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To videoer om samme emne – en kort og en lang. Fra 7. maj 2012:
Ezra Levant: Ethical Oil or Conflict Oil
Ezra challenges the West-hating NGOs to spend a small fraction of their efforts criticizing the scumbags who supply most of the world’s oil, not Canada.
Foredrag fra Economic Developers Alberta 11. – 13. april 2012:
Ezra Levant – EDA Conference 2012
Ezra Levant – TV anchor, newspaper columnist and author speaks about “Ethical Oil” at a keynote address at the 2012 EDA Professional Conference.
“Den shiamuslimske halvmåne” bliver ikke til noget foreløbig:
Revenge of the Sunnis
What the Arab Spring is really about.
By Edward Luttwak | December 7, 2011
The last decade has been marked by the rise of the Shiites in the Middle East. Through the bullet and the ballot box, Shiite parties have risen to power from Baghdad to Beirut — thereby extending Iran’s reach into the heart of the Arab world. Sunni rulers have viewed with much anxiety the new “Shiite crescent” that extends from Iran all the way to Lebanon.
But as a popular — and now military — uprising in Syria becomes more powerful, the Shiite ascendancy is coming to an end. With every day that passes, President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power seems to weaken: The United Nations assessed on Nov. 1 that Syria had entered a state of civil war and the country’s economy is projected to contract by a disastrous 12 percent to 20 percent this year. And now, the regional Sunni powers are hoping to exploit the turmoil to launch a counteroffensive that could reverse their losses.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy.
Jeg har valgt lidt ud fra november måneds Greenfield-produktion:
The roots of slavery can be found in the Muslim slave trade
Islam, the Religion of Slavery
Daniel Greenfield – November 10, 2011
The slow collapse of Dubai, a desert mirage built on oil money, human misery and the greed of Western businesses, reminds us once again of the fate of all slave economies in the end. But for all the skyscrapers in Dubai, the glittering avenues built by slave labor and the abundance of luxury American and European automobiles—the story of Dubai and Saudi Arabia is very much an old story in a Muslim Middle East, of fat prosperous sheiks clutching their ill gotten gains to themselves and ruling over harems and companies of slaves, until the end comes.
Like Muslim Brotherhood derived terrorists using the latest Web 2.0 social media as part of a quest to drive humanity back into the dark ages, the Gulf States are a very old story with the external gilt and glitz of modernity. While the Muslim world may employ the tools and utilities of the 21st century, even mimic its terminology, it has never left its own dark ages… and its dominant religious and social movements are all geared toward making sure that it never does.
Mere HER i Canada Free Press. Sultan Knish har den her.
The fanatics want armageddon, the clerics want a big gun that they can use to become a world power and the people doing the killing– it’s anyone’s guess what they want
Don’t Underestimate Iran’s Instability
Daniel Greenfield – November 17, 2011
Israeli leaders and generals certainly don’t mind smiling knowingly every time a top Iranian commander meets an untimely accident, which has been happening surprisingly often these past few years, but the explanation is likely to be more complicated than Mossad secrets agents operating behind the scenes. The logistics of infiltrating people on the ground to carry out assassinations isn’t easy, anyone viewing the chronology of the Dubai hit for one man in a hotel room, can only begin to imagine what it would take to pull off more complicated operations in Iran, which sees far less foreign travelers and has much tighter security.
There’s no doubt that Israel has its hand in it, but it’s also unwise to underestimate the meltdown of the Iranian revolution which began with Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent reelection and has turned into a complex power struggle between the Ayatollahs, Ahmadinejad and a populist movement that draws on student protests and brings together reformist Mullahs, Communists and masses of young people who want to live their lives without the religious police looking over their shoulders.
Mere HER hos Canada Free Press. Kan også læses her hos Sultan Knish.
Perpetuate a myth of Islamic innocence
The Dangers of Legitimizing Muslim Grievances
Daniel Greenfield – November 14, 2011
There is no surer path to Muslim violence than through the legitimization of Muslim grievance. And once you accept the legitimacy of the grievance, then you are also bound to accept the legitimacy of the violence that follows.
Violence begins with grievance. Grievance is the pretext for violence and the narrative for the violence. Liberals make a fetish of separating the grievance from the violence, emphasizing constructive means of resolving the grievance. But what do you do when the grievance and the violence are inseparable?
Canada Free Press HER. Sultan Knish her.
Egypt Falls into Darkness
by Daniel Greenfield on Nov 16th, 2011
Rebuilding the Library of Alexandria some 1300 hundred years after its final destruction at the hands of its Islamic conquerors in a country where blasphemy against Islam is still a crime was always a fool’s errand. But it was a fool’s errand lavishly embraced by every collection of useful idiots from UNESCO to the National Library of France, which kicked in half a million books.
Most of the money was spent constructing a massive edifice housing only a fraction of the books that could be found in the Harvard University Library, the Library of Congress or the British Library– in a country with a lower literacy rate than much of the African continent. The Library was a Mubarak project and as the wonderful Arab Spring turns into the Islamic Winter, the mobs of Tahrir are coming for the library.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. AINA her.
Islamophobia: A License to Kill
by Daniel Greenfield on Nov 11th, 2011
Once upon a time when newspaper and magazine offices were torched for offending a powerful group, the rest of the press would rally behind them. But when Charlie Hedbo, a French satirical magazine decided to put out an issue dedicated to Islam with a cover of Mohammed declaring, “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing,” and received a very special burning “Letter to the Editor” from the country’s “Religion of Peace,” the American press lined up behind the firebombers.
Christopher Dickey, the Paris Bureau editor at Newsweek suggested that the far right was probably behind it because it had the most to gain from the attack. Dickey was unable to accuse Hedbo, a left-wing magazine, of being a member of the far-right, so he did the next best thing by diverting attention from the perpetrators and transforming Muslims into the victims of a far-right conspiracy.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Right Side News her.
Andre kilder: The Examiner,
“If Egypt fails, so does the Arab Spring”, skriver Foreign Policy i en artikel, der er svagt optimistisk. Den optimisme deles ikke af iagttagere, der har fingeren på pulsen:
Running for Their Lives
by Raymond Ibrahim – September 28, 2011
Historically, non-Muslims whose lands were seized by the jihad had three choices: conversion, dhimmitude, or death. Today, however, they have a fourth option largely unavailable to their forbears: quit their lands of origin—emigrate—the latest testimony to the nature of Islam.
A recent report indicates that unprecedented numbers of Copts, Egypt’s indigenous Christian population, are emigrating from their homeland in response to the so-called “Arab spring”:
Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch. Mere om kristnes vilkår:
Caliphate made of garbage, to turn Europe, America, Canada and Australia into towering trash dumps consisting of Islamic radicals and Muslim immigrants
The Trash of Islam
Daniel Greenfield – September 28, 2011
Two years ago the Egyptian city of Cairo, the largest city in the Arab world and the “timeless city” of Obama’s Cairo speech, the heart of the Arab Spring, was suffering from a garbage crisis. The crisis had a very simple cause, the pigs that used to eat the garbage were killed to prevent the spread of Swine Flu.
The pigs living in “Garbage City” had served as both organic garbage disposals and food sources for the Zabaleen, families of marginalized Christian Copts who made a living by collecting the garbage, reselling the inorganic garbage and feeding the organic garbage to pigs. The system worked fine so long as there were pigs, but without the pigs, Cairo’s streets are filled with giant mounds of rotting garbage.
Mere HER hos Canada Free Press. The Free Republic her.
Saudization of Egypt
by Ali Alyami – October 3, 2011
The Saudization of Egypt has begun with the intent of derailing democratic transition or preventing it from taking roots for years to come. According to Al Arabiya,120 new Saudi companies have been established since the Egyptian Revolution on Jan. 25, 2011. Saudis are investing in every sector of the Egyptian economy where many poverty stricken Egyptians will be hired to make living , an investment that is understandable and that can be appreciated. The major problem with this is that wherever Saudi money goes, Wahhabism “follows and swallows.”
Mere HER hos Hudson New York.
What Is Egypt’s Revolution Really All About?
Signs point to the creation of a government even more repressive than the previous one
September 25, 2011 – by Raymond Stock
The stirring, iconic scenes of courage and national unity, sacrifice and magnanimity, have long since faded, like a discarded bouquet of lotus and jasmine.
They have been replaced with endless strikes; attacks on churches; countless, sometimes bloody, demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square; growing radical Islamist (Salafi) control of Sinai; cross-border attacks on Israel (and Israel’s inevitable response); and, finally, the sacking of a sovereign embassy with the ruling military’s apparent complicity. For the first time in Egypt’s five thousand years of Pharaonic-style rule, the people have put the top man on trial, but the exercise somehow seems cheap and tawdry.
Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Daniel Pipes har lavet en analyse af angrebet på Israels ambassade i Egypten:
Angrebet på Israels ambassade i Cairo
af Daniel Pipes – 28. September 2011
Vestlige diplomater og journalister faldt for Stalins skueprocesser, men lærte efterhånden ikke at tage udviklinger i Sovjetunionen for pålydende. I Sovjetunionens senere år ville man være gået ud fra, at en menneskemængdes angreb på en udenlandsk ambassade var statsligt godkendt.
Andre autokrater benytter lignende tricks og illusioner. Faktisk er det ofte nyttigt at tænke på U.S.S.R., hvis man vil prøve at forstå tyrannier. Dette var især tilfældet ved begivenhederne den 9. sep., hvor en pøbel angreb den israelske ambassade i Cairo.
Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes. Den engelske version kan læses her på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside eller her hos National Review Online. Og så slutter vi af med et eksempel på den meget muslimske taqiyya:
Egypt declares Camp David accords with Israel ‘not a sacred thing’
Egypt’s prime minister triggered angry consternation in Israel on Thursday after declaring that the historic Camp David accords underpinning peace between the two countries were “not a sacred thing”.
By Adrian Blomfield – 15 Sep 2011
Dramatically heightening tensions during an increasingly volatile time in Israel’s relations with the Arab world, Essam Sharaf’s suggestions that the 32-year treaty could be revised prompted disbelief in the Jewish state.
“The Camp David agreement is not a sacred thing and is always open to discussion with what would benefit the region and the case of fair peace,” Mr Sharaf told Turkish television. “We could make a change if needed.”
Mere HER i The Telegraph. Forkortet version i Edmonton Journal her.
AP Interview: Egypt’s foreign minister says peace treaty with Israel stands
September 27
Egypt’s foreign minister said Monday his country will always respect its landmark peace treaty with Israel and is seeking ways to strengthen its “strategic relationship” with the United States.
Mere HER i The Washington Post. Kan også læses hos ABC News her - The Blaze her. Se også denne artikel i The New York Times:
Andre kilder: The New York Post, Hudson New York, Hudson New York, Middle East Forum, Pajamas Media, Al-Masry Al-Youm, AINA, The National Post, Foreign Policy, Maikel Nabil,
Opdatering 6. oktober 2011:
Egypt’s Copts Start Sit-in in Cairo to Protest Attacks on Churches
By Sherif Tarek – October 4, 2011
Hundreds of Egyptian Copts and supporters organised an angry protest and started a sit-in Tuesday night to voice fury over their renewed feeling of persecution and injustice in the wake of last month’s sectarian tensions in Aswan, Upper Egypt.
Egypt’s minority Coptic population has been fuming since 30 September after a group of Muslims in Merinab village in Aswan attempted to block renovations underway at a christian church in the majority Muslim village, charging that the building was actually a ‘guesthouse’ that cannot be turned into a church.
Coptic protesters congregated in the main square in Cairo’s neighborhood of Shubra, which is home to a large concentration of Egyptian Christians.
Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her hos Ahram Online.
Opdatering: Den egyptiske militærjunta satte hæren ind for at opløse demonstrationen. Der meldes om mange sårede koptere, skriver Ahram Online.
Opdatering 9. oktober 2011 – kopterne har standset deres aktion pga. af frygt for repressalier, skriver Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Egyptian military sets dates for elections, and the reaction is dismay
By Mohannad Sabry | September 27, 2011
Egypt’s ruling military council on Tuesday announced a long-awaited schedule for selecting a new civilian government that foresees parliament holding its first session on March 17, 2012, more than a year after the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak.
But while many in Egypt are eager to see an end to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ rule by decree, the immediate reaction to the announcement was dismay — a sign of how badly tarnished the military’s reputation has become in the seven months it has ruled the country.
Mere HER hos McClatchy. Se eventuelt også Barry Rubin i Pajamas Media:
Lidt af artiklerne fra denne triste mærkedag:
A Decade Out, We’re Losing
by Robert Spencer – September 11, 2011
Ten years after 9/11, the war on terror is far from over, and we are losing it.
We were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, by Islamic jihadists who explained, in writings they left behind, that they were committing mass murder in the name of Islam, inspired by the teachings of Islam, and in defense, as they saw it, of Islam. They struck the United States in service of their hope of destroying it, and ultimately imposing upon the U.S., the West and the world an Islamic government that would rule according to Islamic law, which denies the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience and equality of rights for all people.
Mere HER i Human Events.
Shock and Awe from 9/11 to 9/11 America’s Uncertain Future via Obama, Muslim Infiltration
by Eliana Benador – 11 September 2011
“In Islam, “Taqqiya”, and also “Kitman”, is a doctrine of pious fraud or religious dissimulation, derived from Suras such as III.28, whereby Muslims may under certain circumstances openly deceive infidels by feigning friendship or goodwill provided their heart remains true to Islam.” Ibn Warraq, “Virgins? What virgins?” Prometheus Books, 2010
Ever since the 90s, when Western liberals found themselves surrounded by Islamic fundamentalists,they thought the best option to try and solve their problems would be to seek refuge and moral support in the “modernizers” of Islam, what nowadays here in America are called the “moderate Muslims.”
Mere HER hos Right Side News.
Twin Towers and terrorism: the impact 10 years on
It was the day that changed the world for ever. Or did it? Ten years on, two leading commentators, Jason Burke and Francis Fukuyama, offer an analysis of its long-term impact, and how terrorism works
11 September 2011
Francis Fukuyama: The legacy of that terrible time will be less significant than we then feared
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, there were grand assertions that “everything was different” and that the “world had changed.” We were forced to confront a bearded man in a cave spouting incomprehensible invective about crusaders and jihad, and reorient foreign policy in dramatic ways. But with 10 years’ hindsight, did the world actually change on that date? And what will Osama bin Laden’s historical legacy be?
The answer to both questions is: not much. It is my view that in a longer historical perspective, al-Qaida will be seen as a mere blip or diversion. Bin Laden got lucky that day and pulled off a devastating, made-for-media attack. The United States then overreacted, invading Iraq and making anti-Americanism a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Mere HER i The Guardian.
Day of infamy 2001: Ten years after
Guess who thinks they are the victims
Poll also reveals demands for U.S. to make group feel more welcome
By Michael Carl – September 10, 2011
A new poll taken by Muslim interests says members of the belief system as a group have faith in the honesty of American elections and they by an overwhelming 93 percent majority say they are loyal to the U.S. And the results claim that while they face a lot of discrimination, they are tolerant of others.
Then the poll reveals what Muslims believe the U.S. must do to make them feel more a part of America.
Man kan høre et mp3-interview med Robert Spencer midt i artiklen – mere HER i WorldNetDaily.
9/11/2011: Will We Finally Heed Ibn Warraq?
Andrew G. Bostom – September 11, 2011
Ten years later, Ibn Warraq’s statement from September 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the horrific acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/2001, contains irrefragable truths still tragically ignored by our policymaking elites, both military and diplomatic. Ibn Warraq, September 2001:
“[T]o pretend that Islam has nothing to do with Terrorist Tuesday is to willfully ignore the obvious and to forever misinterpret events….[T]he so-called experts on Islam in western universities, in the media, in the churches and even in government bureaus have become apologists for Islam. They bear some responsibility for creating an atmosphere little short of intellectual terrorism where any criticism of Islam is denounced as fascism, racism, or “orientalism.” They bear some responsibility for lulling the public into thinking that “The Islamic Threat ” is a myth. It is our duty to fight this intellectual terrorism. It is our duty to defend the values of liberal democracy”
Mere HER i The American Thinker.
Det ser ud til at være, hvad man kan konkludere ud fra Vin Ienco’s artikel:
Islam, Rape and Forbidden Love
Vin Ienco – August 4, 2011
In Islam, proving rape is designed to be next to impossible under the rules of sharia. The burden of avoiding sexual encounters is not a matter for a man to trifle with. It is purely a woman’s duty. Rape can only be proved if four devout adult Muslim males are produced as witnesses. The background for the sharia requirement of four witnesses to adultery is here:
Bukhari 5:59:462 – Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was accused of cheating [on her polygamous husband]. Three witnesses corroborated the event, but Muhammad did not want to believe it, and so established the arbitrary rule that four witnesses are required.
Koran 24:13 – “Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah.”
Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.
Det virker mest sandsynligt, at Spanien går tabt:
Muslim Countries Financing Jihad in Spain
by Soeren Kern – August 4, 2011
Muslim countries in the Persian Gulf and North Africa are funnelling large sums of money to radical Islamic groups in towns and cities across Spain in a competing effort to exert control over the estimated 1.5 million Muslims in the country.
A newly leaked secret report prepared by Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI), excerpts of which were published by the Madrid-based El País newspaper on July 31, says the Spanish government is struggling to stop the flow of tens of millions of dollars to Islamic groups in Spain from Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and above all Saudi Arabia.
Mere HER hos Hudson New York.
Mange muslimske kvinder vil eller må ikke arbejde. Nogle kan ikke, fordi de passer deres egne enorme børneflokke. Men i Vesten har familierne to uddannede, udearbejdende voksne og kun få børn. Hverken børn eller voksne i Vesten mangler IQ-point pga. fætter-kusineægteskab, så selvfølgelig skal vi betale for fejlslagne muslimske samfund. Tænk på, hvormange mennesker, der skal leve for kun en indtægt, i uhyggeligt mange muslimske familier. Sådan er det jo uanset om de bor i Vesten eller andetsteds:
Where Is Promised Arab Funding for the Palestinians?
Where is Palestinian Accountability?
by Khaled Abu Toameh – July 8, 2011
The Palestinian Authority has announced that it is facing a severe financial crisis, largely due to the failure of Arab countries to fulfill their promises to help the Palestinians.
Because of the failure of the Arab countries to provide financial aid to the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority is almost entirely dependent on US and EU contributions.
The financial crisis in the Palestinian Authority raises doubts as to whether the Palestinians are indeed ready for statehood. If the Palestinian Authority has to ask Americans and Europeans to pay salaries to its civil servants, how can it demand an independent and sovereign state from the United Nations in September?
Mere HER i Hudson New York.
The Palestinian Muslim Money Hole
Daniel Greenfield on Jul 8th, 2011
The Palestinian Authority is facing a budget crisis. It has reached its borrowing limit and has a 585 million dollar deficit. So naturally its leaders are asking the West for another handout.
Back in 2007, 7.4 billion dollars was pledged to keep the terrorist edifice of the Authority running. The PA claimed that it needed 3.9 billion for budgetary shortfalls alone. And after pissing away far more than that, the men who give the suicide bombers their marching orders are back passing around the plate.
Even as the Palestinian Authority pushes forward on a statehood bid at the UN, not only is it unable to pay its own bills, but its only real revenue stream is foreign aid. Few states can claim to have failed, before they are even declared– but the PA is on its way there.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Free Republic her. Og The New English Review her.
Name the poison
What are we afraid of?
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.
Det man beskylder Lars Hedegaard for, er vand ved siden af dette:
From Abbottabad to Worse
Hating the United States—which funds Islamabad’s army and nuclear program to the humiliating tune of $3 billion a year—Pakistan takes its twisted, cowardly revenge by harboring the likes of the late Osama bin Laden. But the hypocrisy is mutual, and the shame should be shared.
By Christopher Hitchens • July 2011
Salman Rushdie’s upsettingly brilliant psycho-profile of Pakistan, in his 1983 novel, Shame, rightly laid emphasis on the crucial part played by sexual repression in the Islamic republic. And that was before the Talibanization of Afghanistan, and of much of Pakistan, too. Let me try to summarize and update the situation like this: Here is a society where rape is not a crime. It is a punishment. Women can be sentenced to be raped, by tribal and religious kangaroo courts, if even a rumor of their immodesty brings shame on their menfolk. In such an obscenely distorted context, the counterpart term to shame—which is the noble word “honor”—becomes most commonly associated with the word “killing.” Moral courage consists of the willingness to butcher your own daughter.
Mere HER i Vanity Fair. Der er flere pakistanske artikheder her fra Reuters:
Saudi Arabia, UAE funded jihadi networks in Pakistan: Wikileaks cable
Islamic charities from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in U.S. ally Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage holy war, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing Wikileaks.
Mere HER i The Raw Story.
Andre kilder: Business Insider,
Democratizing the Middle East: A Realist Alternative
by Srdja Trifkovic • May 23rd, 2011
The most significant aspect of President Obama’s speech on the Middle East (May 19) is the absence of a plan to revive the “Peace Process.” The passing storm over his statements regarding the 1967 borders notwithstanding, it is already evident that there will be no new initiatives in the months to come. This is just as well, because any new initiative would be doomed to fail for as long as the political future of several key countries in the region remains uncertain. The PLO-Hamas coalition hopes, with good reason, that as several key Arab regimes become more democratic, they will become more willing to pursue policies supportive of the Palestinian views and aspirations.
Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine.
Islamic “Shariah-Compliant” Banking Takes Root in Europe
by Soeren Kern – May 19, 2011
The European Union is emerging as a major center of Islamic finance, based on Islamic Shariah law, and which critics say amounts to “financial Jihad” by Islamists intent on Islamifying the West.
The spectacular growth prospects for the Islamic financial services industry in many European countries is being fuelled by Muslim mass immigration; despite a difficult economic climate on the continent, Islamic banking is growing faster in Britain, France and Germany than it is in many Islamic countries in the Middle East and Asia.
Mere HER hos Hudson New York.
Spiegel Interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy
‘We Lost a Great Deal of Time in Libya Because of the Germans’
March 30, 2011
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a fierce proponent of military intervention in Libya. SPIEGEL spoke with him about Germany’s “shameful” abstention from the UN Security Council resolution, the democratic leanings of rebel leaders in Libya and why some in the West might want the Arab spring to come to an end.
Spiegel: Monsieur Lévy, are you satisfied with your war?
Lévy: I don’t call this war. It’s Gadhafi who is waging a war.
Spiegel: What then do you call what allied bombers are doing in Libya?
Lévy: The bombers are preventing Gadhafi from waging his war. A war against his own people and against the international community.
Mere HER i Der Spiegel.
Opdatering 4. april 2011 – Newsweek med en artikel:
Why Sarkozy Went to War
My philosopher made me do it! France’s president needed help taking down Gaddafi. He got it from the intellectual swashbuckler Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Mere HER i Newsweek.
Flerkoneri giver ulykkelige familier:
Women in polygamous marriages suffering psychological torture
By Diana Al-Jassem | Mar 8, 2011
JEDDAH: Although Islam permits men taking more than one wife, the issue of polygamy remains a controversial one with many Saudi women dead set against sharing their husbands with others.
In Islam, men are permitted four wives at any one time. However, the faith insists on men treating their wives fairly. Those who fear they might not be able to do justice to multiple wives are commanded to refrain from marrying more than one woman.
Some scholars are also of the view that a husband should tell his first wife if he intends to marry a second time, but her permission is not necessary for subsequent marriages.
Mere HER i Arab News. Se eventuelt også denne lidt ældre sag:
Kone nummer to giver dårlige nerver i Dubai
Af Helen Hajjaj – 7. maj 2007
Leveomkostningerne i Dubai er efterhånden blevet så høje, at mange arabiske mænd sender kone og børn til hjemlandet. Men konerne frygter, at mændene ender med at tage en hustru nummer to.
Mere HER i Nyhedsavisen.
Donald Trump meddeler, at han seriøst overvejer at stille op til det amerikanske præsidentvalg, som afholdes den 6. november 2012 og at den officielle meddelelse nok kommer i juni. Udsendelsen her handler bla. om USAs konkurrenceevne, OPEC, Mellemøsten, præsident Obama og mere.
Newsmax har flere artikler i tilknytning til interviewet, – bla. her, her og her.
Fra 30. og 31. januar 2011, men først uploadet på YouTube den 21. februar 2011 i to dele – Kathleen Walter interviewer:
Donald Trump: I’ll Probably Run for President in ’12
Jan. 30, 2011 — Real estate mogul Donald Trump tells Newsmax.TV he probably will announce his candidacy for president in June. The New York billionaire is confident he can restore the United States to glory after President Barack Obama has made America “a laughingstock.”
Trump Won’t Tape ‘The Apprentice’ in White House
Jan. 31, 2011 — In part two of an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Donald Trump explains where housing, oil, and gold prices are headed. ‘The Apprentice’ host gives viewers a sneak peak at the upcoming season, which features celebs, and says, if elected president, he wouldn’t tape the show at The White House.
Opdatering den 17.maj 2011: Trump siger nu, at han ikke stiller op alligevel, skriver The Washington Times.
En gammel traver trækkes af stalden her. Vi har snart hørt om den vandmangel i 50 år, uden at den egentlig har indfundet sig. Men hvad nu hvis?
Så må araberne jo gøre som israelerne og udvinde drikkevand fra havet. Det er israelerne, der har videreudviklet metoden, så man nu kan anvende den kommercielt. Der skal jo noget til, når man – som mange arabere – går i bad 5 gange om dagen og bruger 5 gange så meget vand som eksempelvis en dansker.
Drypvanding er for øvrigt også en israelsk opfindelse.
Man kan også lade være med at bruge alt vandet på at kunstvande en gigantisk khat-produktion. Khat-træerne bruger hele 60 pct. af vandet i Yemen og er årsagen til, at der næsten ingen fødevareproduktion er. Næsten alle er narkomaner. Næsten alle dyrker khat.
Knaldrøde Guardian springer let og elegant over alle disse kendsgerninger – artiklen er direkte uvederhæftig pga. alle de halve sandheder:
What does the Arab world do when its water runs out?
Water usage in north Africa and the Middle East is unsustainable and shortages are likely to lead to further instability – unless governments take action to solve the impending crisis
John Vidal – The Observer - 20 February 2011
Poverty, repression, decades of injustice and mass unemployment have all been cited as causes of the political convulsions in the Middle East and north Africa these last weeks. But a less recognised reason for the turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and now Iran has been rising food prices, directly linked to a growing regional water crisis.
The diverse states that make up the Arab world, stretching from the Atlantic coast to Iraq, have some of the world’s greatest oil reserves, but this disguises the fact that they mostly occupy hyper-arid places. Rivers are few, water demand is increasing as populations grow, underground reserves are shrinking and nearly all depend on imported staple foods that are now trading at record prices.
Mere HER i The Guardian.
Andre kilder: Wikipedia,
A Tyranny of Minorities
14 February 2011 – Daniel Greenfield
[...]The liberal hatred of referendums shows up their claim that they fight for the interests of the people. If they really believed that, as Theodore Roosevelt did, they wouldn’t constantly try to sideline, ban or ridicule direct democracy out of existence. As is the case in California. They wouldn’t need to do that if they really believed that their agenda had the public’s support. Direct democracy is a threat to their monopolization of power by politicians, judges and bureaucrats. It undermines their ability to fund the sources and institutions of their own power by constantly raising taxes.
Instead of direct democracy, liberals prefer to work through “community groups” which funnel aid money through their own local activists. Community group leaders and organizers then put on a show of representing the community to the politicians. And on election day, the community leaders use government funds to “teach” their community to vote for the party line. This sham is a key element in the Democratic party’s hijacking of much of the urban and minority vote. It is a slight update and reworking of the old corrupt Democratic party’s political machines.[...]
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Europe’s Fatwa Factories
by Soeren Kern – February 3, 2011
Britain will have more Muslims than Kuwait in 2030, while France will have more than Jordan; and Germany will have more than Oman and the United Arab Emirates combined, according to a new study titled “The Future of the Global Muslim Population.” The sobering projections (which are highly conservative estimates) about the exponential increase of Europe’s Muslim population over the next 20 years will fuel the growing controversy over Muslim mass immigration to Europe, and also add pressure on European policymakers to find ways to ensure that Muslim immigrants are better integrated into European society.
Efforts to improve the integration of Muslim immigrants in Europe will, however, be fiercely resisted by influential figures from within Europe’s Muslim community itself, many of whom, instead, are actively working to build parallel societies that keep Muslim immigrants isolated in exclusivist communities, and thus socially separated from their European host countries. Critics say these Muslim mini-societies are undermining not only European social cohesion but also European democracy.
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Congress Should Stop Funding UNRWA
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld – January 25, 2011
UNRWA began its emergency food and shelter aid programs Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon in May 1950. Over the years, though its official mandate remained the same, UNRWA has been providing governmental and development services. UNRWA’s former legal advisor and general counsel, James G. Lindsay, published in 2009 an important study: “Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN’s Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees.” Mr. Lindsay shows how UNRWA changed its function from status based (refugees) to need based (dependents). More than six decades later, and despite the establishment of an independent Palestinian governing body, UNRWA continues to operate in parallel with the government, both in the PA ruled West Bank and Hamas ruled Gaza.
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