Et lidt ældre interview – om det arabiske forår. Der findes åbenbart kun dette uddrag:
Dan Diker interviews Prof. Bernard Lewis on the Arab uprising in the Middle East, 30 March 2011
Interessant artikel:
The Revered and Reviled Bernard Lewis
A Retrospective Of The Scholar Who Provided The Intellectual Ammunition For The Iraq War
Daphna Berman – September/October 2011
Bernard Lewis has just moved to a small apartment in the manicured suburbs on Philadelphia’s Main Line. At 95, it was time for the man the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing calls the “most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East” to leave Princeton—his home for more than 35 years—for a senior living facility known for attracting retired academics.
“I’m getting old, I’m no longer sure about dates,” he tells me in his polished British accent, though this moment of self-deprecation is hardly convincing: Our conversation reflects his uncanny ability to recollect dates, time lines and facts—both from his lifetime and several centuries before. As we talk, Lewis recalls the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 as easily as the Turkish elections of 1950. He also regales me with stories, though it is impossible to predict which millennium they will date to. One minute, it’s the Marx Brothers skits he shared with the Shah of Iran in the days before the revolution, the next, an eighth century Arabian joke about a sinful woman praying to Allah for mercy before she dies. And he speaks with eloquence, his ideas organized into complete paragraphs.
Mere HER i Moment Magazine. Man kan læse et uddrag af Lewis’ nye bog hos NPR:
Jonathan Halevi Joins Ezra Levant to discuss islam’s global design: the conquests of Jerusalem, Constantinople, Rome (read up on the Leonine Wall, Ezra), France, Spain, and everywhere else in dar al-Harb.
David Menzies on the dangers of islam
David Menzies visits with a Toronto man who actively protests about the evils of islam.
Fra Fox News 1. juni 2012 – man kan følge med i en delvis udskrift her hos The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
Steven Emerson: US waging a secret cyber war against Iran – June 1, 2012
Iran: Nuclear program reportedly targeted with sophisticated super virus. Trace Gallagher, Molly Henneberg, Peter Brookes & Steve Emerson on Fox News Studio B. Virus code names: Flame, Stuxnet, Olympic Games.
Jeg vil også lige have denne lidt ældre sag med, – den er slet ikke dårlig. Fra 14. januar 2012 – John Bachman interviewer:
Steve Emerson, National Security Expert – Obama Refuses To Confront Radical Islam
“Laser uranium enrichment is so attractive that that it will be implemented — and Iran will become the test case. What must be demanded is the complete opening of the country to appropriate inspection. Anything else would be too little – much too little.” Hans Ruhle
German nuclear weapons expert Hans Rühle warned in the daily Die Welt May 21 that Iran can enrich uranium using laser technology that is much harder to detect than centrifuges. Rühle headed the German Defense Ministry’s policy planning staff during the 1980s. In a widely-discussed commentary last February 17, he argued that Israel has the capacity to cripple Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He also presented evidence in Die Welt that Iran may have tested a nuclear weapon in North Korea.
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadihejad announced in 2010 the ‘good nuclear news’ that Iran then possessed laser technology for uranium enrichment. Iran would not use this technology immediately, Ahmadinejad insisted, but his extremely positive characterization of the new technological option casts strong doubt on Iran’s intentions and suggests that Iran’s voluntary restraint on enrichment is an attempt at diversion,” Rühle wrote in his May 21 analysis.
The White House wants credit for successes but blames Israel for failures, a New York Times exposé shows
By Lee Smith | June 6, 2012
It was quite a week for cyberwarfare. First came the revelation that Iran was suffering from a virus called Flame—apparently the most powerful spyware ever created, turning computers into virtual double-agents—which has already infected at least 1,000 computers, nearly all of them in Iran, the Palestinian territories, Sudan, Syria, and Lebanon.
På disse videoer kan man se, hvorfor halalhippier i Vesten er nødt til at holde det konservative segment nede. Risikoen er jo nemlig, at borgelige kunne finde på at kritisere muslimer for halalslagtning af kristne eller ligefrem standse dem. Og hvor er vi så ikke henne? Nej, venstrefløjen og islam må ikke kritiseres – fra 7. juni 2012:
muslim convert to Christianity beheaded in Tunisia – Michael Coren
muslim convert to Christianity beheaded in Tunisia
This is why islam, the sniveling paranoid mutant of world religions, can never triumph. It requires men to descend to the level of animals, to throw off intellect and live as a barbarian.
Most word religions have a concept of evil, but islam is evil incarnate.
Raymond Ibrahim om denne aktuelle fredshandling:
Graphic Video: Muslims Slaughter Convert to Christianity in Tunisia
by Raymond Ibrahim – June 4, 2012
Liberal talk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently appeared on “Egypt Today” airing a video of Muslims slicing a young man’s head off for the crime of apostasy, in this case, the crime of converting to Christianity and refusing to renounce it. The video—be warned, it is immensely graphic—is embedded here (the actual execution appears from minute 1:13-4:00). For those who prefer not to view it, a summary follows:
A young man appears held down by masked men. His head is pulled back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and appears resigned to his fate. Speaking in Arabic, the background speaker, or “narrator,” chants a number of Muslim prayers and supplications, mostly condemning Christianity, which, because of the Trinity, is referred to as a polytheistic faith: “Let Allah be avenged on the polytheist apostate”; “Allah empower your religion, make it victorious against the polytheists”; “Allah, defeat the infidels at the hands of the Muslims”; “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.”
Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Gatestone Institute her.
More on the Slaughtered Convert to Christianity
by Raymond Ibrahim – June 5, 2012
I just received an email from the editor of a large website, who posted my story from yesterday about the slaughtered apostate. He writes:
The story generated a huge number of commentaries from readers, some of them originating from Muslim Countries. They harshly dispute and deny the veracity of the facts you mention in your paper. Some argue that this abomination did not take place in Tunisia—and I do believe so—but somewhere in Iraq, that the young man is not a Christian but a Shiite, that he was not slaughtered for apostasy but for being a spy of the Americans, and so on… It’s true that the facts are not properly documented : we don’t know even the date of this event, the place, the name of this unfortunate young man… Do you have any additional details and data to help answering ? Many thanks for your kind and urgent attention.
The new Ennahda Islamist rulers are keeping Ben Ali’s autocratic laws to persecute not only political opponents, but also those who deviate from the required path of religion.
After two Tunisian citizens were condemned to a seven-year prison term for publishing writings perceived as offensive to Islam on March 28, Tunisian journalist Najoua Jo wrote, “In today’s Tunisia, has anyone the right to be an atheist and to publicly avow it? The answer is clear: it is no.” It was published by the Tunisian media outlet, Webdo.tn.
Det er længe siden, vi har set noget til Michael Rubin her på bloggen. Det retter vi lige op på:
Michael Rubin: Developments in Turkey — Implications for the US
Michael Rubin is Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Senior Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School.
He spoke to the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group Lunch on Capitol Hill regarding the latest geopolitical developments in Turkey and the implications for United States policy.
Og et interview:
The Future of terror: Michael Rubin interview with Intersec Magazine
April 25, 2012 – Robert de la Poer
As al-Qaeda’s influence grows, Dr. Michael Rubin tells Robert de la Poer that the Western countries must co-operate and continue to take the lead in the fight against Jihadist terrorists.
RP: Do you think there has been enough international co-ordination of law enforcement and intelligence efforts to attack the logistics and financing arms of Jihadist terrorist networks since 9/11? Who should be taking the lead in this fight?
MR: If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.
Mere HER hos AEI. Intersec her. Ytringsfrihed i Tyrkiet? Nej da:
Turkish pianist charged with insulting Muslim values
June 01, 2012
An internationally acclaimed Turkish classical pianist is to stand trial on charges of insulting Muslim religious values in comments posted on Twitter, an Istanbul court ruled on Friday.
Fazil Say has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Berliner Symphoniker, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France and Tokyo Symphony Orchetra and has served as a cultural ambassador to the European Union.
Opdatering 12. juni 2012: Michael Rubin fortæller i Commentary Magazine, at Tyrkerne har arresteret en borgmester og 2 embedsmænd, fordi de havde klikket “Like” på Facebook. Og det skal man ikke gøre med artikler, regimet ikke kan lide:
Vi skal også lige høre, hvad Barry Rubin siger om præsident Obama:
What to Say When You’re Handed the Obama-Is-Good-for-Israel Talking Points
June 1, 2012 – by Barry Rubin
Many Americans, and particularly Jews, are starting to receive mailings encouraging them to vote for President Barack Obama or donate to his reelection campaign of by arguing that he is pro-Israel. Several readers have asked me to provide them with responses. Here is a brief answer.
These emails and mailings, though designed to look as if they were written by concerned individuals, clearly draw their texts from talking points posted on the Obama reelection site. The arguments are very thin and selective but are presented as if they represent the totality of Obama policy.
Ufatteligt, at Dershowitz kan nå alt det, manden rent faktisk udretter. Døgnet har kun 24 timer, men Dershowitz trodser tilsyneladende naturlovene. Lidt af det nyeste:
Alan Dershowitz & Mona Eltahawy square off “Egypt will only ever be a fair-weather friend”
Desuden ser man David Gergin og Suzanne Malveaux:
Fra The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference April 29, 2012, Marriott Times Square – især om Iran og Israel:
Prof. Alan Dershowitz’s speech at JPost conference
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:
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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.
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:
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.
Jeg tror, jeg har forsømt Brigitte Gabriel på det seneste? Vi må have lidt opsamling – video om islamisering af USA, indoktrinering i skolesystemet, saudiarabisk infiltrering og mere. Spol 3 minutter frem:
Brigitte Gabriel in Jacksonville, FL
Brigitte Gabriel Part One. Brigitte Gabriel speaking at First Conservative Baptist Church April 12, 2012 in Jacksonville, FL.
Man kan se hele rapporten om skolebøger hos Act! for America:
Brigitte Gabriel on Why Americans Are Not Up in Arms at the Overreach of the Obama Administration
Brigitte Gabriel Explains Sharia Law and How it Works
Fra november 2011:
ACT for America founder speaks at anti-Shariah conference in Nashville, TN
Brigitte Gabriel focuses on Islamic infiltration into the American education system. This intuitive and highly intelligent lady knows exactly what’s going on in our nation today and boldly explains in detail without regard to any ridiculous political correctness whatsoever. You may be shocked to learn what is going on in our public schools today. This subject could not have been explained any better.
Fra Moody Radio 14. marts 2012 – “In the Market” hedder programmet:
Brigitte Gabriel & Janet Parshall on Sharia in America – Zombie Muhammad – March 14, 201
From Moody Radio – In the Market: Brigitte Gabriel discusses Sharia Law versus the United States Constitution, and what that means for Americans. Especially the Pennsylvania Zombie Mohammed case involving Ernest Perce and judge Mark Martin.
Brigitte Gabriel, is a Christian Lebanese-born, American journalist and author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. Gabriel talks with America’s Morning News about the debate and the unfolding situation in Syria.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 5½ minut.
Ultimo 2007, men ellers udateret. Jimmy Swaggart, Donnie Swaggart, Francis Swaggart - uploadet 7. maj 2012:
The Truth About Islam – An Interview With Brigitte Gabriel
Og en artikler:
Widespread textbook bias threatens national security
By Brigitte Gabriel & Guy Rodgers – May 14, 2012
“Sharia law requires Muslim leaders to extend religious tolerance to Christians and Jews.”
So states the school textbook World History: Patterns of Interaction (2007), published by McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin.
This false, preposterous claim is just one of hundreds of errors uncovered during a two-year research project that culminated in the report “Education or Indoctrination? The Treatment of Islam in 6th through 12th Grade American Textbooks,” released by ACT! for America Education.
Ten questions for the Council on American Islamic Relations
By Brigitte Gabriel and Frank Gaffney | March 22nd, 2012
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has launched a propaganda campaign attacking a state legislative initiative that is designed to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans, including Muslims.
That initiative is known as American Laws for American Courts (ALAC).
CAIR claims this bill would have the opposite effect — infringing upon Muslims’ and others’ right to freedom of religion. CAIR’s real motivation, however, is not to safeguard the U.S. Constitution, but rather to promote the insinuation here of Shariah, a totalitarian Islamic political-military-legal doctrine. Shariah requires and enforces discrimination against women, children, homosexuals, atheists, members of other religions such as Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians, as well as Muslims who repudiate the dictates of that doctrine.
Mere HER i The World Tribune. Næsten identisk version her hos Newsmax. Accuracy in Media her.
Opdatering: Denne audio fra BlogTalkRadio ligner dem ovenfor – Roger Aronoff interviewer:
Brigitte Gabriel on Islamic Terrorism and Why They Hate
Brigitte Gabriel, founder of Act! for America and the author of “They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It,” joins Take AIM to discuss global current events, the Act! for America conference, which will be held June 27-29 in Washington D.C., and we’ll ask Brigitte about her upcoming book.
Gabriel is one of the leading terrorism experts in the world providing information and analysis on the rise of global Islamic terrorism. She serves on the board of advisors of the Intelligence Summit, and her expertise is sought after by world and business leaders, including: the Australian Prime Minister, members of The British Parliament/House of Commons, members of the United States Congress, The Joint Forces Staff College, The U.S. Special Operations Command, the FBI, and many others.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 49 minutter.
Nonie Darwish, Cynthia Farahat, Frank Gaffney – May 10, 2012
From Secure Freedom Radio. Commercials and host remarks cut. Nonie Darwish & Cynthia Farahat’s remarks in full. Nonie Darwish explains how Shariah views women as ¼ human. Cynthia Farahat analyzes the role of women in modern Egyptian society.
Audioen er optaget umiddelbart efter denne konference:
Opdatering 17. juni 2012 – Farahat vidnede ved en høring i december 2011 for Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission:
Cynthia Farahat: Jihad & the War on Egypt’s Coptic Christians
Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat testifies before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives. Reps. Frank Wolf and James McDermott presented “Under Threat: The Worsening Plight of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.” Other witnesses included Kathy Fitzpatrick (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State); Nina Shea (Director, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute); Dina Guirguis (Member, Egyptian American Rule of Law Association); Adel Guindy (President, Coptic Solidarity International); and Raymond Ibrahim (Middle East specialist and Associate fellow, Middle East Forum).
Se også artikel om Farahats vidneberetning i The Blaze:
Genialt foredrag. Opdatering – udskrift hos Citizen Times her:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A Secular Spring or an Islamist Winter? – April 14, 2012
This is a brilliant speech: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a human rights activist especially for the rights of women under Islam. She is utterly fearless in her condemnation of repressive regimes and religions where the rights of dissidents, male or female are oppressed.
She was born in Somalia, the daughter of a political opponent of the ruling dictator. Raised as a Muslim, she attempted to be a devout believer but fled an arranged marriage to what initially was a sanctuary in Holland. She became a Dutch citizen and was elected to parliament from 2003 to 2006.
She left the Netherlands after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was making a film about the treatment of women under Islam. Ayaan had scripted the film and she was targeted as being the next to die.
Ayaan now lives and works in Washington DC and her current work is researching the relationship between Islam and the West. She is very interesting and critical about the failure of Western liberals to defend free speech and the rights of women under Islam.
She speaks here at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne in a talk entitled “The Arab protests of 2011: A secular Spring or an Islamist Winter?”
Videoen kan også ses her eller her hos australske ABC. Og en prisoverrækkelse – der tales tysk i starten. Leon de Winter taler efter godt 3 minutter – på engelsk. Hirsi Ali taler efter ca. 19 minutter. Vi hører blandt andet om tragedien i Norge:
Verleihung des Axel-Springer-Ehrenpreises 2012
Preisverleihung des Axel-Springer-Preises für junge Journalisten am 10. Mai 2012 in der Berliner Ullstein-Halle: Einführung durch Marc Thomas Spahl, Laudatio von Leon de Winter, Preisübergabe durch Friede Springer und Dankesworte von Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Opdatering – fandt et interview:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Protecting Women From Militant Islam
Even in democratic nations, mothers and daughters are held back from basic freedoms
By Kathleen Burke – May 15, 2012
In the United States, author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali continues her work on behalf of Muslim women and girls with her eponymous Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation. She spoke with Smithsonian about the Foundation’s mission and its ongoing efforts to protect Muslim women in this country from oppression and violence.
Could you discuss the work of the AHA Foundation, the essence of your goal and what your future plans are?
The foundation’s mission is to protect women from violence justified in the name of culture and religion. By religion, first and foremost I mean militant Islam. The violence that these women encounter is the result of their desire to be free. The freedom they seek is to pursue education; freedom to work, and most importantly, freedom to own their own bodies. To be mistresses of their own bodies, they want to choose their own mate, to choose how many children they have. In some Muslim households, this is not possible.
Den dødbringende fortælling om Det Arabiske Forår spiller på den vestlige kulturs gode ønsker for alle. Det forekommer langt mere anstændigt at håbe, at folk, der så længe har været undertrykt, omsider vil kunne ånde frit, end at erkende, at de simpelthen er blevet trætte af den gamle kalif og vil have en ny.
Mere HER hos Sappho. Kan også læses på engelsk hos The New English Review her.
Bevis jeres værd, IMR
Klumme af Kit Louise Strand – 11. maj 2012
Efter årtiers politisk korrekte udmeldinger er der bevægelse i Institut for Menneskerettigheder, men direktøren har stadig ikke forstået, hvad menneskerettigheder går ud på.
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Air Date: February 21, 2012
Host: Vic Eliason
Guest: Walid Shoebat
Walid Shoebat was born in Bethlehem, Israel. As a young man he became a member of the PLO and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel. He was once imprisoned in Jerusalem for enticement of violence. After entering the U.S. he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization in Chicago. In 1993, Walid studied the Bible in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam and instead he converted to Christianity. Walid has authored several books including “Why We Want to Kill You”, “Why I Left Jihad”, “For God or For Tyranny” and “God’s War on Terror”
Walid began by defining taqiyya which is the tactic of lying in order to further the cause of Islam. He noted that muruna, however, takes taqiyya a step further. It’s a stealth strategy that sanctions all prohibitions within Islam, even blasphemous and violent ones.
Vic and Walid looked at examples of how this tactic of muruna has affected our nation’s view of Islam. They include:
Last year the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, told Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular.
A devout Muslim, Mohamed Elibiary, has been named to the Homeland Security Advisory Council and has been given access to sensitive data.
According to the Judicial Watch Blog, the FBI has destroyed instructional material that characterizes Muslims as prone to violence or terrorism. Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that anti-Muslim instructional materials hurt the country’s fight against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.
Man skal ikke tillade, at forskellige meninger kommer frem. Kun ens egen mening skal være tilladt. Ellers kan man jo heller ikke demonstrere hvor tolerant, man dog er. Vel? Dette begavede venstrefløjsfænomen dyrker man også på University of New Mexico. Men en del bedsteforældre med slaw i, syntes ikke, at halalhippier skulle ødelægge Darwishs forelæsning og gennede brøleaberne ud. Det skrev National Review Online om allerede tilbage i februar. Dengang gad jeg ikke at blogge om bataljen og det gider jeg sådan set stadig ikke. Så: det kan ikke blive til ret meget mere end video. En enkelt artikel har jeg dog fisket ud af vrimlen, nemlig Nonie Darwishs egen:
University of New Mexico Occupiers’ War on Free Speech
by Nonie Darwish on Feb 27th, 2012
In response to the resurgence of anti-Israel activities by the Arab Student Association and their left-wing anti-Israel “un-Occupy” backers, I was asked to speak at the University of New Mexico on February 23rd by the Israel Alliance group. The title of my speech was “The Dark Side Of Revolutions In The Middle East and The Implications For Israel,” which is the subtitle of my new book, “Devil We Don’t Know.”
Even though the Arab students were having an “apartheid wall” and a stop Islamophobia event on March 2nd, together with the local mosque, they urged the Israel Alliance group to dis-invite me because, as they put it, I am an Islam hater and Islamophobe. They presented them with a video of myself that was highly edited in which I spoke in a rally on the honor-killing of a woman in Florida, and I dared to blame Islamic law for the horrific murder of thousands of women annually. They did not succeed in dis-inviting me.
The full video on Nonie Darwish’s talk at UNM on Feb. 23, 2012, up to the Q&A time.
Q&A at the Nonie Darwish Talk at UNM
Here is the Q&A session after Nonie Darwish’s talk at UNM on February 23. A small amount is missing because of changing the camera battery, but it’s mostly there, and is unedited.
Dametur - Frank Gaffney indleder. Fra 10. maj 2012:
End the Shariah War on Women
Og den meget lange følgetekst – Clare Lopez dukkede aldrig op:
This Thursday, May 10th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room of the National Press Club, the Center for Security Policy launches a national public education campaign to ask America’s leaders to end the real ‘war on women’ — the Shariah War On Women. (http://www.theshariahwaronwomen.org)
Shariah law oppresses women’s liberties and human rights, denying them their unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness:
* Life: Shariah destroys women’s lives through honor killings, physical abuse, female genital mutilation, and rape. This occurs not only to Muslim women but also to Christian and secular women through acts of kidnapping, imprisonment and murder.
* Liberty: Shariah crushes women’s liberty through censoring free speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association.
* Pursuit of Happiness: Shariah punishes women’s pursuit of happiness by denying equal rights and freedom in marriage, divorce, child custody, education and employment
A panel discussion, moderated by Center President Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. and featuring several prominent civil liberties and human rights activists, will launch the national campaign to end the Shariah War On Women. Panelists will include:
Nonie Darwish: Ms. Darwish is an American human rights activist, writer, public speaker as well as founder and Director of Former Muslims United and founder of Arabs For Israel. She is the author of a new book titled The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East. She is also the author of Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror and Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. She speaks frequently at college campuses, religious institutions and civic association meetings. She is currently a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy.
Cynthia Farahat: Ms. Farahat is an Egyptian political activist, writer and researcher. In December 2011, Ms. Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the US House of Representatives on the roots of the persecution of the Coptic Christian minority in her native Egypt. In 2008-2009, she was program coordinator and program officer at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty in Cairo, a multi-national free market think tank. She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party (2006-2008) and served as a member of its political committee. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Center for Security Policy and works with the Coptic Solidarity organization.
Clare Lopez: Ms. Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, homeland security, national defense, and counterterrorism issues. Lopez began her career as an operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving domestically and abroad for 20 years in a variety of assignments, acquiring extensive expertise in counterintelligence, counternarcotics, and counterproliferation issues with a career regional focus on the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Ms. Lopez is a regular contributor to print and broadcast media on subjects related to Iran and the Middle East and the co-author of two published books on Iran. She is the author of an acclaimed paper for the Center for Security Policy, The Rise of the Iran Lobby, where she serves as a Senior Fellow.
Karen Lugo: Karen Lugo is the founder of The Libertas-West Project and in this capacity she responded to a request from French jurists to submit a brief to the Conseil d’Etat on the legal grounds for banning the burqa. Karen is also Co-Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. In this role, she directs the Center’s litigation in support of constitutional issues. She has submitted amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court on such issues as Healthcare Reform, Arizona’s Border Security, Gay Marriage, The Ten Commandments, Christian Clubs on University Campuses, and Material Support to Terrorists. She is a visiting professor at Chapman Law School and co-teaches the advanced Constitutional Law Clinic. Karen is president of the Orange County Federalist Society lawyer chapter and sits on the Federalist Society International Law Executive Committee. She is also on the board of advisors for Trinity Law School in Orange County, CA and an advisor to UK Baroness Caroline Cox’s HART US. Karen is a regular guest on the Orange County PBS local issues debate program, Inside OC, and she is a frequent contributor to RedCounty.com, FlashReport, and contributing editor to Family Security Matters. She has been interviewed by dozens of radio hosts on the matter of sharia law. Ms. Lugo is an appointee to the California Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights.
Opdatering – vi skal lige have denne med. Ikke mindre end 100.000 piger og kvinder i England har fået skåret kønsorganerne af. Åbenbart fra 9. maj 2012:
Fred Grandy on horrors of the Shariah War on Women
Center Executive Vice President Fred Grandy joined the Jeff Katz radio show for his weekly appearance. This week Cong. Grandy and “Mrs. Fred” covered the disturbing trend of female genital mutilation in the Western world and the Shariah War on Women.
Bernard Lewis – årgang 1916 – har skrevet en ny bog. Lewis ser tilbage på det århundrede, der gik. Spengler anmelder:
Bernard Lewis’ Stubborn Hope
In Notes on a Century, the historian is still optimistic about a ‘great civilization’ in the Muslim world
By David P. Goldman | May 9, 2012
Bernard Lewis beckons to us as if from the mists of legend. A poet-scholar, linguist, observer and sometime participant in the great events of the Middle East for seven decades, the London-born scholar belongs more to the world of T.E. Lawrence than to ours. At 95, his prose is translucent and his recollection luminous.
But Notes on a Century—his personal and professional memoir—makes for sad reading, for two reasons. The first is that we will not find another like Bernard Lewis; it is a valedictory essay not just for a remarkable man but for an epoch. No university today could train a poet capable of extracting the red thread of history from the obscure orthography of official archives, or a historian-diplomat who knows the songs of a dozen peoples in their own dialects. Part of the reason is ideological. The post-colonial-studies movement typified by the late Edward Said has ruined a field that once was called “Orientalism”—meaning simply a specialty in Near Eastern philology rather than Greek and Roman. Saudi and other Gulf State funding of Middle East studies programs, meanwhile, has made a critical stance toward Muslim culture an academic career-killer. Even without the ideological divide, though, our culture has grown too brittle to nurture another mind of Lewis’ depth.
Prof. Bernard Lewis has just published a memoir which is as much a valedictory statement of his views as a reminiscence about a remarkable life; I review it today at the Jewish webzine The Tablet. Lewis has of course been denounced from the left (by the sulfurous Edward Said) as an “orientalist,” which used to mean scholar of Semitic languages but now means “neo-colonialist.” That is an absurd charge by an incompetent and mendacious scholar, but it ruined Middle Eastern studies in the politically correct (and Arab-funded) world of academia. From the right, he has been denounced as an “Arab apologist” by Pamela Geller and as a “Pied Piper of Islamic Confusion” by Andrew Bostom.
One should be cautious about attacking Prof. Lewis, whose analysis of Muslim rage did more to galvanize Western support for the idea of a war on terror than any other single source, and who drew more opprobrium from the academic left than any other personality. His optimism about Islamic democracy ultimately was misplaced, in my view, but should be understood in context. As I wrote in Tablet:
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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