the police and victims of abuse. For Adil, it is a ‘deeply personal journey’ and he is shocked by what he discovers.
Opdatering 21. maj 2012:
Muslim Child-Rape Gangs in Britain
by Soeren Kern – May 21, 2012
It recently emerged that British police had known for more than a decade that Muslim rape gangs were targeting young girls, but they ignored the evidence of rapes because “they were petrified of being called racist.” Rather than acknowledge that there is a problem, Muslim groups have decided to play the victim card instead. They are working overtime trying to silence public discussion about Muslim sex crimes by branding critics as “far-right racists” and “Islamophobic.” Several of the men on trial in Liverpool apparently told their victims that it was all right for the girls to be passed around for sex with dozens of men “because it’s what we do in our country.”
Nine Muslim men belonging to a child-rape gang in northwestern England have received hefty prison sentences for trafficking and raping young British girls.
The three-month sexual grooming trial at a court in Liverpool, which ended on May 9, has drawn nationwide attention to the sexual abuse of children and women by Muslim immigrants, and British police are currently investigating at least 40 other cases of child rapes perpetrated by Muslims in northern England.
Vi skal lige se lidt på, hvad Srđa Trifković egentlig render rundt og laver – blandt andet denne særdeles bemærkelsesværdige video. Trykkefrihedsselskabet bedes promte arrangere en event med denne meget kvalificerede tænker. Uploadet på YouTube den 26. april 2012 – værter Billy Baer og Dan Haggerty:
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic tells us how to defeat Jihad
The Baer/Haggerty Offensive of Repatriot Radio follows up on its recent discussion of Islam, and its deleterious effects on the world. Although Europe as we knew it is probably gone forever, it may still be possible for the USA to save itself from the culturally disastrous impact of Islam.
Og lidt af de seneste artikler:
Adolf Hitler, Our Contemporary
April 23, 2012 - Srdja Trifkovic
Hitler is 123, and he is alive and well. The Führer is going strong not because a vast neo-Nazi conspiracy is about to take over the Western world, kill the Jews, expel the Muslims and make April 20 the Day of Aryan Rebirth, but because he is an all-time favorite of the neoconservative-neoliberal duopoly at home and abroad.
When you advocate bombing a faraway nation of which we know little, call its leader a new Hitler (and, by extension, condemn the failure to bomb as a new “Munich”). When you want to discredit domestic opponents of migratory population replacement or abortion, compare them to Hitler. When you want to demonize the European civilization, Christian religion, national identity, or traditional culture, Hitler is ready. Six decades after the phenomenon was defined by Leo Strauss as reductio ad Hitlerum, the practice is more widely spread than ever. If you dislike a person/policy/idea, find a Hitlerian point of contact and thus prove that the PPI in question is a priori bad, mad and worthy of criminalization.
Mere HER i Veracity Voice. Kan også læses her i Chronicles Magazine.
Just a Regular French Youth
by Srdja Trifkovic • March 23, 2012
As soon as I heard the news I suspected the score. “Far-Right extremists!” screamed the media pack, but my hunch was right: the murderer of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school near Toulouse, and of three French soldiers only days earlier, was not French. He was a French citizen of Algerian descent, as we now know, but his allegiance and his identity had nothing to do with passports and ID cards.
Mohammed Merah (23), who was killed at his apartment on Thursday after a 30-hour standoff, was a Muslim—one of at least twenty million who now inhabit the European Union. The “context” was duly provided by The New York Times: “Much of the concern about domestic terrorism in Britain, Belgium, Germany and France has focused on these young people, who may have had little formal religious education but are susceptible to calls for jihad, especially when their own lives have been marked by disappointment, crime, racism and joblessness.”
The suggested narrative about this “soft-spoken and alienated youth” is clear:
by Srdja Trifkovic • March 30, 2012 • Printer-friendly
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced March 30 that French police have arrested 19 persons suspected of belonging to violent Muslim networks. “These arrests are linked to the world of a certain sort of radical Islamism,” Sarkozy told Europe 1 Radio, and added that automatic weapons were found in the homes of some of those arrested in the raids in and around Paris and several other French cities.
It is striking that Sarkozy added matter-of-factly that the arrests were not related to Mohamed Merah, the Muslim terrorist killed by police last week after he murdered seven people in the Toulouse area. This raises some troubling questions.
Most Western media professionals tend to subscribe, consciously or not, to a neo-liberal world outlook in general and to the tenets of multiculturalism in particular. The result is notable media favoritism of allegedly disadvantaged, non-Western, traditionally non-Christian societies.
Behind the veneer of all-embracing diversity, however, we find a carefully calibrated scale of acceptance or rejection of “the Other” depending on the cultural and political preferences of the media professionals themselves. The result is moral and intellectual relativism, which enables the media elite to pick and choose, which group or nation will be approved for the status of sympathy or victimhood, and which will be denied the benefit of the doubt.
Croatia and Nazi Germany: April 10, 1941: A Dark Day In History
by Srdja Trifkovic – May 1, 2012
Some important Westerners may prefer to look forward, to forget, minimize, or even deny, the fruits of the Croatian Holocaust of 1941-45 and its revived legacy of 1995. The endeavor is flawed. Sins unatoned for will continue coming back to haunt us.
The range of moral and political issues raised by the Ustaša movement and the regime it established in Croatia on April 10, 1941, is comparable to the Third Reich. In both cases, a political group, organized into a regime, devoted extraordinary resources to mass murder based on the victims’ race, creed or ethnicity. In both cases most ordinary Germans and ordinary Croats – those not directly affiliated with the regime, or overtly supportive of its goals and methods – opted for passive acquiescence. In both cases only a small minority was directly involved in the killing. In both cases the perpetrators understood why it had to be done; the mass murder made sense to them.
Both demographically and politically, the republic has a precarious present and an uncertain future.
An Orthodox church was set ablaze in the southwestern part of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on January 30. The incident reflects raising tensions between local Christian Slavs and Albanians, more than a decade after an Albanian rebellion brought FYROM to the verge of an ethnic war. It also evokes memories of the early stages of the conflict in Kosovo, in the late 1980s.
The Church of St. Nicholas, in the majority Albanian-Muslim village of Labuniste, was two centuries old and housed valuable icons. The arson at Labuniste followed the burning of a Macedonian flag and the raising of Albanian and Islamic banners in the neighboring town of Struga, allegedly in reaction to an incident of “mocking Islam” at a local carnival last month.
The town, on the shores of Lake Ohrid, lies at the southern edge of the line of ethnic separation between the two communities.
Mere HER hos The Jerusalem Post eller her hos The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies.
Og link til endnu en artikel af Trifkovic i The Jerusalem Post:
Skønne Steyn er gæst hos canadiske Sun News TV - igen. Alle videoerne er fra i går:
Ezra Levant with Mark Steyn: Apr 17, 2012
Steyn still gearing up for Steynamite on April 24.
Michael Coren with Ron Banerjee
Ron Banerjee of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy joins Michael Coren to discuss the group who put up the TTC ad for mohammad’s imaginary friend “Allah,” and their alleged support for . . . drumroll . . . terrorism.
Michael Coren: Everybody Draw Mohammad
Michael C. Moynihan joins Michael Coren to discuss the threat of islam toward freedom.
Det er stadig lidt småt med videoer fra weekendens “Global Atheist Convention“. Talere var blandt andre Peter Singer, Leslie Cannold, Geoffrey Robertson, P.Z. Myers, Ben Elton, Daniel Dennett, A.C. Grayling, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris og Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Men disse var at finde på YouTube:
Muslim protest at the Global Atheist Convention, Melbourne 2012
A small group of Muslim protesters outside the Melbourne Convention Centre during the 2012 Global Atheist Convention.
The ranting near the end about a woman leaving islam is referring to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who–I get the distinct impression–they don’t like very much. She was a speaker at the convention.
“Burn in hell” “Christopher Hitchens: Burn in hell” “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Burn in hell”
What a pleasant bunch of chaps.
The blacked out bit is at the request of an anonymous youtuber.
Lidt efter kommer ateisterne ud fra konferencen og synger en lille sang for de fremmødte muslimer:
Atheists sing ‘Always look on the bright side of life’ to Islamic Protesters
Islamic protesters at the Melbourne Convention Centre were regaled with Monty Python’s ‘Always Look on the the Bright Side of Life’.
Et par kreationister var også ude og skrige op om “hell”.
Opdatering – denne video er mere tydelig:
Atheists chant at Muslim protesters – 2012 Atheist Convention
Some Muslims showed up at the 2012 Atheist Convention in Australia. This is what happened
Panel discussion: The threats to free speech with Mark Steyn, Tom Switzer, Janet Albrechtsen and John Roskam
The panel discussion following Mark Steyn’s speech (watch it here:vimeo.com/39384140) at the Institute of Public Affairs-The Spectator Australia event with more than 500 people in Sydney on Wednesday 29 February 2012.
Featuring Mark, Spectator Australia Editor Tom Switzer, columnist with The Australian Janet Albrechtsen and IPA Executive Director John Roskam.
Mark Steyn’s Australian Freedom of Speech Tour 2012
Watch Mark Steyn stand up for free speech in Australia in this speech to more than 500 people at the Institute of Public Affairs-Spectator Australia event in Sydney on Wednesday 29 February.
Mark Steyn joins Michael Coren to discuss Trayvon Martin, the Toulouse Terrorist, Justin Trudeau vs Patrick Brazeau, Human Achievement Day, and, of course, Burkina Faso.
Et lille interview:
Q&A: Mark Steyn
by Phil Morgan on March 29, 2012
commentator Mark Steyn is awfully concerned about America’s future. He’s Hillsdale’s Eugene Pulliam Visiting Fellow in Journalism and will be teaching a two-week class “How to Write a Column.” He shared his thoughts on how much of a weirdo Rick Santorum is, what’s wrong with the Hunger Games, and why there is nothing like a good game of polo with a goat’s head.
PM: In a piece you wrote on Rick Santorum called “Weird Politics” you describe him as weird because he has traditional values. Are people who are traditional really considered weird today?
MS: It was interesting. Anytime I went into an ABC show all the people said, “How can Rick Santorum be a credible presidential candidate? He’s so weird.” Then I actually asked what’s weird about him. He’s weird because he believes marriage is between a man and a woman. He’s weird because the family is the basic building block of society. In fact, it was non-weird for almost all of human history. What’s interesting to me is not Santorum’s weirdness, but the fact that so much of what he says is now presumed to be weird. I think he’s right on the basic issue, which is that the crisis America faces is not primarily an accounting problem or a bookkeeping problem. We’re broke for a reason. This country is the most broke nation in history because it is not the republic of limited government and self-reliant citizenry De Tocqueville observed two centuries ago. So he’s right in the extent that the [financial] brokenness is a symptom of the problem not the problem and in that sense I don’t find Santorum half as weird as 90 percent of his critics.
Mere HER i The Hillsdale Collegian. Omtalte artikel er denne i National Review Online:
Fra Manning Centre 8. – 10. marts 2012. Hannan starter efter 26 minutter – der er nogle gentagelser:
Daniel Hannan & David Wilkins at the 2012 Manning Conference
Uploadet på YouTube 12. marts 2012:
Daniel Hannan Interview
Daniel Hannan discusses Health Care Legislation, The PATRIOT ACT and The National Defense Authorization Act, The 2012 Presidential Elections and the Iraq War. Free The Nation Host, Nick Dialoiso, discusses the division in the Republican Party between the Social and Constitutional Conservatives.
Michael Coren with Mark Steyn: Steynamite! April 24 Toronto
While Dick Cheney may be too afraid to enter Canada, bestselling author Mark Steyn will be taking to the stage as a replacement with ‘Steynamite’, where Steyn will be taking his fearless brand of commentary and analysis to the stage for Torontonians to hear.
Ryan Ruppert, president of Spectre Live and organizer for the Cheney event said, “While we are disheartened that the Cheneys do not feel comfortable coming to Canada, we are gratified that our own Mark Steyn will not be intimidated either by protestors or government censors.” He added, “On April 24th, Mark will exercise his freedom of expression at the Metro Convention Centre with bestselling author Michael Coren.”
Tickets are available with discounted prices for earlybirds at Spectre Live’s Steynamite page.
Næste video fortæller lidt mere om baggrunden – følgetekst under videoen:
Steynamite! Steyn & Coren in Toronto April 24
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, were scheduled to do a speech in April at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. Now, six weeks away, organizers are announcing that the event has been canceled, citing security concerns.
Spectre Live, the organization sponsoring the Cheneys in Toronto issued a statement saying that the Cheney family made the unilateral decision to cancel their Toronto engagement after reconsidering fallout at the former Vice President’s last Canadian event.
In September of 2011, Dick Cheney was protested at a speech in Vancouver, where an NDP Member of Parliament threatened legal action against Cheney days prior.
While Dick Cheney may be too afraid to enter Canada, bestselling author Mark Steyn will be taking to the stage as a replacement with ‘Steynamite’, where Steyn will be taking his fearless brand of commentary and analysis to the stage for Torontonians to hear.
Ryan Ruppert, president of Spectre Live and organizer for the Cheney event said, “While we are disheartened that the Cheneys do not feel comfortable coming to Canada, we are gratified that our own Mark Steyn will not be intimidated either by protestors or government censors.” He added, “On April 24th, Mark will exercise his freedom of expression at the Metro Convention Centre with bestselling author Michael Coren.”
Tickets are available with discounted prices for earlybirds at Spectre Live’s Steynamite page.
Opdatering – fandt endnu en video om sagen. David Akin & John Robson – fra 13. marts 2012:
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 24 minutter. Næste er fra 5. marts 2012 – mest om musik og kultur. Værter Michael Duffy og Paul Comrie-Thomson:
Counterpoint
In a broad ranging conversation Mark Steyn explains why it’s better to have political leaders who don’t carry on like rock stars and he wonders why the term “ it’s a free country” seems to be slowly vanishing from the vernacular. Satirist Patrick Cook offers his observations on the body politic.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 40 ½ minut. Steyn slutter efter 32 minutter. Og fra i dag – 15. marts 2012:
Strictly Right Radio – Episode 169 (with Mark Steyn)
In this fun-filled edition of Strictly Right, Andrew Lawton and Ben Swenson give the latest update on the vetting of President Barack Obama, talk about how the U.N.’s gone too far (again), and go into a story from a Canadian Catholic school that will make you cringe. As well, bestselling author Mark Steyn returns to the program for a hilarious interview with the men of Strictly Right!
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 55 minutter. Steyn begynder efter godt 31 minutter og slutter efter 46 minutter.
Og artikler:
The Quit and the Dead
By Mark Steyn – March 14, 2012
Pamela Geller was struck by that ad The New York Times ran the other day, “It’s Time To Quit The Catholic Church“, an “open letter to ‘liberal’ and ‘nominal’ Catholics”. So she sent in her own ad, “It’s Time To Quit Islam“, an “open letter to ‘moderate’ Muslims”. Analogous artwork, same pitch, only difference being the intended target. The Times’ Senior Vice-President for Corporate Hogwash called to tell Miss Geller that – surprise! surprise! – they were way less eager to rush this one into print:
This story caught my eye in the print edition of Monday’s Australian. I can’t find it online, but here’s the gist:
OLLI REHN, the European commissioner in charge of handling the eurozone debt crisis, has been accused of sexism for briefing male journalists while naked in a sauna beneath his office in Brussels.
Dette australske tv-program hedder Q&A og er fra ABC 5. marts 2012. I panelet: Paul Grabowsky, Amanda Vanstone, Natasha Stott Despoja, Mark Steyn, Jianying Zha. Udsendelsen handler mest om australske forhold og en lille smule om indvandring. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her:
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 3 minutter. Artikler:
The Church of Big Government
By Mark Steyn – March 6th 2012
Discussing the constitutionality of Obamacare’s “preventive health” measures on MSNBC, Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post told Chris Matthews that she reasons thus with her liberal friends: “Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, but they did.”
Maybe. A lot of other constitutional types in the Western world have grown increasingly comfortable with circumscribing religious liberty. In 2002, the Swedish constitution was amended to criminalize criticism of homosexuality. “Disrespect” of the differently orientated became punishable by up to two years in jail, and “especially offensive” disrespect by up to four years. Shortly thereafter, Pastor Ake Green preached a sermon referencing the more robust verses of scripture, and was convicted of “hate crimes” for doing so.
Why should we have to fund a middle-aged schoolgirl’s sex life?
By Mark Steyn – March 10, 2012
I’m writing this from Australia, so, if I’m not quite up to speed on recent events in the United States, bear with me — the telegraph updates are a bit slow here in the bush. As I understand it, Sandra Fluke is a young coed who attends Georgetown Law, and recently testified before Congress.
Oh, wait, no. Update: It wasn’t a congressional hearing; the Democrats just got it up to look like one, like summer stock, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid doing the show right here in the barn, and providing a cardboard set for the world premiere of Miss Fluke Goes to Washington, with full supporting cast led by Chuck Schumer strolling in through the French windows in tennis whites and drawling, “Anyone for bull****?”
Mere HER i National Review Online. Orange County Register her. Investor’s Business Daily her.
Fra The Moody Church i Chicago november 2011. Den første video handler især om kristendom og forfølgelse af kristne, som beskrevet i Biblen:
Biblical Response To Persecution – Dr. Mark Durie
Om kristendom i Mellemøsten:
The Legacy of the Eastern Church in the face of Persecution – Rev. Bassam Madanay
Mark Durie om dhimmier:
Non-Muslims Living Under Islamic Law & Call To Prayer
Desuden en artikel:
Islam’s Tradition of Breaking the Cross
by Mark Durie – March 9, 2012
In the recent destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Benghazi, Libya (YouTube Video), you can see not just the desecration of graves, but attacks on crosses.
The radical Muslims who are kicking over and smashing headstones marked with crosses (and one with a Star of David), also took pains to demolish a tall “Cross of Sacrifice” standing at the edge of the cemetery.
This was no “furious mob” on a “rampage,” as a Daily Mail report put it. Nor was there any evidence in what they were saying that they were angry or reacting to Koran burning by the US military.
Mere HER hos Stonegate Institute eller her hos The Middle East Forum.
Der er endnu en ny audio fra ABC – Jon Faine on the Conversation Hour. Det er en panel-debat om australsk politik med Lyn Allison, Mark Steyn og George Megalogenis. Den kan høres på ABCs hjemmeside HER. Og artikler:
‘Die, Die, Foreigners!’
We have everything in Afghanistan except strategic purpose.
By Mark Steyn – March 3, 2012
Say what you like about Afghans, but they’re admirably straightforward. The mobs outside the bases enflamed over the latest Western affront to their exquisitely refined cultural sensitivities couldn’t put it any plainer:
“Die, die, foreigners!”
And foreigners do die. USAF Lieutenant Colonel John Loftis, 44, and Army Major Robert Marchanti II, 48, lost their lives not on some mission out on the far horizon in wild tribal lands in the dead of night but in the offices of the Afghan Interior Ministry. In a “secure room” that required a numerical code to access. Gunned down by an Afghan “intelligence officer.” Who then departed the scene of the crime unimpeded by any of his colleagues.
They’re now gifts that a benign king graciously showers upon his subjects.
By Mark Steyn – February 25, 2012
CNN’s John King did his best the other night, producing a question from one of his viewers:
“Since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why?”
To their credit, no Republican candidate was inclined to accept the premise of the question. King might have done better to put the issue to Danica Patrick. For some reason, Michelle Fields of the Daily Caller sought the views of the NASCAR driver and Sports Illustrated swimwear model about “the Obama administration’s dictate that religious employers provide health-care plans that cover contraceptives.” Miss Patrick, a practicing Catholic, gave the perfect citizen’s response for the Age of Obama:
Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses her i The Orange County Register.
Fandt lige en ny Spencer-video. Præsentationerne er ikke helt uinteressante, men de varer næsten en ½ time. Uploadet i går:
Robert Spencer speaks in Brisbane, Australia, December 1, 2011
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch spoke in Brisbane, Australia on December 1, 2011, as part of a five-city Australian tour in late November and early December. The tour sponsor was the Q Society of Australia.½
This month’s shock new bestseller in Germany is a climate skeptical book called Die Kalte Sonne (“The Cold Sun.”). It’s shocking not just because Germany has, up till now, been one of Europe’s most ecologically correct economies, but also because its co-author Professor Fritz Vahrenholt is one of the country’s best known environmentalists.
If Al Gore or David Suzuki or NASA’s Jim Hansen were suddenly to renounce man-made global warming, it could hardly be more surprising. Up until two years ago, Vahrenholt was Germany’s Godfather of Green: a green activist and former environment minister for the State of Hamburg. In his new book, however, published by one of Germany’s most respected, mainstream publishers Hoffman und Campe, Vahrenholt pours cold water on the notion of catastrophic man-made global warming. He accepts that the planet has warmed by 0.8 degrees C in the last century – but not the idea that this is anything to worry about.
Vahrenholt first began to smell a rat two years ago when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. According to blogger P Gosselin he was not impressed:
Mere HER i The Energy Tribune. Denne er om samme emne – The GWPF:
Let’s take stock of the great global warming scare and see how it’s panning out.
First, the planet hasn’t actually warmed for a decade – or even 15 years – according to new temperature data released by Britain’s Met Office.
Hmm. That’s not what global warming scientists predicted.
Look out of your window. The rain that Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery said in 2007 “isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems” any more has just flooded NSW and Queensland yet again.
The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows
Damian Carrington – 8 February 2012
Meltwater from Asia’s peaks is much less than previously estimated, but lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern
The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall.
The study is the first to survey all the world’s icecaps and glaciers and was made possible by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps – Greenland and Antarctica – is much less than previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia responsible for most of the discrepancy.
Assange har en ret særegen dømmekraft. Og en noget sammensat personlighed. Interview:
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview
Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism
By Michael Hastings – January 18, 2012
It’s a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside. The two-bedroom house, on loan from a WikiLeaks supporter, is comfortable enough, with a big stone fireplace and a porch out back, but it’s not as grand as the country estate where he spent the past 363 days under house arrest, waiting for a British court to decide whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face allegations that he sexually molested two women he was briefly involved with in August 2010.
Mere HER i printversion eller her hos Rolling Stone.
Opdatering – Berlingske Tidende har en artikel om artiklen her:
No comedy show, no matter how clever or winning, is going to eradicate the suspicion that many Americans have of Muslims. This is because Americans are concerned about Islam not because of the work of greasy Islamophobes, but because of Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; and Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Lubbock, Texas; and Muhammad Hussain, the would-be jihad bomber in Baltimore; and Mohamed Mohamud, the would-be jihad bomber in Portland; and Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square jihad mass-murderer; and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the Arkansas military recruiting station jihad murderer; and Naveed Haq, the jihad mass murderer at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle; and Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who hatched a jihad plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue; and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas airplane jihad bomber; and many others like them who have plotted and/or committed mass murder in the name of Islam and motivated by its texts and teachings — all in the U.S. in the last couple of years.
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Jihad plotting persists in mosques
by Robert Spencer - January 3, 2012
It is now official U.S. Government policy that Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism, and that therefore any examination of the stated motives and goals of Islamic jihad terrorists constitutes “Islamophobia” and must be shunned, as well as punished. But new revelations this week from a confessed jihad plotter indicate that this is exactly the opposite policy of what should have been adopted.
A young Muslim named Abdel Hameed Shehadeh recently tried to join the U.S. Army, not out of patriotism but as part of a plan to surprise American soldiers and murder them in the name of Islam and jihad. But he was caught, and began talking; if even some of the information he has given investigators is accurate, he has exposed a jihad network of impressive proportions that should end politically correct self-deception in law enforcement officials’ approach to the problem of jihad terrorism in the United States.
A bestselling author and expert on terrorism predicts the advances in Islamic supremacy seen in 2011 will continue in 2012.
Two Memphis-area Islamic clerics recently filed suit against Delta Airlines for kicking them off a flight to Charlotte, where they were to attend a conference on so-called “Islamophobia.”
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie awakened many westerners to the danger of being charged with blasphemy in the Muslim world. Charges of “blasphemy,” “apostasy,” and “insulting Islam” are increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces within key Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to acquire and consolidate power. These codes have proved effective in intimidating not only converts and heterodox groups, but also political and religious reformers.
In their newly released book, Silenced (Oxford University Press, 2011), Paul Marshall and Nina Shea provide the first survey of such accusations in the contemporary Muslim world, in international organizations, and in the West. These charges traditionally carry a punishment of death but are contested within Islam today, as described by the late Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid in the foreword to Silenced. Nevertheless, as Marshall and Shea describe, hundreds of victims, including political dissidents, religious reformers, journalists, writers, artists, movie makers, and religious minorities in many countries. They also document the political effects in Muslim societies of blasphemy and apostasy laws, as well as non-governmental fatwas and vigilante violence. And they examine in the West the move toward importing new blasphemy standards through bans on purported hate speech and Islamophobia, aggressively promoted by the OIC, and the increasing threat of violence to stifle commentary on Islam even in the absence of law.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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