Mark Steyn om Geert Wilders

Steyn har skrevet forordet til Wilders’ nye bog:

The Spirit of Geert Wilders

By Mark Steyn – May 14, 2012

A foreword to Wilders’ Marked for Death.

When I was asked to write a foreword to Geert Wilders’ new book, my first reaction, to be honest, was to pass. Mr. Wilders lives under 24/7 armed guard because significant numbers of motivated people wish to kill him, and it seemed to me, as someone who’s attracted more than enough homicidal attention over the years, that sharing space in these pages was likely to lead to an uptick in my own death threats. Who needs it? Why not just plead too crowded a schedule and suggest the author try elsewhere? I would imagine Geert Wilders gets quite a lot of this.

And then I took a stroll in the woods, and felt vaguely ashamed at the ease with which I was willing to hand a small victory to his enemies. After I saw off the Islamic enforcers in my own country, their frontman crowed to The Canadian Arab News that, even though the Canadian Islamic Congress had struck out in three different jurisdictions in their attempt to criminalize my writing about Islam, the lawsuits had cost my magazine (he boasted) two million bucks, and thereby “attained our strategic objective — to increase the cost of publishing anti-Islamic material.” In the Netherlands, Mr. Wilders’ foes, whether murderous jihadists or the multicultural establishment, share the same “strategic objective” — to increase the cost of associating with him beyond that which most people are willing to bear. It is not easy to be Geert Wilders. He has spent almost a decade in a strange, claustrophobic, transient, and tenuous existence little different from kidnap victims or, in his words, a political prisoner. He is under round-the-clock guard because of explicit threats to murder him by Muslim extremists.

Mere HER i National Review Online. AINA her.

• Desuden kan man se et ret godt interview med Wilders hos The Daily Caller her.

Andre kilder: The Guardian,

David P. Goldman om Bernard Lewis

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.

Mere HER i The Tablet.

Opdatering – Spengler har lidt mere om bogen:

Bernard Lewis’ Valediction

May 9, 2012 – by David P. Goldman

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:

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

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,

Video: Robert Spencer, Bruce Thornton, David Goldman, Daniel Pipes, Jamie Glazov, Ward Connerly, Victor Davis Hanson

The Retreat – fra David Horowitz Freedom Center 30. marts – 1. april 2012:

Losing the Middle East

Ward Connerly

Victor Davis Hanson

På Blip TV kan man se flere videoer fra arrangementet: Congressman Mike Rogers, Senator Ron Johnson, The 2012 Elections: Jay Cost, Martha Zoller, Pat Caddell and Brian Calle, The 2012 Elections Q&A, Hollywood and the Culture Wars: Dwight Schultz, Michael Walsh, Jeremy Boreing, Bill Whittle, Mark Tapson, Hollywood and the Culture Wars Part 2, Hugh Hewitt – Part 1, Hugh Hewitt – Part 2, Daniel Henninger – Part 1, Daniel Henninger – Part 2, Ed Royce, Ben Horowitz: The Economy and Technology, Jim Gilliam: The Economy and Technology,

Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, FrontPageMagazine, David Horowitz Freedom Center,

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,

Video & artikler: Daniel Pipes – status i Mellemøsten

Fra Christian Solidarity International i Bern i Svejts 7. marts 2012. Etnisk udrensning af Mellemøstens kristne, jøder og andre mindretal:

Daniel Pipes – Religious Minorities in an Increasingly Intolerant Middle East

Daniel Pipes, a historian and president of Middle East Forum, speaks at a CSI seminar on the future of religious minorities in the Middle East. Pipes warns that persecution of Christians in the Middle East is “acquiring genocidal characteristics.”

PR Newswire har en artikel om foredraget i ovenstående video:

• Daniel Pipes: Religious Persecution in Islamic Middle East “Acquiring Genocidal Characteristics”

Og fra en høring i Israel om det arabiske “forår”:

Daniel Pipes – Middle Eastern Upheavals and Immigration to Israel – March 14, 2012

Hearing in Israel – Danny Danon – Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs. Article in The Jerusalem Post

Q&A:

Fra 6. marts 2012:

Michael Coren & Daniel Pipes: Israel vs Iran

Pipes om en march, der løb ud i sandet:

Israel’s Enemies Unite for March to Jerusalem

Der følger en artikel med, som man kan læse her:

Israeli Security Halts Skirmishes on ‘March to Jerusalem’,

By Chris Mitchell – April 01, 2012

Israeli security forces battled Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem Friday, with reports of one Palestinian killed and dozens wounded.

The clashes came during demonstrations marking Land Day and the Global March on Jerusalem. Palestinians and Israeli Arabs hold the annual event to protest Israel’s land policies.

Mere HER hos CBN News.

Daniel Pipes & Zuhdi Jasser diskuterer – artikler fra begge på Daniel Pipes’ hjemmeside:

Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction

by Daniel Pipes – February 25, 2012

Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunisia:

Since the end of the cold war, many Americans have a sense of being so strong, they don’t need to think about their own security but can afford to focus on the immediate humanitarian concerns of others. This leads to a sentimental U.S. foreign policy of “war as social work” in which the welfare of peoples with an admittedly wretched record as American allies (Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians) can trump national interests. In fact, American interests often diverge from those of Middle Easterners. For example, as I put it six years ago, “when Sunni terrorists target Shiites and vice-versa, non-Muslims are less likely to be hurt.”

Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes. Zuhdi Jasser er lige blevet udpeget til The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The Investigative Project on Terrorism har en artikel om det:

• Jasser’s Appointment Riles Islamists

Andre kilder: Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, The Examiner, The Washington Times, The Washington Times, Family Security Matters, MarketWatch, The National Interest,

Reservelink (Hearing in Israel) her.

Video: Pamela Geller, Michael Coren & BBC Panorama om æresdrab

Kulturberigelse med vold, mord og alt til islam hørende:

White honour killing victim in UK

Pam Geller’s Dearborn human rights conference

Fra 19. marts 2012:

Panorama: Britain’s Crimes Of Honour

BBC’s Panorama documentary on honour killing in Britain. This is the entire report.

Artikler:

Is this Britain’s first white honour killing victim? The happy but headstrong girl, 17, whose love across the racial divide had a tragic end

By Jane Corbin – 16 March 2012

Laura Wilson, 17, had a baby by an Asian man, Ishaq ‘Zac’ Hussein, a 20-year-old

Laura Wilson was just 17 years old — a happy but headstrong girl whose love story across the racial divide would have a tragic ending.

‘She was feisty — if she had anything to say she would speak out,’ her mother Margaret says, as she showed me a picture of a smiling, mischievous teenager.

Laura’s Asian boyfriend, Ashtiaq Ashgar, also 17, was born in Britain but when Laura challenged his family’s traditional cultural values by confronting them with details of their relationship, she had to be silenced.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

‘Honour’ violence is acceptable, say one in five young British Asians

By Leon Watson – 19 March 2012

A large number of young British Asians support violence against women who ‘dishonour’ their families, a Panorama investigation will claim today.

The hard-hitting BBC documentary reveals more than two thirds of Asians between the ages of 16 and 34 say communities should live according to ‘honour’ or ‘izzat’.

Research carried out for the show found nearly one in five – 18 per cent – said certain acts thought to shame families were justification for violence.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

‘Honour code’ supported by young Asians, poll says

19 March 2012

Two-thirds of young British Asians agree that families should live according to the concept of “honour”, a poll for BBC Panorama suggests.

Of 500 young Asians questioned, 18% also felt that certain behaviour by women that could affect her family’s honour justified physical punishment.

These included disobeying their father, and wanting to leave an existing or prearranged marriage.

Mere HER hos BBC.

Andre kilder: The Telegraph, Atlas Shrugs, Diana West, The Commentator, Christian Concern, BBC,

Sappho om præsident Obama, feminister og mere

Den engelske version af Ibrahim’s artikel kan læses her hos Stonegate Institute eller her hos The Middle East Forum:

Obama: Islams søn

05. marts 2012 – klumme af Raymond Ibrahim

Præsident Obama er kristen, men hans handlinger tyder på, at hans sande loyalitet ligger et andet sted, skriver Raymond Ibrahim.

Mere HER i Sappho.

En kvindehistorie

08. marts 2012 – klumme af Lars Hedegaard

Drabelige kampe om absolut kønsenshed optager vore dages feminister – udbredelsen af sharia-love for muslimske medsøstre lader dem kolde.

Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til:

• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto

Audio: David P. Goldman hos Middle East Forum

Opdatering – nu også i videoform:

Audio-version:

Islamic Civilization is Dying

A briefing by David P. Goldman

November 15, 2011

Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 11 minutter.

Der følger en artikel med:

Islamic Civilization is Dying

A briefing by David P. Goldman – November 15, 2011

David P. Goldman is best known for his “Spengler” column at Asia Times Online, which draws a million readers a month. He headed global bond research for Bank of America as well as other Wall Street research groups. Trained in music theory as well as economics at City University of New York and the London School of Economics respectively, he has written extensively on music, mathematics, religion, and the cultural heritage of the West, in Forbes, The Tablet, First Things, and Pajamas Media. Mr. Goldman addressed the Middle East Forum in New York on November 15, 2011.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum, hvor man også kan høre audioen fra hjemmesidens player.

Bruce Bawer om Norge, Sverige, Afghanistan og mere

Herlig humor:

Norway’s ‘Beloved’ Terrorist Heads Back to Iraq

January 9, 2012 – Bruce Bawer

How time flies! It seems only yesterday that we folks in Norway first heard the name Mullah Krekar. The sometime leader of Ansar al-Islam — which narrow-minded individuals insist on calling a terrorist organization, but which I prefer to think of as a heavily armed, Koran-toting Iraqi version of Rotary or the Knights of Columbus — the charismatic Krekar has long since become every (well, not quite every) Norwegian’s lovable grandpa. Now, after many years in Norway, he has announced that he will soon be leaving us and returning to Iraq, where he will continue to pursue the task to which he has consecrated his life: that of serving his God.

And oh, how many ways there are to serve God! Ansar al-Islam, according to the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, has “burned down girls’ schools and beaten and killed women for not wearing the burqa.” Human Rights Watch notes that under its previous name, Jund al-Islam, Krekar’s industrious associates took over villages in which they required, among other things, “the obligatory closure of offices and businesses during prayer time and enforced attendance by workers and proprietors at the mosque during those times; the veiling of women by wearing the traditional ‘abaya; obligatory beards for men; segregation of the sexes; barring women from education and employment; the removal of any photographs of women on packaged goods brought into the region; the confiscation of musical instruments and the banning of music both in public and private; and the banning of satellite receivers and televisions.” The Lord’s work never ends!

Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her i FrontPageMagazine.

Norwegian Schools Preach the Wonders of Niqab

January 10, 2012 – Bruce Bawer

The news came three days before Christmas:

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that the Department of Defense will now allow Muslim and Sikh students participating in Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) to wear headscarves and turbans while in uniform.

When I read this, the first thing I thought was: What?! And the second was: Since when does CAIR make announcements on behalf of the Department of Defense?

The background was as follows: a Muslim girl in Tennessee was told by her JROTC commanding officer that she could not wear her headscarf, or hijab, in a homecoming parade. She contacted CAIR, which in turn contacted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, asking for a change in policy. And instead of informing CAIR that the Department of Defense does not take its marching orders from fronts for terrorist organizations, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Larry Stubblefield fell right into line, writing a letter to CAIR assuring that henceforth JROTC policy would be different.

Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her i FrontPageMagazine.

A Thumbs-Up for Gender Apartheid in Sweden

January 18, 2012 – Bruce Bawer

The other day I wrote about a young Muslim woman in Norway who wears a niqab — a veil that covers everything except the eyes — and who’s busy these days giving talks at Norwegian schools about her religion and her choice of outerwear.

Now, just across the border in Sweden, that country’s version of the Department of Education, which is called Skolverket (and which in English labels itself the Swedish National Agency for Education), has sent down a ruling about the role of niqab in Swedish schools. This ruling is a response to new legislation as well as to a decision by Sweden’s Discrimination Ombudsman, which in turn came in response to a complaint by an adult student in Stockholm who cried prejudice a couple of years back when she was told to take off her niqab in class.

Skolverket’s decision, interestingly, has been represented by the Swedish media in different ways — indeed, in two more or less antithetical ways. On the one hand, Dagbladet begins its report as follows: “Students’ right to wear veils in schools has long been a hot question. Now Skolverket has ruled that full-covering veils may be forbidden in certain situations.” Dagbladet goes on to quote Skolverket’s guidelines to the effect that niqab can be banned in lab or shop classes, in which there may be safety issues, or when the niqab “significantly impedes the interaction between teachers and students.” Skolverket leaves it up to teachers to decide when there’s a problem.

Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her i FrontPageMagazine.

‘Urinegate’ Spurs Anti-American Hysterics

by Bruce Bawer on Jan 17th, 2012

Anti-Americanism is, of course, as European as Apfelstrudel.  But over the last few years it’s rollercoastered like the stock market.  The invasion of Iraq sent it skyrocketing.  It was muted somewhat by the election of a black man as President of the United States.  (That Americans, whom Europeans are taught to think of as incurable racists, had done such a thing rendered some veteran America-bashers temporarily mute.)  But European anti-Americanism has never entirely gone away, and the troubles America has been through of late have been the occasion for much Schadenfreude, especially given that they’ve provided a pleasant distraction from Europe’s own even more formidable problems.

Still, it wasn’t until I ran across an article the other day in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet that I realized European anti-Americanism, thanks to Urinegate, is once again in full bloom.  The article, written by somebody named Asbjørn Svarstad, begins by noting that the American soldiers who filmed themselves urinating on dead Taliban members may not be the first GIs to have behaved in such a manner.  “American commandos who were dropped over Snåsa [in northern Norway] toward the end of World War II,” writes Asbjørn Svarstad, “are suspected of having displayed the same kind of contempt for their enemies.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Tyrkiet fængsler journalister

Tyrkerne er så klodsede. I EU har man længe holdt pressen nede ved hjælp af økonomiske tilskud. Det hedder i reglerne, at medier, der modtager støtte, ikke må kritisere EU og at de skal arbejde for multikultur. Og det virker. Senest lykkedes det at føre hele kontinentet bag lyset, da islamisternes magtovertagelser i Mellemøsten blev kaldt “arabisk forår”. Ingen ved sine fulde fem vil nu om dage kalde sig velorienteret, bare fordi man læser europæiske aviser. I gruppen, “ved sine fulde fem”, har jeg ikke medregnet politikere, selvfølgelig ikke. Men altså: tyrkerne kører løs med straf, fængsel, retssager og et større cirkus:

Subtergenekon and Other Crimes

In Turkey, alleged terrorism requires a brand-new vocabulary.

3 January 2012 -  Claire Berlinski

George Orwell’s greatest act of genius was the invention of Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of “Ingsoc,” or English Socialism. Explaining the nature of a mass trial in Turkey likewise requires the construction of a language all its own. Of late, journalists’ trials have received particular notice in the foreign press, but only because the arrest of journalists excites other journalists. In fact, early-morning raids, mass arrests, detentions without trial, and mass trials are a common feature of the Turkish landscape—for academics, students, suspected members of the so-called KCK (the urban wing of the terrorist Kurdish group PKK), lawyers of suspected members of the KCK, heads of soccer teams and their associates, members of parliament, generals, admirals, and an indeterminate number of unfortunates who just got sucked up in the vacuum.

Mere HER i City Journal.

Andre kilder: Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, BBC,

Opdatering 14. marts 2012 fra Stonegate Institute:

Journalists Freed After 375 Days Behind Bars

Four Turkish journalists detained on charges of links to an underground anti-government network were released Monday afternoon.

Oversigt over konflikter mellem shia ~ sunni

Glimrende initiativ:

Overviewing Shi’a-Sunni Conflicts

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – December 2, 2011

As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the “Arab Spring,” it is worth examining the nature of Shi’a (Shiite) -Sunni relations in the Middle East. Indeed, commentators such as Patrick Cockburn have been warning that “since the start of the Arab uprisings this year, Shi’a-Sunni hostility has deepened again wherever the two communities seek to live side by side.”

To discuss this issue, a country-by-country survey is useful wherever there are significant Shi’a-Sunni divides in the population.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Arutz Sheva, - også kaldet Israel National News.

Video: Caroline Glick om Iran og Israel

En militær indsats overfor iranerne er det eneste rationelle valg. Og det haster. Uploadet på YouTube den 19. november 2011:

Caroline Glick: Stopping Iran

Caroline Glick addressed the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill. She discussed the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear weapons installations.

Desuden denne audio fra Radio 720 WGN. Programmet hedder ”Extension 720″ og er fra The Milt Rosenberg Show den 20. november 2011:

OBS: Findes nu også i YouTube-version: Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6.

The State of Israel

Carolyn Glick, managing editor of “The Jerusalem Post” discusses the state of Israel in the World, focusing on its relations with the United States.

Stares HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 25 minutter.

Andre kilder: Atlas Shrugs,

Jamie Glazov interviewer David P. Goldman – the horrors to come

Om Goldmans nye bog:

How Civilizations Die

by Jamie Glazov on Nov 14th, 2011

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is David P. Goldman, the author of the new book, How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too), which Regnery brought out this fall. After 9/11, Goldman began writing weekly essays at Asia Times Online under the byline “Spengler.” At the time he directed a research group at Credit Suisse, and afterward ran fixed income research for Bank of America. After joining the masthead of First Things magazine early in 2009, he revealed his identity and devoted himself to writing, mainly on politics and strategy, but also publishing essays on religion, classical music, literature and mathematics. He left First Things early in 2011 to write his book.

FP: David P. Goldman, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Let’s begin with what inspired you to write this book.

Goldman: Thanks Jamie.

It was 9/11 and the aftermath. I’m an old Cold Warrior; I consulted for Norman A. Bailey, the head of planning at NSC in the first Reagan administration. We were playing a deadly global chess game with a fairly rational opponent; when the Russians knew they were beaten, they caved.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Daniel Greenfield venstrefløjen, miljø og diktatur

Jeg skal lige have nogle af Daniel Greenfields seneste artikler med:

The Left’s Worst Crime in the Middle East

by Daniel Greenfield on Oct 27th, 2011

The left’s worst crime in the Middle East has been its support for the region’s Arab-Muslim majority at the expense of its minorities. It has supported the majority’s terrorism, atrocities, ethnic cleansing and repression of the region’s minorities. Very rarely has it raised a voice in their support, and even then only in muted tones completely different from their vigorous defense of the nationalism of the Arab Muslim majority.

The left is obsessed with the Arab Spring, which rewards the ambitions of Arabist and Islamist activists at the expense of Coptic, African and other minorities. It is dementedly fixated on statehood for the Arab Muslims of Israel, (better known by their local Palestinian brand), but has little to say about the Kurds in Turkey or the Azeri in Iran. The million Jewish refugees and the vanishing Christians of the region never come up in conversation. They certainly don’t get their own flotillas.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Canada Free Press her.

Phony priesthood of the flying thermometer

The Materialism of Environmentalism

Daniel Greenfield – October 30, 2011

There is no understanding environmentalism without also understanding the function of religion as a means of infusing spirituality into the material. The politicization of consumerism is an attempt to mimic the religious dimension of life without a guiding deity.

Environmentalism provides the believer with the grandiosity of a human centered existence, in which the actions of individuals can lead to massive catastrophes, floods, extinctions and hurricanes. It’s the old biblical epic of Noah set in what pretends to be a rational scientific universe, but actually borrows the religious significance of human ethics placed at the center of life.

Mere HER i Canada Free Press. Sultan Knish her.

Teaching Your Child to be a Dictator’s Lackey

by Daniel Greenfield on Oct 31st, 2011

Imagine your child’s school teaching him how wonderful dictatorships are by having him and his friends model their very own group of dictatorships as part of their education. Like so many other Orwellian nightmares in the American educational system, this one is very real and takes place through the Model UN program.

The Model UN program teaches American students that global government is better than national government and that the corrupt kleptocracy on Turtle Bay is the ideal state of mankind. Finally it trains them to put American presidents on trial for violating United Nations laws.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Free Republic her.

Tyskland holder midtvejsfest for islamisk magtovertagelse

Et halvt århundrede har det taget at nå hertil. Så længe går der nok ikke, før værket er fuldbragt. Til den tid kan islamister overtage hvad som helst ved af true med eller anvende de a-våben, de har arvet efter de europæiske befolkninger. Mindre kan endda gøre det. Har man råderet over a-kraftværker, kan man også fremstille en dirty bomb. For slet ikke at tale om alle de konventionelle våben, som også bliver deres. Integration var bare det narreværk, man brugte for at få indvandringen på plads. Centrale beslutningstagere har vel aldrig troet på, at det kunne lade sig gøre. Multikultur er mislykkedes overalt til alle tider. Så godt som. Nå, det var Tyskland, vi kom fra:

Turks in Germany: The Guests Take Over the House

by Soeren Kern – November 7, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in Germany on November 1 and 2 to mark the 50th anniversary of a German-Turkish agreement on guest workers.

Erdogan turned what was supposed to be a friendly photo opportunity into a platform from which to launch a fresh tirade against Berlin for a long list of perceived slights and shortcomings in its treatment of the estimated 3.5 million Turkish immigrants who now live in Germany.

Erdogan said Germany’s insistence that immigrants who want to live in Germany must learn the German language is “against human rights.” He also demanded that Berlin grant German citizenship to Turkish immigrants regardless of the efforts they make to integrate into German society.

Begge Tysklande oplevede forresten et veritabelt baby-boom i starten af tresserne. Det var vel det, man ville have sat under afvikling? Man ville skabe et samfund, hvor det ikke var attraktivt for tyskere at få børn? Det lykkedes. Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Video: Michael Rubin om styret i Iran

Foredraget skal ses i lyset af det nylige terrorforsøg i Washington imod bla. den saudiarabiske ambassadør. Rubin har før været bedre end her, men pyt. Uploadet 24. oktober 2011:

Michael Rubin: U.S. and Iran after the DC plot

Michael Rubin, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute spoke about the future of U.S. policy towards Iran at the National Security Lunch on Capitol Hill.

Video: Allen B. West hos The Wednesday Morning Club

En ret formel tale her. Flot. Og ret amerikansk. Om USAs militær, islamisk terror, politisk korrekthed, Fukuyama, Huntington, Iran, Irak, kurderne, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rusland, Kina, Egypten, Tyrkiet, Israel og meget mere. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her i FrontPageMagazine. Fra 21. oktober 2011:

Congressman Allen West

Og Q&A:

Reservelink: Blip TV,

Pundits om Iran, terror etc.

Mord, vold, terror, død og ødelæggelse. Had. Muslimer. The usual stuff:

Bombing Iran a ‘Bad Idea’? Probably. But It’s the ONLY Idea

October 24, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Dalia Dassa Kaye at the Foreign Policy website argues that bombing Iran is a “bad idea.” She’s absolutely right. It’s a bad idea, except all the others are worse. As Prof. Kaye observes,

The aftermath of an attack could be devastating militarily and politically. It could unleash a wave of Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces, allies, and interests. Iran maintains a wide array of levers across the region, including militia groups it has trained and funded, that it could employ to retaliate against U.S. forces or diplomatic personnel, particularly in countries like Iraq. Iranian missiles have ranges that can reach Israel and all its Gulf Arab neighbors, including those hosting U.S. military forces.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Don’t Just Blame Iran for the Terror Plot, Blame WikiLeaks

Ryan Mauro – October 25, 2011

The U.S., Saudi Arabia and the international community are debating how to respond to Iran’s planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C., but there is another party that shares responsibility: Wikileaks, the anti-censorship organization that recklessly published confidential diplomatic cables that prompted Iran to target the ambassador.

Last November, Wikileaks published a series of documents exposing private communications between international government officials. One of the most explosive documents was a State Department cable dated April, 20, 2008. It quoted the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, as secretly telling General David Petraeus, “He [the Saudi king] told you to cut off the head of the snake,” referring to the Iranian regime.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

What Will They Think of Next?

Why the crazy Iranian plot to pay Mexicans to kill the Saudi ambassador isn’t so implausible.

By Christopher Hitchens | Oct. 24, 2011

There may conceivably be a reason to doubt the truth of the Obama administration’s claim that the “Quds Force” of the Islamic Republic of Iran went into the free market for murder in order to suborn the killing of the Saudi ambassador to the United States. But neither the apparently surreal nor the apparently flagrant nature of the thing would constitute such reasons. We have been here before, as a splendid recent book reminds us, and have learned that no allegation made against the goon squads in Tehran can be thought of as prima-facie implausible.

Mere HER i Slate. The National Post her.

A Pattern of Appeasement and Retreat

October 24, 2011 – by Michael Ledeen

Take two headlines, one about Iraq, the other about Afghanistan.  The Iraqis told us to honor our signed agreement, and pull out all our troops by year’s end.  Over in Kabul, Karzai said he’d go to war against us if we attacked his neighbor, Pakistan.  It’s the same story in both places, but the real headline is the thirty-year-old one:  U.S. fails to come up with an Iran strategy.

It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it?  You’re a Middle Eastern leader, and you’ve been working and fighting alongside the Americans.  The United States was magnificent on the battlefield, and you either won (as in Iraq) or were winning (Afghanistan) when the Americans announced they were leaving.  And they even set a date for their departure.  Where does that leave you?

Mere HER i Pajamas Media. Family Security Matters her.

Regime blames assassination plot on its enemies

By Reza Kahlili – October 21, 2011

Iran panicked after the United States accused it of hatching a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, immediately denying the allegations, which included plans to bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies and labeling the plot’s organizer an enemy of the state.

We should have seen it coming.

Iranian officials warned Saudi officials months ago of repercussions because of the Saudi monarchy’s intervention in Bahrain and Yemen, where Iran is pushing for the overthrow of U.S.-friendly governments to establish Shiite rule. Some Revolutionary Guard commanders and parliament deputies even called for a military response to the Saudis’ action in the region.

Mere HER i The Washington Times.

Explaining Iran’s Approach Towards the Middle East

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – October 25, 2011

What drives Iran’s ambition to become the dominant power in the Middle East at the expense of the Sunni Arab Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? Is it solely an issue of Iran’s Shi’ite Islamist ideology?

To begin with, it is worth recalling that many of the Iranian regime’s assertive and expansionist policies today predate Khomeini’s revolution and rise to power in 1979. For example, Iran’s claim to Bahrain goes back to the secular Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s resolution in November 1957, declaring the island to be Iran’s fourteenth province. Eventually, the Shah let go of Bahrain for the time being, much to the chagrin of Iranian nationalists.

Mere HER i Middle East Forum. The Jerusalem Post her.

73% of Iraqis: Iran Is Likely to Act Aggressively When U.S. Troops Leave

By Terence P. Jeffrey – October 24, 2011

About 73 percent of Iraqis said they believe it is likely Iran will act aggressively toward their country after U.S. troops leave in December.

Fifty-one percent said they believe the security situation within Iraq will get worse when the U.S. forces leave.

Mere HER hos CNS News. Jeg har blogget en hel del om Iran her i oktober. Se for eksempel:

• Det islamo-nazistiske Iran er ekstremt farligt
• Video: Robert Spencer og Ezra Levant om terrorplaner Iran ~ USA & Saudi Arabien
• Video: Iran er overalt i Sydamerika
• Video: Iran, Venezuela, USA, terror, muslimer og mere

Andre kilder: Tablet Magazine, Fox News, Family Security Matters, Townhall,

Video & audio: Walid Phares om Libyen, arabisk forår og mere

Lou Dobbs er lidt naiv. Dobbs tror, at USA bare kan nedlægge deres militærbaser i bla. Europa. Men flere nationer bliver overvejende islamiske lige om lidt. Flere af disse lande har atomvåben. USA får brug for sine europæiske tropper. Amerikanerne kan endda blive nødt til at bombe atomare installationer her i Europa. I vores egen levetid. Det politiske system er jo helt og holdent udenfor pædagogisk rækkevidde. Man kan ikke få relevante beslutningstagere til at standse det, der sker:

Fra 21. oktober 2011:

Phares on Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business: Iraq may be left vulnerable to Iran

Fra Fox News Radio den 20. oktober 2011:

Qaddafi is gone, but will his replacement be worse? Terror expert Walid Phares weighs in …

FOX News Middle East expert and author of “The Coming Revolution: The Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East” Dr. Walid Phares joins Tom to explain what today’s news means for the region and who may be replacing Qaddafi.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 8½ minut.

Opdatering – fra 20. oktober 2011:

Phares on Fox News: Gaddafi Death is End of Major Chapter in History of Middle East