- urbi et orbi
Fukuyama har en særegen opfattelse af Danmark, – vi får en ny udlægning hver gang. Islam er lidt af et tabu for Fukuyama, – der skal et spørgsmål til, før det emne kommer op.
Noget af denne forelæsning er hørt før, andet er nyt. Fra AEI den 2. april 2012 – lyden glipper et par sekunder, men bliver straks ordnet:
The Origins of Political Order
Andre kilder: RealClearPolitics,
Misvisende overskrift her:
Religion giver mindre integration
16. januar 2012 – Af Rasmus Karkov
Undersøgelse af herboende vietnamesere viser, at religioner – især dem med strenge krav til de troende – mindsker integrationen. Religion påvirker til gengæld ikke efterkommeres integration. Vietnamesere er blandt de mest veltilpassede flygtninge i det danske samfund.
Mere HER hos Videnskab.dk.
Norsk studie avslører:
Tror jentefostre blir valgt bort
09.01.12 – Av Shazia Sarwar og Synnøve Åsebø
En norsk studie avslører at indisk-norske kvinner føder unormalt mange guttebarn. Forskerne tror jentefostre blir bevisst valgt bort.
Funnene i studien, som er utført ved Rikshospitalet, er oppsiktvekkende:
Før ultralyd ble tilgjengelig ble det født 108 jenter per 100 fødte gutter hos indisk-norske mødre. Etter ultralydens inntog i 1987 – hvor det ble mulig å fastslå fosterets kjønn – har tallene falt dramatisk til 65 fødte jenter per 100 fødte gutter.
Mere HER hos VG.
Andre kilder: TV2 Norge, ABC Nyheter, Videnskab.dk, Dagens Medisin, BMC Pregnancy Childbirth,
The FP Interview: Condoleezza Rice on Obama, “Leading from Behind,” Iraq, and More
The former secretary of state dishes on what the current administration gets right – and what it gets wrong.
By Josh Rogin | November 3, 2011
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat down for an extensive interview with Foreign Policy as part of the rollout of her new book, No Higher Honor. Rice criticized the notion of “leading from behind”; called for a return to a focus on human rights in foreign policy; lamented the downfall of democracy in Russia, calling Putin’s likely return to power a “terrible turn of events”; and contended that George W. Bush’s administration, despite avowals by the current White House to the contrary, had always intended to negotiate an extension to the agreement that required all U.S. troops to exit Iraq by the end of this year.
On the contentious subject of Middle East peace, Rice fully endorsed the U.S. decision to withdraw from any U.N. organization that grants full membership to the Palestinians, as UNESCO did this week. “If the U.N. wants to go down this road, let them see how well they do without U.S. support,” she said. Rice also said that by initially pressuring the Israeli government to accept a settlement freeze, Barack Obama’s administration had “put the Palestinians in a position of having to be less Palestinian than the United States,” forcing them to adopt more extensive demands.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Lidt af, hvad der sker rundt om i verden. Kristne, det billige skidt:
The Arab Spring and Christian Persecution
by Joseph Puder on Sep 8th, 2011
While the Western media and governments have been preoccupied with the so called “Arab Spring,” little if any attention has been paid to the increased persecution of Christians in the Muslim Middle East.
Throughout the region, Christians have been targeted by Muslim mobs killing innocent bystanders, burning churches, and destroying Christian properties. Interviewed by The National on June 19, 2011, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury declared that the Arab Spring is posing a threat to Christian minorities throughout the Middle East. He added that “extremists were filling vacuums left by ousting of autocratic regimes,” and “leading to Copts being targeted in Egypt.” In Syria, Archbishop Williams warned, “tensions between Christian communities and Muslim majorities were reaching breaking point.” And, he added that Christians in northern Iraq had been subjected to a form of “ethnic cleansing.” The archbishop made his comments in an interview with BBC radio on August 30, during which he said that even in Bethlehem, Christ’s birthplace, the once-majority Christian population had now become a “marginalized minority.”
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Interviewet med ærkebiskop, Rowan Williams, kan ses eller høres her:
England kan også være med. Biblen er fornærmelig:
Postal workers refuse to deliver Bible recordings because the CDs are ‘offensive’
9th September 2011
Postal workers refused to deliver CDs of Bible readings after deciding they were ‘offensive material’.
Several churches had paid for discs with recordings of St Mark’s Gospel to be produced to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
They were due to be delivered to all households on the Channel Island of Jersey, but church leaders were stunned when they were told postal workers would not handle the 45,000 CDs.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Og i Norge, – landet med det ambivalente forhold til terror, bliver frafaldne fra islam overhældt med syre og kogende vand:
Muslims attack Afghan convert with boiling water and acid
07 September 2011
An Afghan convert to Christianity fears for his life after being attacked with boiling water and acid by Muslims at a centre for asylum seekers.
“Ali” was targeted by fellow asylum seekers at an immigration centre in Norway after they discovered that he had converted to Christianity. He said:
De norske myndigheder bragte den sårede, livstruede mand tilbage til asylcenteret, hvor bødlerne ventede. Naturligvis. Man er vel norsk, ikke? Mere HER hos Barnabas Fund.
Why ‘Christian’ Persecution?
by Raymond Ibrahim – September 9, 2011
Some are asking why my new monthly series, “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” wherein I collate and assess some of the atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians, does not include the persecution of other religious minority groups; others are suggesting I broaden my scope to include all minorities, for instance, homosexuals.
Of course other minority groups—essentially any religion other than Islam (or even the wrong kind of Islam, e.g., Shi’ism, Sufism)—experience persecution in the Muslim world. Accordingly, others qualified in the particulars of the various religions and civilizations persecuted by Islam are encouraged to collate and comment on them, monthly or otherwise.
Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Jihad Watch her. Ibrahims status for august kan ses her:
Og mere om Egypten:
Muslims Blockade Christian Village in Egypt, Demand Demolition of Church
By Mary Abdelmassih – September 9, 2011
Christians in the Upper Egyptian village of Elmarinab in Edfu, Aswan province, have been forbidden to leave their homes or buy food until they remove the dome of St. George’s Church, which was rebuilt in its previous location. Village Muslims, backed by Muslim Salafists from neighboring villages, have threatened to demolish the church on Friday September 9 after prayers and use it as a mosque.
Despite the presence of security forces, Muslims have blocked the roads to the village, refusing passage of any Christians under any circumstance.
Mere HER hos AINA.
Andre kilder: Assist News Service, Anglican Mainstream,
Disse to artikler behandler de to slags menneskerettigheder, denne verden har. FNs og Kairo-deklarationen:
Sharia and Western Compliance
Leslie Sacks – August 22, 2011
Article 22 of the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam states:
1.Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari’a
2.Everyone shall have the right to advocate what is right, and propagate what is good, and warn against what is wrong and evil according to the norms of Islamic Shari’a.This declaration – made by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and intended as a counter measure to the UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights – exposes the slippery slope on which Western societies tread when indulging Shari’a-based interpretations of rights and freedoms. If every such right and freedom is bounded by religious edict, then no such rights and freedoms will exist.
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Women’s Worth in Islam
Amil Imani – August 21, 2011
In 1973, the General Assembly of the United Nations opened for signature and ratification the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (ICSPCA). It defined the crime of apartheid as:
“Inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial [religious] group of persons over any other racial [religious] group of persons and systematically oppressing them.”[Italics are mine]
Hvorfor mon det ikke er omvendt? Hvorfor hedder artiklen ikke Amerika og islamisk tolerance? Lad os få noget muslimsk næstekærlighed. Det er jo ligesom et fænomen, vi ikke har set en hel masse til. Men det handler artiklen ikke om. Sært nok:
Islam and American Tolerance
By David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam – August 12, 2011
What the experience of Jews and Catholics suggests about the future for Muslims
What’s the path to religious acceptance in America—and what can Muslims, Mormons and Buddhists learn from Jews and Catholics?
A Gallup report out last week found that, of all major religious groups in America, Muslims are the most optimistic about their future. When asked what they think their lives will be like in five years, Muslims see themselves as having a better life than do members of any other religious group. They are also most likely to say that their community is getting better as a place to live.
Why is such optimism warranted even though Muslims are also the religious group most likely to report experiencing discrimination?
Sandhed findes ikke mere. Hvis muslimer ikke er diskriminerede, så vælger man bare at fortolke noget andet. Der er ingen risiko for, at man bliver sagt imod. Det er jo ikke politisk korrekt. Desuden er sandheden ikke et gyldigt forsvar. Mere HER i Wall Street Journal.
Jeg var lige i humør til at se lidt video med Christopher Hitchens. Debat om især katolicisme og kristendom, men også om ytringsfrihed og islam. Q&A i sidste halvdel:
Christopher Hitchens: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
In conversation with Tim Rutten
ALOUD at the Los Angeles Public Library, June 4, 2007
Opdatering. Vi snupper lige en til – fra New York Public Library den 7. maj 2007:
Christopher Hitchens Debates Al Sharpton – New York Public Library
EU er imod ytringsfrihed. Nogle mennesker er endda så naive, at de tror, vi stadig har forsamlingsfrihed i EUs medlemslande. Men de blev klogere. Nu forsøger de sig med en Freedom Flotilla. Mon de overlever turen? Man kan have sine tvivl:
Freedom Collapses in Europe – So We’re Taking It to the Seas
By Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer
In a capitulation to Islamic supremacists and violent radical Leftists, French and European Union authorities have canceled a free speech rally that we had planned with a coalition of American and European human rights organizations in Strasbourg, the seat of the European Parliament.
Our human rights organizations Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and its sister group, Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) were planning to hold their first-ever transatlantic summit in Strasbourg, France, on July 2.
Mere i Big Government HER. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.
Andre kilder: Reuters, The Sacramento Bee,
Måske jøderne i Norge burde begynde at overfalde og voldtage norske piger, så de norske jøder kan få noget sympati. Man får som bekendt intet ud af at opføre sig ordentligt, – det bliver derimod straffet hårdt:
Anti-Semitism in Norway
Anti-Jew and anti-Israel sentiments in Norway flourish, despite local denials
Manfred Gerstenfeld – 06.22.11
Earlier this month, a survey by the Oslo Municipality found that 33% of Jewish students in the town are physically threatened or abused by other high school teens at least two to three times a month. The group thta suffered the next highest amount of bullying was Buddhists at 10%. “Others” were at 7% and Muslims at 5.3%. Furthermore, the survey found that 51% of high school students consider “Jew” a negative expression and 60% had heard other students use the term.
The publication of these very negative findings came at an inconvenient time for Norwegian authorities. A few days later, an American Jewish group consisting of delegates from the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai Brith International and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, as well as Professor Marshall Breger, a former adviser on Jewish Affairs to President Ronald Reagan, arrived in Oslo.
Mere HER i Ynet News.
Opdatering 7. juli 2011 - Gerstenfeld har en næsten identisk artikel i Arutz Sheva her.
Jeg har lige set et par små videoer med Robert Putnam. Der sker ikke så meget nyt for folk, der har set Putnam før, men han gør nu det udmærket alligevel. Tavis Smiley er i den grad “leftist”:
PBS – Tavis Smiley – Robert Putnam – December 21, 2010
Den næste er fra Big Think 18. januar 2011:
What We Can Learn From Megachurches
Robert Putnam – Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The innovative structure of giant church congregations like Saddleback Church in southern California provides a model that businesses can emulate.
Opdatering 10. juni 2010 – vil lige have denne med også. Fra 11. oktober 2011 – udskrift her:
Religious Diversity and the Building Blocks of ‘American Grace’
Paul Solman sits down with political scientist Robert Putnam to discuss his new book “American Grace,” which delves into the current role religion plays in the United States.
Opdatering 12. juni 2011 – en audio fra The Kojo Nnamdi Show på WAMU Radio fra 22. december 2010:
How Religion Divides & Unites
It’s a paradox - Americans are deeply divided and polarized along religious lines. But Americans are also increasingly likely to intermarry, change religions and accept with tolerance the religious faith of others. Social and political scientist Robert Putnam helps us decipher the numerous and sometimes contradictory roles religion plays within society.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Kan også høres på Kojos hjemmeside her. Varighed 52½ minut.
Andre kilder: NewsBusters, PowerLine, New Hampshire Public Television,
Den islamiske verden er inferiør?
The Muslim World’s Inferiority Complex
by Khaled Montaser – May 11, 2011
Translated, abridged and introduced by Raymond Ibrahim
“What if an entire civilization developed an inferiority complex? What ramifications would that have on the rest of the world? How would such paranoia play itself out in the interaction of civilizations?
An Arabic op-ed entitled “The Broder Dilemma and Inferiority Complex,” written by the Muslim intellectual Khaled Montaser late last year, and translated below, portrays the Muslim world as suffering from just such an inferiority complex.”
We Muslims have an inferiority complex and are terribly sensitive to the world, feeling that our Islamic religion needs constant, practically daily, confirmation by way of Europeans and Americans converting to Islam. What rapturous joy takes us when a European or American announces [their conversion to] Islam—proof that we are in a constant state of fear, alarm, and chronic anticipation for Western validation or American confirmation that our religion is “okay.” We are hostages of this anticipation, as if our victory hinges on it—forgetting that true victory is for us to create or to accomplish something, such as those [civilizations] that these converts to our faith abandon.
Mere HER i Hudson New York
Så er der debat. Optaget 15. februar 2011 i Los Angeles Californien. Ordstyreren hedder Rob Eshman:
Christopher Hitchens, Rabbi David Wolpe, Sam Harris & Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson debate the scientific & religious views on the topic: Is there an afterlife.
Man kan også se videoen her på Jewish Journals hjemmeside, - vær opmærksom på, at videoen selvstarter. Kan desuden høres som mp3. Del 1 her – del 2 her.
Hør artiklen som mp3 her:
The Prophet, Represented
Ibn Warraq – Winter 2011
Images of Mohammed in Islam are more common than fundamentalists claim.
On the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 25th Street stands the Manhattan Appellate Courthouse, a Corinthian-columned marble palace built in 1900 by architect James Brown Lord. Gracing the roof balustrade are nine statues of historical lawgivers, including Solon, Justinian, Confucius, and Moses. Originally, the design honored ten men, the tenth being Mohammed, in an eight-foot marble statue by Charles Albert Lopez. The New York Times described the statue as “of average height, but broad-shouldered, with thick, powerful hands. Under his turban, his brows are prominent and frowning. A long, heavy beard flows over his robe. In his left hand, he holds a book, symbolizing the new religion he founded”—a blunder by Lopez; no devout Muslim, let alone Mohammed himself, would touch the Koran with a hand reserved for dirty chores—“and in his right, a scimitar, connoting the Moslem conquest.”
Det hele HER i City Journal.
Opdatering – fandt endnu en artikel af Ibn Warraq om Rudyard Kipling og Edward Said:
Rudyard Kipling, India and Edward Said
by Ibn Warraq (March 2010)
There is a marvellous passage in Kim where Kipling good-humouredly pats himself on the back and is asking for our applause for the way that he has totally immersed himself in India, and has mastered all the nuances of caste, creed and etiquette. Practically every Westerner writing gushingly about India commits unforgiveable solecisms- there are traps for the unwary and untutored. Modern films like the ridiculous “Gandhi’ are the most egregious sinners. Here is the passage from Kim:
Mere HER i The New English Review.
Robert Kaplan er en travl mand for tiden, - han er overalt. 
Her er noget at vælge imellem:
Author Robert Kaplan discusses new book and the rise of the Indian Ocean
Robert Kaplan, author of “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power” sat down in October 2010 with Nicholas Burns, director of the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project, to discuss the growing importance of the Indian Ocean in international affairs.
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power with Robert Kaplan
On October 25, 2010, Robert Kaplan visited the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to discuss his new book, “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.” Kaplan current serves as a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security and as national correspondent for The Atlantic.
Tony Blair og Chistopher Hitchens debatterer i Canada her til aften. Endnu er videoen ikke online, men Roger Scruton og Christina Patterson har skrevet en forhåndsomtale:
Blair vs Hitchens: The dress rehearsal
Is religion a force for good? That’s the subject of a long-awaited debate tonight between the former PM and one of the world’s leading secularists. We asked two leading writers to set out the rival arguments in advance
Citatet herunder er taget et godt stykke nede i artiklen:
Roger Scruton: The Blair argument
Just as there are bad people with religious beliefs, so there are good people without them. So what does religion add to morality and why is the addition good? The first thing that religion adds is the idea of the sacred. This idea is a strange sediment in human consciousness; it might have an evolutionary cause, but the cause does not tell us what it means. The second thing that religion adds is communion.
The rituals of religion are shared and those who participate in them are drawn into another kind of relationship with their neighbours than those that prevail in the world of “getting and spending”. People hunger for this kind of membership and the power of religion resides in its ability to provide it. In the rituals of a religion all worldly differences are overcome: the Sultan bows in submission beside his subjects and the good-natured fool takes communion beside the crook who cheated him. The ritual shines on both of them from a place beyond their ordinary experience and includes them in a community whose home is in some way not of this world. And in the Christian case the ritual records a primeval sacrifice, born of love.
Mere HER i The Independent.
Via Richard Dawkins.
Al-Kotel Al-Ma’aravi?
By Prof. Phyllis Chesler
The Muslims – not the Islamists – mean to take over every Jewish site in Jewish Israel. And the United Nations means to assist them.
The Palestinian Authority has recently issued a new and particularly brazen report in which it declares that the Kotel (Western Wall), the outer wall of the Jewish Temple complex which was first built by the Jewish King Solomon in 960 BCE, destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, rebuilt again by Jews in 515 BCE – more than a millennium before the rise of Islam – is not really a Jewish site.
It is now, purportedly, a Muslim holy site.
The report states: “Jews did not worship at the Wailing Wall at any time until the Balfour Declaration of 1917…nor can any Muslim, or Arab, or Palestinian give up a single stone or piece of dust from the Wailing Wall or other holy places because that would be a concession on the Temple Mount.” Not only is this claim part of crass Islamic revisionist history – the Muslims are fast destroying the archeological evidence as well.
Mere HER i Arutz Sheva.
Skøjter stadig udenom islam:
Religious people are ‘better neighbors’
By David Campbell and Robert Putnam
Is religion toxic or a tonic for our nation’s civic life? The question often inspires passion, and vitriol, on both sides. Professional atheists like Christopher Hitchens argue that “religion poisons everything,” while advocates for religion, like Glenn Beck, see faith in God as the antidote to all that ails America.
To understand religion’s role in America today, we have spent the last five years exhaustively examining the many ways that religion affects American society — from our families to our politics to our communities. We have done so with what we believe to be the most comprehensive survey of religion in America ever done, supplemented by every other source of relevant data we could find. The result is our new book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. Our objective is not to take sides on religion, but only to report what the data say.
Mere HER i USA Today. The Telegraph har en artikel om artiklen her. Desuden en audio – Putnam siger ikke noget nyt - fra 15. november 2010:
Author Robert Putnam discusses his new book, “American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.” The book includes a dozen or so profiles of congregations across the country, attempting to illuminate the role of spirituality in the everyday lives of Americans.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests: Robert Putnam, author and professor of public policy at Harvard University
Reservelink til KQED-udsendelsen her.
Opdatering 18. november 2010:
Jeg fandt en video med Robert Putnam fra 1. oktober 2010, – der sker ikke noget nyt her:
Robert Putnam on Immigration and Social Capital at NIIC 2010
2010 National Immigrant Integration Conference, Boston, MA – Morning Plenary, 10/1/2010
Immigrants & the Host Communities: the importance of new citizens in revitalizing democracy and renewing civic values
Videoen hakker det første minut. Derefter kører den normalt:
Videoen stammer fra en konference, som kan ses i sin helhed på Vimeo. Der ligger flere videoer fra arrangementet her.
Kongeriget Sind og Vesten i dag
22. October 2010 – Geoffrey Cain
Geofffrey Cain har genlæst Naipauls klassiker Blandt de rettroende og fortæller her historien om kongeriget Sind, som har visse dystre mindelser om Vesten i dag
Business as usual?
Hvorfor har Karen Jespersens og Ralf Pittelkows seneste bog Islams magt sat sindene så meget i kog? Svaret er enkelt. Det er pga. dens ubekvemme budskab om, at truslen mod den vestlige verden ikke kommer fra sabelraslende galninge men fra en såkaldt moderat midtergruppe, der lidt efter lidt vil blive mere og mere radikaliseret. [...]
Mere HER hos Sappho.
Udlændingepolitikken brudt sammen
26. October 2010 – Morten Uhrskov Jensen
Udlændingestramningerne fra 2002 er en saga blot og danskere, der har stemt på Dansk Folkeparti i sikker forvisning om en stram udlændingepolitik, er til grin.
Sammenbrud
Jeg meldte mig for godt 14 dage siden ud af Dansk Folkeparti, da jeg ikke kunne leve med, at partiet ikke ville tage mine påvisninger af sammenbruddet af to af hjørnestenene i stramningerne i udlændingepolitikken alvorligt; 24-årsreglen og tilknytningskravet.
Mere HER hos Sappho.
Så slemt er det heller ikke
26. October 2010 – Martin Henriksen
Udlængepolitikken ligger ikke i ruiner og det er virkeligfjernt at tro, at DF, det eneste EU-kritiske parti i Folketinget, opnår noget som helst ved at vælte regeringen, skriver Martin Henriksen i et svar til Morten Urskov
Markant forskel
I årene 1994 til 2001 (8 år) kom der 74.086 asylansøgere, 58,427 fik asyl og 76.319 fik opholdstilladelse som familiesammenført. Til sammenligning kom der i årene 2002 til 2009 (8 år) 26.647 asylansøgere, 14.457 fik asyl og 43.699 fik opholdstilladelse som familiesammenført. [...]
Mere HER i Sappho.
Desuden link HER til Katrine Winkel Holms kommentarer til de 2 artikler.
Opdatering 28. oktober 2010:
H, S & L: Nyt fokus i integrationsindsatsen
28. October 2010 – Pertinax
Hån, Spot & Latterliggørelse kan i dag afsløre nyt fokus i integrationsindsatsen: I stedet for at integrere muslimer i den danske befolkning, skal indsatsen nu fokusere på at integrere danskerne i islam.
Lærenem regering
Blandt den siddende regerings mange fortræffeligheder bør især to fremhæves: Den holder ud og den er lærenem.Således har det blot taget den 10 år og udgifter svarende til et lignende antal Øresundsbroer at erkende det umulige i at integrere mennesker, der ikke vil integreres. Men nu er det gået op før Løkke og hans folk, at man altså ikke kan forlange integration af muslimer, når deres profet har sagt, at det vil sende dem i helvede.
Mere satire HER hos Sappho.
Opdatering den 2. november fra Sappho – Morten Uhrskov Jensen svarer igen:
Jo, så slemt står det til
31. October 2010 – Morten Uhrskov Jensen
Bevis jeg har taget fejl, Martin Henriksen. Og i modsat fald fortæl danskerne, hvordan virkeligheden ser ud.
Udeladelser
Jeg ved ikke, hvorfor Dansk Folkepartis Martin Henriksen tror, at han kan slippe afsted med så mange udeladelser og fordrejninger af fakta, som tilfældet er i hans kommentar på Sappho, Så slemt er det heller ikke, fra den 26. oktober, samme dag, som mit indlæg Udlændingepolitikken brudt sammen blev bragt. Lad mig se på dem en for en.
Mere HER hos Sappho.
Opdatering 5. november 2010 fra Sappho, hvor Martin Henriksen svarer:
Ærlig talt, hr. Uhrskov
3. November 2010 – Martin Henriksen
Morten Uhrskov Jensen kortslutter debatten, når han pludselig begynder at komme med anklager om løgn og bedrag, skriver Martin Henriksen i sin afsluttende replik.
Aldrig tilfreds
Indledningsvis skal jeg slå fast, at jeg naturligvis er klar over, at Morten Uhrskov aldrig vil blive tilfreds før jeg giver ham ret i noget, som jeg ikke er enig i. Som en del af Uhrskovs argumentation bliver jeg nu anklaget for at være en løgner og andre af alverdens dårligdomme. Jeg har svaret på en række af de anklager som Uhrskov er kommet med, og derfor vil jeg ikke gentage mig selv.
Mere HER hos Sappho.
I den første video bruger Sam Harris næsten hele sin taletid på islamkritik. Og han er faktisk virkelig interessant at høre på. Robert Wright er apologet og bliver sat til vægs flere gange.
Der er Q&A i anden halvdel og blandt spørgerne i salen finder vi ingen ringere end Richard Dawkins. Fra 8. oktober 2010 - konference i Los Angeles afholdt af Council for Secular Humanism:
Where Should Seculars Stand Today and Tomorrow on Questions of Religion and Belief
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times best-sellers The End of Faith (winner of the 2005 Pen Award for Nonfiction) and Letter to a Christian Nation. Mr. Harris’s writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. He is co-founder and CEO of The Reason Project, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society.
Robert Wright is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Evolution of God. Previous books include The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life (named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best 10 books of the year) and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (which President Bill Clinton required White House staff members to read). Wright, a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism, has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine. He has taught philosophy at Princeton and religion at Penn. He is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and editor in chief of Bloggingheads.tv, which he co-founded. He has written for the New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other periodicals.
Der går ca. 3½ minut før programmet starter:
Sam Harris har desuden lige været gæst hos Jon Stewart på The Daily Show. Også her får islam en solid omgang kritik - fra 4. oktober 2010:
Desuden link her til endnu et inteview med Sam Harris hos A.V. Club.
Andre kilder: Council for Secular Humanism,
Nul offentlige tilskud. Islam er ikke en religion af årsager som polygami eller manglende rettigheder for kvinder. Det er klar tale. Den slags er politik. Ikke religion.
Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome’s Grand Mosque. Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women’s rights by Muslims immigrants as obstacles to recognising Islam as an official religion in Italy.
Derfor heller ingen penge. Andre indvandrergrupper kan godt modtage tilskud. AKI ADNKronosInternational skriver videre:
Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious faiths each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah’s Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and still must be approved by parliament.
Kristne kirker og trossamfund får broderparten:
Until now, the government had earmarked 8 percent of income tax revenue for Italy’s established churches. The great majority of these funds go to the Catholic Church, although if they wish, individual tax payers may elect to give the money to charities and cultural projects instead.
De islamiske trossamfund er heller ikke anerkendt i fuldt omfang herhjemme.
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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