Vores naboland hinsides Øresund har længe været udlændingepolitikkens ”Utopia”. Her modtages alle mennesker fra den tredje verden med åbne arme, hvad enten de nu er personligt forfulgte eller blot ønsker et bedre liv uden fattigdom. I Sverige er ”multikulturalismen” statsdoktrin på samme måde som ”antifascismen” var det i det tidligere DDR.
Og i det stærkt hierarkisk opdelte svenske samfund diskuteres magtelitens officielle politik ikke. Selv om det ved riksdagsvalget i september 2010 lykkedes det indvandringskritiske parti, Sverigedemokraterna, at komme i Rigsdagen, bliver det i dag af de øvrige partier frosset ude i et omfang, så den borgerlige regering stemmer mod egne forslag, hvis det viser sig, at et flertal kun kan tilvejebringes ved hjælp af Sverigedemokraternas stemmer.
Undercover Mosque - nu fra Sverige. Fantastisk, at den knaldrøde presse stadig opretholder løgnen om den vældige multikultur og den åh så moderate islam. Flerkoneri, kønssegregering, vold og taqiyya:
Med dold kamera i svenska moskéer med SVT:s Uppdrag Granskning
Hela Uppdrag granskning 2012-05-16 Uppdrag granskning i kväll var andlöst spännande. Janne Josefsson skickade in två Niqab-klädda kvinnor i 10 svenska moskéer. En del moskéer blev uppringda. Programmet var mycket bättre än man kunde ha anat. Inga ursäkter, inga “det finns liberala muslimer”. Bara fakta rakt på, bara intervjuer och inspelningar med dold kamera. Det är skrattretande och fruktansvärt avslöjande när en person ur Stockholms-moskéns ledning på slutet av programmet, efter att den avslöjande inspelningen har spelats upp, säger: -Ni kunde ha kommit till oss och frågat hur vi sköter vår verksamhet, ni kunde ha fått filma. Janne Josefsson: -Det var väl tur att vi filmade med dolda kameror, annars hade vi inte fått reda på vad som verkligen pågår i moskén. Muslimska ledare uppmanar kvinnor till underkastelse Dold kamera avslöjar dubbla budskap. Utåt är muslimska ledare i svenska moskéer noga med att framhålla kvinnans och mannens lika värde. Uppdrag gransknings dolda inspelningar ger en helt annan bild — då uppmanas kvinnan tvärtom till total underkastelse.
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 left Princeton University in 1986, forced out at the then-mandatory retirement age of 70. At his farewell party, Charles Issawi, who was also retiring from the department of Near Eastern studies, delivered some remarks. “There are five ages of professors,” he said, “tireless, tiring, tiresome, tired, and retired; but for people like Bernard and me, retirement means a new set of tires and full speed ahead.”
Issawi was right: Lewis isn’t the retiring type. He has spent the years since then producing 16 books and countless articles, carried on his decades-long spat with Edward Said over the direction of scholarship on the Middle East, helped found a learned society to challenge “intellectual conformism” in the Middle East Studies Association, coined the idea of a “clash of civilizations,” became an informal adviser to the George W. Bush administration, and according to some observers, provided the intellectual firepower for the war in Iraq. Oh, and not least: At the age of 80, Lewis fell in love again.
Mere HER i The Chronicle of Higher Education. Det næste interview er i pdf-form:
Interview with Bernard Lewis
Winter 2012
In this exclusive interview with TPQ, Bernard Lewis attributes Turkey’s historical progress to the practice of self-critique and to the choice of women’s empowerment. These are also the qualities, if maintained and developed, that will ensure a bright future for Turkey, he states. Indicating that in Turkey “at the moment, the movement seems to be backwards rather than forward,” Lewis points out that Turks currently face a choice. About Turkey’s role in the Middle East, Lewis reflects skepticism but also hope, relaying the message that Turkey can indeed play a leading role in the Middle East but whether this will strengthen Turkey in the global arena or not depends on how Turkey uses this influence, to what end, and in what direction. Decisions made today, in areas such as to enable frank and critical discussion, to innovate, and to provide women with the full range of freedom will determine how the future of Turkey and of the region at large is shaped.
De islamistiske organisationer æder sig ind på vore frihedsrettigheder, sagde svensk-iranske Bahareh Andersson på et møde i det svenske Trykkefrihedsselskab. Men ingen i Sverige vil lytte til hende.
Det er aldrig arabernes skyld, hvis noget går galt. De vil snarere opfatte sig som ofre for onde tunger.
I mit sidste indlæg om det arabiske forår kom jeg ind på ordet “mazlum”, der betyder “krænket”. Ordet har en personlig betydning for mig, fordi jeg først så det i en artikel om arabernes livsindstilling, der var skrevet af en forhenværende bekendt, Hussein S.
Mere HER hos Sappho. Cain har to gange tidligere skrevet om Mazlum – Sappho:
Fantastisk konference, utroligt mange pundits samlet på ét sted – vælg eventuelt noget ud. Først noget islamkritik – fra David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend 17. – 20. november 2011:
Arab Spring, Muslim Winter – Mark Tapson, Michael Totten, Daniel Pipes, Andrew C. McCarthy, Douglas Murray,
Arab Spring, Muslim Winter – Q & A
Decline of the West: Rise of the Rest – Michael Wienir, Bruce Bawer, Paul Vallely, Michael Ledeen, Bruce Thornton
Steyn og Coren hyggesnakker en del her, men der kommer også lidt seriøs tale. Blandt andet kommer de ind på indavl, – fætter-kusineægteskaber. Jo flere gange, det bliver sagt højt, jo bedre. Måske ender det en dag med, at denne muslimske tragedie kan blive bragt til ophør via forbud.
Michael Coren with Mark Steyn: April 16, 2012
Mark Steyn is in studio with Michael Coren, gearing up for Steynamite next week.
Og lidt af de gode videoer fra canadiske Sun News TV, som betænksomme mennesker har uploadet på YouTube i ugens løb. Fra 13. april 2012:
Ezra Levant: Bras, burkas, and Saudi “art critics”
An art student who wears Muslim headdress is defending her right to freedom of expression after a photo she snapped was removed from public display at a British Columbia university.
Jonathan Halevi’s Arab Underground – Apr 11, 2012
Evidently there was an Everybody Draw Mohammad Day in Tunisia. Who knew?
Fra 11. april 2012:
Michael Coren with muslim atheist Kacem El Ghazzali
Kacem El Ghazzali is a muslim atheist (a “devert?”) who warns about the dangers of islam. You’ll never guess how in-bred paranoid islam has responded.
En del af det har vi hørt før, men der er også lidt nyt. Darwish’s nye bog hedder “The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East”:
Darwish: The Dark Side (of Middle East Revolutions)
Egyptian-born journalist Nonie Darwish discusses her new book at an event hosted by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute on Feb 28, 2012.
Along with great food and fine wine, few things in life provide as much pleasure as reading a provocative book. The pleasure is enhanced if you can discuss its ideas—and even argue collegially—with others who share an interest in the topic. Debating and discussing the issues with the author speaking in a private and intimate setting? Even better. The Bon Mot Book Club combines all those things into a stimulating event series continuing into its second season this fall.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Part 2 – Q&A – Bon Mot Book Club – March 5, 2012
Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks with Leah Costello about her book, “Infidel” at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver on March 5, 2012.
Gad lide at vide, hvorfor pressen pludselig interesserer sig for voldtægt og tvangsægteskab i islam? Er det ikke negativ omtale af muslimer? Og så er der jo risiko for, at Vestens fredsommelige borgere bliver fascister? Eller noget:
Girl forced to marry muslim rapist, kills self
Michael Coren and Robert Spencer discuss the case of Amina Filali, a young girl who killed herself after a judge forced her to marry her rapist.
Artikel om sagen:
Moroccans demand change to Islamic penal code after girl, 16, kills herself because judge forced her to marry her RAPIST
Online petition after case of teen who swallowed rat poison in protest
Women’s rights activist describes horror as ‘recurring phenomenon’
‘Law protects public morality but not the individual’
By Lee Moran | 14 March 2012
Angry Moroccans are demanding a change to the country’s strict Islamic penal code after a 16-year-old girl killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist. An online petition, a Facebook page and countless tweets expressed horror over the suicide of Amina Filali, who swallowed rat poison on Saturday in protest at her marriage to the man who raped her a year earlier.
Louisiana, Arizona ,and Tennessee have already passed legislation restricting the use of foreign law in state courtrooms, and twenty-one other states are considering similar laws. These statutes are designed to halt the use of Islamic law, sharia, by American judges — a measure that many see as necessary, since sharia has already been involved in cases in twenty-three states. Many see this as an alarming encroachment upon First Amendment protection of religion; however, anti-sharia laws do not actually infringe upon religious freedom at all, and they become more urgently needed by the day.
In the March issue of First Things, law professor Robert K. Vischer equates anti-sharia laws with recent intrusions upon the religious freedom of Christians, such as laws that now require “pro-life pharmacists to dispense the morning-after pill” and “Christian adoption agencies to place children with same-sex couples, and religious entities to pay for their employees’ contraceptives.” He asserts that “[t]he recent spate of ‘anti-Sharia’ initiatives is just the most politically popular example of such threats” to religious freedom.
Mere HER i The American Thinker. Og en debat – Spencer og Ibrahim diskuterer sprogbrug:
Why We Need Words Like ‘Islamist’
Without such words, meaningful talk becomes next to impossible.
by Raymond Ibrahim – February 13, 2012
Is the problem Islam or Islamism? Muslims or Islamists?
These and related questions regularly foster debate (see the exchange between Robert Spencer and Andrew McCarthy for a recent example). The greatest obstacle on the road to consensus is what such words imply; namely, that Islamism and Islamists are “bad,” and Islam and Muslims are good (or simply neutral).
Some observations in this regard:
Islamism is a distinct phenomenon and, to an extent, different from historic Islam. The staunch literalness of today’s Islamists is so artificial and anachronistic that, if only in this way, it contradicts the practices of medieval Muslims, which often came natural and better fit their historical context.
Mere HER hos PJ Media. Raymond Ibrahim har den her - The Middle East Forum her.
Why We Don’t Need Words Like ‘Islamist’
By Robert Spencer – February 15, 2012
Since I previously had an exchange with Andy McCarthy about the utility of the term “Islamist” (article here; video with transcript here); I read Raymond Ibrahim’s new piece, “Why We Need Words Like ‘Islamist,’” with great interest.
Raymond initially states the controversy this way:
“Is the problem Islam or Islamism? Muslims or Islamists?
These and related questions regularly foster debate (see the exchange between Robert Spencer and Andrew McCarthy for a recent example). The greatest obstacle on the road to consensus is what such words imply; namely, that Islamism and Islamists are “bad,” and Islam and Muslims are good (or simply neutral).”
Mere HER hos Jihad Watch. FrontPageMagazine her. Ibrahim trækker lidt i land i en post hos Jihad Watch:
Nej, har man nu kendt magen! Løgn i islam? Det skriver Raymond Ibrahim:
Tawriya: “Creative Lying” Advocated in Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim – February 28, 2012
Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances.
Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances — primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances—including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah—provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is “technically” true.
Deceit and lying may be far more ingrained in the culture than previously thought.
The authoritative Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary defines tawriya as, “hiding, concealment; dissemblance, dissimulation, hypocrisy; equivocation, ambiguity, double-entendre, allusion.” Conjugates of the trilateral root of the word, w-r-y, appear in the Quran in the context of hiding or concealing something (e.g., 5:31, 7:26).
As a doctrine, “double-entendre” best describes tawriya’s function. According to past and present Muslim scholars, several documented below, tawriya occurs when a speaker says something that means one thing to the listener, although the speaker means something else, and his words technically support this alternate meaning.
Mere HER hos Stonegate Institute eller her hos The Middle East Forum. FrontPageMagazine her.
Refuting Muslim Apologetics Concerning Tawriya (“Creative Lying”)
by Raymond Ibrahim – March 9, 2012
Sam Shamoun of Answering Islam recently forwarded me an article titled “Tawriya: Islamic Doctrine of ‘Creative Lying’? Response to Raymond Ibrahim,” appearing on a website called Muslim Debate Initiative, and written by one Shadid (“Severe”) Lewis in response to my recent exposition on the doctrine of tawriya. Although this response—poorly written, poorly argued—would normally be ignored, I address it for three reasons: 1) To date, it is the only rebuttal I have seen from a Muslim concerning tawriya; 2) Far from rejecting tawriya, it actually validates it (the author spends his time chasing red herrings, not disproving the doctrine); 3) It is a good example of the speciousness and sophistry employed by those who try to downplay or rationalize some of Islam’s more problematic doctrines, in this case, tawriya. (Note: Although Shadid’s original article is littered with grammatical and punctuation errors, in the interest of readability, I have corrected the more egregious when quoting him.)
At the start, after informing readers that he “read the article of Raymond Ibrahim posted on Frontpagemag.com and I just had to respond,” Shadid argues that tawriya really “means deliberate ambiguity rather than creative lying.” Discerning readers understand such euphemisms change nothing about the doctrine.
Mere hos Jihad Watch HER eller Raymond Ibrahim her. FrontPageMagazine her. En YouTube om sagen – ser ud til at være fra “The Third Jihad”:
Taqiyya and Tawriya: how muslims deceive the infidels
Dette australske tv-program hedder Q&A og er fra ABC 5. marts 2012. I panelet: Paul Grabowsky, Amanda Vanstone, Natasha Stott Despoja, Mark Steyn, Jianying Zha. Udsendelsen handler mest om australske forhold og en lille smule om indvandring. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her:
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 3 minutter. Artikler:
The Church of Big Government
By Mark Steyn – March 6th 2012
Discussing the constitutionality of Obamacare’s “preventive health” measures on MSNBC, Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post told Chris Matthews that she reasons thus with her liberal friends: “Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, but they did.”
Maybe. A lot of other constitutional types in the Western world have grown increasingly comfortable with circumscribing religious liberty. In 2002, the Swedish constitution was amended to criminalize criticism of homosexuality. “Disrespect” of the differently orientated became punishable by up to two years in jail, and “especially offensive” disrespect by up to four years. Shortly thereafter, Pastor Ake Green preached a sermon referencing the more robust verses of scripture, and was convicted of “hate crimes” for doing so.
Why should we have to fund a middle-aged schoolgirl’s sex life?
By Mark Steyn – March 10, 2012
I’m writing this from Australia, so, if I’m not quite up to speed on recent events in the United States, bear with me — the telegraph updates are a bit slow here in the bush. As I understand it, Sandra Fluke is a young coed who attends Georgetown Law, and recently testified before Congress.
Oh, wait, no. Update: It wasn’t a congressional hearing; the Democrats just got it up to look like one, like summer stock, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid doing the show right here in the barn, and providing a cardboard set for the world premiere of Miss Fluke Goes to Washington, with full supporting cast led by Chuck Schumer strolling in through the French windows in tennis whites and drawling, “Anyone for bull****?”
Mere HER i National Review Online. Orange County Register her. Investor’s Business Daily her.
White guilt has terrible consequences. This was made profoundly clear in Canada during the three month trial of Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed. They were convicted a week ago of the first-degree murder of Zainab (19), Sahar (17) and Geeti Shafia (13), and 50-year-old Rona Amir. The three teens were Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Yahya’s daughters, Hamed’s sisters. Rona was Mohammad Shafia’s first wife. The four women had been drowned in their car in June, 2009. The killers had chosen a canal in Kingston — a university town half-way between Toronto and Montreal — because they assumed that the local police would be less sophisticated and able than those in a larger city. They had also researched murder techniques on the internet, and planned this honour killing long in advance.
The case has naturally shocked the country, but is in fact only the most recent of a dozen murders in the last twelve years, most involving Muslim patriarchs aided by sons, cousins, and wives, killing young girls who wanted to be horribly western by wearing nice clothes, dating nice boys, doing nice things. In the Shafia episode, the three daughters had refused to wear the burka, and one of them had even dared to wear a bikini. Rona Amir had been unable to give her husband children, so he had taken a second wife, even though polygamy is illegal in Canada. Although not the girls’ biological mother, Rona had loved them and tried to protect them. She had to die too.
Islam er nihilistisk og dens moral vendt på hovedet. Derfor falder den helt uden for det, vi normalt forbinder med religion, skriver redaktøren for The New English Review, Rebecca Bynum.
Muslimer angriber Hare Krishna-tempel med sten og baseball køller
17. december 2011 – artikel af Nicolai Sennels
Kl. 20.45 – altså i ly af mørket – den 6. december blev Hare Krishna-templet i Vanløse angrebet af unge muslimer. De startede med stenkast, og forsøgte senere, bevæbnet med køller, at bryde ind i til beboerne.
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ibn Warraq, an Islamic scholar and a leading figure in Qur’anic criticism. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Westminster Institute, VA. He has addressed distinguished governing bodies all over the world, including the United Nations in Geneva, and Members of the Dutch Parliament, at The Hague.
In 2007, Mr. Warraq completed a critical study of the thought of Edward Said, Defending the West. Paul Berman, author of Terror and Liberalism, described the book as “a glorious work of scholarship, and it is going to contribute mightily to modernizing the way we think about Western civilization and the rest of the world”.
Why the West Is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy
An interview with Ibn Warraq and review of his bold new book.
by Phyllis Chesler – December 15, 2011
The legendary Ibn Warraq is my dear friend. I decided to review his new and very excellent book Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy and to interview him here as well.
But let’s be clear from the outset. I am reviewing his book not because he is my friend. Rather, he is my friend because he writes great and important books. He is someone with whom I can share serious and witty conversations; he may very well be the best-read man I know. His familiarity with a vast array of fields is truly astounding and a great consolation (at least to me) in our world of apps and pads and short attention spans. He is supremely knowledgeable about philosophy, Islamic and Western art, music, theater, architecture, and literature, both sacred and secular.
I view Ibn Warraq as the intellectual leader of the global anti-Islamist/anti-jihadic dissident movement. He knows and supports everyone doing anti-jihad work.
Arab Scholar Ibn Warraq Tells “Why the West is Best”
A scathing critique of Islam from within. Interview with Ibn Warraq, the man the NY Sun called “the Bertrand Russel of Islam: “The Ayatollah Khomeini once said that there are no jokes in Islam”. You’d better believe it.
Giulio Meotti – December 26, 2011
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.
Prior to 2007, Ibn Warraq refused to show his face in public due to fears for his personal safety.
With “Why I Am Not A Muslim”, his 1995 most famous book, he became Islam’s most outspoken critic and the mentor of personalities such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Christopher Hitchens.
Robert Spencer is a prominent critic of Islam. He runs a website called Jihad Watch and has published ten books including two New York Times bestsellers. Robert Spencer is currently touring Australia speaking at various events, and this evening he spoke with us – beginning with an explanation of who he works for right now.
Sartes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 31 minutter.
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is David P. Goldman, the author of the new book, How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too), which Regnery brought out this fall. After 9/11, Goldman began writing weekly essays at Asia Times Online under the byline “Spengler.” At the time he directed a research group at Credit Suisse, and afterward ran fixed income research for Bank of America. After joining the masthead of First Things magazine early in 2009, he revealed his identity and devoted himself to writing, mainly on politics and strategy, but also publishing essays on religion, classical music, literature and mathematics. He left First Things early in 2011 to write his book.
FP: David P. Goldman, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Let’s begin with what inspired you to write this book.
Goldman: Thanks Jamie.
It was 9/11 and the aftermath. I’m an old Cold Warrior; I consulted for Norman A. Bailey, the head of planning at NSC in the first Reagan administration. We were playing a deadly global chess game with a fairly rational opponent; when the Russians knew they were beaten, they caved.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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