Bernard Lewis’ new book, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian, written at the age of 95, is essentially his autobiography. Since he is, above all, a scholar, much of his life has been thinking and writing. Not surprisingly, the book recounts the gestational process of a number of his major works. Lewis is the author of more than 30 books. This leads him to wonder, in 100 years, which of his works will be remembered? I venture to say that it will not be this one, nor does he mean it to be. This is a breezy, episodic, conversational book of reflections, aperçus, anecdotes, and some very sharp observations. It is what is called a “good read.” It is not particularly profound or deep. It only glancingly refers to ideas that Lewis has developed at greater length in his earlier works. He refers to them rather than repeating them, and places their development in the context of his long life.
Therefore, this is not the Lewis book with which you should begin. First, become conversant with his deep scholarship in the history of the Middle East. Then, you will no doubt be driven to know more about the man himself, and that you can find entertainingly set forth in Notes on a Century.
Mere HER i Online Library of Law and Liberty. Desuden snublede jeg over en Lewis-artikel i pdf – fra Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2003:
Den dødbringende fortælling om Det Arabiske Forår spiller på den vestlige kulturs gode ønsker for alle. Det forekommer langt mere anstændigt at håbe, at folk, der så længe har været undertrykt, omsider vil kunne ånde frit, end at erkende, at de simpelthen er blevet trætte af den gamle kalif og vil have en ny.
Mere HER hos Sappho. Kan også læses på engelsk hos The New English Review her.
Bevis jeres værd, IMR
Klumme af Kit Louise Strand – 11. maj 2012
Efter årtiers politisk korrekte udmeldinger er der bevægelse i Institut for Menneskerettigheder, men direktøren har stadig ikke forstået, hvad menneskerettigheder går ud på.
The Rochdale sex ring shows the horrific consequences of Britain’s ‘Islamophobia’ witch-hunt
By Melanie Phillips | 9 May 2012
So now we can see the outcome of the witch-hunt against ‘Islamophobia’.
With the conviction of nine men for organised sexual crimes from rape to sex trafficking, the full horrific details of more than two decades of sexual violence against young, predominantly white girls living in children’s homes in the north of England have been revealed.
The gang lured an officially estimated 47 girls (the figure may well be higher) aged 12 to 16 with gifts, alcohol and drugs before passing them around to have sex ‘with several men a day, several times a week’ in flats, houses, cars, taxis and kebab shops.
After phone calls inviting them to come and have sex with a girl, men would turn up to do so by the taxi-load. One 13 year-old was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Kan også læses her hos Melanie Phillips.
Asian grooming gang detectives hunt for FORTY more men who may have had sex with underage girls
By James Tozer and Nazia Parveen – 10 May 2012
Judge says gang preyed on five girls, aged between 13 and 15, partly because they were from different ‘community and religion’
Nine men jailed for a total of 77 years as police prepare to arrest four more
Judge Gerald Clifton dismisses defendants’ claims that prosecution was ‘triggered by race’ after ringleader brands him a ‘racist b******’
But legal counsel for one of the convicted men says he will launch an appeal on the basis of a tweet by BNP leader Nick Griffin
Opportunity to catch the paedophiles missed after complaint four years ago
As many as 47 vulnerable girls were plied with alcohol, gifts and money
They were then passed around for sex with ‘several men a day’
At least one victim forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, police say
Convicted men will be scattered in prisons across the UK and segregated from other prisoners over fears of revenge attacks
Former Labour MP Ann Cryer says gang were left to it because police feared being branded racist
Muslim leader warns that some British Pakistani men ‘think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought’
EDL – British Freedom – Muslim Rape and the complicity of the ‘Liberal Left’
Paul Weston, the Chairman of the British Freedom Party, has recorded this video in response to the recent arrest, prosecution, and conviction of vicious Muslim paedophile rape gangs who trafficked underage white girls in major cities all over Britain.
Fra 10. maj 2012:
Rochdale sex grooming racially motivated
Der følger en artikel med fra Sky News, som kan læses her.
Adil Ray investigates the controversial subject of on-street grooming of young girls for sex by Pakistani men in the UK. He speaks to members of his own community, the police and victims of abuse. For Adil, it is a ‘deeply personal journey’ and he is shocked by what he discovers.
Opdatering 21. maj 2012:
Muslim Child-Rape Gangs in Britain
by Soeren Kern – May 21, 2012
It recently emerged that British police had known for more than a decade that Muslim rape gangs were targeting young girls, but they ignored the evidence of rapes because “they were petrified of being called racist.” Rather than acknowledge that there is a problem, Muslim groups have decided to play the victim card instead. They are working overtime trying to silence public discussion about Muslim sex crimes by branding critics as “far-right racists” and “Islamophobic.” Several of the men on trial in Liverpool apparently told their victims that it was all right for the girls to be passed around for sex with dozens of men “because it’s what we do in our country.”
Nine Muslim men belonging to a child-rape gang in northwestern England have received hefty prison sentences for trafficking and raping young British girls.
The three-month sexual grooming trial at a court in Liverpool, which ended on May 9, has drawn nationwide attention to the sexual abuse of children and women by Muslim immigrants, and British police are currently investigating at least 40 other cases of child rapes perpetrated by Muslims in northern England.
Fra maj 2012 – Spencer skrev på Jihad Watch i går:
Last Thursday I was in Chicago and agreed to debate an Islamic apologist named Nadir Ahmed, who had been longing for that moment for years. But as you watch him getting shredded in the video below, you will at once understand why Ramadan, Esposito, Aslan and the rest decided that in response to my invitation to debate, [...] “silence is sometimes an answer.”
Og videoen, hvori man blandt andet diskuterer, hvad der er tilladt indenfor islamisk slaveri og anden lavpraktisk dhimmihåndtering. Må slaveejeren voldtage sine kvindelige slaver? Må man dræbe vantro, blot fordi de er vantro? Meget vigtige spørgsmål, selvsagt, eftersom de vedrører europæernes fremtid:
“Does Islam Teach Violence?” Robert Spencer vs Nadir Ahmed
Last night in Dearborn, Michigan, while the Islamic supremacists raged and fulminated, we held our Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killing. We told the whole truth about the justifications for honor killing in Islamic law, and other related instances of aspects of Islamic law advancing in the U.S. We stood determined to defend the principles of the equality of dignity of all people, and their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It was a superb evening, thanks in large part to your support. The Islamic supremacist/Leftist smear and hate machine was out in force, holding a rally of their own earlier in the day and then attempting to storm our event and get in despite the fact that they had not registered. We had advertised for weeks that no one would be admitted without registering first. With their usual mendacity they have tried to spin this as our not allowing Muslims into the conference, but if no Muslims really got in, that was solely because no Muslims registered — if indeed there were indeed no Muslims inside. In any case, while these disturbances were roiling outside the door, our crack security detail, made possible by your kind and generous donations in response to our appeal Saturday, ensured that only those who registered got in, and that thuggish Leftist and Islamic supremacist brownshirts were unable to harm the speakers or attendees.
- Robert Spencer
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Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference
Pamela Geller, Darwin Jiles, Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, David Wood, Robert Muise, James Lafferty, Michael Coren, Magdi Khalil, Simon Deng
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Opposing honor killing is ‘Islamophobia’?
Pamela Geller tells of dueling conferences on either side of Shariah
by Pamela Geller – May 2, 2012
We held our AFDI/SIOA Jessica Mokdad Human Rights conference last Sunday in Dearborn, the first honor-killing conference of its kind. Hundreds converged upon the Hyatt to join Robert Spencer and me and a full roster of luminaries to educate, elucidate and shine a light on the ugly and brutal atrocities under the Shariah. As expected, the goons, thugs and Muslim supremacists were also out in force. It seems that Islamic supremacists support murder for “honor,” for these subversive groups energetically opposed our conference dedicated to exposing the plight of women under Islamic law on the first anniversary of the honor murder of a Muslim girl in Michigan, Jessica Mokdad.
When we first called the conference, which we did to increase awareness of honor killings and gendercide under the Shariah, the only attention the media paid to it at all was to give a platform to the Mokdad family, which was whining that Jessica’s name was being used. Such grief – so touching the way so many Muslims go into “protect Islam” mode and not “protect our girls.”
Hyl og hvin. Skrig og skrål. Ballade og protester. Demonstrationer og sabotage. Venstrefløjen kan ikke lide ytringsfrihed. Konferencen fandt nu sted alligevel og der er video fra den:
Robert Spencer and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. The speakers were introduced by Temple University student, Alvaro Watson. Robert Spencer was the first speaker; listened to by most, although there was the to-be-expect disruption by a few (this happens in a couple of moments during Spencer’s opening remarks) and handled by the speaker (security seemed to just stand by and watch). He was followed by Pamela Geller
Pamela Geller and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. In spite of a couple of hecklers, Ms Geller confidently waited them out and then spoke of her organization, dedicated to the individual human rights and to women’s rights. The next speaker was Nonie Darwish.
Nonie Darwish and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University
Part 3 – Nonie Darwish
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. Ms Darwish spoke of her upbringing as a Muslim In Egypt, of leaving Islam and the Islamic Apartheid against Former Muslim, Christians and Jews. The next speaker: Simon Deng.
Simon Deng and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University
Part 4 – Simon Deng
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. Simon Deng was enslaved at the age of 9 by Muslims in the Sudan; a horrible practice that continues throughout the Muslim world today. This was a powerful presentation….
Q and A ( Part 1) on “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University
Part 1 of the Q and A. One heckler remained in the crowd ( ignored by security) and then many of the ‘questions’ were instead statements of propaganda. All handled superbly by the speakers. Audience mic was set too low so I tweaked the audio as best I could when questions were asked. In Part one: Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish and Pamela Geller.
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. the speakers were Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, Nonie Darwish, Former Muslims United and Simon Deng, a Sudanese Refugee
Q and A ( Part 2) on “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University
Part 2- Q and A continues with a concerned young man asking Robert Spencer about what he has read in the Quran. He doesn’t like the violence in the Quran. The loud mouth heckler shouts out a few times, but the Q and A continues in spite of him. Part 2 is intense and quite interesting . Reminder, the audience mic was set too low so I tweaked the audio as best I could when questions were asked.
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. The speakers were Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, Nonie Darwish, Former Muslims United and Simon Deng , a Sudanese Refugee
Q and A (Part 3) on “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University
Part 3 ( end of the Q and A) The students get more argumentative. Their minds are closed but the speakers, Spencer, Geller, Darwish and Deng are politely confident as they continue to address The Islamic Apartheid ….a truth these students refused to listen to.
Reminder, the audience mic was set too low so I tweaked the audio as best I could when questions were asked.
David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. The speakers were Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, Nonie Darwish, Former Muslims United and Simon Deng , a Sudanese Refugee.
Artikel om balladen:
Islamic Apartheid Conference Sparks Protest
by Ali Watkins on Apr 25th, 2012
Dean of Students Stephanie Ives foreshadowed the inevitable contention in Kiva Auditorium at the Islamic Apartheid Conference, sponsored by Temple University Students for Intellectual Freedom, yesterday, April 23.
“I ask you all to keep the principles of free speech and civil discourse in mind tonight,” Ives urged the packed auditorium prior to the conference’s start.
Featuring controversial panelists Robert Spencer, director of the blog “Jihad Watch,” Pamela Geller, former-Muslim Nonie Darwish and Sudanese refugee Simon Deng, the conference addressed issues such as honor killing and Jihad in the Arab-world, and specifically focused on Islam’s contribution to said issues.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. The Temple News her.
Save the Misunderstanders of Islam!
By Robert Spencer – April 16, 2012
Why don’t the leading Muslim groups in the United States care about Muslims?
It’s a serious question. Its urgency became clear yet again last week, when three more warriors of Allah got their just desserts: Tarek Mehanna, a young Muslim in Massachusetts, got seventeen and a half years in prison on Thursday for conspiring with jihadis to murder American soldiers in Iraq. The same day, Agron Hasbajrami, a Muslim who lives in Brooklyn, pled guilty to trying to aid terrorists and attempting to go to Pakistan to join them. And Jubair Ahmad, a twenty-four-year-old Muslim from Woodbridge, Virginia, was sentenced Friday to twelve years in prison for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba, a jihad terrorist group in Pakistan. But these cases point up yet again an even larger problem: the denial and deception of Muslim spokesmen and organizations in the U.S.
Nowadays when fresh arrests, trials, guilty pleas and convictions of jihad terror plotters come down the pike, Muslim leaders and Islamic advocacy groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) don’t even bother to issue condemnations. They don’t have to. After over ten years of constant propaganda from the mainstream media, government and law enforcement about how Islam is religion of peace and how anyone who commits violence in its name is misunderstanding and misusing its basic tenets, most Americans take for granted, if they hear about the likes of Tarek Mehanna, Jubair Ahmad and Agron Hasbajrami at all, that they are not true Muslims.
Pamela Geller tells of battle to present anti-Shariah message over protesters
Last week, Islamic Apartheid Week was announced at Temple University in Philadelphia. A singular brave student organization at Temple wanted to counter the blood libel and propaganda of Israeli Apartheid Week, which is so common and so awful on college campuses, with the reality of the Shariah and the oppression, subjugation and persecution of women and non-Muslims living under Islam.
No sooner was it announced than the Islamic smear machine went into high gear. Numerous articles appeared in the Philadelphia City Paper, Naked City and elsewhere, smearing and defaming the speakers (Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Simon Deng and me), but most egregiously me. Hamas-CAIR sent out a string of email alerts in support of the Occupy Muslim student groups’ protests.
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 29 minutter.
Der følger en artikel med:
Preventing a Nuclear Iran
by Alex Berman - March 19, 2012
A briefing by Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin, a former editor of the Middle East Quarterly, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He formerly served as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and has written extensively about Iranian history and politics. He is the author of Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami’s Iran (2001) and the co-author of Eternal Iran (2005). On March 19, Rubin addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia about the efficacy of sanctions on Iran as well as the prospect and logistics of an Israeli strike.
Can sanctions against the Iranian regime be effective? Michael Rubin addressed this question by citing Tehran’s former nuclear negotiator, who revealed that previous suspensions of Iranian nuclear enrichment had merely been temporary ploys aimed at ameliorating international pressure and preventing a UN consensus on sanctions. Rubin argued that Iran’s bleak current economic outlook is due not to sanctions but to the regime’s mismanagement of the economy.
Faldende fødselstal ændrer verden. Fra Heritage Foundation den 14. marts 2012:
Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics
The conventional wisdom about the shifting balances of world power usually ignores demographic trends. When experts on geopolitics do consider demography, they usually conclude that population growth is a liability. In this provocative new edited collection on Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics, the distinguished contributors contend that a key challenge to global stability stems increasingly from the demographic transitions in key world powers. In the coming decades, the effects of diverging population trends in the U.S., Europe, Japan, India, and China will likely increase transatlantic tensions, and destabilize Asian security. In tomorrow’s world, the danger is not that there will be too many people being born, but that there will be too few. Join a panel of expert contributors to this collection as they review their findings and discuss the interactions between population declines, world security, and great power politics.
Pamela Geller og Robert Spencer havde sørget for, at der også var islamkritik ved CPAC-konferencen – fra 10. februar 2012:
Pamela Geller Opening Remarks AFDI “Islam in America”- CPAC 2012
Pamela Geller (AFDI/SIOA & Atlas Shrugs.com)Her opening remarks before she introduced this explosive panel at CPAC 2012. They spoke of “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department is Selling us Out.” And then introduced Ilario Pantano, the first speakers ( Many thanks to Tim and Maria Lyng of TheRemembranceProject.org for permission to post this video)
The Obama Justice Department is not just tolerating, but actively aiding the assertion of Islamic law in the U.S. and the primacy of Sharia over U.S. Law.” The purpose of this panel was to encourage the efforts of many who are already fighting to stop the Stealth Jihad and to show other Americans, perhaps new to this struggle, what we must do to preserve our Constitutional Freedoms.
AFDI presents Ilario Pantano on “Islamic Law in America” at CPAC 2012
Pamela Geller introduces Ilario Pantano, a war hero and Congressional candidate in North Carolina. (video quality improves at 2:48)
Ilario was the first of the speakers who gathered to address the Obama Justice Department, which is not just tolerating but actively aiding the assertion of Islamic law in the U.S. and the primacy of Sharia over U.S. Law.”
The purpose of this panel is to encourage the efforts of many who are already fighting to stop the Stealth Jihad and to show other Americans perhaps new to this struggle, what we must do to preserve our Constitutional Freedoms.
At 207 views replaced previous video so that we could include the footage that had been omitted due to a camera malfunction
Robert Spencer’s opening remarks at AFDI’s “Islamic Law in America” Panel at CPAC 2012
Robert Spencer, in association with Pamela Geller, is co-founder of AFDI and SIOA . They presented this explosive panel at CPAC 2012 on “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department is Selling us Out.
Robert Muise & Robert Spencer at AFDI’s “Islamic Law in America” Panel – CPAC 2012
Robert Spencer (AFDI/SIOA) introduces Robert Muise, co-founder and Senior Counsel of the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) participated in this explosive panel at CPAC 2012. The topic was “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department is Selling us Out.
Pamela Geller, “Islamic Law in America” Panel at CPAC 2012
Pamela Geller (AFDI/SIOA & Atlas Shrugs.com) follows speaker Robert Muise, co-founder and Senior Counsel of the American Freedom Law Center and then introduces J. Christian Adams ( former Justice Department official) . This explosive panel at CPAC 2012. spoke of the threat : “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department is Selling us Out.
J. Christian Adams on AFDI’s “Islamic Law in America” at CPAC 2012
J. Christian Adams, Former Justice Department Official and author of “Injustice:Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department” participated in this explosive panel at CPAC 2012. The topic was “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department is Selling us Out. Introduced by Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and co-founder of AFDI and SIOA .
James Lafferty at AFDI’s ” Islamic Law in America” CPAC 2012
James Lafferty of VAST ( Virginia anti-Sharia Task Force) is introduced by Robert Spencer of AFDI/SIOA and JihadWatch.org.
This video has been edited to remove remarks that have been willfully misconstrued by Leftist news sites. James Lafferty said in a statement: “My CPAC speech has drawn great attention from the leftist blogs and CAIR. In reality, I do not condone, advocate or support any violent or vigilante action against mosques or any other building or any individual, and I am a firm believer in the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and in the rest of the Constitution.”
Members of the panel spoke on the Obama Justice Department, which is not just tolerating but actively aiding the assertion of Islamic law in the U.S. and the primacy of Sharia over U.S. Law. There was also time for a few questions from the audience
The purpose of was panel is to encourage the efforts of many who are already fighting to stop the Stealth Jihad and to show other Americans perhaps new to this struggle, what we must do to preserve our Constitutional Freedoms.
AFDI Geller and Spencer, the conclusion of panel on “Islamic Law in America” at CPAC 2012
Final statements from Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer after the panel spoke on the Obama Justice Department, which is not just tolerating but actively aiding the assertion of Islamic law in the U.S. and the primacy of Sharia over U.S. Law. There was also time for a few questions from the audience
Den første video er den mest interessante fra konferencen 28. februar 2012. Forelæsningen næstnederst er er også meget seværdig:
Mightier Pen 2012: The Growing Censorship of Free Speech
The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the Gun: Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and featured participants of this panel were: Sam Nunberg (Middle East Forum-The Legal Project), Brooke Goldstein (The Lawfare Project, author of “Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech”) and Andrew McCarthy (National Review). Moderated by the Center for Security Policy’s Fred Grandy.
Den næste handler om undertrykkelse af ytringsfrihed i Venezuela, Kina, Rusland og andre steder:
Escalating State Violence Against Political and Religious Expression
The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the GunL Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and the featured participants in this panel were Claudia Rossett (Foundation of Defense of Democracies Investigative Reporting Project), and Vilma Petrash (News Producer AmericaTeVe – WJAN – Channel 41, host of “Temas de Mujer” in Venezuela). The panel was moderated by Frank Gaffney.
Og et lille ekstranummer:
Andy McCarthy: Saluting Ray Kelly & the NYPD’s Defense of New York
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy joins the Center for Security Policy in saluting NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly at the 2012 Mightier Pen Award in New York City. Commissioner Kelly has kept New York City safe from jihadist terror attacks for decades, beginning with his investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (the perpetrators of which McCarthy later prosecuted).
Og en flot forelæsning:
“The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”
Andrew C. McCarthy October 7, 2011 “The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”
Andrew C. McCarthy on the True Helpfulness of Obamas Apology
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It’s a Pity Somebody Has to Win
We have no national interest in overthrowing Assad.
By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 3, 2012
Asked about the Iran-Iraq war that stretched for eight ghastly years after breaking out in 1980, Henry Kissinger is said to have quipped, “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.”
The pity is that we have lost that exquisite wisdom concerning our national interest, despite a two-decade road to hell paved by good intentions — at least compassionate intentions — from Kosovo to Kandahar. If that isn’t clear enough from the latest killings of American soldiers stuck like sitting ducks between the Afghan Taliban and other Afghan Islamists, all doubt is removed by Elliott Abrams, the longtime Republican foreign-policy solon who served as a top National Security Council official during the heady days of the Bush “Freedom Agenda.” “Can there be a group anywhere in the world today more disappointed in United States foreign policy than those fighting the Syrian regime?” Abrams, a distinguished public servant whom I admire, asked this week in a post on the Corner.
We should stop enmeshing ourselves ever deeper in the Muslim morass.
By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 10, 2012
‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.”
That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issued guidance on the “Proper Handling and Disposal of Islamic Religious Materials — Service Members/Civilian Training.” Here’s how it works: Mainstream Muslims throughout the Middle East believe, based on the Koran and other “Islamic Religious Materials,” that if an infidel force invades a Muslim territory, its members must be killed until the force has been driven out. They further believe that if non-Muslims commit some act — even an inadvertent one — that Muslims perceive as insulting to Islam, a campaign of murder and mayhem is justified.
Our response? We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.
Egypt Releases Seven Americans . . . but Is There a Catch?
By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 29, 2012
The AP reports that Egypt’s transitional military government has lifted a travel ban against seven of the 16 Americans currently being tried for their work with organizations that allegedly took illegal foreign contributions — work that incited protests against the military rulers, the government alleges. The report takes this development (which includes the release of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s son) as a signal that the crisis is being resolved. The 16 Americans are among 43 “civil society activists” being tried. Though the trial started Sunday, it was promptly adjourned for two months (until April 26). In the meantime, the American defendants have not been required to attend the trial and, more significantly, the three judges resigned from the case, citing “uneasiness.” The country’s top prosecutor is said to have lifted the travel ban at the recommendation of the case’s investigating magistrate.
Well, no, the Council for American-Islamic Relations is an Islamic supremacist group spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the mission of the Brotherhood is to implement sharia. Hence its motto for the last 90 years or so: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu Akbar!“
It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.
By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 18, 2012
Their crime? These Muslims have the temerity to suggest that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, an Indian who died in 1908, was the promised Mahdi — the redeemer of Islam — and not one of the false prophets about whom Mohammed had warned. They compound their offense with condemnations of violent jihad, maintaining that man’s inhumanity to man is ultimately conquered by love and kindness. So, of course, the Ahmadi Muslims have to die.
They are killed in Muslim Pakistan. They are killed in Muslim Bangladesh. They are killed in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country and, putatively, its most moderate. It was there, in a village in West Java last year, that hundreds of Muslims wielding machetes, sharpened sticks, and stones set upon on an Ahmadi home, brutally murdering three men and maiming several others. True to form, Islamic clerics raced to the fore to rationalize the savagery as being provoked by Ahmadi heresy. The ringleaders were sentenced to less than six months’ imprisonment, with the country’s minister of religious affairs callously explaining that religious freedom was certainly not freedom to “modify” Islamic beliefs — and equating Ahmadi preaching, which is banned, with flag-burning.
Fra The Moody Church i Chicago november 2011. Den første video handler især om kristendom og forfølgelse af kristne, som beskrevet i Biblen:
Biblical Response To Persecution – Dr. Mark Durie
Om kristendom i Mellemøsten:
The Legacy of the Eastern Church in the face of Persecution – Rev. Bassam Madanay
Mark Durie om dhimmier:
Non-Muslims Living Under Islamic Law & Call To Prayer
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Islam’s Tradition of Breaking the Cross
by Mark Durie – March 9, 2012
In the recent destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Benghazi, Libya (YouTube Video), you can see not just the desecration of graves, but attacks on crosses.
The radical Muslims who are kicking over and smashing headstones marked with crosses (and one with a Star of David), also took pains to demolish a tall “Cross of Sacrifice” standing at the edge of the cemetery.
This was no “furious mob” on a “rampage,” as a Daily Mail report put it. Nor was there any evidence in what they were saying that they were angry or reacting to Koran burning by the US military.
Mere HER hos Stonegate Institute eller her hos The Middle East Forum.
De kæmper med sammme misforståede tolerancebegreb som europæerne. Rapto – nyt ord:
It’s Not You, Islam, It’s Us
February 27, 2012 – by Andrew Klavan
Whenever I find myself swelling with a pleasant sense of righteous indignation, I wonder what exactly I’m getting wrong.
Thus, for instance, when I hear that Afghans and other Muslims are rioting and murdering people — including American soldiers — because the American military burned some Korans at Bagram Airfield in Kabul, I try very hard not to harrumph and start spouting such banalities as: “Ungrateful savages and their benighted religion! Ought to be gunned down, the lot of them!” Sure, the Korans had already been defaced by detainees trying to send extremist messages. And yes, American officials from the president down to a guy cleaning latrines at FOB Kalagush have apologized profusely. But before we condemn the rioters, American flag burners and murderers out of hand, let’s be fair.
Importing Violence: Immigration, Crime, and Why We Need Assimilation
A Third World culture of misogyny comes to America.
by Rob Taylor – February 28, 2012
When he was arrested for burglary in early 2006, Kesler Dufrene, a Haitian native residing in Florida’s Manatee County, already had a long history of sometimes violent criminality. His first arrest was at age 14 when he assaulted a teacher, and he has built up a long rap sheet since then. Often described as a drifter, Dufrene was caught burglarizing a home in July of 2006. Already on probation for theft, a judge gave him five years and ordered him deported after serving his sentence.
He never was. Dufrene emerged from prison in 2010 during a moratorium on deportations to Haiti enacted by the Obama administration. Due to his history, he was being “supervised” by immigration authorities, but that supervision was lax to say the least. Weeks after his release Dufrene committed a vicious, seemingly random triple homicide. One of the victims was a 15-year-old girl.
Iran har dømt Nadarkhani til døden – igen. Fra 22. februar 2012:
Iranian Christian Pastor Could be Killed Soon
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Mother visits Marine veteran sentenced to death in Iran
February 21, 2012
The mother of a former U.S. Marine sentenced to death in Iran on a spying conviction has visited her son in an Iranian prison, a spokesman for the family said Tuesday.
Last week the Egyptian Government announced that it intends to put 19 Americans on trial for fomenting anti-government protests — a charge they deny. Protests from the Obama administration have so far been futile, met with sneers of contempt.
If you’re of a certain age, this should sound familiar. On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian thugs stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage. Jimmy Carter’s government wrung its hands in futility for the next 14 months, until finally the Islamic Republic released the hostages Jan. 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan took office as President of the United States.
Underwear bomber disproves conventional wisdom about terrorism
by Robert Spencer – February 21, 2012
Bravo for life’s little ironies. Last Monday, Bill Clinton attributed the recent jihad violence in Nigeria to poverty. Referring obliquely to the attacks that the jihadist group Boko Haram (A group that preaches that Western education is sin) had carried out, Clinton ascribed them to the large disparity between the rich and the poor in Nigeria: “You can’t just have this level of inequality persist. That’s what’s fueling all this stuff.” Then on Thursday, the son of one of Nigeria’s richest men was sentenced to life in prison for an attempt to commit jihad mass murder in a jetliner.
The idea that poverty causes terrorism is a familiar assumption on both the Left and the Right; it is, ultimately, the guiding assumption behind the U.S. Military’s making itself busy in Afghanistan building roads, schools and hospitals. The fond belief is that a sufficient amount of money will transform Kabul into Kansas City, and then all shall be well. Ten years of American blood and treasure squandered in Afghanistan should have paid for this fantasy long ago, but of course it hasn’t.
Mere HER i Human Events. Næsten enslydende version HER hos AINA.
Nonie Darwish & Janet Parshall – The Joys of Muslim Women – February 13, 2012
Aired: February 13, 2012
From: Moody Radio
Program: In the Marked
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Egypt’s Downward Spiral Towards Self-Destruction
By Nonie Darwish – February 13, 2012
The Arab Spring brought Egyptians new freedoms: kidnapping and robbing American tourists, the arrest of 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, senseless killings, endless riots and chaos, burning of churches and the killing and kidnapping of Christians.
Arrests of Westerners and accusing some of espionage and stirring up the riots and attacking and accusing Christians of working with the enemies of Islam, is nothing new and is almost always politically motivated. Focusing on the outside non-Muslim world rather than focusing on urgent internal matters and taking responsibility for previous failures has always been the norm in almost all Muslim countries, especially Egypt. With a straight face, an Egyptian MP recently commented on the Egyptian soccer riots that resulted in the killing of over 75 people and injuring hundreds, by saying “This anarchy is caused by America, Israel and the former regime.”
Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her i FrontPageMagazine. Og så skal vi til The Glazov Gang – igen. Deres videoer findes der lidt flere af på YouTube. Paneldeltagerne skifter fra gang til gang – der er link her. Jeg har lige pillet en ud til bloggen. Det handler om Putin, Egypten, valget i USA, venstrefløjen og mere - fra december 2011:
The Glazov Gang / Putin’s Power
The Guests: Nonie Darwish, Author, “Cruel and Usual Punishment” Evan Sayet, America’s #1 Conservative Comedian Olli Majoi, Political Analyst
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Author and columnist Mark Steyn talked about topics such as American culture, free speech, terrorism, the economy, and the worldwide demographic shift to Muslims. He responded to telephone calls and electronic commmunications.
Mark Steyn is a regular guest host of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, a visiting fellow in journalism at Hillsdale College, and the author of nine books: Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now (1997); The Face of the Tiger: And Other Tales from the New War (2002); From Head to Toe: An Anatomical Anthology (2004); America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (2006); Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations (2006); Mark Steyn’s American Songbook (2008); A Song for the Season (2008); Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West (2009); After America: Get Ready for Armageddon (2011).
Startes HER – åbner C-Spans hjemmeside – værten hedder Peter Slen. Varighed 2 timer og 56 minutter.
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Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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