Video: Robert D. Kaplan, Colin Chapman, George Friedman

SCO. Det er ikke kun en cykel fra Smidt & Co, – det er også en asiatisk interesseorganisation. Kaplan følger med i, hvad det er for en fisk og hvad de laver. Det gør jeg også engang imellem – fra 8. juni 2012:

Robert D. Kaplan on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Agenda)

Stratfor Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert D. Kaplan looks at the significance of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is seeking to spread its influence as far as Turkey.

En ret nørdet diskussion om krigsstrategi & taktik - faktisk ikke overdrevent interessant. Fra 8 juni 2012:

A Conversation on Counterinsurgency as a Strategy with George Friedman and Robert D. Kaplan

Stratfor CEO George Friedman and Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert Kaplan debate the viability of counterinsurgency as a military strategy.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, Wikipedia,

Kristne er udryddelsestruede i det meste af verden

Vatikanet advarer. Fra 27. september 2011:

Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican’s foreign minister told the UN summit

Det skriver Canada.com. Det blev det stærkt islamiserede FN nok ikke ked af at høre. Raymond Ibrahim har lavet en oversigt for september 2011 – posten her er en slags opsamling eller “siden sidst”:

Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 12, 2011

An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, aside from Iran and Sudan, none of the countries that habitually appears in this series was designated among the “countries of particular concern,” defined by the State Department as countries that are “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”

Egypt, for instance—which this year alone has seen over fifty Christians killed, their many churches burned or bombed, and their daughters kidnapped and forcibly converted—was not listed as a “country of particular concern,” despite the fact that the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, has recommended that the State Department designate it so.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Kan også læses her hos Middle East Forum. Ibrahim uddyber sin analyse af Hillary Clintons udtalelser:

Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt’s Christians?

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 13, 2011

Soon after Sunday’s Maspero massacre, where the Egyptian military slaughtered Christians demonstrating over the destruction of their churches—including by running them over with armored vehicles—some Egyptian media began reporting that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having seen enough, declared that the U.S. plans on directly intervening in Egypt.

Of course, Hillary said no such thing. According to Al Ahram:

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch. Ibrahim har endnu en artikel om kristnes forhold – mere om den dødsdømte iranske præst:

Islamism’s Predictability

Apostasy, Execution, and Lies

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 6, 2011

As one ponders the fate of Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor on death row for refusing to renounce Christianity, it is well to reflect that, for all the talk that Islam is perpetually “misunderstood,” it is actually immensely predictable and consistent; not only do its patterns cross time and space, but their manifestations are often identical.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.

Christian girl, 12, kidnapped, beaten and raped for eight months until she converted to Islam

By Wil Longbottom on 13th October 2011

• Asian Human Rights Commission claim girl was lured on shopping trip by friend before she was kidnapped.
• Abductors drove her 120 miles before raping her, then forced her to sign marriage papers
• Victim managed to escape eight months later, but police refuse to prosecute rapists because they are tied to militant Islam group

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. British Pakistani Christian Association har en tilsvarende artikel her.

Asia Bibi tortured by prison officers

by Nasarani ki Himmet – 14 October 2011

According to a Pakistani newspaper, the Express Tribune, Asia Bibi, the poster-victim of Pakistan’s wicked blasphemy laws has been tortured by one of wardens at the Sheikhupura jail where she is imprisoned in solitary confinement awaiting a death sentence for defending her Christian faith. The warden Khadeeja allegedly tortured her after claiming he found ‘prohibited items’ in her cell. Other prison staff watched and did nothing to stop the attack. (Well, she’s only a kuffir Christian, after all…..) Thankfully, it appears that (eventually) the culprit has at least been suspended from duty (for how long, we shall have to see).

Don’t forget to pray for Asia Bibi and also her family, who are being threatened and isolated by Islamic militants.

Mere HER hos British Pakistani Christian Association. Lignende artikel her i The Pakistan Express Tribune.

Caroline Glick synes, det er uklart, hvad Vesten ønsker at opnå  med sin tavshed. For Europas vedkommende er det nu helt indlysende. Det er europæerne, man vil af med. I sidste halvdel af artiklen kommer der en del interessante taloplysninger om Mellemøstens kristne:

The forgotten Christians of the East

By Caroline B. Glick – October 10, 2011

It is unclear what either Western governments or Western churches think they are achieving by turning a blind eye to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world.

On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt’s state television headquarters in Cairo. The 1,000 Christians represented the ancient Christian community of some 8 million whose presence in Egypt predates the establishment of Islam by several centuries. They gathered in Cairo to protest the recent burning of two churches by Islamic mobs and the rapid escalation of state-supported violent attacks on Christians by Muslim groups since the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Family Security Matters her. Townhall her. Caroline Glick her. Se også denne skarpe leder i Investor’s Business Daily:

• Killing A Religion

Diana West om kopterne i Egypten:

Like Good Little Dhimmi, West Stays Silent About Coptic Oppression

By Diana West – October 16, 2011

I am looking at a reproduction of an engraving of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher, said to the be the site of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and burial. The church in this image, based on an 1856 photograph, has neither cross nor belfry. It stands in compliance with the Islamic law and traditions of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, which ruled Jerusalem at the time.

Mere HER hos AINA. WorldNetDaily her. The Washington Examiner her. Diana West her. Vesten kan skam også godt være med:

Facebook, Google, Apple Censoring Religious Speech?

By Stephanie Samuel | Sep. 16 2011

The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) group sounded the alarm Thursday about new media outlets such as Facebook, Google and Apple, which they say have written policies that violate the fundamental rules of free expression, particularly concerning religious free speech.

The NRB released a report at the National Press Club Thursday analyzing the various content policies of social networking websites. What they found was disturbing: new media platforms Facebook, Apple, Comcast, AT&T and Google have adopted policies to censor lawful viewpoints expressing Christian views or controversial ideas on “hot button issues.” Some platforms, such as Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s search engine, have already started to use those policies to remove orthodox Christian viewpoints considered “offensive” or too controversial.

Mere HER i The Christian Post. Barnabas Fund har en tilsvarende artikel her. Og flere eksempler. Nu skal man købe en tilladelse til at læse Biblen i Californien. I hvert fald hvis man har inviteret mere end 3 gæster:

• Christian Concern: American couple fined for holding bible study in own home

Barnabas Fund har desuden en guide, der fortæller, hvilke firmaer der sælger halalprodukter - et par af dem findes også i Danmark. Så ved man hvilke forretninger, man bør undgå:

• UK retailer halal guide

Tilsidst en historisk artikel:

The Battle That Saved the Christian West

by Mariano Navarro on Oct 11th, 2011

What some call “the battle that saved the Christian West” took place 440 years ago October 7th. It is a historical event of such importance — and of such relevance to the struggles of today — that I would be remiss not to mention it. Sadly, a cursory look on-line indicates that few people — save military historians, some traditionalist Catholics and a few rarae aves — seem to know much about it.

At about 11:00 a.m. October 7th in 1571, 300 Ottoman ships from Turkey clashed with a scraggly alliance of European naval armies in the tranquil waters between the Albanian coast and the Peloponnesus. Under the command of the 25-year-old Don Juan of Austria​, the illegitimate son of Charles V and half-brother of Philip II of Spain, some 212 Christian ships from Genoa, Venice and Spain — as well from the Papal States and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta — had formed the “Holy League” to stop the advance of the Ottoman Armada.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. The Grendel Report her.

Andre kilder: The Telegraph, The Irish Times, WorldWide Religious News, The Percecution Times, Barnabas Fund, Religion.dk, Wikipedia,

Video: Hans Rosling – mind the gab!

Fra maj 2011:

Gap in Understanding – Hans Rosling at European Zeitgeist 2011

Hans Rosling explores the demographics of the world, from taxation to population statistics. He highlights the world population broken down by year to prove his point that the countries with the highest number of youth are in the Middle East.

Fra 8. september 2011:

Hans Rosling ‘Epidemiology for the bottom billion’ – Pumphandle lecture 2011

The number of births in the world stopped growing 20 years ago.
Hans Rosling

Sookhdeo: Moderat islam er en myte

Denne lidt ældre artikel er skrevet i lyset af terrorbombningerne i London, som fandt sted den 7. juli 2005. Patrick Sookhdeo har et godt overblik. Og en lysende, analytisk begavelse:

The myth of moderate Islam

By Patrick Sookhdeo – 30th July 2005

Patrick Sookhdeo says Islamic teaching has been aggressive for 1,400 years, and requires radical re-interpretation

The funeral of British suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer was held in absentia in his family’s ancestral village, near Lahore, Pakistan. Thousands of people attended, as they did again the following day when a qul ceremony was held for Tanweer. During qul, the Koran is recited to speed the deceased’s journey to paradise, though in Tanweer’s case this was hardly necessary. Being a shahid (martyr), he is deemed to have gone straight to paradise. The 22-year-old from Leeds, whose bomb at Aldgate station killed seven people, was hailed by the crowd as ‘a hero of Islam’.

Some in Britain cannot conceive that a suicide bomber could be a hero of Islam. Since 7/7 many have made statements to attempt to explain what seems to them a contradiction in terms. Since the violence cannot be denied, their only course is to argue that the connection with Islam is invalid. The deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Brian Paddick, said that ‘Islam and terrorists are two words that do not go together.’ His boss, the Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, asserted that there is nothing wrong with being a fundamentalist Muslim.

But surely we should give enough respect to those who voluntarily lay down their lives to accept what they themselves say about their motives. If they say they do it in the name of Islam, we must believe them. Is it not the height of illiberalism and arrogance to deny them the right to define themselves?

Mere HER i The Spectator. Jeg har valgt at linke til printversionen for at undgå den irriterende sideinddeling, som ses her.

Patrick Sookhdeo er - foruden at være islamkritiker – også præst, forfatter og stifter af Barnabas Fund. Og på fondens hjemmeside kan man høre en audio i to dele fra “Focus on the Family”. Talen starter som en slags prædiken, men tager hurtigt form som et stærkt foredrag om muslimsk grusomhed overfor kristne. Part to er Q&A, som starter efter at studieværterne har fået snakket af, – det er de næsten 13 minutter om. Man går ikke glip af alverden ved at spole forbi – det samme gælder slutningen. Fra februar 2008:

Radical Islam`s Threat to the Western World – Focus on the Family interview with Patrick Sookhdeo

Focus on the Family is featuring Patrick Sookhdeo on their daily syndicated broadcast on Tuesday, February 5th and Wednesday, February 6th. The talks will air on stations in the United States, and will be available via the internet after being broadcast.

Link til audio hos Barnabas Fund HER.

Pakistan: Kristne bortføres, tvangsgiftes og tvangskonverteres

Citat – om Pakistan:

at least 700 Christian girls are kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam every year

Agenzia Fides

Pakistan’s Christian ‘Sex-Slaves’: A Case Study

by Raymond Ibrahim – July 5, 2011

Earlier we saw Egyptian preacher Huwaini and Kuwaiti political activist Mutairi call for the reinstitution of sex-slavery. Before dismissing their position as aberrant, that is “radical,” for the record, here are respected Muslim scholar Majid Khadduri’s thoughts on the matter:

The term spoil (ghanima) is applied specifically to property acquired by force from non-Muslims. It includes, however, not only property (movable and immovable) but also persons, whether in the capacity of asra (prisoners of war) or sabi (women and children). … If the slave were a woman, the master was permitted to have sexual connection with her as a concubine.

Still, some may seek to dismiss the notion of sex-slavery in Islam as theory, not actual practice, arguing that even if Sharia permits the sexual enslavement of infidel women, neither Egypt nor Kuwait formally permits it.

Let us therefore make an important distinction: While few Muslim governments would formally institute sex-slavery—thereby egregiously undermining their ongoing and very successful efforts at duping the West—the sort of supremacist culture Sharia breeds, wherein seizing anything from the infidel, including his women and children, is an everyday fact of life.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her i FrontPageMagazine.

Pakistan: Impunity for rape, abduction and forced conversion of women

The father of two girls, who had been abducted and raped by Muslims, was told to forget them. Pakistani police refuse to investigate rape of Christian and Hindu women and their forced conversion to Islam.

May 27, 2011

The Masihi Foundation of Pakistan reports that two Christian girls of the Punjab region of Pakistan were abducted, raped and forced to convert to Islam. The human rights advocacy group reported that the two sisters, Rebbecca Masih and Saima Masih, were kidnapped in Jhung the district of Faisalabad by a gang of Muslim men.

Mere HER hos Energy Publisher.

Andre kilder: Women’s Views on News, Free Republic, CatholicCulture,

Det Sydkinesiske Hav

Problemer i en overrendt del af Stillehavet - forfatteren hedder Denmark:

Crowded Waters

The superpower battle for regional supremacy in the South China Sea is heating up once again.

By Abraham M. Denmark | June 7, 2011

For the last two years, a quiet showdown has played out over the South China Sea, the body of water bordered by China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan. This little-known body of water is of vast strategic importance: Fully one-third of the world’s maritime trade traverses the South China Sea, and some optimistic estimates of its untapped stores of oil and natural gas would make it a second Persian Gulf. The South China Sea is also a major highway linking the oil fields of the Middle East and the factories of East Asia, with more than 80 percent of China’s oil imports (and large percentages for Japan and South Korea as well) flowing over its waters. As influential Asia-watcher Robert D. Kaplan has put it, the South China Sea’s importance to the region makes it the “Asian Mediterranean.”

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

Opdatering 14. juni 2011:

Turbulent Waters in the South China Sea

Mounting territorial aggression destabilizes the region and puts the global economy at risk

By Michael Auslin – June 14, 2011

If China were a U.S. congressman, it would be Tweeting threatening pictures of its biceps to its rivals.

Beijing recently warned Vietnam and the Philippines not to explore for oil in disputed waters that China claims, and late last month Chinese naval patrol craft allegedly cut the surveying cable of a Vietnamese seismic research boat. Manila’s recent grievances against China are similarly severe. The Philippine government claims that China has harassed its exploration vessels, illegally unloaded supplies to build an oil rig in disputed waters and sent fighter jets into its airspace.

Mere HER i Wall Street Journal. Artiklen er endnu ikke lagt frem her hos AEI, men det plejer at ske.

Arabisk slavehandel med børn

The Dark World of the Arab Child Slave Trade

by Stephen Brown on Jun 10th, 2011

In a story last week in the British newspaper The Sun, a private investigator stated that Madeleine McCann, the subject of probably the world’s most famous unsolved kidnapping case, is in the United States. The British girl was three years old when she went missing five years ago from a seaside resort in Portugal, where her parents were vacationing. The Portuguese police, in what has been termed a “bungled investigation,” at first accused the parents of the abduction but later cleared them. Portuguese security officials halted their investigation to find the missing child in 2008 after stating she had probably been “stolen to order.”

Since her disappearance, numerous alleged sightings have been made of the little girl across Europe, Africa, in North America and in Australia. The investigator making the latest claim concerning McCann’s whereabouts is an amateur sleuth originally from Angola. He told The Sun that a Portuguese pedophile ring, also responsible for other child abductions, took the McCann girl and has handed his findings over to authorities. The claim that a pedophile ring is responsible for McCann’s disappearance has been made before, especially concerning one in Belgium. And while Madeleine McCann girl may have very well been snatched by such evil hands, it is surprising that an equally depraved institution — one of gigantic size — has never even been considered by investigators or the media as McCann’s possible kidnapper: namely, the Arab child slave trade.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Video: Michael Nazir-Ali om radikalisering af muslimer

Michael Nazir-Ali har lige været USA og nu dukker der materiale op. Denne forelæsning bragte Veritas Universalis for knap 14 dage siden som audio, men nu kan den også ses på video. Fra 18. maj 2011 – optaget i Atlanta:

An Urgent Call to the Western Church

Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali gives a special message on ‘An Urgent Call to the Western Church’.

• Audio: Michael Nazir-Ali om radikaliseringen af islam

Desuden denne artikel:

Obama is too optimistic about Middle East democracy

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is concerned about President Barack Obama’s ‘soft-focused’ approach towards the democracy movement in the Middle East. He fears it may instead lead to a new tyranny, that Bin Laden may be hailed as a martyr and his death a rallying cry. He asks whether Obama’s approach to Islam actually reflects a dhimmi-mentality.

Tyranny of the majority?

by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali – June 1, 2011

President Obama referred several times to the desire for democracy among the demonstrators, but is this enough? Democracy can lead to a tyranny of the majority. Unless there is a strong charter of liberty that safeguards the rights of women and non-Muslim communities, democracy on its own may prove chimerical. There needs also to be a commitment to one law for all and to equality under the law.

Mere HER hos Christian Today. Kan også læses her hos Christian Concern.

Audio: Bruce Thornton & Michael Medved

Fra American Conservative University den 25. maj 2011:

The Wages of Appeasement – Michael Medved talks to author

The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America by Bruce S. Thornton

Synopsis of the book – Wages of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: the greek city-states of the fourth century b.c., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; England in the twenties and thirties, and the failure to stop Germany’s aggression that led to World War II; and America’s current war against Islamic jihad and the 30-year failure to counter Iran’s attacks on the U.S. The inherent weaknesses of democracies and their bad habit of pursuing short-term interests at the expense of long-term security play a role in appeasement. But more important are the bad ideas people indulge, from idealized views of human nature to utopian notions like pacifism or disarmament. But especially important is the notion that diplomatic engagement and international institutions like the u.n. can resolve conflict and deter an aggressor––the delusion currently driving the Obama foreign policy in the middle east. Wages of Appeasement combines narrative history and cultural analysis to show how ideas can have dangerous and deadly consequences.

Biography-  Bruce S. Thornton is a past national fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of Classics and Humanities at the California State University. He is the author of eight previous books and numerous essays on western culture and its roots.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 37½ minut.

Audio: Michael Nazir-Ali om radikaliseringen af islam

Rigtig god forelæsning fra Atlanta i USA den 18. maj 2011. Det handler om balladen i Mellemøsten, forfølgelse af religiøse mindretal og især om spredning radikal islam i hele verden. Denne audio kan helt sikkert anbefales:

Listen now to Dr Nazir-Ali on the Hold Fast Tour

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali knows how difficult it is to “hold fast” in an increasingly anti-Christian society. Coming from a Shia Muslim family, though his father became a Christian, Nazir-Ali grew up in a majority Muslim nation, Pakistan. After becoming a priest and then bishop in the Anglican Church, he and his family were chased from Pakistan under threat of death because of his opposition to Islamism being promoted by the then government and because of his work protecting laborers in the brick kiln industry.

Dr. Nazir-Ali made his home in the United Kingdom, where, as head of the Church Mission Society and then Bishop of Rochester, he faced a more secular and pluralistic culture that at times criticized his Christian beliefs. Since then, he has been working with and encouraging Christians around the world to hold fast to their faith, engage world-views intolerant of Christianity with insight and compassion and reclaim the Gospel’s influence on society.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 55 minutter.

Michael Nazir-Ali om islamsk forfølgelse

Freedom in the Face of Resurgent Islam

Michael Nazir-Ali – May 2011

As I have recently returned from a tough but rewarding visit to Iraq, my mind has turned quite naturally to the role of religion in that part of the world and particularly to what is happening to Islam there and, conversely, to how it is affecting the political and social situation in these countries.

We have so often heard the mantras of “violent extremism”, “Islamism” or even “Islamist terrorism” that we are in danger of not noticing that the common element in so much of the turmoil in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and West Africa is not extremism or terrorism as such but a resurgent Islam. [...]

Mere HER i Standpoint Magazine.

Opdatering 8. maj 2011 – artikel om ovenstående:

Anglican Bishop Blasts West’s Reticence on Christian Persecution

By Christian Today | May 07, 2011

An Anglican bishop in the Church of England has criticized the West’s reticence on violence against Christians and other minority communities in the Middle East, South Asia and other parts of the world.

Writing in the latest edition of Standpoint magazine, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said the United Nations had taken the necessary steps to protect people in Libya from attacks by their own government, but questioned why the United Nations or the West was “unable to tackle the widespread and growing persecution of Christians?”

Mere HER i Christian Today eller her i Christian Post.

Egypten: Islamisme forude

Annals of the Arab Spring: Egyptians Demand Blind Sheikh’s Release

By Andrew C. McCarthy – April 21, 2011

The Islamic Group (Gama’a al-Islamiya) is the Egyptian terrorist organization led by Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” currently serving a life sentence in a U.S. penitentiary for conspiring to wage a terrorist war against the U.S., conspiring to murder former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and other charges. With Mubarak now sacked, and Egypt enjoying that spontaneous urge for democracy, the IG and its Islamist allies have renewed their campaign to pressure the United States for the release of Sheikh Abdel Rahman.

This campaign has been ongoing since Abdel Rahman was first imprisoned following his 1993 arrest (he was convicted at our little nine-month trial in 1995, and sentenced a few months later). It was from this confinement that he issued the fatwa Osama bin Laden has credited as the Islamic authorization for the 9/11 attacks. The Sheikh had decreed that Muslims must fight for his release, exhorting “Muslims everywhere to dismember their [i.e., our] nation, tear them apart, ruin their economy, provoke their corporations, destroy their embassies, attack their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, [and] kill them on land, at sea, and in the air. Kill them wherever you find them.” That would seem to cover it.

Mere HER i National Review Online. Monsters & Critics skriver:

A recently appointed Coptic Christian governor in Upper Egypt intends to resign from his post after days of protests against his appointment, according to state news website EgyNews.

Baggrund:

Egypt: Muslims Riot Over Appointment of Christian Governor

by Robert Spencer on Apr 21st, 2011

In the new modern, moderate, secular, democratic Egypt of the Arab Spring, Muslims in Qena are enraged and protesting because a Christian governor has been appointed for them. It was yet another indication that the Egypt that will emerge from this season of revolution and upheaval is much more likely to be an Islamic state than a secular democracy, no matter how much the mainstream media fantasizes about the latter.

The protests have been vehement, if not violent. Reuters reported Sunday that “thousands rallied outside the governor’s office in Qena and prevented employees from entering, blocked highways leading to the town and sat on a railway line into the province demanding that the appointment of Emad Mikhail be reversed.” A local resident added: “They started out by camping at the local government’s office. Then they set up a tent on the railroad tracks. They also tried to block the road and stopped buses to separate men and women passengers.” And “tensions were so high that the local Christian residents had to stay inside and couldn’t go to church to celebrate Palm Sunday.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos Free Republic.

Opdatering 26. april 2011 fra Jyllands-Posten – om Israel:

En ny meningsmåling, der bygger på interviews med 1000 egyptere, viser, at 54 pct. af egypterne mener, at fredspagten skal afskaffes.

Og:

Blot 36 pct. af de adspurgte mener, at den skal bevares. Dermed kan et demokratisk system i Egypten betyde, at relationen til Israel bliver mere anstrengt.

Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.

Opdatering - mere om undersøgelsen:

• Fra UPI: Pew: Egyptians don’t want Israeli peace
• Fra PEW: Egyptians Embrace Revolt Leaders, Religious Parties and Military, As Well

Andre kilder: Ynet News, Associated Press, Associated Press, ABC News, Reuters, Yahoo, PEW,

Clifford May & Mark Durie om muslimsk racisme

The Muslims’ “Christian Problem”

Today, there are many Muslims who believe in peaceful and even cordial coexistence with Christians and Jews.

But such tolerant views are far from universal.

March/April 2011 | Clifford D. May   

In one of his many magnificent books, Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis notes that in 641 C.E., the Caliph Umar “decreed that Jews and Christians should be removed from all but the southern and eastern fringes of Arabia, in fulfillment of an injunction of the Prophet uttered on his deathbed: ‘Let there not be two religions in Arabia.’” I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this had nothing to do with Jewish settlements in the West Bank or American support for Israel.

Fast-forward a few centuries: Today, many Muslims believe in peaceful and even cordial coexistence among Muslims, Christians and Jews. But such tolerant views are far from universal. In January, Dr. Imad Mustafa, a professor at Cairo’s prestigious al-Azhar University, set out the justifications for jihad, or holy war. Among them: “To remove every religion but Islam from the Arabian peninsula.” And, he said, jihad is also legitimate “to extend God’s religion to people in cases where the government does not allow it”—in other words, to spread Islam and sharia, Islamic law.

Mere HER i Moment Magazine. Kan også læses her hos Stop Radical Islam eller her hos Clifford D. May.

The Dhimma Time Warp Returns for the Copts of Egypt

By Mark Durie – April 11, 2011

In recent weeks a series of incidents in Egypt give evidence that, post-Mubarak, the Copts are being pressured to assume the time-warped status of dhimmis, a captive people in their own native lands, whose status is to be tightly circumscribed by traditional sharia law.

The ancient dhimma pact, which determined the status of non-Muslims after Muslim conquest and occupation, includes specific regulations limiting the construction, repair and maintenance of churches, as well as the public display of religious symbols and public performance of rituals.  Muslim legal authorities based these regulations on the model of the Pact of Umar, a treaty attributed to the second Caliph, ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab, around the time of his conquest of Syria in 634-638.   A version of this pact can be found in Ibn Kathir’s highly respected commentary on the Qur’an (see here), from which various quotations below are taken.

Mere HER på Mark Duries blog eller her hos Ruhfully Yours.

Se også denne lange liste over angreb på kopterne i Egypten på Mark Duries blog - Attacks on Copts: List of Incidents since October 2010:

• A Tsunami of Persecution Against the Copts of Egypt

Posten opdateret.

Raymond Ibrahim & Diana West om den brændte koran

Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians

Which is Worse?

by Raymond Ibrahim – April 8, 2011

The now infamous Koran burning by Florida pastor Terry Jones has created hysteria in the Muslim world. In Afghanistan alone, some twenty people, including U.N. workers, have been killed and beheaded to screams of “Allahu Akbar!” Western leaders around the globe—including Obama and members of Congress—have unequivocally condemned Jones’ actions (without bothering to point out that freedom of expression is a prized American liberty). Many are even blaming the deaths in Afghanistan directly on Jones; Bill O’Reilley says he has “blood on his hands.”

Yet, as Western leaders rush to profess their abhorrence at what one American did to one inanimate book, let’s take a quick look at what many Muslims are doing to many living and breathing Christians around the Islamic world—to virtually no media coverage or Western condemnation:

Mere HER i Middle East Forum eller her i FrontPageMagazine.

Culture Check 2011

By Diana West • on April 7, 2011

What happens when Everyguy Icon Bill O’Reilly pushes the calamitous absurdity that Pastor Terry Jones “has blood on his hands,” and Hezbollah puts a $2.4 million bounty on Jones’ head?

We don’t know.

We do know the epic scale of invective hurled at Jones the world over has helped turn  this American citizen who has broken no law but Islam’s into a moving target. But it has also objectified a human being. When Jones is gratuitously disparaged as a “kook,” a “nut,” an “insane Christian” (as O’Reilly said), and much, much worse for his (perfectly logical) symbolic act of putting on trial  and burning a copy of a book that codifies conquest and enslavement, supremacism and bigotry, Jones is making a statement. [...]

Mere HER hos International Free Press Society eller her på Diana Wests blog. Family Security Matters her.

Mellemøsten: Christopher Hitchens pessimisme

What I Don’t See at the Revolution

As someone who has witnessed many stages of upheaval, whether in Eastern Europe, Asia, or South Africa, the author puts forth a wary prognosis for the brave Egyptians who thronged Tahrir Square: they likely haven’t got the resources to break the chains of tyranny.

By Christopher Hitchens – April 2011

When anatomizing revolutions, it always pays to consult the whiskered old veterans. Those trying to master a new language, wrote Karl Marx about the turmoil in France in the 19th century, invariably begin haltingly, by translating it back into the familiar tongue they already know. And with his colleague Friedrich Engels he defined a revolution as the midwife by whom the new society is born from the body of the old.

Surveying the seismic-looking events in Tunis and Cairo in January and February of this year, various observers immediately began by comparing them to discrepant precedents. Was this the fall of the Arab world’s Berlin Wall? Or was it, perhaps, more like the “people power” movements in Asia in the mid-1980s? The example of Latin America, with its overdue but rapid escape from military rule in the past decades, was also mentioned. Those with longer memories had fond recollections of the bloodless “red carnation” revolution in Portugal, in 1974: a beautiful fiesta of democracy which also helped to inaugurate Spain’s emancipation from four decades in the shadow of General Franco.

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Raymond Ibrahim om kirker og moskeer

Debatten om Ground Zero moskeen er ikke glemt:

Mosques Flourish in America; Churches Perish in Muslim World

by Raymond Ibrahim – March 3, 2011

As Muslims prepare to erect a mega-mosque near the site of the 9/11 atrocities, it is well to reflect that the sort of tolerance, or indifference, that allows them to do so, is far from reciprocated to churches in the Muslim world. I speak not of Islamist attacks against churches—such as the New Year attack in Egypt that killed 21 Christians; or when jihadists stormed a church in Iraq, butchering over 50 Christians; or Christmas Eve attacks on churches in Nigeria and the Philippines. Nor am I referring to state-sanctioned hostility by avowedly Islamist regimes, such as Iran’s recent “round up” of Christians.

Rather, I refer to anti-church policy by Middle East governments deemed “moderate.” Consider: Kuwait just denied, without explanation, a request to build a church; so did Indonesia, forcing Christians to celebrate Christmas in a parking lot—even as a mob of 1,000 Muslims burned down two other churches. If this is the fate of churches in “moderate” Indonesia and Kuwait—the latter’s sovereignty due entirely to U.S. sacrifices in the First Gulf War—what can be expected of the rest of the Islamic world?

Mere HER i Midde East Forum. Kan også læses her i Pajamas Media eller her hos Raymond Ibrahim.

Don Feder om Egypten

Don Feder om rod på den amerikanske højrefløj og om Egypten:

The Discreet Charm Of The Neo-Cons — Kristol Hails Egyptian “Awakening,” Muslim Brotherhood Waits In The Wings

By Don Feder – February 16,  2011

The night they drove old Hosni down — and all the neo-cons were singing. Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol was the kapellmeister.

Prior to the exit of Beast Mubarak, Kristol (in yet another of his Olympian pronouncements), thundered: “The United States must support the Egyptian awakening, and has a paramount moral and strategic interest in real democracy in Egypt and freedom for the Egyptian people. The question is how the U.S. government can do its best to help the awakening turn out well.”

How do we know neo-cons aren’t really conservatives? Conservatives are realists. They confront reality without ideological blinders. They do their best to perceive the world as it is, not as they wish it was.

Mere HER i GrassTopsUSA.

PS: Over 90 pct. af det filippinske folk er kristne. Filippinere er et vestligt land. Fattigt, men vestligt. De omkring 7 pct. muslimer bor hovedsageligt på den næststørste ø, Mindanao, hvor der regelmæssigt udkæmpes noget, der ligner borgerkrig. Muslimer udgør 1/3 af øens indbyggere.

Igen: Pundits om Egypten

En tredjedel af alle arabere bor i Egypten. Bla. derfor er der voldsomt meget fokus på landet. Jeg har samlet nogle udvalgte artikler her, men anbefaler at man vælger sig noget ud. Der er mange om buddet:

Bernard Lewis, Ezra Levant, Andrew C. McCarthy, Adrian Morgan, Ralph Peters, Anne Bayefsky, Alan Dershowitz, Daniel Pipes, Michael Rubin, Barry Rubin, Melanie Phillips, Robert Spencer, Michael Ledeen, Daniel Greenfield, Victor Davis Hanson, Patrick Sookhdeo, Christopher Hitchens, Paul Wolfowitz, Khaled Abu Toameh:

Et lille interview med Bernard Lewis:

A Conversation with Bernard Lewis

February 1, 2011 – By Jay Nordlinger   

Professor Lewis, as you know, is the dean of Middle East historians. Many of us regard an acquaintance with his books, articles, and ideas as indispensable to an understanding of the Middle East. National Review is very fortunate to count him as a friend. He has been a star of our cruises — including last November.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

ElBaradei no saviour

By Ezra Levant – February 1, 2011

The dictatorship in Egypt is despicable. But the “democracy” protest there is fake.

Unconfirmed press reports put the number of protesters in Cairo’s Liberation Square at 50,000. Greater Cairo has a population of 19 million people.

But the press loved it. Google News lists 20,000 news stories about the protests. And those are just the ones written in English.

Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite TV channel known for its sympathy for Islamic terrorism, had non-stop coverage of the rally. That’s a clue.

Mere HER i The Toronto Sun. Den næste artikel kan høres som mp3 her:

Fear the Muslim Brotherhood

Andrew C. McCarthy – January 31, 2011

At the Daily Beast, Bruce Riedel has posted an essay called “Don’t fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” the classic, conventional-wisdom response to the crisis in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is just fine, he’d have you believe, no need to worry. After all, the Brothers have even renounced violence!

One might wonder how an organization can be thought to have renounced violence when it has inspired more jihadists than any other, and when its Palestinian branch, the Islamic Resistance Movement, is probably more familiar to you by the name Hamas — a terrorist organization committed by charter to the violent destruction of Israel. Indeed, in recent years, the Brotherhood (a.k.a., the Ikhwan) has enthusiastically praised jihad and even applauded — albeit in more muted tones — Osama bin Laden. None of that, though, is an obstacle for Mr. Riedel, a former CIA officer who is now a Brookings scholar and Obama administration national-security adviser. Following the template the progressive (and bipartisan) foreign-policy establishment has been sculpting for years, his “no worries” conclusion is woven from a laughably incomplete history of the Ikhwan.

Mere HER hos National Review. To ret forskellige artikler fra Family Security Matters herunder:

Understanding the Middle East Crisis: Egypt

January 31, 2011 – Adrian Morgan

The Middle East is in crisis. Already Lebanon’s stable government has been overthrown by Hezbollah, who are funded by Iran and Syria. Currently, there have been some protests in Lebanon, but so far the nation has failed to fully bring back the “Cedars Revolution” that united the populace in revulsion after Hezbollah (allegedly) assassinated prime minister Rafiq Hariri on February 14, 2005. The map above can be viewed at a higher resolution here.

Two weeks ago, the Tunisian revolution was sparked by a street vendor setting fire to himself. In Algeria four people set fire to themselves, and Egypt other individuals set themselves on fire, hoping to achieve similar results. One such self-immolation in Cairo, Egypt, was caught on camera. A similar action took place in Saudi Arabia and another took place in Morocco, where a Mauritanian was apparently protesting against the situation in his own country in West Africa.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Denial On The Nile

We Can’t Dictate Egypt’s Future

Ralph Peters – February 1, 2011

In real life, you don’t always get the pony for Christmas. And we’re not going to get everything we’d like in post-Mubarak Egypt. If we continue behaving stupidly, though, we might get a lump of fundamentalist coal in our stocking some holiday season.

I’m sick of all the hot air I’ve heard in the media insisting that our choice in Egypt is either the dead-in-the-water dictator, Hosni Mubarak, or a Muslim Brotherhood takeover that will turn Egypt into another Iran.

Bull.

Here HER hos Family Security Matters.

Egypt Protests: Will the Real Mohammed ElBaradei Please Stand Up?

By Anne Bayefsky | February 01, 2011| FoxNews.com

In the name of democratic reform, Mohammed ElBaradei is doing his best to appear as the annointed one to succeed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, should the government fall. In reality, ElBaradei has more in common with Iranian demagogue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than anything remotely resembling democracy. He is the former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where his primary legacy was running interference for Iran and ensuring that Iran is now on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Fox News HER. Kan også læses her hos NewsRealBlog.

The Egyptian Revolution May Produce a Lebanon-Type Islamic Regime

by Alan M. Dershowitz – January 31, 2011

No one can confidently predict the outcome, both short and long term, of the events now unfolding on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria. One is reminded of Zhou Enlai’s answer to the question whether the French Revolution succeeded: “It’s too soon to say.”

The short time outcome in Egypt may be the introduction of some structural democracy in the form of fairer elections. But the real test will be whether structural improvements will bring about real functional democracy—freedom of speech, assembly, press, religion and dissent. This will take more time to assess.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

OBS: Nu kan nedenstående artikel også læses på dansk på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside her:

Turmoil in Egypt

by Daniel Pipes – February 1, 2011

As Egypt’s much-anticipated moment of crisis arrived and popular rebellions shook governments across the Middle East, Iran stands as never before at the center of the region. Its Islamist rulers are within sight of dominating the region. But revolutions are hard to pull off and I predict that Islamists will not achieve a Middle East-wide breakthrough and Tehran will not emerge as the key powerbroker. Some thoughts behind this conclusion:

An echo of the Iranian revolution: On reaching power in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sought to spread Islamist insurrection to other countries but failed almost everywhere. Three decades had to go by, it appears, before the self-immolation of a vendor in an obscure Tunisia town could light the conflagration that Khomeini aspired to and Iranian authorities still seek.

Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes. Kan også læses her i The Washington Post og her i The Jerusalem Post. Michael Rubin kommer ind på både Egypten og Tunesien i den følgende artikel:

The US Should Not Fear Egypt Regime Change

Michael Rubin |  January 28, 2011

On Dec. 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire to protest government corruption. Less than a month later, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a man who won 89% of the vote in Tunisia’s rubber stamp elections, fled for his life.

American diplomats long considered Tunisia among its closest allies in the Middle East. Ben Ali oversaw a police state, but a secular one. Tunis has long hosted the State Department’s advanced Arabic language school, training generations of diplomats. But across the Middle East, Arabs knew Tunisia differently: In a region replete with dictatorships, it was among the worst. If Tunisians could defeat Ben Ali in less than a month, anything was possible.

Mere HER hos IEA.

Special Report: The Revolt in Egypt and U.S. Policy

By Barry Rubin * January 30, 2011

There is no good policy for the United States regarding the uprising in Egypt but the Obama Administration may be adopting something close to the worst option. This is its first real international crisis. And it seems to be adopting a policy that, while somewhat balanced, is pushing the Egyptian regime out of power. The situation could not be more dangerous and might be the biggest disaster for the region and Western interests since the Iranian revolution three decades ago.

Experts and news media seem to be overwhelmingly optimistic, just as they generally were in Iran’s case. Wishful thinking is to some extent replacing serious analysis. Indeed, the alternative outcome is barely presented: This could lead to an Islamist Egypt, if not now in several years.

Mere HER hos Gloria Center. Og link til Barry Rubins blog her og til bloggen i Pajamas Media her. Melanie Phillips fremæver en blogpost fra Rubins blog i The Spectator her.

Muslim Brotherhood Poised for Power in Egypt

by Robert Spencer January 31, 2011

A group dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” is poised to take power in Egypt.

After days of riots in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak’s regime, on Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood entered into talks with other opposition groups to form a national unity government after the presumably imminent fall of Mubarak. The Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 in order to restore, in Egypt and worldwide, the prerogatives of political Islam: a state in which Islamic law (Sharia) is the law of the land and the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and legal equality for women and non-Muslims consequently restricted.

Human Events HER.

Cancer, Carter and Obama

By Michael Ledeen – January 30th, 2011

There are some eery similarities between Egypt 2011 and Iran 1979, and some of them are unfortunately about American leadership.  There are some big differences, too, but for the moment let’s just look at some parallels and try to draw some necessarily tentative conclusions.  After all, everything is up for grabs right now and things will probably change a lot in the next few hours and days.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media.

Revolts which coincided with a new opposition congress almost suggest that they were scheduled for a time when Obama would be at his politically weakest

Obama Loses the Middle East

By Daniel Greenfield – January 31, 2011

It’s no coincidence that major revolutions against Western backed governments have occurred under weak American presidents. The Iranian revolution against the Shah happened on Jimmy Carter’s watch. The current violence in Tunisia and Egypt is taking place under Obama. And the timing is quite interesting. Revolts which coincided with a new opposition congress almost suggest that they were scheduled for a time when Obama would be at his politically weakest.

Canada Free Press HER kan også læses her hos Arutz Sheva. Og endnu en Greenfield:

All that is being accomplished by the calls for Mubarak to democratize and resign is to show how irrelevant America is and how worthless it is as an ally

Muslim Brotherhood as the only force capable of replacing Mubarak

By Daniel Greenfield  – January 28, 2011

After Tunisia, the disturbances have moved on to Egypt, Yemen and Jordan. Despite what is being predicted, I wouldn’t count on any of these countries undergoing the same kind of turnover.

Mere HER i Canada Free Press.

What’s the Matter with Egypt?

January 30, 2011 – by Victor Davis Hanson

In the Stars or in Them?

So what’s the matter with Egypt? The same thing that is the matter with most of the modern Middle East: in the post-industrial world, its hundreds of millions now are vicariously exposed to the affluence and freedom of the West via satellite television, cell phones, the Internet, DVDs, and social networks.

And they become angry that, in contrast to what they see and hear from abroad, their own lives are unusually miserable in the most elemental sense. Of course, there is no introspective Socrates on hand and walking about to remind the Cairo or Amman Street that their corrupt government is in some part a reification of themselves, who in their daily lives see the world in terms of gender apartheid, tribalism, religious intolerance, conspiracies, fundamentalism, and statism that are incompatible with a modern, successful, capitalist democracy.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Det var både forventeligt, at oprøret i Egypten ville gå ud over de kristne og at mediere herhjemme ville ignorere det. Patrick Sookhdeo er opmærksom på situationen:

Christians fall victim to chaos in Egypt: Who will help them?

January 31, 2011 by Michael Ireland

As Egypt descends into deeper unrest with a seventh day of protests (Monday, Jan.31), the country’s Christians are falling victim to the chaos as their shops are looted and essential supplies start to run out.

According to one Christian organization working in the region, Egypt’s beleaguered Christian minority is on red alert today.

Barnabas Aid (www.barnabasfund.org ) the majority of Egyptian Christians already live in extreme poverty, and as the demonstrations paralyze daily life, their struggle to make ends meet has become harder. While many shops are being attacked and looted, Christian shops have been particularly targeted.

Barnabas Aid says Christian gatherings and church meetings have been cancelled, while some church minsters are sleeping in their church buildings to protect them from attack. A Barnabas Aid contact said that believers were staying in their homes, where they are “praying hard” and “trusting God” amid the tumult.

Mere HER i Continental News. Wall Street Journal har også noget om emnet her.

The Shame Factor

When will dictators learn not to treat their people like fools?

By Christopher Hitchens – Jan. 31, 2011

Not long ago, a close comrade of mine was dining with a person who I can’t identify beyond telling you that his father is a long-term absolutist ruler of an Arab Muslim state. “Tell me,” said this scion to my friend, “is it true that there are now free elections in Albania?” My friend was able to confirm the (relative) truth of this, adding that he had once even acted as an international observer at the Albanian polls and could attest to a certain level of transparency and fairness. The effect of his remarks was galvanic. “In that case,” exclaimed the heir-presumptive, thumping the table, “what does that make us? Are we peasants? Children?” The gloom only deepened, apparently, as the image of the Arab as a laughing stock—lagging behind Albania!—took hold of the conversation.

Mere HER i Slate – kan også læses her i National Post. Khaled Abu Toameh er inde på noget lignende her hos Hudson New York. Og næste: Daniel Korski interviewer Paul Wolfowitz:

Coffee House Interview: Paul Wolfowitz Daniel Korski interviews Paul Wolfowitz on Coffee House, The Spectator Blog

By Paul Wolfowitz | Coffee House, The Spectator Blog | January 30, 2011

Nobody is as associated with George W Bush’s drive to promote freedom and democracy in the Middle East as former US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. His role in the Iraq War, and belief that the US should promote democracy in a part of the world better known for authoritarian rulers, remains controversial to this day.

But now that the Middle East is being rocked by pro – democracy protests – as people demand freedom, employment, and an end to tyranny – is this advocate of democracy finally being proven right? And what does he think about the dangers of democratic transitions? Dr Wolfowitz kindly agreed to answer a few questions about democracy and the Middle East:

Mere HER hos AEI. Der er flere pundits her:

• Pundits om Egypten

 

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Video & artikel: Clifford D. May om forfølgelse af kristne

Denne artikel kan man høre som mp3 her.

The War Against the Christians

The most important story not being told

Clifford D. May – January 14, 2011

Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting” Jesus. Imagine if mosques were being bombed and burned by terrorists in a growing list of Christian-majority countries.

Now here’s what you don’t need to imagine because it is all too real: In recent days, Christian churches have been bombed in Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, and the Philippines. In Indonesia a mob of 1,000 Muslims burned down two Christian churches because, according to one commentator, local Islamic authorities determined there were “too many faithful and too many prayers.” In Iran, scores of Christians have been arrested. In Pakistan, a Christian woman received the death penalty for the “crime” of insulting Islam; the governor of Punjab promised to pardon her — and was then assassinated for the “crime” of blasphemy.

Mere HER i National Review Online. I artiklen omtales denne video – 6½ minut:

Will attacks on Christians in Egypt spark more violence?

Fox News: Hannity – January 3, 2011

Om Egypten, antisemitisme og forfølgelse af kristne

Ny terrorhandling imod kristne i Egypten. En mand er blevet dræbt og mindst fem andre såret efter en nedskydning i et tog, skriver Jyllands-Posten. Fredens religion igen. Herunder et lille udpluk af artikler om kristnes situation og antisemitismen i Mellemøsten fra den sidste ugestid:

The Islamic Fantasy Zionist Jihad

by Robert Spencer – January 11, 2011

Did you know that Israeli Mossad agents murdered 22 people and wounded 80 more at the Coptic Christian Church of Saints George and Peter in Alexandria, Egypt, on New Year’’s Eve? Neither did I. But all around the Islamic world, that’s the story being told — in yet another instance of Muslim denial of jihadist violence, and displacement of responsibility upon their favorite scapegoat, the Jews.

Iran’s PressTV, an official organ of the Islamic Republic, claimed in an unsigned editorial that “the fresh plot by terrorists to target churches is an organized Zionist scenario aimed at creating a rift between Muslims and Christians.” Lebanese Shi’ite leader Sheikh Abdel Amir Kabalan struck a tone so similar as to give the impression that a set of talking points were being circulated: “This terrorist act bears the fingerprints of Zionists who keep on targeting religious sites and are working to . . .  sow discord between Muslims and Christians.”

Mere HER i Human Events.

The Real Reasons for the Massacres of Christians and Jews in the Middle East

by Fiamma Nirenstein – January 10, 2011     

How can we stop the slaughter of Christians in the Islamic world; how can we prevent the next massacre in Iraq, Turkey, the Philippines, Nigeria, wherever Islamic groups may be?

First of all, we should start calling things by their real names. This is not ideological “religious intolerance,” and the perpetrators are not random “fundamentalist groups” or “some terrorists.” There are countless examples of this sort of violence all over the map: massacres, expulsions, kidnapping of women, acts of vandalism on churches… It is the entire Islamist world that is battering Christians with the terrible inexorability of its hatred, but all those who – out of lack of opportunity or for fear of reprisals – have kept silent, in hopes of appeasing the aggressors, share in the responsibility. When the Pope protested, calling Islam “Islam,” the Mufti of Al Azhar blasted him for “interference,” — an occurrence that says a lot about the paradoxical attitude of institutional Islam: What do a few murders matter? The perpetual enemy in Rome has no right to speak out.

Mere HER i Hudson New York.

Islamists ‘build their scapegoat’ for church bombing

By Steven Emerson – January 4, 2011

Analysis: Muslim Brotherhood official, Egyptian lawyers group, Lebanon’s grand mufti have all blamed the Jews, with varying motives.

The New Year’s Eve suicide bombing at an Egyptian Coptic church that killed 21 people is stoking fears of a new onslaught against Christians by radical Islamists. In response, some radical Islamists are turning to their great bogeyman to deflect attention – the Zionists.

“Mossad behind Egypt church blast,” Iran’s official television outlet, Press TV, said in a headline Sunday. All the evidence points to a Zionist plot, the article said. First, “it goes without saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will ever commit such an inhumane act.” In addition, Press TV reported that “the fresh plot by terrorists to target churches is an organized Zionist scenario aimed at creating a rift between Muslims and Christians.” Christians are expressing fear the attack marks a widening of attacks by radical Islamists, which have increased dramatically in Iraq. Dozens of people were killed after terrorists took more than 120 Christians hostage in a Baghdad Catholic church in late October.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post.

Bloodshed in Egypt

by Srdja Trifkovic • January 4th, 2011

The murder of 21 Christians in a New Year’s Day bomb attack in Alexandria will accelerate the ongoing exodus of the Coptic community from Egypt. Its members know that they are second-class citizens. After some three-dozen attacks over the past three decades, resulting in three hundred Christian deaths, they know that the government is both unable and unwilling to protect them. They know that the usual expressions of regret by Muslim clerics and politicians are pure hypocrisy and taqiyya.

They have not forgotten that Egypt is yet to convict a single murderer in an earlier massacre that also killed 21 Copts: the January 1, 2000, outrage in the village of Al-Kosheh, 300 miles south of Cairo. A year later the court convicted just two of 96 Muslim defendants on lesser charges of “accidental homicide.” From the outset, the government of Egypt had sought to avoid the political minefield of punishing Muslims for the murder of Christians. That verdict paved the way for the bloodshed in Alexandria.

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine eller her i Novakeo. Den næste artikel minder lidt vel meget om dem ovenfor:

Egypt: Why Muslim Terrorists Should Not Be Worried

by Khaled Abu Toameh – January 7, 2011     

The Muslim terrorists behind the New Year church massacre in Alexandria, Egypt, must be laughing their heads off as they see and hear an increasing number of Egyptians and Arabs point an accusing finger at the Mossad and Jews.

What is disturbing is that these allegations have now made their way to the mainstream media in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world.

While many Arabs are now busy trying to figure out how the Mossad and Jews managed to blow up the church, the terrorists are able to safely plan their next attack on Christian targets.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.