Vi snupper lige endnu et indslag fra Wilders besøg i USA. Fox News sendte klippet den 17. maj 2012:
Compare the Koran to Mein Kampf and get charged with a crime.
Geert Wilders, author of the book “Marked For Death” talks with Stossel about “free speech” and how it’s fine for everyone just as long as no one disagrees. Unfortunately for Geert Wilders he lives in the european socilist state where such things as speaking the truth can get you thrown in jail or in his case you’ll get a bounty on your head as well as charged with a crime. This is the sort of thing that liberals want for America, it’s already the case that people like Al Sharpton can call whites ANYTHING he feels like but for a white person to do the same to blacks would be met with charges of racisim and worse.
Colin Powell on the Bush Administration’s Iraq War Mistakes
May 13, 2012 – Colin Powell
Chaos in Baghdad
On the evening of Aug. 5, 2002, President Bush and I met in his residence at the White House to discuss the pros and cons of the Iraq crisis. Momentum within the administration was building toward military action, and the president was increasingly inclined in that direction.
I had no doubt that our military would easily crush a smaller Iraqi army, much weakened by Desert Storm and the sanctions and other actions that came afterward. But I was concerned about the unpredictable consequences of war. According to plans being confidently put forward, Iraq was expected to somehow transform itself into a stable country with democratic leaders 90 days after we took Baghdad. I believed such hopes were unrealistic. I was sure we would be in for a longer struggle. Colin Powell reflects on lessons from the battlefield to the halls of power—including the mistakes of the Iraq War, his infamous U.N. speech, and the crimes at Abu Ghraib.
Stoned to death for being an emo: NINETY Iraqi students killed for having ‘strange hair and tight clothes’
Number of deaths could be even higher
Cleric calls the stonings ‘an act of terrorism’
Ministry of Interior ‘complicit’ in the killings
10 March 2012
Youngsters in Iraq are being stoned to death for having haircuts and wearing clothes that emulate the ‘emo’ style popular among western teenagers.
At least 14 youths have been killed in the capital Baghdad in the past three weeks in what appears to be a campaign by Shia militants.
Militants in Shia neighbourhoods, where the stonings have taken place, circulated lists yesterday naming more youths targeted to be killed if they do not change the way they dress.
Since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, one of the most frequently recurring talking points has been speculation as to whether there will be a sectarian civil war in the country. Throughout this winter, the media at large and numerous analysts have been quick to note incidents of mass casualty attacks, pointing to an upsurge in fatalities, particularly in the month of January.
In addition, there has been a tendency to tie the increase in violence to the U.S. withdrawal and the subsequent political crisis that entailed the issuing of an arrest warrant against Tariq al-Hashimi, the Sunni vice-president of Iraq, on allegations of involvement in terrorism, as well as a boycott of the Iraqi parliament by the main opposition bloc al-Iraqiya, which has now decided to end its boycott.
Man skal ikke tillade, at forskellige meninger kommer frem. Kun ens egen mening skal være tilladt. Ellers kan man jo heller ikke demonstrere hvor tolerant, man dog er. Vel? Dette begavede venstrefløjsfænomen dyrker man også på University of New Mexico. Men en del bedsteforældre med slaw i, syntes ikke, at halalhippier skulle ødelægge Darwishs forelæsning og gennede brøleaberne ud. Det skrev National Review Online om allerede tilbage i februar. Dengang gad jeg ikke at blogge om bataljen og det gider jeg sådan set stadig ikke. Så: det kan ikke blive til ret meget mere end video. En enkelt artikel har jeg dog fisket ud af vrimlen, nemlig Nonie Darwishs egen:
University of New Mexico Occupiers’ War on Free Speech
by Nonie Darwish on Feb 27th, 2012
In response to the resurgence of anti-Israel activities by the Arab Student Association and their left-wing anti-Israel “un-Occupy” backers, I was asked to speak at the University of New Mexico on February 23rd by the Israel Alliance group. The title of my speech was “The Dark Side Of Revolutions In The Middle East and The Implications For Israel,” which is the subtitle of my new book, “Devil We Don’t Know.”
Even though the Arab students were having an “apartheid wall” and a stop Islamophobia event on March 2nd, together with the local mosque, they urged the Israel Alliance group to dis-invite me because, as they put it, I am an Islam hater and Islamophobe. They presented them with a video of myself that was highly edited in which I spoke in a rally on the honor-killing of a woman in Florida, and I dared to blame Islamic law for the horrific murder of thousands of women annually. They did not succeed in dis-inviting me.
The full video on Nonie Darwish’s talk at UNM on Feb. 23, 2012, up to the Q&A time.
Q&A at the Nonie Darwish Talk at UNM
Here is the Q&A session after Nonie Darwish’s talk at UNM on February 23. A small amount is missing because of changing the camera battery, but it’s mostly there, and is unedited.
Dametur - Frank Gaffney indleder. Fra 10. maj 2012:
End the Shariah War on Women
Og den meget lange følgetekst – Clare Lopez dukkede aldrig op:
This Thursday, May 10th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room of the National Press Club, the Center for Security Policy launches a national public education campaign to ask America’s leaders to end the real ‘war on women’ — the Shariah War On Women. (http://www.theshariahwaronwomen.org)
Shariah law oppresses women’s liberties and human rights, denying them their unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness:
* Life: Shariah destroys women’s lives through honor killings, physical abuse, female genital mutilation, and rape. This occurs not only to Muslim women but also to Christian and secular women through acts of kidnapping, imprisonment and murder.
* Liberty: Shariah crushes women’s liberty through censoring free speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association.
* Pursuit of Happiness: Shariah punishes women’s pursuit of happiness by denying equal rights and freedom in marriage, divorce, child custody, education and employment
A panel discussion, moderated by Center President Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. and featuring several prominent civil liberties and human rights activists, will launch the national campaign to end the Shariah War On Women. Panelists will include:
Nonie Darwish: Ms. Darwish is an American human rights activist, writer, public speaker as well as founder and Director of Former Muslims United and founder of Arabs For Israel. She is the author of a new book titled The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East. She is also the author of Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror and Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. She speaks frequently at college campuses, religious institutions and civic association meetings. She is currently a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy.
Cynthia Farahat: Ms. Farahat is an Egyptian political activist, writer and researcher. In December 2011, Ms. Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the US House of Representatives on the roots of the persecution of the Coptic Christian minority in her native Egypt. In 2008-2009, she was program coordinator and program officer at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty in Cairo, a multi-national free market think tank. She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party (2006-2008) and served as a member of its political committee. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Center for Security Policy and works with the Coptic Solidarity organization.
Clare Lopez: Ms. Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, homeland security, national defense, and counterterrorism issues. Lopez began her career as an operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving domestically and abroad for 20 years in a variety of assignments, acquiring extensive expertise in counterintelligence, counternarcotics, and counterproliferation issues with a career regional focus on the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Ms. Lopez is a regular contributor to print and broadcast media on subjects related to Iran and the Middle East and the co-author of two published books on Iran. She is the author of an acclaimed paper for the Center for Security Policy, The Rise of the Iran Lobby, where she serves as a Senior Fellow.
Karen Lugo: Karen Lugo is the founder of The Libertas-West Project and in this capacity she responded to a request from French jurists to submit a brief to the Conseil d’Etat on the legal grounds for banning the burqa. Karen is also Co-Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. In this role, she directs the Center’s litigation in support of constitutional issues. She has submitted amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court on such issues as Healthcare Reform, Arizona’s Border Security, Gay Marriage, The Ten Commandments, Christian Clubs on University Campuses, and Material Support to Terrorists. She is a visiting professor at Chapman Law School and co-teaches the advanced Constitutional Law Clinic. Karen is president of the Orange County Federalist Society lawyer chapter and sits on the Federalist Society International Law Executive Committee. She is also on the board of advisors for Trinity Law School in Orange County, CA and an advisor to UK Baroness Caroline Cox’s HART US. Karen is a regular guest on the Orange County PBS local issues debate program, Inside OC, and she is a frequent contributor to RedCounty.com, FlashReport, and contributing editor to Family Security Matters. She has been interviewed by dozens of radio hosts on the matter of sharia law. Ms. Lugo is an appointee to the California Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights.
Opdatering – vi skal lige have denne med. Ikke mindre end 100.000 piger og kvinder i England har fået skåret kønsorganerne af. Åbenbart fra 9. maj 2012:
Fred Grandy on horrors of the Shariah War on Women
Center Executive Vice President Fred Grandy joined the Jeff Katz radio show for his weekly appearance. This week Cong. Grandy and “Mrs. Fred” covered the disturbing trend of female genital mutilation in the Western world and the Shariah War on Women.
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
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.
Geert Wilders & Kathleen Walter – Islam: Culture of Barbarism – 04 May 2012
From Newsmax.TV: Wilders is a critic of Islam, campaigning against what he sees as the “Islamisation of the Netherlands.” He has compared the Quran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and has called for the book to be banned. He also advocates ending immigration from Muslim countries.
There is only one Islam; this is the Islam of the holy book the Quran and the Islam of the prophet Mohammed. It’s not so much a religion, it’s an ideology, Wilders said.
Der følger en artikel med, som man kan læse her hos Newsmax. Og artikel af Wilders:
Resisting threat of fanatical Islam
West must not surrender permanent liberty for temporary tolerance
By Geert Wilders – May 4, 2012
As I write these lines, there are police bodyguards at the door. No visitor can enter my office without passing through several security checks and metal detectors. I have been marked for death. I am forced to live in a heavily protected safe house. Every morning, I am driven to my office in the Dutch Parliament building in an armored car with sirens and flashing blue lights. When I go out, I am surrounded, as I have been for the past seven years, by plainclothes police officers. When I speak in public, I wear a bulletproof jacket.
Who am I? I am neither a king nor a president, nor even a government minister; I am just a simple politician in the Netherlands. But because I speak out against expanding Islamic influence in Europe, I have been marked for death. If you criticize Islam, this is the risk you run. That is why so few politicians dare to tell the truth about the greatest threat to our liberties today. The Islamic threat to the West is worse than the communist threat ever was. Think of it this way: Politicians who warned against the Soviet threat weren’t forced into hiding, as we who speak out against Islam are.
Mere HER The Washington Times. Og tale af Wilders:
Speech Geert Wilders, Gatestone Institute, New York, April 30
Dear friends,
I am happy to be in New York again, even though in my country today it is Queen’s day, a national celebration. This is why I am wearing my orange tie.
Thank you, Nina, for organizing this event and giving me the opportunity to address all of you. It is always good to be among friends. It is an honor to be here in the presence of so many people who care for the preservation of freedom in our civilization.
It is great to be in America, the beacon of liberty, the land of the free, the land where people are still allowed to speak freely. I know what I am talking about. I was acquitted after a legal ordeal that lasted almost 3 years. I had been brought to court for criticizing Islam.
Mere HER på Geert Wilders blog. Gatestone Institute her. The Jewish Press her. OIC vil bestemme, hvad alle verdens borgere skal mene og ikke mene:
Muslims upset as Wilders promotes new book
03/05/2012
According to the largest cooperation group of Muslim countries, Geert Wilder’s new book is nothing but a repetition of his previous hate campaign against Islam, which is actually an abusive use of freedom of expression.
A spokesperson for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation OIC expressed dismay at the publication of Wilders’ new book, “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me.” According to the OIC’s website, “the new book is nothing but a repetition of Mr. Wilders campaign of hate mongering against Islam in abusing of his right of freedom of expression. Suffice it to say that his activities have been denounced and disavowed by the Dutch Government, Dutch Parliament, the European Parliament as well as the Council of Europe.”
Mere HER i Expatica. Søren Kern anmelder Wilders’ nye bog:
Geert Wilders: ‘Marked for Death: Islam’s War against the West and Me’
By Soeren Kern – April 30th, 2012
Islam is waging an aggressive war against the West; nothing less than the future of individual liberty is at stake.
The conflict is civilizational in scope and is being fought on two primary fronts: Europe and America.
The Islamization of the West is being aided and abetted by multiculturalists in Europe and America who are enforcing politically correct curbs on free speech designed to silence all criticism of Islam.
Mere HER hos The Jewish Press. Kan også læses her hos Gatestone Institute.
On GBTV Geert Wilders Sits down w/ Glenn Beck and Talks Europe, Islam, Terrorism, & America
On May 3rd Dutch Parliament member Geert Wilders sat down with Glenn Beck and talked about the state of Europe, America and the impact Radical Islam and Terrorism are having upon the world.
Marked for Death
Fanatics, terrorists, and appeasers have tried everything to silence Geert Wilders, Europe’s most controversial Member of Parliament—from putting him on trial to putting a price on his head. But Wilders refuses to be silenced—and one result is the book you have in your hands.
For years, from his native Netherlands, Wilders has sounded the alarm about the relentless spread of Islam in the West. And he has paid a steep personal price, enduring countless death threats and being forced into a permanent state of hiding.
Now, for the first time, Wilders offers a full account of his long battle against the zealots who have already slaughtered his countryman Theo van Gogh—whose killer also threatened to murder Wilders himself.
In Marked for Death, Wilders reveals: How—and why—liberal politicians, including Barack Obama, downplay the Islamic threat The systematic suppression of free speech through lawsuits, prosecutions, threats, and violence meted out against Islam’s critics The untold story: how Islamic groups are redefining human rights to suppress non-Muslims everywhere The true, bloody history of Islam’s spread throughout the world How the West can defend itself against an existential enemy determined to conquer the globe
Expelled from Britain, banned from Indonesia, denounced by the UN Secretary General, prosecuted in court for his beliefs, forced into government safe houses, and constantly threatened with death, Geert Wilders is unbowed and unapologetic. Marked for Death is a stark warning about a growing threat to our liberties written by a man who has lost his freedom—and would not see the rest of us suffer the same fate.
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:
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.
Nonie Darwish – The Devil We Don’t Know / The Dark Side of Revolution in the Middle East
A candid interview with Author, Public Speaker, and Human Rights Activist, Nonie Darwish, concerning her latest book, “The Devil We Don’t Know / The Dark Side of Revolution in the Middle East.”
Og audio. En muslim ringer ind og siger, at “profeten” var drag og homoseksuel. FrontPageMagazine skriver:
Islamic Apologists vs. Nonie Darwish — on The Jamie Glazov Show
Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio.
This week’s guest was Nonie Darwish, the author of the new book, The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time.
Artikler – Tapsons interview er ret godt:
The Devil We Don’t Know, Part I
by Mark Tapson on Apr 12th, 2012
The “Arab Spring.” The mainstream media clung to this phrase last year in their giddy haste to promote what they saw as a flowering of freedom-loving, democratic uprisings across the Arab world, for which they were eager to credit President Obama’s famed Cairo speech as partial inspiration. Instead, it unfolded with freedom-hating Islamic fundamentalists seizing political dominance, and the Arab Spring came to look more a Muslim Winter. What went wrong?
Mark Tapson: You write that “liberty and equality for women in the Middle East are closely linked to defeating sharia.” But you note that “Islamic feminism is a twisted kind of feminism that champions pride in Islamic bondage.” Can you elaborate on that?
Nonie Darwish: It is a fact that there is hardly any Islamic feminist movement. How could it be that female citizens of the most oppressive anti-women system on Earth fail to take the opportunity of the Arab Spring to change their destiny and the destiny of their daughters and granddaughters? The answer to this question is very complex and part of the larger problem of Islam itself. Muslim women are at a much greater disadvantage if compared to Western feminists who did not have to overcome death penalties, humiliation, flogging and societal rejection and isolation if they violate religious laws.
Særdeles interessant artikel af Jette Plesner Dali:
Islamofobi, racisme og 266b
I morgen den 13. april tager hele syv dommere ved Højesteret stilling til, hvorvidt der efter deres mening var tale om forsæt, da Trykkefrihedsselskabets formand, Lars Hedegaard fremsatte sin udtalelse om, at nogle muslimske mænd voldtager familiens pigebørn.
Karoly Németh, Hedegaards advokat forventer, at der afsiges dom efter kl. 12.00.
I dagbladet Politiken kunne man allerede 3. marts under overskriften “Hedegaard- og Pittelkow-tiden er slut” læse følgende udtalelse fra Mona Sheikh: “Debatten om islam og muslimer er forsvundet … Integrationsdebatten har i lange træk været styret af fremmedfrygt og islamofobi … Det faktum, at DF ikke længere er tungen på vægtskålen, at den nye regering har nedlagt Integrationsministeriet, og at man nu forsøger at forklare integrationsproblemer – som jo stadig findes – som sociale problemer, har bestemt været med til at sætte en ny diskurs.”
Mere HER hos Jette Plesner Dali. Lars Hedegaard fik mulighed for et sidste ord i Højesteret i dag:
Tale i Højesteret
13. april 2012 – klumme af Lars Hedegaard
Hæderværdige Højesteret
Min forsvarer har fremdraget de juridiske argumenter, der taler for, at jeg skal frifindes, og dem skal jeg ikke yderligere kommentere.
Jeg kan dog ikke tilbageholde en stille undren over, at nogen kan påstå, at det skulle have været min hensigt at beskylde samtlige muslimske fædre verden over for at misbruge deres børn – ganske særligt i lyset af, at jeg omhyggeligt har forklaret, at det naturligvis ikke er min opfattelse, og at jeg ikke har haft forsæt til at udbrede sådanne absurde påstande.
Læs det HER i Sappho. The New English Review har allerede oversat talen til engelsk:
Once again, freedom of speech is under attack in Europe. Lars Hedegaard’s appeal to the Danish Supreme Court will be heard April 13th along with the prosecutor’s cross-appeal seeking a higher fine. Court proceedings are anticipated to wrap up the same day and a decision is expected within a week.
On Friday the 13th, Lars Hedegaard will have his appeal to the Supreme Court heard seeking to overturn his conviction and fines under an arcane Danish law. Hedegaard is President of the Danish Free Press Society and one of three heroes of conscience in an EU Country tried for exercising free speech,the criticism of Islam. Together with the Hon. Geert Wilders in The Netherlands and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria, Hedegaard’s predicament and theirs have been captured in interviews in the recently published collection, The West Speaks. Of the trio of free thinkers, only Wilders has been acquitted of all charges. We noted this as an update at the conclusion of Hedegaard’s interview:
Hele syv højesteretsdommere skal tage stilling til hate speech-sagen mod Lars Hedegaard i morgen. Jens Gregersen informerer om morgensdagens begivenhed.
Der kommer mange videoer med Darwish lige nu, – det skyldes den nye bog, The Devil We Don’t Know. Flere ting har Darwish sagt før, men der bliver også sagt lidt nyt. Den første er kun få uger gammel, sandsynligvis fra marts i år, men videoen er udateret:
Nonie Darwish, Egyptian-American reformist, explains Islamism to infidels
Nonie Darwish addresses Republican women luncheon in L.A.
The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East
Human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle East. The powerful wave of uprisings has fueled both hope and trepidation in the region and around the world as the ultimate fate – and fallout – of the Arab Spring continue to hang in the balance. Darwish examines the ramifications of the game-changing recent revolts and the factors that will obstruct or support freedom and democracy in the Muslim world. Born and raised as a Muslim in Egypt and now living in the United States, she brings an informed perspective to this assessment of the potential outcome of the revolutions in the Middle East and what the future holds for the people and the politics of the region.
A former journalist for the Middle East News Agency, Nonie Darwish has written extensively on the Middle East, Islam, and women’s rights. She is also the author of Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Terrifying Implications of Islamic Law and Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror.
Debat om Warraqs nye bog, Why the West Is Best – A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy:
Is the West Best?
St. Francis College hosted a discussion with Ibn Warraq on his new book, The West is Best, which explores the virtues of liberal Western Civilization compared to its Islamic rivals.
The March 28, 2012 event,, moderated by St. Francis College Scholar in Residence Fred Siegel featured Mr. Warraq, one of America’s leading scholars on the Koran and author (Virgins? What Virgins?), NYU Professor and author Paul Berman (The Flight of the Intellectuals, Terror and Liberalism) as well as Sohrab Ahmari of The Henry Jackson Society, a co-editor of the forthcoming Arab Spring Dreams.
St. Francis co-hosted the event with Telos Press, Encounter Books and The New York Chapter of the National Association of Scholars.
Uploadet på YouTube den 11. marts 2012:
Hasan Mahmud – Debate with Ibn Warraq
Og en artikel:
The Casablanca Sex Shop Mystery
By Ibn Warraq – March 03, 2012
“News of the inauguration of a sex shop in the Moroccan city of Casablanca did not stir the ethical and religious controversy expected to take place in a conservative society, but it did take on a political dimension as suspicions arose over an anti-government ploy. The timing of the inauguration of the first sex shop in Morocco drove several activists to view the action as a political one aimed at embarrassing the new Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane appointed in November 2011″.- Al Arabiya News
After our tongue-in-cheek article yesterday about Morocco’s first female private detective, we could hardly believe the news reported by Al Arabiya, that a sex shop had opened in Casablanca – or maybe it hadn’t. It looked like a case for Myriam Marzak to investigate. Ibn Warraq reports.
Mere HER hos The View From Fez. Lonely Planet her, MideastPosts her.
Mange islamkritikere har ikke flere illusioner tilbage, – der er ikke nogen her i hvert fald. Geller er fantastisk i denne video. Fra 22. marts 2012:
Pamela Geller
3/22/2012 Denver presentation for “Stop the Islamization of America” book tour
Robert Spencer
3/22/2012 Denver presentation for “Stop the Islamization of America” book tour
Fra KHOW Radios The Caplis & Silverman Show. Fra 22. marts 2012:
If you missed Caplis and Silverman three o’clock hour yesterday, you missed a lot! But worry not, it is the featured podcast at www.khow.com. BTW, when Spencer and Geller were asked about military action against Iran’s nuclear program, they both said yes. When asked when it should occur, both said, “YESTERDAY!”
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 38½ minutter.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch is in studio with Peter for the Full hour. Peter and Robert discuss the history of Islam and the vast differences between Islamic and western culture and philosophy. Robert Spencer and Peter discuss Jihad in Europe, Jefferson and the Jihadist, Bush and Obama and western governments misunderstanding of Islamic law and culture, slavery and Islam and Arab Muslims slaughtering black Africans and more.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 33½ minut.
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
March 19, 2012 – By Robert Spencer
The Afghan mission is imploding, and the Obama administration is covering for Islamic jihadists. Last week, Marine officials revealed that a Marine killed on February 1 in what the Pentagon called “combat operations” at the time was actually murdered by a jihadist in the Afghan army. The cover-up of this latest jihad attack from a supposed ally is emblematic of a failed mission. It is long past time to end the mission in Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai has said that he wants Afghan forces to take control of the nation’s security in 2013, not 2014 as American officials are planning. Karzai is a scoundrel, but he is right about this, albeit for the wrong reasons. This mission is foredoomed. There is no clearly defined goal, and in any case, any goal worth reaching is impossible to achieve. There is no bringing democracy or humane values to a sharia state, and in any case, we already gave the Karzai regime a sharia constitution, so we aren’t really even trying to do anything effective for women or non-Muslims or the freedom of speech or the freedom of conscience. We’re fighting against an enemy that the vice president of the United States says is not an enemy, and that our client president of Afghanistan threatens to join. How long is this madness going to continue?
Egypt Designates Israel Its Top Enemy — Obama Restores Military Aid
by Robert Spencer on Mar 21st, 2012
Egypt’s parliament, which is dominated by two pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, voted unanimously last Monday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, and signaled that the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the past: Egypt, the parliamentarians declared, would “never” be Israel’s ally. In fact, Israel was Egypt’s “number one enemy.” And how did Barack Obama respond to this egregious trampling upon the agreement that has kept an uneasy peace between Israel and Egypt for thirty years? By announcing a resumption of military aid to Egypt.
From the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” I said repeatedly that it was not a democracy movement, as the Western press was claiming, but an Islamic supremacist takeover that would result in the creation of Sharia states that would be far more hostile to the U.S. and Israel than the Arab nationalist regimes they were supplanting. This assessment was greeted with the usual scorn: the Islamic supremacist media machine charged “Islamophobia,” on Fox Juan Williams said I was “fearmongering,” and the usual suspects made the usual ad hominem attacks. Yet everything that has happened since then has shown that the “Arab Spring” is indeed an Islamic supremacist winter, ushering in repressive Sharia regimes with the enthusiastic blessing of Barack Obama.
They hate us because we’re pigs. No, not the apes and pigs into which Allah transforms the Sabbath-breaking Jews in the Qur’an (2:62-66; 5:59-60; 7:166), but pigs as in…dogs. Wolves. Immoral, lecherous, lustful, fornicating creeps. Western immorality is a frequent feature of the Islamic critique of the contemporary West, as well as a target for the morality police of Sharia states. In the summer of 2009 Iranian authorities even published a list of hairstyles that were acceptably moral and Islamic, as opposed to “decadent” Western imports, among which were the ponytail and the mullet.
That same Western decadence is also a frequent preoccupation of Islamic jihadists. In December 2010, a Muslim named Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly set off explosives on a street in Stockholm that was crowded with Christmas shoppers, killing himself and injuring two others. His wife, who was herself later arrested for helping plan the attack, explained that Abdulwahab “disliked the decadent side of society here.”
Even some non-Muslim writers echo this critique. Dinesh D’Souza argued in his 2007 farrago The Enemy At Home that Islamic jihadists were largely motivated by rage at the West’s “social and moral corruption,” and asserted that “the Muslims who hate us the most are the ones who have encountered Western decadence, either in the West or in their own countries.”
Det hed den konference, der fandt sted i Chicago den 10. marts 2012. Jeg har plukket lidt ud – først den meget sympatiske Cynthia Farahat:
Faith Under Fire: Cynthia Farahat
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian political activist, writer and researcher. She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party (2006-2008) and served as a member of its political committee. 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 was a founder of the Masr El-Om (Mother Egypt) Party and was a member of its political committee (2004-2006). She has published in National Review, Middle East Quarterly, and in other publications in both English and Arabic. 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. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Center for Security Policy. (edit)
Næste tale med Ashraf Ramelah kan man evt. se på YouTube. Derefter Juliana Taimoorazy:
Faith Under Fire: Juliana Taimoorazy
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Juliana Taimoorazy is the founder and President of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, an organization that raises awareness about the persecuted church in Iraq and helps Assyrian Christians resettle in Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts and Arizona. Through her activism and media appearances, Taimoorazy has worked tirelessly to promote the cause of Assyrian Christians in the U.S. While volunteering for Catholic Charities, she has mentored young women arriving in the U.S. She has also volunteered with Operation Homefront in Illinois, an organization that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors.
Taimoorazy was smuggled into Switzerland in 1989 to avoid religious persecution in her native Iran. After spending seven days in a monastery in Zurich, she was smuggled into Germany where she sought asylum in the U.S embassy. In 1990 she immigrated to the U.S with the refugee status. As an Assyrian Christian living in Iran, Taimoorazy learned to be multi-lingual at a young age, and is fluent in English, Farsi, and Assyrian. She obtained her Masters degree in Instructional Design from Northeastern Illinois University. In addition to being an entrepreneur, she has also worked as a journalist for a local television station in Chicago. As a child, she would take her sister’s hairbrush and stand in front of the mirror and act as a news reporter — even before she learned how to read and write. She currently is a radio host for Nineveh Radio.
Faith Under Fire: Q+A Background Testimony on Indigenous Communities
Panel: Testimony from the Region and Background on Indigenous Communities
-Cynthia Farahat Egyptian political activist – Ashraf Ramelah founder and President of Voice of the Copts – Juliana Taimoorazy founder and President of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council
Moderator: Hon. Fred Grandy
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Paul Marshall var udmærket:
Faith Under Fire: Paul Marshall – Blasphemy, Apostasy and Free Speech
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Paul Marshall — Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Paul Marshall is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, Washington, D.C.
He has spoken on religious freedom, international relations, and radical Islam before Congressional committees, the U.S. State Department, the Helsinki Commission, INS and DHS Asylum Bureaus, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. He has also lectured in Canada, England, Israel, Cyprus, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece, India, Switzerland, Spain, Lebanon, Korea, Nigeria, Belarus, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
In November, 2011, Oxford University press published his Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide co-authored with Nina Shea
His co-edited work Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion, was published by Oxford in early 2009 and was awarded the Wilbur Prize by the Religious Communicators’ Council and given the “Book of the Year 2009″ Awardfrom the Religious Communication Association.
Marshall is the author of the best-selling survey of religious persecution Their Blood Cries Out (1997). In speeches introducing the International Religious Freedom Act in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nickles described the book as “a powerful and persuasive analysis” and an “exhaustive survey,” “which simply cannot be ignored” and Senator Lieberman described it as “the manifesto of the religious freedom movement.”
Faith Under Fire: Q+A Paul Marshall and Keith Roderick
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Paul Marshall — Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
Very Reverend Keith Roderick — Strategy for the Future
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
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:
Sun News TV er et genialt påhit. Lidt opfølgning – Michael Coren med et par borgerlige ord om Afghanistan. Fra 12. marts 2012:
Michael Coren on 16 Afghans murdered by American soldier
“The last American soldier to slaughter innocent people was a Major – a U.S. Army Major – who was a radical muslim.”
- Michael Coren
Fra 14. marts 2012:
Michael Coren on Judeo-Christian superiority
“We expect more, we expect better. No no no it’s not racism, but reality. We think of the United States, Canada, Britain, Israel with higher standards, as being morally superior, as acting in a civilized manner. And we’re absolutely right to think so, because it’s true.”
- Michael Coren
Fra 5. marts 2012:
Michael Coren on smashed war graves in Libya
How fast can we get our fighter jets back there?
Fra 5. marts 2012:
Lilley & Coren on Middle East barbarism
“It’s merely a symptom. The violence will take place for whatever reason and whatever pretext, no matter how flimsy, because there are people who want to be violent.”
“If Palestine had its own state prosperous and free tomorrow I guarantee you the violence would continue.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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