Bernard Lewis’ new book, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian, written at the age of 95, is essentially his autobiography. Since he is, above all, a scholar, much of his life has been thinking and writing. Not surprisingly, the book recounts the gestational process of a number of his major works. Lewis is the author of more than 30 books. This leads him to wonder, in 100 years, which of his works will be remembered? I venture to say that it will not be this one, nor does he mean it to be. This is a breezy, episodic, conversational book of reflections, aperçus, anecdotes, and some very sharp observations. It is what is called a “good read.” It is not particularly profound or deep. It only glancingly refers to ideas that Lewis has developed at greater length in his earlier works. He refers to them rather than repeating them, and places their development in the context of his long life.
Therefore, this is not the Lewis book with which you should begin. First, become conversant with his deep scholarship in the history of the Middle East. Then, you will no doubt be driven to know more about the man himself, and that you can find entertainingly set forth in Notes on a Century.
Mere HER i Online Library of Law and Liberty. Desuden snublede jeg over en Lewis-artikel i pdf – fra Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2003:
Et lidt ældre interview – om det arabiske forår. Der findes åbenbart kun dette uddrag:
Dan Diker interviews Prof. Bernard Lewis on the Arab uprising in the Middle East, 30 March 2011
Interessant artikel:
The Revered and Reviled Bernard Lewis
A Retrospective Of The Scholar Who Provided The Intellectual Ammunition For The Iraq War
Daphna Berman – September/October 2011
Bernard Lewis has just moved to a small apartment in the manicured suburbs on Philadelphia’s Main Line. At 95, it was time for the man the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing calls the “most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East” to leave Princeton—his home for more than 35 years—for a senior living facility known for attracting retired academics.
“I’m getting old, I’m no longer sure about dates,” he tells me in his polished British accent, though this moment of self-deprecation is hardly convincing: Our conversation reflects his uncanny ability to recollect dates, time lines and facts—both from his lifetime and several centuries before. As we talk, Lewis recalls the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 as easily as the Turkish elections of 1950. He also regales me with stories, though it is impossible to predict which millennium they will date to. One minute, it’s the Marx Brothers skits he shared with the Shah of Iran in the days before the revolution, the next, an eighth century Arabian joke about a sinful woman praying to Allah for mercy before she dies. And he speaks with eloquence, his ideas organized into complete paragraphs.
Mere HER i Moment Magazine. Man kan læse et uddrag af Lewis’ nye bog hos NPR:
Der linkes ivrigt til denne diskussion fra Sean Hannity Show, som er uploadet på YouTube i adskillige eksemplarer. The American Spectator skriver, at Williams er en snob og at Williams skylder Malkin en undskyldning. Den amerikanske justitsminister, Eric Holder, bør gå af, siger Malkin og Hannity. Williams synes ikke, der er noget galt med Obama-administrationen:
Michelle Malkin Slams Juan Williams on WH Leaks Scandal – 6/13/12
Sean Hannity show on 6/13/2012. Michelle Malkin and Juan Williams engage in a heated debate over AG Eric Holder’s appointment of so called, independent investigators into the leak of classified information by the Obama White House.
Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two U.S. attorneys to investigate leaks of sensitive national security information. In so doing, he implicitly rejected calls by some Republicans for a special prosecutor (sometimes called an “independent counsel”) detached from normal Justice Department oversight. Holder’s decision likely forecloses further debate on the special-prosecutor route. It should not, however, foreclose continued bipartisan concern over the leaks themselves, or pressure from Congress to investigate these serious breaches of the secrecy properly surrounding intelligence activities.
Mere HER hos AEI eller her i The Washington Examiner.
Iran, USA, Finland – det hele er snart et fedt. Dhimmier har ikke flere rettigheder tilbage i Finland. Sandhed er ikke et gyldigt forsvar. Fornærmelsesparathed lurer alle vegne. Så kan man nemlig altid få sin vilje. Endnu et kørt løb. Sagt før og nu igen: vi skal forlade Europa nu. Og man skal ikke tage til USA:
Finland’s War on Free Speech
by Soeren Kern – June 11, 2012
“Stating of facts cannot and must not be criminal, even if they offend someone.” — Jussi Kristian Halla-aho, Finnish blogger convicted of defaming Islam.
Finland’s Supreme Court has found a prominent politician guilty of defaming Islam for “Islamophobic” comments he made on his personal blog.
The ruling represents a major setback for free speech in a Europe that is becoming increasingly stifled by politically correct restrictions on free speech, particularly on issues related to Islam and Muslim immigration.
The Helsinki-based Supreme Court ruled on June 8 that Finns Party MP Jussi Kristian Halla-aho was guilty of “inciting hatred against an ethnic group” for blog posts he made in 2008 which compared Islam to paedophilia, and for sarcastic comments which insinuated that immigrants from Somalia are predisposed to stealing and living off welfare.
Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Tidligere blogget om Jussi Kristian Halla-aho:
FN og EU er bekymrede. Journalister and bloggere arresteres af sikkerhedsstyrker i Iran: Sahameddin Bourghani, Hassan Fathi, Farshad Ghorbanpour, Ehsan Houshmand, Fatemeh Kheradmand, Saeed Madani, Shahram Manouchehri, Marzieh Rasouli, Arash Sadeghi og Mohammad Soleimani Nia. Der er næsten total medietavshed om situationen. Halalpressen finder vel ikke, at der er noget at kritisere. Mennesker, der korrumperer den islamiske “moral”. Historien passer meget dårligt til “narrativet” hos pressefolk:
Iran arrests journalists, to execute bloggers
by Joel Gehrke – January 26, 2012
Iranian courts have sentenced two bloggers to death for “spreading corruption,” and government security forces have arrested four other journalists, in the lead-up to the nation’s March elections.
“In the past two weeks, security forces have reportedly arrested four journalists,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement, “including Shahram Manouchehri, Sahamedin Bourghani, Parastoo Dokouhaki, and Marzieh Rasouli, and Iranian courts confirmed death sentences for bloggers Saeed Malekpour and Vahid Asghari, both of whom were not accorded due process and now face imminent execution on charges of ‘spreading corruption.’”
Mere HER i The Washington Examiner. Der kan læses mere hos International Freedom of Expression eXchange Network:
Terrordømt venstrefløjser på fri fod udøver chikane imod borgerlige bloggere. Malkin om en sand galning og fænomenet swatting - forbryderen hedder Brett Kimberlin:
Who will protect the freedom to blog?
by Michelle Malkin | June 11, 2012
Free speech is under fire. Online thugs are targeting bloggers (mostly conservative, but not all) who have dared to expose a convicted bomber and perjuring, vexatious litigant who is now enjoying a comfy life as a liberally subsidized social justice operative. Where do your elected representatives stand on this threat to our founding principles?
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) bravely stepped forward to press this vital issue. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Chambliss decried the “harassing and frightening actions” of Internet menaces who recently have gone after several conservative new media citizen journalists and activists.
Mere HER i The Marietta Daily Journal. National Review Online her. The Paramus Post her. Malkins blog gik i sort i protest:
Going dark to urge congressional action: Who will protect the freedom to blog?
By Michelle Malkin • June 8, 2012
My syndicated column today covers the crucial battle between truth-telling bloggers versus convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin and his band of malicious online thugs. In honor of the National Day of Blogger Silence called by Ace of Spades, this blog is going dark. (UPDATE: See Ace’s manifesto today here. Read Mandy Nagy’s here.) But far from shutting up, I’ll be spending the day calling, e-mailing, and tweeting members of Congress, GOP leaders, journalists, and influencers to ask them what they are doing to defend the First Amendment rights of bloggers. This is a day of action, not inaction. Below my column, I’ll list some contact info for elected officials who need to hear from you. Please join us and act for free speech. Thank you.
Convicted terrorist bomber and perjurer Brett Kimberlin is free while one of his many harassment victims remains under a judicial gag order for the crime of writing about Kimberlin’s violent criminal history. It’s a bizarre situation, as I reported on “The Source” TV show with Ezra Levant.
Kimberlin and his cadre of cyber-stalkers try to bully conservative bloggers into silence. They post personal information and home addresses of their targets to send the message that “we know where you live.”
Audio: Erick Erickson har offentliggjort en mp3 af opringningen til politiet på Red State her. Man finder et interview samme steds, – ligeledes som mp3.
Video om Brett Kimberlin:
Ezra Levant on Brett Kimberlin
This dude’s name has been popping up on a lot of blogs lately.
CNN discusses the Brett Kimberlin swatting cases with Erick Erickson
After Brett Kimberlin was criticized by conservative bloggers, they were targeted with swatting. Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response team, usually by spoofing phone numbers over a VOIP system. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of such team. Such action places law enforcement and citizens at risk and are criminal actions. In addition it reduces law enforcement officer (LEO) coverage and costs taxpayer money.
Justitsmord:
GBR – Aaron Walker on Kimberlin [5-25-2012]
Blogger Aaron Walker tells Glenn Beck his story on Brett Kimberlin terrorism
Fra Fox News 1. juni 2012 – man kan følge med i en delvis udskrift her hos The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
Steven Emerson: US waging a secret cyber war against Iran – June 1, 2012
Iran: Nuclear program reportedly targeted with sophisticated super virus. Trace Gallagher, Molly Henneberg, Peter Brookes & Steve Emerson on Fox News Studio B. Virus code names: Flame, Stuxnet, Olympic Games.
Jeg vil også lige have denne lidt ældre sag med, – den er slet ikke dårlig. Fra 14. januar 2012 – John Bachman interviewer:
Steve Emerson, National Security Expert – Obama Refuses To Confront Radical Islam
“Laser uranium enrichment is so attractive that that it will be implemented — and Iran will become the test case. What must be demanded is the complete opening of the country to appropriate inspection. Anything else would be too little – much too little.” Hans Ruhle
German nuclear weapons expert Hans Rühle warned in the daily Die Welt May 21 that Iran can enrich uranium using laser technology that is much harder to detect than centrifuges. Rühle headed the German Defense Ministry’s policy planning staff during the 1980s. In a widely-discussed commentary last February 17, he argued that Israel has the capacity to cripple Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He also presented evidence in Die Welt that Iran may have tested a nuclear weapon in North Korea.
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadihejad announced in 2010 the ‘good nuclear news’ that Iran then possessed laser technology for uranium enrichment. Iran would not use this technology immediately, Ahmadinejad insisted, but his extremely positive characterization of the new technological option casts strong doubt on Iran’s intentions and suggests that Iran’s voluntary restraint on enrichment is an attempt at diversion,” Rühle wrote in his May 21 analysis.
The White House wants credit for successes but blames Israel for failures, a New York Times exposé shows
By Lee Smith | June 6, 2012
It was quite a week for cyberwarfare. First came the revelation that Iran was suffering from a virus called Flame—apparently the most powerful spyware ever created, turning computers into virtual double-agents—which has already infected at least 1,000 computers, nearly all of them in Iran, the Palestinian territories, Sudan, Syria, and Lebanon.
Det er længe siden, vi har set noget til Michael Rubin her på bloggen. Det retter vi lige op på:
Michael Rubin: Developments in Turkey — Implications for the US
Michael Rubin is Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Senior Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School.
He spoke to the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group Lunch on Capitol Hill regarding the latest geopolitical developments in Turkey and the implications for United States policy.
Og et interview:
The Future of terror: Michael Rubin interview with Intersec Magazine
April 25, 2012 – Robert de la Poer
As al-Qaeda’s influence grows, Dr. Michael Rubin tells Robert de la Poer that the Western countries must co-operate and continue to take the lead in the fight against Jihadist terrorists.
RP: Do you think there has been enough international co-ordination of law enforcement and intelligence efforts to attack the logistics and financing arms of Jihadist terrorist networks since 9/11? Who should be taking the lead in this fight?
MR: If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.
Mere HER hos AEI. Intersec her. Ytringsfrihed i Tyrkiet? Nej da:
Turkish pianist charged with insulting Muslim values
June 01, 2012
An internationally acclaimed Turkish classical pianist is to stand trial on charges of insulting Muslim religious values in comments posted on Twitter, an Istanbul court ruled on Friday.
Fazil Say has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Berliner Symphoniker, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France and Tokyo Symphony Orchetra and has served as a cultural ambassador to the European Union.
Opdatering 12. juni 2012: Michael Rubin fortæller i Commentary Magazine, at Tyrkerne har arresteret en borgmester og 2 embedsmænd, fordi de havde klikket “Like” på Facebook. Og det skal man ikke gøre med artikler, regimet ikke kan lide:
Ufatteligt, at Dershowitz kan nå alt det, manden rent faktisk udretter. Døgnet har kun 24 timer, men Dershowitz trodser tilsyneladende naturlovene. Lidt af det nyeste:
Alan Dershowitz & Mona Eltahawy square off “Egypt will only ever be a fair-weather friend”
Desuden ser man David Gergin og Suzanne Malveaux:
Fra The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference April 29, 2012, Marriott Times Square – især om Iran og Israel:
Prof. Alan Dershowitz’s speech at JPost conference
Although critics of the Helsinki mega-mosque have warned that the building will be used by the Iranian regime to recruit impressionable youths to Hezbollah, Finnish politicians have embraced the Shia mosque as a symbol of multicultural progress.
A new mega-mosque has been inaugurated in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Unlike most mosques in Europe, which cater to Sunni Muslims, the mosque in Helsinki ministers to Shia Islam.
The Helsinki mosque has been paid for by the Islamic Republic of Iran; critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group Hezbollah in Europe.
Jeg tror, jeg har forsømt Brigitte Gabriel på det seneste? Vi må have lidt opsamling – video om islamisering af USA, indoktrinering i skolesystemet, saudiarabisk infiltrering og mere. Spol 3 minutter frem:
Brigitte Gabriel in Jacksonville, FL
Brigitte Gabriel Part One. Brigitte Gabriel speaking at First Conservative Baptist Church April 12, 2012 in Jacksonville, FL.
Man kan se hele rapporten om skolebøger hos Act! for America:
Brigitte Gabriel on Why Americans Are Not Up in Arms at the Overreach of the Obama Administration
Brigitte Gabriel Explains Sharia Law and How it Works
Fra november 2011:
ACT for America founder speaks at anti-Shariah conference in Nashville, TN
Brigitte Gabriel focuses on Islamic infiltration into the American education system. This intuitive and highly intelligent lady knows exactly what’s going on in our nation today and boldly explains in detail without regard to any ridiculous political correctness whatsoever. You may be shocked to learn what is going on in our public schools today. This subject could not have been explained any better.
Fra Moody Radio 14. marts 2012 – “In the Market” hedder programmet:
Brigitte Gabriel & Janet Parshall on Sharia in America – Zombie Muhammad – March 14, 201
From Moody Radio – In the Market: Brigitte Gabriel discusses Sharia Law versus the United States Constitution, and what that means for Americans. Especially the Pennsylvania Zombie Mohammed case involving Ernest Perce and judge Mark Martin.
Brigitte Gabriel, is a Christian Lebanese-born, American journalist and author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. Gabriel talks with America’s Morning News about the debate and the unfolding situation in Syria.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 5½ minut.
Ultimo 2007, men ellers udateret. Jimmy Swaggart, Donnie Swaggart, Francis Swaggart - uploadet 7. maj 2012:
The Truth About Islam – An Interview With Brigitte Gabriel
Og en artikler:
Widespread textbook bias threatens national security
By Brigitte Gabriel & Guy Rodgers – May 14, 2012
“Sharia law requires Muslim leaders to extend religious tolerance to Christians and Jews.”
So states the school textbook World History: Patterns of Interaction (2007), published by McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin.
This false, preposterous claim is just one of hundreds of errors uncovered during a two-year research project that culminated in the report “Education or Indoctrination? The Treatment of Islam in 6th through 12th Grade American Textbooks,” released by ACT! for America Education.
Ten questions for the Council on American Islamic Relations
By Brigitte Gabriel and Frank Gaffney | March 22nd, 2012
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has launched a propaganda campaign attacking a state legislative initiative that is designed to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans, including Muslims.
That initiative is known as American Laws for American Courts (ALAC).
CAIR claims this bill would have the opposite effect — infringing upon Muslims’ and others’ right to freedom of religion. CAIR’s real motivation, however, is not to safeguard the U.S. Constitution, but rather to promote the insinuation here of Shariah, a totalitarian Islamic political-military-legal doctrine. Shariah requires and enforces discrimination against women, children, homosexuals, atheists, members of other religions such as Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians, as well as Muslims who repudiate the dictates of that doctrine.
Mere HER i The World Tribune. Næsten identisk version her hos Newsmax. Accuracy in Media her.
Opdatering: Denne audio fra BlogTalkRadio ligner dem ovenfor – Roger Aronoff interviewer:
Brigitte Gabriel on Islamic Terrorism and Why They Hate
Brigitte Gabriel, founder of Act! for America and the author of “They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It,” joins Take AIM to discuss global current events, the Act! for America conference, which will be held June 27-29 in Washington D.C., and we’ll ask Brigitte about her upcoming book.
Gabriel is one of the leading terrorism experts in the world providing information and analysis on the rise of global Islamic terrorism. She serves on the board of advisors of the Intelligence Summit, and her expertise is sought after by world and business leaders, including: the Australian Prime Minister, members of The British Parliament/House of Commons, members of the United States Congress, The Joint Forces Staff College, The U.S. Special Operations Command, the FBI, and many others.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 49 minutter.
Den økonomiske krise i Spanien spidser til. Recession, konkurstruede banker, bristet boligboble, voldsomme demonstrationer i alle større byer og mere af samme skuffe. De er stadig betydeligt bedre stillet end grækerne, men hver fjerde spanier er arbejdsløs. Ikke mindst de unge er hårdt ramt. Her er det mere end hver anden, der ikke har job, skriver Berlingske Tidende. Lidt økonomi før artiklerne om islam i Spanien:
Europe’s Worst Fear: Spain and Greece Spiral Down Together
By Landon Thomas Jr. – May 20, 2012
In a season of nightmare projections for Europe, this one could be the scariest: Greek leaves the euro currency union at the same time Spain’s banking system is collapsing.
In many ways, the market convulsion last week was a test run for those crises, as political deadlock in Greece and mounting fears over the health of Bankia, one of the largest consumer banks in Spain, converged. The credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the entire Spanish banking sector Thursday.
As investors gird for another challenging week, they will be hoping European leaders in Brussels, if not Frankfurt where the European Central Bank is based, can finally start to map out an action plan. It is not clear that policy makers have many good options.
Spanish village goes back to peseta: Residents turn to old money they’d held on to in case the euro folded
By Lee Moran – 15 February 2012
Thirty businesses have started using old currency
Spain estimated to have saved 1.7bn euros in pesetas
Jobless rate in Villamayor de Santiago above national average – with a third out of work
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Og så til muslimer i Spanien:
Spain Facing Creeping Islamization
by Soeren Kern – March 9, 2012
Laaroussi was questioned by police but refused to answer questions because he does not recognize the legitimacy of the Spanish state. According to one estimate, 75% of all babies born in Spain on January 1, 2012, were born to immigrant parents, primarily from Morocco.
A radical Islamic preacher in Spain has been arrested for calling on Muslims to use physical and psychological violence to “discipline” errant wives who refuse to submit to Islamic Sharia law or obey their husbands.
Spanish public prosecutors say Abdeslam Laaroussi, a charismatic imam from Morocco who preaches at a large mosque in Terrassa, an industrial city situated 30 kilometers north of Barcelona, is guilty of “incitement to violence against women” for “providing concrete examples of the manner in which wives should be beaten, how to isolate them inside the family home and how to deny them sexual relations.”
Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Kern har mere om islamistiske tv-kanaler i Spanien i denne artikel:
As part of the agreement, however, the ruler of Ras al-Khaimah required Real Madrid to remove the cross from the crown on its logo for all promotional materials. The president of Real Madrid dutifully complied.
The top-ranked football team in Spain, Real Madrid, has removed a Christian cross from its official logo as a way to strengthen its fan base among Muslims in Europe and the Middle East.
According to Spain’s top sports newspaper, Marca, the change was made to “avoid any form of confusion or misinterpretation in a region where the majority of the population is Muslim.”
Real Madrid says its decision to remove the cross from its logo (see image here) is simply a cost of doing business in a globalized world. But critics say the move represents yet another erosion of European culture and tradition in the face of encroaching Islam.
The problem is so grave that the United States has proposed setting up an intelligence hub at the U.S. Consulate in Barcelona to counter the growing threat.
Nine Islamists accused of planning terrorist attacks aimed at “liberating” Spain for Islam are standing trial in Madrid.
Spanish public prosecutors say the men — Salafi-Jihadists who belonged to an Islamist cell known as the “Army of the Messiah” (Ansar al-Mahdi) — sought to “free” the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish enclaves in northern Africa, from Spanish rule and thus begin the Islamic re-conquest of Spain.
Salafism is a branch of radical Islam that seeks forcibly to re-establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, which Salafists view as a Muslim state that must be reconquered for Islam.
Controversies over Islam dominated the Christmas and New Year holidays in Spain this year.
These conflicts reflect the growing influence of Islam in Spain after mass immigration from Muslim countries. They are a harbinger of things to come, especially as the Muslim population in Spain is predicted to double within the next fifteen years.
Demography, not surprisingly, is a major topic of debate in Spain. Spanish newspapers, for example, reported that the first child born in Spain in 2012 was Fatima, whose parents are Muslim. According to one estimate, a whopping 75% of all the babies born in Spain on January 1, 2012 were born to immigrant parents, primarily from Morocco.
Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Flere historiske artikler:
“The levels of anti-Semitism in Spain are among the highest in Europe,” wrote the Spanish daily, El Pais. According to a poll, presented on November 30 during the Fourth International Seminary on Antisemitism hosted at the Caja Navarra Foundation in Madrid, 52% of Spanish students declared that they would not like to have a Jewish classmate sitting next to them, and 58% of adults thought that Jews have too much power and that they are all too rich.
The organizers of the Madrid conference said they were sad an bewildered that anti-Semitism “is a problem that is often denied in the country.” The Federation of the Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) also stated that although surveys indicate that there are high levels of “hostility” towards Jews, “most leaders and media persons believe there is no prejudice whatsoever against Jews.” However, sociologist Alejandro Baer explains that the situation has become unbearable and that it is time to face the problem: “In Spain, insults, writings and slogans against Jews are considered normal.”
Is New Moroccan Government Inciting Muslims in Spain?
by Soeren Kern – December 8, 2011
Some 3,000 Muslim immigrants took to the streets in near Barcelona to protest recent cuts in social welfare benefits.
The protest, which took place on December 5 in the industrial city of Terrassa, about 30 kilometers from Barcelona, was organized and attended by Moroccan immigrants.
The size and spontaneity of the demonstration caught local officials by surprise — they had been expecting no more than 300 demonstrators — and reflects the growing assertiveness of Muslim immigrants in the northeastern region of Catalonia.
Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Baskerlandet bliver også løbet over ende af islamister, ligesom wahhabisterne har travlt i spanske ghettoer, fortæller Kern i disse artikler – den sidste har været blogget her en gang tidligere:
Videoen kommer ind på en del af de samme emner som artiklerne – fra CBN 6. februar 2012:
Under Siege? Spain Resists Islamic ‘Invasion’ – CBN.com
The Koran instructs Muslims to conquer the whole world for Islam. It happened 1,300 years ago in Spain — and some say it’s happening again… The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN
Et hyggeligt interview om Israel, USA, jura og mere. Fra Shalom TV - ser ud til at være fra 14. maj 2012:
Alan Dershowitz On Current Issues
Critiquing Peter Beinart and Middle East peace, explaining how President Obama disappointed him, and discussing Supreme Court “activism” and whether it should review “Obama Care,” Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz meets with Shalom TV’s Mark S. Golub.
Lidt udpluk af Sun News TVs seneste – fra 16. maj 2012:
Michael Coren with Clare Lopez: islamic anti-Semitism
“But it is certainly true – if you do look at islamic doctrine, law, and scripture as written – that Jew-hatred – anti-Semitism – is intrinsic, and it is so because of the example of the muslim prophet mohammad. And it began according to the historical record with his conflict with the Jews of the peninsula, which became the Saudi peninsula.”
Michael Coren with Shobhna Kapoor: Keep Omar Khadr out!
After they finish the well-deserved fawning all over Blazing Cat Fur and Five Feet of Fury (“Cat Fur! Cat Fur! Cat Fur!” may very well become the new “Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!”), Michael Coren and activist Shobhna Kapoor discuss the return of terrorist Omar Khadr to Canada and her efforts to stop it.
Fra 14. maj 2012:
Ezra Levant: Iran’s nuclear threat
Ezra Levant and John Robson discuss Iran’s race to acquire nuclear weapons and the cluelessness of those who deny it.
Ezra Levant: Kansas says no to sharia
Uploader har valgt en artikel fra Time Magazine som følgetekst – link her.
Genialt foredrag. Opdatering – udskrift hos Citizen Times her:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A Secular Spring or an Islamist Winter? – April 14, 2012
This is a brilliant speech: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a human rights activist especially for the rights of women under Islam. She is utterly fearless in her condemnation of repressive regimes and religions where the rights of dissidents, male or female are oppressed.
She was born in Somalia, the daughter of a political opponent of the ruling dictator. Raised as a Muslim, she attempted to be a devout believer but fled an arranged marriage to what initially was a sanctuary in Holland. She became a Dutch citizen and was elected to parliament from 2003 to 2006.
She left the Netherlands after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was making a film about the treatment of women under Islam. Ayaan had scripted the film and she was targeted as being the next to die.
Ayaan now lives and works in Washington DC and her current work is researching the relationship between Islam and the West. She is very interesting and critical about the failure of Western liberals to defend free speech and the rights of women under Islam.
She speaks here at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne in a talk entitled “The Arab protests of 2011: A secular Spring or an Islamist Winter?”
Videoen kan også ses her eller her hos australske ABC. Og en prisoverrækkelse – der tales tysk i starten. Leon de Winter taler efter godt 3 minutter – på engelsk. Hirsi Ali taler efter ca. 19 minutter. Vi hører blandt andet om tragedien i Norge:
Verleihung des Axel-Springer-Ehrenpreises 2012
Preisverleihung des Axel-Springer-Preises für junge Journalisten am 10. Mai 2012 in der Berliner Ullstein-Halle: Einführung durch Marc Thomas Spahl, Laudatio von Leon de Winter, Preisübergabe durch Friede Springer und Dankesworte von Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Opdatering – fandt et interview:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Protecting Women From Militant Islam
Even in democratic nations, mothers and daughters are held back from basic freedoms
By Kathleen Burke – May 15, 2012
In the United States, author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali continues her work on behalf of Muslim women and girls with her eponymous Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation. She spoke with Smithsonian about the Foundation’s mission and its ongoing efforts to protect Muslim women in this country from oppression and violence.
Could you discuss the work of the AHA Foundation, the essence of your goal and what your future plans are?
The foundation’s mission is to protect women from violence justified in the name of culture and religion. By religion, first and foremost I mean militant Islam. The violence that these women encounter is the result of their desire to be free. The freedom they seek is to pursue education; freedom to work, and most importantly, freedom to own their own bodies. To be mistresses of their own bodies, they want to choose their own mate, to choose how many children they have. In some Muslim households, this is not possible.
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Air Date: February 21, 2012
Host: Vic Eliason
Guest: Walid Shoebat
Walid Shoebat was born in Bethlehem, Israel. As a young man he became a member of the PLO and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel. He was once imprisoned in Jerusalem for enticement of violence. After entering the U.S. he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization in Chicago. In 1993, Walid studied the Bible in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam and instead he converted to Christianity. Walid has authored several books including “Why We Want to Kill You”, “Why I Left Jihad”, “For God or For Tyranny” and “God’s War on Terror”
Walid began by defining taqiyya which is the tactic of lying in order to further the cause of Islam. He noted that muruna, however, takes taqiyya a step further. It’s a stealth strategy that sanctions all prohibitions within Islam, even blasphemous and violent ones.
Vic and Walid looked at examples of how this tactic of muruna has affected our nation’s view of Islam. They include:
Last year the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, told Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular.
A devout Muslim, Mohamed Elibiary, has been named to the Homeland Security Advisory Council and has been given access to sensitive data.
According to the Judicial Watch Blog, the FBI has destroyed instructional material that characterizes Muslims as prone to violence or terrorism. Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that anti-Muslim instructional materials hurt the country’s fight against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.
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.
Finkelstein er et tågehorn. Finkelstein har aldrig ret, men sådan er det jo generelt med folk fra venstrefløjen. Sarah Montague interviewer – fra BBC 8. maj 2012:
Norman Finkelstein – Political scientist – BBC HARDtalk 2012
American Presidents have long been criticised for being too in thrall to the Jewish lobby. That American Jews influence US foreign policy and that explains America’s unwavering support for Israel.
So what happens if American Jews fall out of love with Israel? That’s what the Jewish American academic Norman Finkelstein claims is happening. He says they are now so unhappy with what Israel is doing that they want to distance themselves from the country. But then he is nothing if not controversial. He, after all, is famous for accusing Jews of exploiting the Holocaust. And his actions have so incensed Israel it’s banned him from entering the country. Could he be right and if he is what does that mean for Middle East policy?
Bernard Lewis – årgang 1916 – har skrevet en ny bog. Lewis ser tilbage på det århundrede, der gik. Spengler anmelder:
Bernard Lewis’ Stubborn Hope
In Notes on a Century, the historian is still optimistic about a ‘great civilization’ in the Muslim world
By David P. Goldman | May 9, 2012
Bernard Lewis beckons to us as if from the mists of legend. A poet-scholar, linguist, observer and sometime participant in the great events of the Middle East for seven decades, the London-born scholar belongs more to the world of T.E. Lawrence than to ours. At 95, his prose is translucent and his recollection luminous.
But Notes on a Century—his personal and professional memoir—makes for sad reading, for two reasons. The first is that we will not find another like Bernard Lewis; it is a valedictory essay not just for a remarkable man but for an epoch. No university today could train a poet capable of extracting the red thread of history from the obscure orthography of official archives, or a historian-diplomat who knows the songs of a dozen peoples in their own dialects. Part of the reason is ideological. The post-colonial-studies movement typified by the late Edward Said has ruined a field that once was called “Orientalism”—meaning simply a specialty in Near Eastern philology rather than Greek and Roman. Saudi and other Gulf State funding of Middle East studies programs, meanwhile, has made a critical stance toward Muslim culture an academic career-killer. Even without the ideological divide, though, our culture has grown too brittle to nurture another mind of Lewis’ depth.
Prof. Bernard Lewis has just published a memoir which is as much a valedictory statement of his views as a reminiscence about a remarkable life; I review it today at the Jewish webzine The Tablet. Lewis has of course been denounced from the left (by the sulfurous Edward Said) as an “orientalist,” which used to mean scholar of Semitic languages but now means “neo-colonialist.” That is an absurd charge by an incompetent and mendacious scholar, but it ruined Middle Eastern studies in the politically correct (and Arab-funded) world of academia. From the right, he has been denounced as an “Arab apologist” by Pamela Geller and as a “Pied Piper of Islamic Confusion” by Andrew Bostom.
One should be cautious about attacking Prof. Lewis, whose analysis of Muslim rage did more to galvanize Western support for the idea of a war on terror than any other single source, and who drew more opprobrium from the academic left than any other personality. His optimism about Islamic democracy ultimately was misplaced, in my view, but should be understood in context. As I wrote in Tablet:
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.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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