- urbi et orbi
I USA taler man meget om hudfarver:
Harry Stein – “no matter what… they’ll call this book racist”
(WC) Harry Stein speaks at the Wednesday Morning Club about his new book, “no matter what… they’ll call this book racist” June 12, 2012
Omtalte artikel i City Journal:
Andre kilder: Wikipedia, David Horowitz TV,
Om en af de største:
The Legacy of Bernard Lewis
Robert Reilly – Jun 17, 2012
Bernard Lewis’ new book, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian, written at the age of 95, is essentially his autobiography. Since he is, above all, a scholar, much of his life has been thinking and writing. Not surprisingly, the book recounts the gestational process of a number of his major works. Lewis is the author of more than 30 books. This leads him to wonder, in 100 years, which of his works will be remembered? I venture to say that it will not be this one, nor does he mean it to be. This is a breezy, episodic, conversational book of reflections, aperçus, anecdotes, and some very sharp observations. It is what is called a “good read.” It is not particularly profound or deep. It only glancingly refers to ideas that Lewis has developed at greater length in his earlier works. He refers to them rather than repeating them, and places their development in the context of his long life.
Therefore, this is not the Lewis book with which you should begin. First, become conversant with his deep scholarship in the history of the Middle East. Then, you will no doubt be driven to know more about the man himself, and that you can find entertainingly set forth in Notes on a Century.
Mere HER i Online Library of Law and Liberty. Desuden snublede jeg over en Lewis-artikel i pdf – fra Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2003:
Kort, men godt:
“Islamophobia is prevalent above all among Muslims”
Felix Strüning – 9. April 2012
He is to a certain extent the inventor of the Islam-critical fact book and probably the most provocative opponent of political Islam in Germany: Udo Ulfkotte explains in a Citizen Times interview why Islamophobia is prevalent above all among Muslims; German Islam critics are changing nothing; what Mohammed and Hitler had in common; and what he would urgently advise Interior Minister Friedrich (German original, tanks for translation by JLH at Gates of Vienna).
Citizen Times: Mr. Ulfkotte, almost exactly nine years ago your first book on Islam, The War in our Cities, appeared. How has the debate about Islam in Germany developed since then?
Udo Ulfkotte: We have given up more and more since then. Let us leave my books and look at Thilo Sarrazin. Then we just have to accept the fact: Even when an author sells far more than a million books on the subject, is quoted in all the media — absolutely nothing changes. We are today where we were before Sarrazin. No. We are getting worse and worse in the realm of political correctness. The debate on Islam is not developing. It is repeatedly choked off. Quite slowly we are choking ourselves by doing that.
Mere HER i Citizen Times.
Caldwell anmelder bog af Goldsmith:
Vetted, Altered, Blessed
‘Power and Constraint,’ by Jack Goldsmith
By Christopher Caldwell – June 8, 2012
When the Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah was captured, six months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, C.I.A. lawyers were asked to approve a battery of tough interrogation techniques hastily thrown together. They did not much fear that posterity would think them ruthless. On the contrary, the C.I.A.’s No. 2 attorney worried that “with all the restrictions and precautions and scrutiny by lawyers and doctors and psychologists,” they’d look like a bunch of wimps.
It is not as a bunch of wimps that history has remembered George W. Bush’s antiterrorist team. The Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, who worked briefly in the Bush administration’s Office of Legal Counsel, has himself been critical of his former colleagues’ “unilateralism” and their preference for power over persuasion. But he has also been an eloquent dissenter from the view that the Bush administration simply ran roughshod over the Constitution.[...]
Mere HER i The New York Times.
Hvad skal man læse for at blive klogere på islam? Her handler det om Warner’s bøger – islam for begyndere. Fra 17. januar 2012:
A Taste of Islam with Bill Warner
Se eventuelt også artikel af Robert Reyto i Family Security Matters:
Humanitærpopulister, appeaseniks og halalhippier. USA har samme problem som vi har i Europa. Fra i går aftes:
Michael Coren: The Muslim Brotherhood in America
Erick Stakelbeck, author of The Terrorist Next Door, joins Michael Coren to discuss the jihadist threat in the West.
Spencer modtager dødstrusler på grund af sin bog, skriver Arutz Sheva:
Several more threats from the same Twitter account were also sent, calling for killing David Wood, a blogger and Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, as well as blogger Pamela Geller who writes on the “Atlas Shrugs” website. The threat to Geller stated, “she needs to be hung or slaughtered because of her hatred.”
Fredens religion, hvad ellers? Video med de dødstruede mennesker:
Robert Spencer vs. David Wood: Did Muhammad Exist?
Muslims and non-Muslims assume that Muhammad existed. Robert Spencer’s new book challenges this assumption, charging that the Muhammad of Islam is shrouded in myths and legends. Can David Wood defend Muhammad’s existence against Robert’s arguments? Find out as Robert and David debate the topic, “Did Muhammad Exist?”
Undervejs henvises til denne debat:
Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch, PJ Media, OneNewsNow, Atlas Shrugs, IslamoCriticism,
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf – ham med ground zero moskeen, Cordoba Initiative – synes, at “profeten” var en revolutionær feminist. Det tyder ikke på at Spencer og Coren ser sådan på den debat, Mona el-Tahawy har rejst. Sun News TV om ”Making Muslims look bad“:
Robert Spencer & Michael Coren on Mona Eltahawy – May 26, 2012
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch joins to discuss why we can’t speak the truth about Islam.
Og mere video – hele det show, vi så glimt af i Corens Arena:
Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed discuss FP “Why DoThey Hate US” piece
Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed discuss FP “Why Do They Hate US” piece on Melissa Harris Perry Show April 28th 2012
Eltahawy’s artikel er denne – Politiken har lavet en dansk oversættelse, som kan læses HER:
Why Do They Hate Us?
The real war on women is in the Middle East.
By Mona Eltahawy | May/June 2012
In “Distant View of a Minaret,” the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep off the ceiling and has time to ruminate on her husband’s repeated refusal to prolong intercourse until she too climaxes, “as though purposely to deprive her.” Just as her husband denies her an orgasm, the call to prayer interrupts his, and the man leaves. After washing up, she loses herself in prayer — so much more satisfying that she can’t wait until the next prayer — and looks out onto the street from her balcony. She interrupts her reverie to make coffee dutifully for her husband to drink after his nap. Taking it to their bedroom to pour it in front of him as he prefers, she notices he is dead. She instructs their son to go and get a doctor. “She returned to the living room and poured out the coffee for herself. She was surprised at how calm she was,” Rifaat writes.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy. Og imam-fjolset Rauf og Leila Ahmed fra videoen ovenfor har også et bidrag:
[...]
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf:
As Islam has spread throughout the world, it has combined religion with native cultural practices. Many centuries later, separating the religion from the underlying culture has become difficult. That’s why Islam as practiced in Egypt differs from, say, Islam as practiced in Malaysia.
Mona Eltahawy describes cultural practices in Egypt and the Middle East that predate Islam yet have been embraced by many people now as part of Islam. The practice of genital mutilation of women, for example, is found only in Africa. If it were part of Islam, it would be practiced by Muslims all over the world.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Kvinnehathateren
Mona Eltahawy venter på den andre revolusjonen i Midtøsten, den som skal frigjøre kvinnene.
En engelsk versjon av dette intervjuet er også tilgjengelig.
Nils August Andresen – 18. mai, 2012
Mona Eltahawy, få artikler i Foreign Policy har skapt så mye opphetet debatt som din artikkel om kvinnehat i Midtøsten – ”Why do they hate us?” – i siste utgave av bladet. For en utenforstående er det slående hvor smertefullt selvkritikk og offentlig skittentøyvask later til å være i mange kontekster. Det er ikke unikt for den arabiske verden; vi ser kanskje noe av det samme i den ilske tyrkiske reaksjonen på enhver diskusjon om folkemordet på armenerne, eller i den forsinkede og halvhjertede russiske unnskyldningen for Katyn-massakren. Hvorfor tror du essayet har skapt så sterke reaksjoner?
Mere HER hos norske Minerva. Den voldsepisode, Eltahawy blev udsat for, er omtalt her på bloggen:
Opdatering – Spencer:
Muslim Journalist Challenges Sharia, Gets Accused of ‘Hate’
by Robert Spencer – May 31, 2012
Mona Eltahawy receives the typical treatment given to defenders of Muslim women.
Mona Eltahawy’s piece in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy criticized a series of practices that are justified in Islamic law, including child marriage, wife-beating, and female genital mutilation. Counter-jihadist activists and writers have been calling attention to these human rights abuses for years, but Eltahawy’s piece was singular in that she is a Muslim journalist.
Mere HER hos PJ Media.
Andre kilder: Kristeligt Dagblad, PJ Media,
Fra det altid årvågne Sappho:
Englands vej fra klasse- til kastesamfund. Interview med Theodore Dalrymple
Interview af Lars Hedegaard – 22. maj 2012
I mere end én forstand er England et land på sygedagpenge, og den engelske kulturkritiker Theodore Dalrymple ser ikke mange chancer for helbredelse.
Mere HER i Sappho. Morten Uhrskov Jensen om sin nye bog, “Indvandringens Pris – På vej mod et fattigere Danmark”:
Den ikke-vestlige indvandrings pris
Klumme af Morten Uhrskov Jensen – 22. maj 2012
Hvis Europa ikke stopper for ikke-vestlig indvandring nu, går vore børn en mørk fremtid i møde, skriver bogaktuelle Morten Uhrskov Jensen.
Mere HER i Sappho.
Efter os syndfloden. Anmeldelse af Morten Uhrskovs nye bog
Anmeldelse af Lars Hedegaard – 25. maj 2012
Med sin katastrofale indvandringspolitik har Danmark satset på en såkaldt nulvariant: Det går enten galt, eller det går meget galt. Sådan lyder konklusionen i Morten Uhrskovs nye bog.
Mere HER i Sappho.
Frihed i forfald. Anmeldelse af Jacob Mchangamas bog
Anmeldelse af Torben Mark Pedersen – 24. maj 2012
Alle andre end politiske liberalister vil føle sig ramt af Jacob Machamgamas debatbog Fri os fra friheden, skriver Sapphos anmelder Torben Mark Pedersen.
Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til:
Muslim Persecution of Christians: April, 2012
21. maj 2012 – Internationalt af Raymond Ibrahim
Læs gennemgangen af muslimske kristenforfølgelser i den forgangne måned.
Mere HER i Sappho.
Desuden link til:
Fra Newsradio 850KOA – bla. om den danske muhammedkrise:
Geert Wilders & Mike Rosen – May 3, 2012
Guest: Geert Wilders, author of, “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me.”
Sandheden om hvad der udløste det hollandske valg den 15. september 2012, er omsider kommet frem. Statsminister, Mark Rutte, angreb Geert Wilders på det groveste - midt under budgetforhandlingerne - og sagde, at han ville ødelægge Frihedspartiet, som Wilders er formand for. Derfor udvandrede Wilders fra forhandlingerne og opsagde aftalerne om at fungere som støtteparti. Wilders’ modstand imod alt for drastiske besparelser på statens budgetter har ellers hidtil fået hele skylden. Nis News skrev den 15. maj 2012:
Premier Mark Rutte’s reputation as the good-humoured gentleman has been dented now that it has emerged that he made a fierce attack behind the scenes on Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders.
Rutte was confronted on TV programme Pauw&Witteman last Friday evening with a rumour that he threatened to “decimate” the PVV if Wilders did not sign up to an accord for 14 billion euros in budget cutbacks for 2013. Rutte confirmed that he “may have said something like this”.
Wilders said Saturday evening on TV programme EenVandaag that Rutte’s words had been even stronger. According to the PVV leader, the premier told him “I will break that little party of yours down to the last seat.”
Wilders om EUs krav – Reuters:
“I cannot explain to anyone that these parties signed a blank cheque of 40 billion euros for Greece and perhaps for Spain, Italy and other countries while we demand 12 billion euros from the Dutch citizens,” Wilders told TV station RTL 7.
Og der er mere uenighed:
Jeg har lavet et lille overblik over noget af Wilders rolle i hollandsk politik det sidste halve år:
“The Turkish president described Mr Wilders as an Islamophobe in an interview with popular daily De Telegraaf. He said the Freedom Party leader expressed extremist views that fostered radicalism.”
Og Wilders svarede via Twitter – fra armenske Panorama:
“Islamist Gul, who persecutes the Christians, attacks the Kurds and is in friendly relations with Hamas, complaint of intolerance. Typical Turkish humor.”
“Turkey has a number of shortcomings – imprisonment of journalists covering criticism, denial of Armenian Genocide, pressure against national minorities. However, due to Kemal Ataturk’s advanced visions Turkey managed to become a strategic ally of the West and shared military and diplomatic cooperation with Israel for so long.”
Der ligger et ret godt interview med Geert Wilders hos The Daily Caller. Jeg har linket til det en gang før og nu gør jeg det igen:
Desuden lige dette:
“Before Somebody Gets Hurt”?
by Hugh Fitzgerald – 16 January 2012
Apparently Christopher Dickey, who for many years had a photograph of Yasir Arafat hanging on his Newsweek office wall in Paris, thinks that “someone could get hurt” if Geert Wilders continues to say what, for the well-informed, is obvious: that what is in Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira, if taken to heart, makes every Believer a menace, in posse and, whenever the spirit moves him, in esse, to all non-Muslims. Apparently Christopher Dickey has not noticed the 2.5 million black African Christians killed in the southern Sudan by northern Muslims, never noticed what happened to the Igbo and other Christians before, during, and after the Biafra War, has not noticed what has been happening to Christians in Iraq and in Pakistan and in Indonesia [...]
Mere HER i The New English Review. Fitzgerald kommenterer på denne ignorante artikel i The Daily Beast:
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Om EU, Tyskland og Sarrazins nye bog:
You wanted brave, Mr Draghi? Well, meet Mr Sarrazin
By Christopher Caldwell – May 26, 2012
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi urged European governments to make a “brave leap” towards greater fiscal union this week. Seldom do people who call for intellectual bravery genuinely want it. As the Bundesbank warned German taxpayers of the “considerable risks” they had already taken on by vouching for Greek debts, two men who have won adulation for their new ways of thinking about the eurozone crisis spoke in Berlin. Neither received a warm reception.
Thilo Sarrazin, the economist, Social Democrat and former Bundesbank governor, is nothing if not brave. Two years ago his profound book about the decline of Germany’s social market economy – The Abolition of Germany – became the biggest-selling non-fiction book of the past decade, largely for its bluntness about immigration, education and welfare. His new book, Europe Doesn’t Need the Euro, topped the bestseller lists as soon as it went on sale on Wednesday.
Mere HER hos iPolitics. Artiklen er egentlig fra The Financial Times, men de har låst den inde.
Fra Heritage Foundation den 24. maj 2012 – PowerPoint-præsentation i pdf kan ses her. Vi får en teoretisk gennemgang af holdningsændringer i officielle udmeldinger om terror og islam. Ordforbud for eksempel. “Islamisk terror” er et eksempel på en formulering, man ikke længere anvender. Becky Norton Dunlop indleder:
Fighting the Ideological War: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States
The Obama Administration has had a longstanding policy of trying to remove all reference to Islam and Islamic ideology from discussions about terrorism. Widespread changes have been instituted in counterterrorism training with the result that many U.S. experts on radical Islam have now been sidelined and are restricted in what they may or may not teach about Islamic ideology.
For some time the British government pursued a similar policy. However, seeing its shortcomings, they recently changed course. Recognizing the centrality of Islamist ideology to domestic radicalization, the United Kingdom re-launched the “Prevent” strategy. This strategy not only examines Islamist ideology but also directly confronts it. As the UK government’s June 2011 framework document states, “The Prevent program we inherited from the last Government was flawed… It failed to confront the extremist ideology at the heart of the threat we face.” So as the British government is moving deeper into the study and confrontation of Islamist ideology, the United States is moving in the very opposite direction.
Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo has worked closely with the United Kingdom’s police force as well as with U.S. law enforcement and military authorities. Join us as he discusses this critical component of U.S. counter-terrorism strategy and shares his insights into these two different strategies.
Vi snupper lige endnu et indslag fra Wilders besøg i USA. Fox News sendte klippet den 17. maj 2012:
Compare the Koran to Mein Kampf and get charged with a crime.
Geert Wilders, author of the book “Marked For Death” talks with Stossel about “free speech” and how it’s fine for everyone just as long as no one disagrees. Unfortunately for Geert Wilders he lives in the european socilist state where such things as speaking the truth can get you thrown in jail or in his case you’ll get a bounty on your head as well as charged with a crime. This is the sort of thing that liberals want for America, it’s already the case that people like Al Sharpton can call whites ANYTHING he feels like but for a white person to do the same to blacks would be met with charges of racisim and worse.
Præsident Obama’s bøger giver anledning til en del debat. Manden er åbenbart racist? ”Whites” får skylden for alt:
“Dreams from My Father” an In-Depth Look — Sean Hannity — (Parts 1&2) – 5-18-12
An All-star group of political commentators, journalists and authors, join FNC’s Sean Hannity for a special Media Mash edition, as they discuss and analyze the President’s autobiography, “Dreams from My Father”. This segment includes comments from:
Erik Rush – Author & Columnist;
David Bossie – Author of “Occupy Unmasked” – Citizens United case;
Steve Bannon – Breitbart News CEO; Sol Stern – Manhattan Institute;
David Freddoso – The Washington Examiner;
Dr. Alveda King – Neice of Dr. King Jr.;
David Webb – Sirius XM Patriot Host; and
Pamela Geller – Author & Blogger.
David Freddoso and Jim Geraghty from the National Review, sit down with Sean as they provide a look at President Obama’s Inner Circle.
“Dreams from My Father” an In-Depth Look — Sean Hannity — (Parts 3&4) – 5-18-12
An All-star group of political commentators, journalists and authors, join FNC’s Sean Hannity for a special Media Mash edition, as they discuss and analyze the President’s autobiography, “Dreams from My Father”. This segment has Sean sitting down with Erik Rush — Author & Columnist; and David Webb — Sirius XM Patriot Host, as they delve into Obama’s quotes of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermon in his autobiography and what is means. Sean has a one-on-one with Brent Bozell — Media Research Center, as they review clips and analyze the differences on how the Press covers Mitt Romney vs. President Obama.
Fandt lidt mere Wilders på video:
Geert Wilders & Perry Atkinson – Islam and the West – May 1, 2012
Geert Wilders – Marked for Death Date of Show: 1st May Politician and leader for the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders talks about his experiences Islam & jihad in his book, Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against The West and Me.
Fra In-depth Radio Newstalk 1010 - programmet hedder ”Friendly Fire” med John Downs og Ryan Doyle:
Geert Wilders Interview May 15 2012 on CFRB 1010
Fra 16. maj 2012:
Robert Spencer – “Did Muhammad Exist?”
Robert Spencer speaks at the Wednesday Morning Club about his new book, “Did Muhammad Exist?” May 16, 2012
Q&A:
Desuden link til artikel på dansk – Daniel Pipes:
Andre kilder: Jihad Watch,
Endnu et interview fra Wilders besøg i USA:
Geert Wilders & Frank Gaffney – May 4, 2012
From Secure Freedom Radio: Geert Wilders from the Dutch Party of Freedom, analyzes the Islamist threat in Europe and America
Fra 14. maj 2012:
Stakelbeck on Terror: Islamization in America (with Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller)
CBN News Terrorism Analyst Erick Stakelbeck sits down with Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, two leading voices in the fight against Islamization of the West.
Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs,
Lewis er ikke helt nem at interviewe, men audioen er nu ganske interessant alligevel:
At 96, Historian Lewis Reflects On ‘A Century’
May 15, 2012
Over his long academic career, Bernard Lewis has arguably become the world’s greatest historian of the Middle East. Now, at 96, Lewis turns his attention inward in a memoir that looks back on his life, work and legacy.
The linguist and scholar’s career began before World War II, and in a new memoir he covers more than a few sensitive areas, from race and slavery in Islam, to the clash of civilizations and his long argument with scholar Edward Said, to his role as an adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
NPR’s Neal Conan talks with Lewis about his new book, Notes on a Century.
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Kan desuden høres hos NPR her, hvor man også finder en udskrift. Boise State Public Radio her. Varighed ½ time.
Steyn har skrevet forordet til Wilders’ nye bog:
The Spirit of Geert Wilders
By Mark Steyn – May 14, 2012
A foreword to Wilders’ Marked for Death.
When I was asked to write a foreword to Geert Wilders’ new book, my first reaction, to be honest, was to pass. Mr. Wilders lives under 24/7 armed guard because significant numbers of motivated people wish to kill him, and it seemed to me, as someone who’s attracted more than enough homicidal attention over the years, that sharing space in these pages was likely to lead to an uptick in my own death threats. Who needs it? Why not just plead too crowded a schedule and suggest the author try elsewhere? I would imagine Geert Wilders gets quite a lot of this.
And then I took a stroll in the woods, and felt vaguely ashamed at the ease with which I was willing to hand a small victory to his enemies. After I saw off the Islamic enforcers in my own country, their frontman crowed to The Canadian Arab News that, even though the Canadian Islamic Congress had struck out in three different jurisdictions in their attempt to criminalize my writing about Islam, the lawsuits had cost my magazine (he boasted) two million bucks, and thereby “attained our strategic objective — to increase the cost of publishing anti-Islamic material.” In the Netherlands, Mr. Wilders’ foes, whether murderous jihadists or the multicultural establishment, share the same “strategic objective” — to increase the cost of associating with him beyond that which most people are willing to bear. It is not easy to be Geert Wilders. He has spent almost a decade in a strange, claustrophobic, transient, and tenuous existence little different from kidnap victims or, in his words, a political prisoner. He is under round-the-clock guard because of explicit threats to murder him by Muslim extremists.
Mere HER i National Review Online. AINA her.
Andre kilder: The Guardian,
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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