Audio: Michael Nazir-Ali i Dublin

Et lidt specielt foredrag her. Kristendommens betydning for Oplysningstiden. Kristne værdier. Sekularisme. Humanitærpopulister. Multikultur. Islam. Og mere:

Bishop Michael Nazir Ali’s address to The Iona Institute

The Church of England Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali gave a talk to the Iona Institute on May 9th, 2012 on the positive contribution of Christianity to law and culture and how it is now under threat from the “triple jeopardy” of aggressive secularism, multiculturalism and radical Islamism.

Bishop Nazir-Ali is originally from Pakistan and was the first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England. He was appointed in 1994. Prior to that he was Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan. He holds both British and Pakistani citizenship and from 1999 was a member of the House of Lords where he was active in a number of areas of national and international concern. He has both a Christian and a Muslim family background.

Bishop Nazir-Ali has been a visiting lecturer in a number of universities and colleges in the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia. He has travelled widely in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America. He is the author of ten books and of numerous articles on Mission, Ecumenism, the Anglican Communion, and relations with people of other faiths.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Q&A HER. Varer hhv. 1 time og 24 minutter.

To interview med Bernard Lewis

Et par udmærkede ting her:

‘Osama bin Laden Made Me Famous’

Bernard Lewis Looks Back

By Evan R. Goldstein – April 22, 2012

Bernard Lewis left Princeton Univer­sity in 1986, forced out at the then-mandatory retirement age of 70. At his farewell party, Charles Issawi, who was also retiring from the department of Near Eastern studies, delivered some remarks. “There are five ages of professors,” he said, “tireless, tiring, tiresome, tired, and retired; but for people like Bernard and me, retirement means a new set of tires and full speed ahead.”

Issawi was right: Lewis isn’t the retiring type. He has spent the years since then producing 16 books and countless articles, carried on his decades-long spat with Edward Said over the direction of scholarship on the Middle East, helped found a learned society to challenge “intellectual conformism” in the Middle East Studies Association, coined the idea of a “clash of civilizations,” became an informal adviser to the George W. Bush administration, and according to some observers, provided the intellectual firepower for the war in Iraq. Oh, and not least: At the age of 80, Lewis fell in love again.

Mere HER i The Chronicle of Higher Education. Det næste interview er i pdf-form:

Interview with Bernard Lewis

Winter 2012

In this exclusive interview with TPQ, Bernard Lewis attributes Turkey’s historical progress to the practice of self-critique and to the choice of women’s empowerment. These are also the qualities, if maintained and developed, that will ensure a bright future for Turkey, he states. Indicating that in Turkey “at the moment, the movement seems to be backwards rather than forward,” Lewis points out that Turks currently face a choice. About Turkey’s role in the Middle East, Lewis reflects skepticism but also hope, relaying the message that Turkey can indeed play a leading role in the Middle East but whether this will strengthen Turkey in the global arena or not depends on how Turkey uses this influence, to what end, and in what direction. Decisions made today, in areas such as to enable frank and critical discussion, to innovate, and to provide women with the full range of freedom will determine how the future of Turkey and of the region at large is shaped.

Mere i pdf HER i Turkish Policy Quarterly.

Andre kilder: Mondoweiss, William Yale, Brian Sandberg: Historical Perspectives, Middle East Institute, Turkish Policy Quarterly, National Review Online, Memri, ScrippsNews,

Interview med Walter Laqueur

Laqueur er årgang 1921 – et mindre interview:

Walter Laqueur: Europe – Recovery Or Collapse? – Interview

Once again, BrigGen(ret.) Dieter Farwick, Senior Vice President of the World Security Network Foundation, took the opportunity to interview the American historian Walter Laqueur, member of the WSN International Advisory Board.

By Dieter Farwick – April 24, 2012

His book “Best of times, Worst of times” (2009) mirrors his life as a critical observer of worldwide politics.

Six years ago (“The last days of Europe”, 2006) he reached the conclusion that Europe had little chance to maintain its position as a Global Player. WSN published the interview, “Many Europeans were living in a Fool’s Paradise”, with Walter Laqueur conducted by Dieter Farwick on January 3, 2007. This assessment was criticized by several American and European readers who predicted that, on the contrary the 21st century would be dominated by Europe with its political and social culture.

Mere HER hos Eurasia Review. Kan også læses her hos World Security Network.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, Truthdig,

Video, audio & artikel: Tre interview med Nonie Darwish

Fine sager her - fra 7. april 2012:

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?

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

The Devil We Don’t Know, Part II

by Mark Tapson on Apr 16th, 2012

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.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Andre kilder: Jihad Watch,

Video: Michael Nazir-Ali & Nicholas Beecroft

Ret godt interview – tilsyneladende kun et par dage gammelt. Intervieweren hedder Nicholas Beecroft:

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali- Christianity in Complexity. Rejuvenating Democracy, Identity and Authority

Videoen har en lang følgetekst:

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is one of the leading figures in the Church of England. He was the 106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15 years which made him the first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England. Prior to that he had been Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan, his country of origin where he had a both Christian and Muslim family background. In 1999 he was elevated to the House of Lords. He has a prodigious academic record with much research into the role of Christianity in a pluralistic world, Christian-Muslim relations and on the teaching of Christianity in the modern world. Now he is President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. He courageously supports Christian leadership in many parts of the world where Christians suffer persecution.

Bishop Michael really understands the state we are in the Civilisational challenges we face and has the courage to speak the truth in the face of strong social pressure to stick to the Politically Correct hymn sheet.

In this interview, Bishop Michael addresses the State of Western Civilisation; it’s strengths; what’s working really well; the challenges we face. He describes his positive vision for the future- his version of heaven on earth. He believes that we need a spiritual foundation for life and that we are living on past spiritual capital and that Christianity is essential to start regenerating that spiritual capital.

Bishop Michael says what he thinks of being spiritual but not religious- whether or not that is an evolutionary step towards towards a global post-Ethnic pure form of spirituality without cultural and historical baggage. Could it be that the C of E is the first post postmodern religion which provides a lead for the others in recognizing their common path and accommodating all- the first post-postmodern, Integral, Global religion? He sets out his conditions for that to be possible.

He says we need a shared story of who we are, what we believe, our values and history. He tells his version of that story and his own identity. He celebrates the strengths of Britain and talks about how he personally views the history of the British Empire and how we relate to that today. Clearly he sees Christianity as absolutely the central pillar of our history, identity, culture and values.

Bishop MIchael comments upon the muted Western reaction to the persecution of Christians around the world. Why do the Western Elites turn a blind eye?

How do we defend our freedoms, democracy and way of life from those who want to force their authoritarian and absolutist way upon us at a time when the pseudoliberal elite have made it at least taboo if not illegal to engage in debate and assert that Western or British values are better and in any case are our own right in our own country?

What’s needed to sort out gang violence and social decay? How do we restore the healthy authority of a parent, teacher, policeman, doctor etc?

Video: Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant, Michael Coren, Ron Banerjee, Michael C. Moynihan

Skønne Steyn er gæst hos canadiske Sun News TV - igen. Alle videoerne er fra i går:

Ezra Levant with Mark Steyn: Apr 17, 2012

Steyn still gearing up for Steynamite on April 24.

Michael Coren with Ron Banerjee

Ron Banerjee of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy joins Michael Coren to discuss the group who put up the TTC ad for mohammad’s imaginary friend “Allah,” and their alleged support for . . . drumroll . . . terrorism.

Michael Coren: Everybody Draw Mohammad

Michael C. Moynihan joins Michael Coren to discuss the threat of islam toward freedom.

Global Warming: 49 videnskabsmænd fra NASA protesterer

Der er ingen Global Opvarmning – pressemeddelelse:

49 former NASA scientists go ballistic over agency’s bias over climate change

[...] 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent the following letter asking the agency to move away from climate models and to limit its stance to what can be empirically proven.

[...] We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.

The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.

As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA’s advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA’s current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.

For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you.

Mere HER i The National Post (mit fremhæv).

The Ideology Of Catastrophe

Pascal Bruckner – 10 April 2012

A time-honored strategy of cataclysmic discourse, whether performed by preachers or by propagandists, is the retroactive correction. This technique consists of accumulating a staggering amount of horrifying news and then—at the end—tempering it with a slim ray of hope. First you break down all resistance; then you offer an escape route to your stunned audience.

As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets of Brussels to stare at the mammoth object growing before their eyes. Soon, it will pass harmlessly by—but first, a strange old man, Professor Philippulus, dressed in a white sheet and wearing a long beard, appears, beating a gong and crying: “This is a punishment; repent, for the world is ending!”

We smile at the silliness of this scene from the Tintin comic strip “L’Étoile Mystérieuse,” published in Belgium in 1941. Yet it is also familiar, since so many people in both Europe and the United States have recently convinced themselves that the End is nigh. Professor Philippulus has managed to achieve power in governments, the media and high places generally. Constantly, he spreads fear: of progress, science, demographics, global warming, technology, food. In five years or in 10 years, temperatures will rise, Earth will be uninhabitable, natural disasters will multiply, the climate will bring us to war, and nuclear plants will explode.

Mere HER hos Global Warming Policy Foundation. City Journal her.

The Population Control Holocaust

Robert Zubrin – Spring 2012

There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. This is the ideology of antihumanism: the belief that the human race is a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites endanger the natural order, and that tyrannical measures are necessary to constrain humanity. The founding prophet of modern antihumanism is Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), who offered a pseudoscientific basis for the idea that human reproduction always outruns available resources. Following this pessimistic and inaccurate assessment of the capacity of human ingenuity to develop new resources, Malthus advocated oppressive policies that led to the starvation of millions in India and Ireland.

While Malthus’s argument that human population growth invariably leads to famine and poverty is plainly at odds with the historical evidence, which shows global living standards rising with population growth, it nonetheless persisted and even gained strength among intellectuals and political leaders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its most pernicious manifestation in recent decades has been the doctrine of population control, famously advocated by ecologist Paul Ehrlich, whose bestselling 1968 antihumanist tract The Population Bomb has served as the bible of neo-Malthusianism. In this book, Ehrlich warned of overpopulation and advocated that the American government adopt stringent population control measures, both domestically and for the Third World countries that received American foreign aid. (Ehrlich, it should be noted, is the mentor of and frequent collaborator with John Holdren, President Obama’s science advisor.)

Mere HER hos The New Atlantis.

Growing Out of Poverty

A World Bank report makes clear how free markets—and U.S. leadership—have led millions to better lives.

9 April 2012 – Guy Sorman

The most significant events often escape media attention. How many would know from reading their daily newspaper or watching television that we live in an unprecedented economic period when the number of people living in extreme poverty is declining fast? According to a just-published World Bank report, the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 per day—or its local equivalent—has plummeted from 52 percent of the global population in 1981 to 22 percent in 2008. The World Bank doesn’t provide more recent data, but other indices show that the 2008 financial crisis did not interrupt this trend. For millions of households, crossing the symbolic $1.25 threshold means leaving destitution behind and moving toward a more dignified life—no trivial achievement. Moreover, this escape from poverty happens while the global population continues to grow. Doomsday prophets who warned about a ticking “population bomb” have not been vindicated, to say the least. Global warming messiahs, beware: human ingenuity proves able to cope with the predicaments of Mother Nature.

Mere HER i City Journal.

The Utter Desperation of Global Warmists

Alan Caruba – April 9, 2012

In the “glory years” of the global warming hoax, you had Al Gore picking up Oscars and Nobel Prizes (shared with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and government employees like James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies were picking up wads of cash as awards, speech fees, and grants.

The folks who conjured up the computer models featured in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports also did quite well for themselves, along with all the others who climbed on the gravy train of global warming grants.

And then in 1998 a cooling cycle set in. It was hard to hide because the weather satellite data was indisputable, but try to hide it they did. Even then, however, there was a handful of outspoken meteorologists and climatologists who were trying hard to get out the message that the perfectly natural warming cycle was over and had been replaced, thanks to—guess what?—a lower output of solar radiation by the SUN.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Is this finally proof we’re NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study

• Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
• Warming was far-reaching and NOT limited to Europe
• Throws doubt on orthodoxies around ‘global warming’

By Ted Thornhill | 26 March 2012

Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times areas as far apart as Europe and Antarctica both warmed up.

It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.

A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.

In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Totalitaristerne er i panik – The Daily Mail:

• ‘If you don’t believe in climate change you must be sick’: Oregon professor likens skepticism to racism

Og så var der den Nobelpris. Hvor bliver den af? Vi venter:

Are global climate changes caused by cycles of cosmic rays?

Cliff Harris – April 2, 2012

Ever since Henrik Svensmark explained his theory concerning the connection between cosmic rays and the formation of clouds in 1996 in Copen-hagen, Denmark, I’ve received at least 100 emails and letters on the possible ‘dawn of the cosmic ray era’ in climate science.

Earlier in March, Jerry Boyd sent me this email on cosmic rays. I found his conclusions very interesting to say the least. Here’s what he wrote:

Mere HER i Coeur d’Alene Press.

UN Global Environmental Constitution: Repressive System of Global Governance

March 20, 2012

Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws. This document has a working title of “Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development” and you can read the entire thing right here.  Work on this proposed world environmental constitution has been going on since 1995, and the fourth edition was issued to UN member states on September 22nd, 2010.

This document is intended to become a permanent binding treaty and it would establish an incredibly repressive system of global governance. This “covenant”, as it is being called, claims authority over the entire global environment and everything that affects it. Considering the fact that everything that we do affects the environment in some way, that would mean that this document would become the highest form of law for all human activity. This proposed UN environmental constitution for the world is incredibly detailed. The U.S. Constitution only has 7 articles, but the UN document has 79 articles. If the U.S. eventually ratifies this treaty, any national, state or local laws that conflict with this covenant will be null and void. This is potentially one of the greatest threats to our national sovereignty that we have ever seen and we need to warn the American people about it.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters eller her hos The American Dream.

Andre kilder: PowerLine, The Hill, Ræson, Ingeniøren, Ingeniøren, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Fox News, The National Post, The Deal, NoTricksZone, The Daily Caller, Canada Free Press, Infowars, CBS Los Angeles,

Video: Den demografiske revolution

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.

Video: Francis Fukuyama om “The Origins of Political Order” – igen

Fukuyama har en særegen opfattelse af Danmark, – vi får en ny udlægning hver gang. Islam er lidt af et tabu for Fukuyama, – der skal et spørgsmål til, før det emne kommer op.

Noget af denne forelæsning er hørt før, andet er nyt. Fra AEI den 2. april 2012 – lyden glipper et par sekunder, men bliver straks ordnet:

The Origins of Political Order

Andre kilder: RealClearPolitics,

Demografi & Homo Islamicus

Sære udviklinger:

The Myth Of Soaring Muslim Fertility Rates

It is considered common wisdom among Western analysts that Muslim countries are plagued with large families and ever-swelling masses of young people are a threat to stability. Only problem is all the hard evidence to the contrary.

By Anna Lietti – March 31st, 2012

This story starts with a myth. It is the myth that the Muslim world is uniformly dedicated to making many (too many) babies, and that this has gone on for centuries.

This mythology also has its very own Bible:  “Factors Affecting Muslim Natality,” by Dudley Kirk, an American professor of Population Studies. Published in 1965, this study embodied, scientifically speaking, the notion of a demography unique to Muslim countries that won’t transition to a family model with two children, as it did in the Western world.

Kirk’s theories have influenced this debate in a lasting way. Thirty years later, they were still inspiring Samuel Huntington in his work “The Clash of Civilizations,” where he presents his theory of an eternal conflict between the West and Islam. The demographic threat plays a central role in his thesis.

Mere HER i Worldcrunch.

Demography Is Destiny in Syria

By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi & Oskar Svadkovsky on February 6, 2012

The “peripheralism” and Malthusian underpinnings of an unexpected uprising.

Among the second wave of Arab Spring uprisings that followed Tunisia, Syria was the most spectacular “out of the blue” that suddenly arose in the face of the media and analytic community. Just days before Deraa exploded with protests last March, some analysts were still scrutinizing Syria’s circumstances and declaring the country to be immune from the Arab Spring. Nor did reporters who visited the country spot signs of a brewing storm.

In fact, throughout the Arab Spring, the media and experts repeatedly fell into the same trap of confusing the capital city with the whole country. On the eve of the Islamist landslide in Egypt’s elections various polls and informed individuals were putting the popularity of radical Salafis at between 5% and 10%. The Salafis have indeed won about 10% of the vote… but only in Cairo. Nationwide they took almost 30%, beating even those unrepentant pessimists who were betting on a Muslim Brotherhood spring. In some provinces they grabbed all of 50%.

Mere HER i The American Spectator. The Middle East Forum her. AINA her.

America’s Demographic Future

by Joel Kotkin and Erica Ozuna – January 28, 2012

Perhaps nothing has more defined America and its promise than immigration. In the future, immigration and the consequent development of what Walt Whitman (1855: iv) called “a race of races” will remain one of the country’s greatest assets in the decades to come.

At a time when anti-immigrant fervor has been building, a number of states—including Arizona, Georgia, and Alabama—have enacted draconian laws aimed at apprehending undocumented immigrants. Those laws are widely seen even among legal immigrants and long-term residents as hostile to immigrants. Indeed, newcomers are already leaving those states. This Latino exodus has been happening in once-thriving neighborhoods in Gwinnett and Cobb counties in Georgia—as shown in business closures, arrest statistics, and declining church attendance—caused both by the economy and the increased immigration enforcement (Simmons 2010). Nationwide, there has been a declining number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States, a decrease of 1 million from 2007 (Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker 2011).

Mere HER i New Geography eller her i The Cato Journal.

Muslim demographics: Pull and push factors

by Nicolai Sennels on April 1, 2012

In Denmark, 89.1 percent of Muslims vote on the Left. In France the number is 95 percent. And certainly this tendency is the same all over the West. Thus Muslim immigration is in fact the importation of votes for the Left. Therefore it is not surprising that Leftist parties are the ones that work hardest to open our borders to more non-Western immigration. They burden their own countries with weak immigrants from a less civilized culture in order to secure their own reelection. They invite people to our part of the world who have many children and are only able to manage few kinds of jobs, and who will therefore always vote for the socialists.

While our states and municipalities spend billions of Euros, Kroners and Pounds on immigrants, the rest of us have to pay more and more in taxes.

Mere HER hos Jihad Watch.

Re-Engineering Humans: An Old Solution to Climate Change

March 29, 2012 – by Ed Driscoll

It’s no coincidence that global warming took off as an issue just as the Soviet Union fell; it’s top-down centralized government’s last best hope of controlling the masses. And like other forms of totalitarian worldviews, it doubles as a religion as well, as Czech President Vaclav Klaus noted late last year:

“I’m convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature,” said Klaus, an economist by training. “That is the issue of a new ideology or a new religion. A religion of climate change or a religion of global warming. This is a religion which tells us that the people are responsible for the current, very small increase in temperatures. And they should be punished.”

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Andre kilder: Time Magazine,

Audio & artikler: Don Feder om Toulouse

Et lille interview på 5½ minut om artiklen nedenfor, “Fighting Islamophobia – While Jews Die”. Fra Radio Talk 1200 Boston:

The Jeff Katz Show Interviews Don Feder – March 28, 2012

Joins Jeff to talk about his latest column, ’Fighting Islamaphobia-While Jews Die’.

Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player.

Fighting Islamophobia – While Jews Die

By Don Feder – March 26, 2012

Fighting Islamophobia has become a cause célèbre among both the Jewish establishment and the Jewish farther-left. In the meantime, Jews are being murdered, tortured, attacked, plotted against and vilified in the name of Islam.

In the course of his killing spree in the French city of Toulouse last week, Mohammed Merah caught an 8-year-old Jewish girl by the hair, looked into her eyes, and put a bullet in her brain. Merah videotaped the atrocity for the amusement of other jihadists. He also murdered a rabbi and his two young sons.

Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA. Kan også læses her hos Sharia Awareness Action Network. Og et angreb på venstrefløjen:

Hush Rush Part Of Left’s Plot To Duplicate Conformity Of College Campuses Nationwide

By Don Feder – March 19 2012

As you reflect on the Lynch Limbaugh Campaign, now in its third week, remember: 40 years ago, Rush gave aid and comfort to the enemy, during a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 58,000 Americans.

Two decades later, his inflammatory rhetoric fueled a race riot that led to the murder of a rabbinical student and brought two days of terror on a religious community.

No, wait a minute, that wasn’t America’s most popular talk-show host but two of his more vociferous critics. But, I’m getting ahead of myself.

Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA.

Andre kilder: The Mapping Sharia Project,

Video: Robert D. Kaplan hos Stratfor

Forfatteren, Robert D. Kaplan, har fået job hos tænketanken, Stratfor. Det er der kommet lidt presse og lidt video ud af – fra 14. marts 2012:

A Conversation on Europe with George Friedman and Robert D. Kaplan

Stratfor CEO George Friedman and Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert D. Kaplan discuss the geographic and cultural forces that could existentially challenge the European Union.

Fra 12. marts 2012:

Robert D. Kaplan on Geopolitics and Journalism

Stratfor’s new Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert D. Kaplan describes how the interplay of geopolitics and journalism can enhance efforts to understand the world.

Islamistan? Det siger Kaplan – fra 16. marts 2012:

Agenda with Robert D. Kaplan on Afghanistan

Chief geopolitical analyst Robert D. Kaplan explains how a look at Afghanistan’s history and geography can offer a forecast of the country’s future.

Artikel:

1848: History’s Shadow Over the Middle East

By Robert D. Kaplan | March 15, 2012

1848 in Europe was the year that wasn’t. In the spring and summer of that year, bourgeois intellectuals and working-class radicals staged upheavals from France to the Balkans, shaking ancient regimes and vowing to create new liberal democratic orders. The Arab Spring has periodically been compared to the stirrings of 1848. But with the exception of the toppling of the Orleans monarchy in France, the 1848 revolutions ultimately failed. Dynastic governments reasserted themselves. They did so for a reason that has troubling implications for the Middle East: Conservative regimes in mid-19th century Europe had not only the institutional advantage over their liberal and socialist adversaries but also the moral advantage.

Mere HER hos Stratfor.

Andre kilder: PR Newswire, Citybizlist, FOX News,

Reservelink: Blip TV,

Video, audio & artikler: Michael Coren & Mark Steyn om ytringsfrihed

Fra 13. og 14. marts 2012:

Michael Coren with Mark Steyn: Steynamite! April 24 Toronto

While Dick Cheney may be too afraid to enter Canada, bestselling author Mark Steyn will be taking to the stage as a replacement with ‘Steynamite’, where Steyn will be taking his fearless brand of commentary and analysis to the stage for Torontonians to hear.

Ryan Ruppert, president of Spectre Live and organizer for the Cheney event said, “While we are disheartened that the Cheneys do not feel comfortable coming to Canada, we are gratified that our own Mark Steyn will not be intimidated either by protestors or government censors.” He added, “On April 24th, Mark will exercise his freedom of expression at the Metro Convention Centre with bestselling author Michael Coren.”

Tickets are available with discounted prices for earlybirds at Spectre Live’s Steynamite page.

Næste video fortæller lidt mere om baggrunden – følgetekst under videoen:

Steynamite! Steyn & Coren in Toronto April 24

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, were scheduled to do a speech in April at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. Now, six weeks away, organizers are announcing that the event has been canceled, citing security concerns.

Spectre Live, the organization sponsoring the Cheneys in Toronto issued a statement saying that the Cheney family made the unilateral decision to cancel their Toronto engagement after reconsidering fallout at the former Vice President’s last Canadian event.

In September of 2011, Dick Cheney was protested at a speech in Vancouver, where an NDP Member of Parliament threatened legal action against Cheney days prior.

While Dick Cheney may be too afraid to enter Canada, bestselling author Mark Steyn will be taking to the stage as a replacement with ‘Steynamite’, where Steyn will be taking his fearless brand of commentary and analysis to the stage for Torontonians to hear.

Ryan Ruppert, president of Spectre Live and organizer for the Cheney event said, “While we are disheartened that the Cheneys do not feel comfortable coming to Canada, we are gratified that our own Mark Steyn will not be intimidated either by protestors or government censors.” He added, “On April 24th, Mark will exercise his freedom of expression at the Metro Convention Centre with bestselling author Michael Coren.”

Tickets are available with discounted prices for earlybirds at Spectre Live’s Steynamite page.

Opdatering – fandt endnu en video om sagen. David Akin & John Robson – fra 13. marts 2012:

John Robson on the crypto-fascist Left

Og så er der audio – Mornings with Steve Austin fra 5. marts 2012:

Mark Steyn – the humourous voice of the right

Mark Steyn is a commentator, advocate for freedom of speech and critic of multicultural policy.

He was in Brisbane last week and spoke to Steve Austin.

Part two of this interview will be played next week.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 14 minutter. Og 2. del udsendt 14. marts 2012:

Mornings with Steve Austin

More from conservative commentator Mark Steyn.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 24 minutter. Næste er fra 5. marts 2012 – mest om musik og kultur. Værter Michael Duffy og Paul Comrie-Thomson:

Counterpoint

In a broad ranging conversation Mark Steyn explains why it’s better to have political leaders who don’t carry on like rock stars and he wonders why the term “ it’s a free country” seems to be slowly vanishing from the vernacular. Satirist Patrick Cook offers his observations on the body politic.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 40 ½ minut. Steyn slutter efter 32 minutter. Og fra i dag – 15. marts 2012:

Strictly Right Radio – Episode 169 (with Mark Steyn)

In this fun-filled edition of Strictly Right, Andrew Lawton and Ben Swenson give the latest update on the vetting of President Barack Obama, talk about how the U.N.’s gone too far (again), and go into a story from a Canadian Catholic school that will make you cringe. As well, bestselling author Mark Steyn returns to the program for a hilarious interview with the men of Strictly Right!

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 55 minutter. Steyn begynder efter godt 31 minutter og slutter efter 46 minutter.

Og artikler:

The Quit and the Dead

By Mark Steyn – March 14, 2012

Pamela Geller was struck by that ad The New York Times ran the other day, “It’s Time To Quit The Catholic Church“, an “open letter to ‘liberal’ and ‘nominal’ Catholics”. So she sent in her own ad, “It’s Time To Quit Islam“, an “open letter to ‘moderate’ Muslims”. Analogous artwork, same pitch, only difference being the intended target. The Times’ Senior Vice-President for Corporate Hogwash called to tell Miss Geller that – surprise! surprise! – they were way less eager to rush this one into print:

Mere HER National Review Online.

The Euro-Emperor has no Clothes

By Mark Steyn – March 4, 2012

This story caught my eye in the print edition of Monday’s Australian. I can’t find it online, but here’s the gist:

OLLI REHN, the European commissioner in charge of handling the eurozone debt crisis, has been accused of sexism for briefing male journalists while naked in a sauna beneath his office in Brussels.

Mere HER National Review Online.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, The Bert Kelly Research Centre, Australian Conservative, Institute of Public Affairs, The Spectator Australia,

Video: Salman Rushdie på Emory University

Denne post handler ikke om islam. I videoen fra Emory University fortæller Salman Rushdie om det at være forfatter. Fra 27. februar 2012:

Salman Rushdie Discusses Creativity and Digital Scholarship with Erika Farr

University Distinguished Professor Salman Rushdie and Erika Farr, digital archives coordinator in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) discuss how computers and other technology affect Rushdie’s writing and creative process. This builds on previous conversations and addresses new developments such as Rushdie’s acquisition of an iPhone and the ways in which mobile computing has an impact on his work. In addition, given Rushdie’s work on his memoir and his use of his paper and digital archives in MARBL, the discussion turns to the ways in which archival science and archival access changes the way he uses his own archives.

Og et lille interview:

Salman Rushdie Weighs In on the Oscars, the G.O.P. Presidential Race, and That Unmentionable Socialite in “Page Six”

By Evan Mulvihill – February 23 2012

“The word ‘mogul’ actually comes from ‘Mughal,’” curator William Dalrymple explained to Vanity Fair last night at the opening of his new exhibit, “Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857,” at the Asia Society in New York City. “When you consider an Oscar-winning Hollywood mogul, unthinkingly you’re coming across a word that started off with an Indian dynasty, which was so redolent of power and luxury that even to this day, people who have never heard of Mughal use the word to describe power, like Harvey Weinstein.”

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Andre kilder: GlobalAtlanta, The Chronicle of Higher Education,

Gendercide

Syge kulturer:

The Global War Against Baby Girls

Nicholas Eberstadt – Fall 2011

Over the past three decades the world has come to witness an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sex-selective feticide, implemented through the practice of surgical abortion with the assistance of information gained through prenatal gender determination technology. All around the world, the victims of this new practice are overwhelmingly female — in fact, almost universally female. The practice has become so ruthlessly routine in many contemporary societies that it has impacted their very population structures, warping the balance between male and female births and consequently skewing the sex ratios for the rising generation toward a biologically unnatural excess of males. This still-growing international predilection for sex-selective abortion is by now evident in the demographic contours of dozens of countries around the globe — and it is sufficiently severe that it has come to alter the overall sex ratio at birth of the entire planet, resulting in millions upon millions of new “missing baby girls” each year. In terms of its sheer toll in human numbers, sex-selective abortion has assumed a scale tantamount to a global war against baby girls.

Mere HER i The New Atlantis. Se eventuelt også:

• VG: En norsk studie avslører at indisk-norske kvinner føder unormalt mange guttebarn. Forskerne tror jentefostre blir bevisst valgt bort.

Opdatering 28. marts 2012 – der kommer lige lidt om underbefolkning her:

The Islamic World’s Quiet Revolution

Forget politics. Muslim countries are poised to experience a new wave of change — but this time it’s all about demographics.

By Nicholas Eberstadt | March 9, 2012

Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.

Throughout the ummah (the Arabic term for the global Muslim community), the average number of children born to women is falling dramatically. (Apoorva Shah and I examine the evidence in detail here.) According to the UN’s Population Division, all Muslim-majority countries and territories witnessed fertility declines over the past three decades. To be sure, in some extremely high-fertility countries of sub-Saharan Africa (think Sierra Leone, Mali, Somalia, and Niger), declines have been modest. And in the handful of Muslim countries where a fertility transition had already brought childbearing down to around three births per woman by the late 1970s (think Soviet Kazakhstan), subsequent declines have also been limited. But in the great majority of the rest, declines in the total fertility rate have been jaw-dropping.

Mere HER i Foreign Policy.

The global fertility implosion

David Brooks – March 12, 2012

When you look at pictures from the Arab Spring, you see these gigantic crowds of young men, and it confirms the impression that the Muslim Middle East has a gigantic youth bulge — hundreds of millions of young people with little to do. But that view is becoming obsolete. As Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah of the American Enterprise Institute point out, over the past three decades, the Arab world has undergone a little noticed demographic implosion. Arab adults are having many fewer kids.

Mere HER i Times Union.

Andre kilder: AEI, AEI, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Trumpet, LifeSiteNews, Mitu Khurana, ABC News, CNS News, The Blaze, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, Foreign Policy, The Global Post, The Daily Mail, The Guardian,

Sappho & Trykkefrihedsselskabet – artikler og arrangementer

Carsten Niebuhr – islamapologiens danske grundlægger

29. februar 2012 – artikel af Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen

1700-tallets danske arabist Carsten Niebuhr er en berømmet pionér inden for sit felt og har lagt navn til et helt institut. Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen har genlæst hans lovpriste beskrivelse fra Arabien, og hun er ikke imponeret. Hendes vurdering repræsenterer en radikalt ny måde at betragte det berømte værk på: Niebuhrs skildring er et videnskabeligt misfoster, en politisk tåbelighed og en psykologisk gåde. Læs hendes opgør med Niebuhrs ikonstatus.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Sappho-prisen 2012 til Olga Romanova

1. marts 2012

Den russiske dissident, Olga Romanova [...] modtager Sappho-prisen d. 31. marts; Ruslands-kender og redaktør på Weekendavisen, Anna Libak [...], motiverer den.

Prisoverrækkelsen finder sted lørdag, d. 31. marts kl. 15:30 i forlængelse af Trykkefrihedsselskabets generalforsamling.

Mere HER hos Trykkefrihedsselskabet.

Sam Solomon – shariatilhængeren, der blev kristen forkynder

02. marts 2012 – klumme af Katrine Winkel Holm

Katrine Winkel Holm om den farverige eks-muslim Sam Solomon, der senere på måneden kommer til Danmark.

Mere HER i Sappho. Man kan tilmelde sig arrangementet hos Islamkritisk Netværk i Folkekirken HER.

Desuden link til denne uges sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels og Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto:

• Sharia-toppen
• Udkigsposten

Video: Michael Coren & Phyllis Chesler om æresdrab

Udmærket interview fra 29. februar 2012:

Michael Coren with Phyllis Chesler: 91% of honour killings by muslims

Chesler og Coren fra december 2011 kan ses her:

• Video: Phyllis Chesler & Michael Coren

Og artikel:

Why Multiculturalism Is Racism

“The worm inside the doctrine of multiculturalism is the lie that all cultures are worthy of equal respect and equally embracing of individual freedom and democracy.” – Dr. Salim Mansur

by Phyllis Chesler – February 17, 2012

Dr. Salim Mansur’s new book Delectable Lie: A Liberal Repudiation of Multiculturalism has been positively reviewed and endorsed by a handful of mainly conservative reviewers and distinguished intellectuals.

In my opinion, the book has been underestimated. It is a real gem. And, despite a recent spate of other important books on this subject, including Ibn Warraq’s Why the West Is Best, Mansur’s work is unique. Mansur gives us very valuable information about the history of multiculturalism in Canada, which is important because Canada — where Mansur lives, writes, and teaches — may well be the very first Western democracy to have legally enshrined this policy. We learn, up close, what that policy has done.

Mere HER hos PJ Media. Arutz Sheva her.

Opdatering - fra 7. februar 2012:

Ezra Levant: What the fatwa?

Salma Siddiqui, former president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, joins Ezra Levant to discuss Syed Soharwardy and the street theatre fatwa issued by Canadian imams against honour killing and definitely for consumption by gullible liberals.

Opdatering 3. marts 2012:

A Liberal vs. Multiculturalism: An Interview with Salim Mansur

A dissident Muslim confronts the Sharia apologists.

by Phyllis Chesler – March 2, 2012 – 9:40 am

Recently, PJM sat down with professor and author Salim Mansur, whose latest book I reviewed here.

In this interview, Salim describes himself as a “Muslim dissident” and he challenges all those who describe themselves as “moderate” Muslims. Unlike many “moderate” Muslims, Salim is opposed to a shariah-compliant nation and believes that religion and state must be separate in order for modernity, human rights, scientific inquiry, and democracy to flourish. He says so, below, in his own words. He also has strong words to say about immigration and Canada’s multicultural policy. Born in Calcutta, India, Salim arrived in Canada in the spring of 1974.

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Andre kilder: Arutz Sheva, Middle East Quarterly,

Audio: Mark Durie om muslimer i Vesten

Meget flot foredrag her fra The Middle East Forum den 18. januar 2012:

Opdatering – nu også som video:

Mark Durie – Muslims in the West: Loyal to Whom?

Muslims in the West: Loyal to Whom?

Mark Durie is a theologian, human rights activist and pastor of an Anglican church. He has published many articles and books on the language and culture of the Acehnese, Christian-Muslim relations and religious freedom. A graduate of the Australian National University and the Australian College of Theology, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, MIT, UCLA and Stanford, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992. On January 18, he spoke to the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 Time. Der følger en artikel med, som kan læses her.

Video: Hans Rosling & Bill Gates

Spol 17 minutter frem – indledningen er ikke til at holde ud at høre på. Roslings foredrag rummer ikke meget nyt – Gates starter efter ca. 32 minutter:

Bill Gates & Hans Rosling launch Global Poverty Ambassadors

On January 25th, the Global Poverty Project hosted Hans Rosling and Bill Gates at the London School of Economics to launch Global Poverty Ambassadors in partnership with The Co-Operative.

PBS NewsHour har lavet et portræt af Rosling, som er noget banalt – 10 minutter på YouTube her. Og artikel – ret interessant:

Global Poverty Act is Back: Is Bill Gates the World’s Richest Useful Idiot?

January 5, 2012 – Tom DeWeese

He might be a whiz kid at creating computer software, but beyond that Bill Gates has proven time and again that he hasn’t a clue about why or how freedom works.

He constantly teams up with anti-free market types like the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to produce “educational programs” in his software packages, misdirecting unsuspecting children with political propaganda. In 2002 he gave the NWF $600,000 worth of software to help these environmental radicals run their programs to block the drilling of American oil. Apparently Gates doesn’t understand that he needs oil to create power to run computers. Most recently his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $3 million to eight universities to reinvent the flush toilet. Environmentalists call that device “one of the world’s most destructive habits.”

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Video: Michael Coren og Tarek Fatah om Salman Rushdie & Ezra Levant om Omar Khadr

Det står helt klart nu, at vi skal vælge imellem ytringsfrihed og multikultur. Så derfor: støt aldrig multikultur. Stem med fødderne. Fjern jeres børn fra multikulturelle børnehaver, skoler etc. Find en anden grønthandler, en anden tandlæge. Og husk: hudfarver spiller ingen rolle. Folk må have alle de farver, det skal være. Det handler alene om hvilket politisk og religiøst menneskesyn, man står overfor. Jeg finder eksempelvis det islamiske mennskesyn afskyeligt i så godt som alle varianter:

Coren & Fatah on Salman Rushdie’s ban

Michael Coren & Ezra Levant on Omar Khadr