Video: Michael Rubin om Tyrkiet i frit fald

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.

Mere HER i The Chicago Tribune. Reuters her.

Andre kilder: Commentary Magazine, Ræson, PJ Media,

Opdatering 11. juni 2012 – se Jihad Watch:

• Turkey: New law requires Islamic prayer rooms in all shopping malls, movie theaters, and other public spaces such as theaters and operas

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:

• Turkey’s Facebook Arrests

Video: Anders Fogh Rasmussen om Nato og Europa

Det er egentlig imponerende, at man kan tale så længe uden at sige noget. Vores tidligere statsminister er blevet en sjælden gæst i de hjemlige medier. Sådan er det ikke udenfor Danmarks grænser. Man kan eksempelvis finde masser af videoer på YouTube – nu blogger jeg en af dem. Fra 23. – 25. marts 2012:

A Conversation with the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen

From the 2012 Brussels Forum

Moderator: Nik Gowing, BBC World

Andre kilder: Radio Free Europe, Europe Online Magazine, Hills News, Nato,

Video: Ayaan Hirsi Ali i Vancouver

Fra 5. marts 2012:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Part 1 – Bon Mot Book Club – March 5, 2012

Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks about her book, “Infidel” at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver on March 5, 2012.

This is part of the Bon Mot Book Club series of speakers.

Along with great food and fine wine, few things in life provide as much pleasure as reading a provocative book. The pleasure is enhanced if you can discuss its ideas—and even argue collegially—with others who share an interest in the topic. Debating and discussing the issues with the author speaking in a private and intimate setting? Even better. The Bon Mot Book Club combines all those things into a stimulating event series continuing into its second season this fall.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Part 2 – Q&A – Bon Mot Book Club – March 5, 2012

Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks with Leah Costello about her book, “Infidel” at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver on March 5, 2012.

Andre kilder: PopMatters,

Video: Andrew C. McCarthy med flere

Den første video er den mest interessante fra konferencen 28. februar 2012. Forelæsningen næstnederst er er også meget seværdig:

Mightier Pen 2012: The Growing Censorship of Free Speech

The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the Gun: Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and featured participants of this panel were: Sam Nunberg (Middle East Forum-The Legal Project), Brooke Goldstein (The Lawfare Project, author of “Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech”) and Andrew McCarthy (National Review). Moderated by the Center for Security Policy’s Fred Grandy.

Den næste handler om undertrykkelse af ytringsfrihed i Venezuela, Kina, Rusland og andre steder:

Escalating State Violence Against Political and Religious Expression

The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the GunL Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and the featured participants in this panel were Claudia Rossett (Foundation of Defense of Democracies Investigative Reporting Project), and Vilma Petrash (News Producer AmericaTeVe – WJAN – Channel 41, host of “Temas de Mujer” in Venezuela). The panel was moderated by Frank Gaffney.

Og et lille ekstranummer:

Andy McCarthy: Saluting Ray Kelly & the NYPD’s Defense of New York

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy joins the Center for Security Policy in saluting NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly at the 2012 Mightier Pen Award in New York City. Commissioner Kelly has kept New York City safe from jihadist terror attacks for decades, beginning with his investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (the perpetrators of which McCarthy later prosecuted).

Og en flot forelæsning:

“The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”

Andrew C. McCarthy October 7, 2011 “The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”

Fra The American Family Association den 7. marts 2012 – vært Crane Durham:

Andrew C. McCarthy on the True Helpfulness of Obamas Apology

Og artikler:

It’s a Pity Somebody Has to Win

We have no national interest in overthrowing Assad.

By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 3, 2012

Asked about the Iran-Iraq war that stretched for eight ghastly years after breaking out in 1980, Henry Kissinger is said to have quipped, “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.”

The pity is that we have lost that exquisite wisdom  concerning our national interest, despite a two-decade road to hell paved by good intentions — at least compassionate intentions — from Kosovo to Kandahar. If that isn’t clear enough from the latest killings of American soldiers stuck like sitting ducks between the Afghan Taliban and other Afghan Islamists, all doubt is removed by Elliott Abrams, the longtime Republican foreign-policy solon who served as a top National Security Council official during the heady days of the Bush “Freedom Agenda.” “Can there be a group anywhere in the world today more disappointed in United States foreign policy than those fighting the Syrian regime?” Abrams, a distinguished public servant whom I admire, asked this week in a post on the Corner.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

Let Syria Be

We should stop enmeshing ourselves ever deeper in the Muslim morass.

By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 10, 2012

‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.”

That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issued guidance on the “Proper Handling and Disposal of Islamic Religious Materials — Service Members/Civilian Training.” Here’s how it works: Mainstream Muslims throughout the Middle East believe, based on the Koran and other “Islamic Religious Materials,” that if an infidel force invades a Muslim territory, its members must be killed until the force has been driven out. They further believe that if non-Muslims commit some act — even an inadvertent one — that Muslims perceive as insulting to Islam, a campaign of murder and mayhem is justified.

Our response? We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

Egypt Releases Seven Americans . . . but Is There a Catch?

By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 29, 2012

The AP reports that Egypt’s transitional military government has lifted a travel ban against seven of the 16 Americans currently being tried for their work with organizations that allegedly took illegal foreign contributions — work that incited protests against the military rulers, the government alleges. The report takes this development (which includes the release of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s son) as a signal that the crisis is being resolved. The 16 Americans are among 43 “civil society activists” being tried. Though the trial started Sunday, it was promptly adjourned for two months (until April 26). In the meantime, the American defendants have not been required to attend the trial and, more significantly, the three judges resigned from the case, citing “uneasiness.” The country’s top prosecutor is said to have lifted the travel ban at the recommendation of the case’s investigating magistrate.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

But I Thought CAIR Was Just a Civil Rights Group?

By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 13, 2012

Well, no, the Council for American-Islamic Relations is an Islamic supremacist group spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the mission of the Brotherhood is to implement sharia. Hence its motto for the last 90 years or so: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu Akbar!“

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

First the Ahmadi, Then Everybody Else

It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.

By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 18, 2012

Their crime? These Muslims have the temerity to suggest that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, an Indian who died in 1908, was the promised Mahdi — the redeemer of Islam — and not one of the false prophets about whom Mohammed had warned. They compound their offense with condemnations of violent jihad, maintaining that man’s inhumanity to man is ultimately conquered by love and kindness. So, of course, the Ahmadi Muslims have to die.

They are killed in Muslim Pakistan. They are killed in Muslim Bangladesh. They are killed in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country and, putatively, its most moderate. It was there, in a village in West Java last year, that hundreds of Muslims wielding machetes, sharpened sticks, and stones set upon on an Ahmadi home, brutally murdering three men and maiming several others. True to form, Islamic clerics raced to the fore to rationalize the savagery as being provoked by Ahmadi heresy. The ringleaders were sentenced to less than six months’ imprisonment, with the country’s minister of religious affairs callously explaining that religious freedom was certainly not freedom to “modify” Islamic beliefs — and equating Ahmadi preaching, which is banned, with flag-burning.

Mere HER hos National Review Online.

Andre kilder: National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters,

Dhimmitude – sharia over hele verden

Sindssyge muslimer har nu dræbt 30 afghanere og 6 amerikanere. Og hvem skal så straffes for det? Amerikanerne, selvfølgelig. The Washington Examiner:

Since 2007, roughly 70 American troops have been killed by Afghan Security Forces in what is described by the U.S. military as ‘Green on Blue attacks.’

Vi bør overlade afghanerne til deres skæbne og taliban. Ingen kan hjælpe dem, før de giver slip på islam. Flygtninge må tilbydes ophold udenfor Vesten. Dem skal den islamiske verden selv tage sig af.

Conflicting accounts over Afghan Quran burnings

By Patrick Quinn – March 3, 2012

An investigation into the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base has found it was a mistake involving at least five Americans who may face a disciplinary review, a Western official said Saturday, but Afghan investigators claimed it was an intentional desecration.

The conflicting accounts highlight rising tensions between the two countries despite apologies by President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials following the Feb. 20 discovery of charred Qurans and other religious literature in a burn pit at Bagram air base, north of Kabul.

Anger over the burnings already has led the deaths of more than 30 Afghans during violent protests as well as six U.S. soldiers who were shot and killed by ROGUE Afghan security forces.

Mere HER i The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. CBS News har en variant her.

Islamic rages aimed at enslaving the West

By Diana West – March 2, 2012

Six U.S. military men have been murdered by Afghan security forces seized by what may be labeled Quran-Burning Rage.

These murders are an outrage in and of themselves, but it’s crucial we don’t see them as isolated. They fit into a pattern that above all spreads “dhimmitude,” the submissive state of Christians and Jews (known under Islam as the “dhimmi”) in thrall to Islamic law.

Quran-Burning Rage follows Pastor Jones Rage, which, after a Florida pastor burned a Quran in 2011, seized Afghan Muslims and inspired rioting. Some rioters overran a United Nations outpost and murdered seven U.N. personnel.

Mere HER i The Jewish World Review eller her i The Mercury. Se også Reuters:

• The United Nations joined Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday in calling on the U.S. military to take disciplinary action against those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO air base, calling the incident a “grave mistake”.

Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, News10 ABC, Seattlepi, WSJV-TV FOX 28, CTV, The American, The Blaze, Family Security Matters,

Sappho – klummer og artikler

Så er der igen artikler i Sappho:

Vold i islam, jødedom og kristendom

21. februar 2012 – artikel af Raymond Ibrahim

”Der er da ikke mere vold i Koranen end i Bibelen”. Hvem har ikke mødt denne påstand, når talen faldt på islams voldelighed.  I denne tilbundsgående og veldokumenterede artikel viser Raymond Ibrahim, hvorfor denne påstand er helt forkert.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Lars Vilks angrebet under forelæsning

23. februar 2012 – artikel af Sapphos medarbejder

Den svenske kunstner Lars Vilks blev tirsdag angrebet af vrede muslimer under en forelæsning på Karlstads universitet. Han fortsætter dog med at tegne, som han vil.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Anmeldelse af Politiken-affæren: En væsentlig og forfejlet bog

24. februar 2012 – anmeldelse af Jeppe Juhl

Ole Hasselbalchs nye bog om Politiken-affæren er en veldokumenteret beretning om dansk journalistik, når den er værst. Desværre når den ikke det segment, der især burde interessere sig for den, mener Sapphos anmelder, Jeppe Juhl.

Mere HER i Sappho.

De anstændiges værdikamp

24. februar 2012 – klumme af Jette Plesner Dali

Da den nye regering kom til, blev værdikampen erklæret død, men i virkeligheden blev en ny indledt. Jette Plesner Dali om den nye værdikamp.

Mere HER i Sappho.

• Debatmøde med Mød Pernille Bramming, Kasper Støvring og Jakob Erle den 27. februar 2012 hos Dansk Forfatterforening, Strandgade 6 i København. Det handler om Det Arabiske Forår. Læs mere HER i Sappho.
• Konference om forfulgte kristne og nydanskeres vej ind i folkekirken lørdag den 10. marts 2012 kl. 10.00 – 15.30 i Skovlunde Kirke. Mere HER hos Helsingør stift.
• Udkigsposten – af Dan Ritto
• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels

Bruce Bawers skarpe pen

Velfortjent angreb på venstrefløjen:

The CBC’s Propaganda War

by Bruce Bawer on Jan 26th, 2012

The only thing worse than having the biases of the mainstream media inflicted upon you on a daily basis is having to subsidize it.  For Americans, to be sure, the rip-off isn’t so terrible: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, gets $430 million a year from the federal government, which comes to only a couple of bucks per household.  In Britain, by contrast, the BBC license fee is now £145.50 ($226) annually per TV-owning family.  And in Canada, the CBC receives more than $1.5 billion a year from the Canadian government, which amounts to upwards of $100 per household.

And what, exactly, are Canadian taxpayers paying for?  That’s the question asked – and very illuminatingly answered – by a new documentary, This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC, produced by James Cohen and Fred Litwin.  (The title is a reference to “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” a long-running CBC series specializing in political satire.)  Focusing on two main topics – anti-Israel bias and anti-conservative bias – the documentary consists almost entirely of CBC clips (most but not all of them from news programs) in which we can see these biases in action.  To judge by this compilation, the CBC is perhaps even more slanted than the infamously partial BBC – and, perhaps, even more brazen about it.

Mere HER hos FrontPageMagazine.

Violent Jihadist Video Riles Norway

by Bruce Bawer on Jan 23rd, 2012

It was, shall we say, an interesting week in Norway.  On Tuesday, January 17, a video was posted on YouTube that called for Norwegian soldiers to be withdrawn from Afghanistan.  Over images of Norwegian soldiers and of Norway’s prime minister, foreign minister, and crown prince, a text calling for Allah to “destroy them and let it be painful” was read aloud in Arabic, with subtitles in Norwegian.  The video, which concluded with an image of Norway’s flag in flames, urged Muslims to show up for a protest rally on Friday outside the parliament building in Oslo.

The video provoked instant outrage.  On Wednesday, the security police arrested a suspect, but announced that even if the rally organizers proved to be responsible for the video, their permit wouldn’t be withdrawn.  It soon emerged that there were connections between the video and a Facebook group whose members included Arfan Bhatti, one of four men arrested in 2006 for shooting at the Oslo synagogue.  (Bhatti was also suspected by police of plotting to blow up the U.S. and Israeli embassies.)  Another member was Mohyeldeen Mohammed, who at a jihadist rally two years ago threatened Norway with its own 9/11.

Mere HER hos FrontPageMagazine. AINA her.

Video: Nina Shea & Paul Marshall hos The Heritage Foundation

Fra 9. november 2011 - solidt arbejde af Shea & Marshall:

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie awakened many westerners to the danger of being charged with blasphemy in the Muslim world. Charges of “blasphemy,” “apostasy,” and “insulting Islam” are increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces within key Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to acquire and consolidate power. These codes have proved effective in intimidating not only converts and heterodox groups, but also political and religious reformers.

In their newly released book, Silenced (Oxford University Press, 2011), Paul Marshall and Nina Shea provide the first survey of such accusations in the contemporary Muslim world, in international organizations, and in the West. These charges traditionally carry a punishment of death but are contested within Islam today, as described by the late Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid in the foreword to Silenced. Nevertheless, as Marshall and Shea describe, hundreds of victims, including political dissidents, religious reformers, journalists, writers, artists, movie makers, and religious minorities in many countries. They also document the political effects in Muslim societies of blasphemy and apostasy laws, as well as non-governmental fatwas and vigilante violence. And they examine in the West the move toward importing new blasphemy standards through bans on purported hate speech and Islamophobia, aggressively promoted by the OIC, and the increasing threat of violence to stifle commentary on Islam even in the absence of law.

Video: Jacob Mchangama, Naser Khader, Bruce Bawer, Mark Durie, Nina Shea og flere

Fra The Federalist Society den 4. november 2011 – Naser Khader skal for øvrigt arbejde for Hudson Institute, skriver The Copenhagen Post. Nå, video:

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

• Paul Marshall, Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute
• Nina Shea, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute
• Jonathan Bunch, Vice President & Director of State Courts, The Federalist Society

The Muslim World

• Prof. David F. Forte, Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
• Amjad Mahmood Khan, Attorney and National Director of Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA
• Jacob Mchangama, Director of Legal Affairs, Center for Political Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Samuel Tadros, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom
• James P. Kelly III, Director of International Affairs, The Federalist Society

Growing Repression in the West

• Bruce Bawer, Best-Selling Author of While Europe Slept
• Paul Diamond, United Kingdom defense attorney in hate speech cases
• Mark Durie, Vicar, St. Mary’s Anglican Church (Melbourne, Australia)

Where Are the Muslim Moderates?

• Manda Zand Ervin, Founder & President, Alliance of Iranian Women and Member, American Islamic Leadership Coalition
• Naser Khader, former Member, Danish Parliament
• David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP

Kristne er udryddelsestruede i det meste af verden

Vatikanet advarer. Fra 27. september 2011:

Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican’s foreign minister told the UN summit

Det skriver Canada.com. Det blev det stærkt islamiserede FN nok ikke ked af at høre. Raymond Ibrahim har lavet en oversigt for september 2011 – posten her er en slags opsamling eller “siden sidst”:

Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 12, 2011

An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, aside from Iran and Sudan, none of the countries that habitually appears in this series was designated among the “countries of particular concern,” defined by the State Department as countries that are “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”

Egypt, for instance—which this year alone has seen over fifty Christians killed, their many churches burned or bombed, and their daughters kidnapped and forcibly converted—was not listed as a “country of particular concern,” despite the fact that the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, has recommended that the State Department designate it so.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Kan også læses her hos Middle East Forum. Ibrahim uddyber sin analyse af Hillary Clintons udtalelser:

Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt’s Christians?

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 13, 2011

Soon after Sunday’s Maspero massacre, where the Egyptian military slaughtered Christians demonstrating over the destruction of their churches—including by running them over with armored vehicles—some Egyptian media began reporting that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having seen enough, declared that the U.S. plans on directly intervening in Egypt.

Of course, Hillary said no such thing. According to Al Ahram:

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch. Ibrahim har endnu en artikel om kristnes forhold – mere om den dødsdømte iranske præst:

Islamism’s Predictability

Apostasy, Execution, and Lies

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 6, 2011

As one ponders the fate of Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor on death row for refusing to renounce Christianity, it is well to reflect that, for all the talk that Islam is perpetually “misunderstood,” it is actually immensely predictable and consistent; not only do its patterns cross time and space, but their manifestations are often identical.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.

Christian girl, 12, kidnapped, beaten and raped for eight months until she converted to Islam

By Wil Longbottom on 13th October 2011

• Asian Human Rights Commission claim girl was lured on shopping trip by friend before she was kidnapped.
• Abductors drove her 120 miles before raping her, then forced her to sign marriage papers
• Victim managed to escape eight months later, but police refuse to prosecute rapists because they are tied to militant Islam group

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. British Pakistani Christian Association har en tilsvarende artikel her.

Asia Bibi tortured by prison officers

by Nasarani ki Himmet – 14 October 2011

According to a Pakistani newspaper, the Express Tribune, Asia Bibi, the poster-victim of Pakistan’s wicked blasphemy laws has been tortured by one of wardens at the Sheikhupura jail where she is imprisoned in solitary confinement awaiting a death sentence for defending her Christian faith. The warden Khadeeja allegedly tortured her after claiming he found ‘prohibited items’ in her cell. Other prison staff watched and did nothing to stop the attack. (Well, she’s only a kuffir Christian, after all…..) Thankfully, it appears that (eventually) the culprit has at least been suspended from duty (for how long, we shall have to see).

Don’t forget to pray for Asia Bibi and also her family, who are being threatened and isolated by Islamic militants.

Mere HER hos British Pakistani Christian Association. Lignende artikel her i The Pakistan Express Tribune.

Caroline Glick synes, det er uklart, hvad Vesten ønsker at opnå  med sin tavshed. For Europas vedkommende er det nu helt indlysende. Det er europæerne, man vil af med. I sidste halvdel af artiklen kommer der en del interessante taloplysninger om Mellemøstens kristne:

The forgotten Christians of the East

By Caroline B. Glick – October 10, 2011

It is unclear what either Western governments or Western churches think they are achieving by turning a blind eye to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world.

On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt’s state television headquarters in Cairo. The 1,000 Christians represented the ancient Christian community of some 8 million whose presence in Egypt predates the establishment of Islam by several centuries. They gathered in Cairo to protest the recent burning of two churches by Islamic mobs and the rapid escalation of state-supported violent attacks on Christians by Muslim groups since the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Family Security Matters her. Townhall her. Caroline Glick her. Se også denne skarpe leder i Investor’s Business Daily:

• Killing A Religion

Diana West om kopterne i Egypten:

Like Good Little Dhimmi, West Stays Silent About Coptic Oppression

By Diana West – October 16, 2011

I am looking at a reproduction of an engraving of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher, said to the be the site of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and burial. The church in this image, based on an 1856 photograph, has neither cross nor belfry. It stands in compliance with the Islamic law and traditions of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, which ruled Jerusalem at the time.

Mere HER hos AINA. WorldNetDaily her. The Washington Examiner her. Diana West her. Vesten kan skam også godt være med:

Facebook, Google, Apple Censoring Religious Speech?

By Stephanie Samuel | Sep. 16 2011

The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) group sounded the alarm Thursday about new media outlets such as Facebook, Google and Apple, which they say have written policies that violate the fundamental rules of free expression, particularly concerning religious free speech.

The NRB released a report at the National Press Club Thursday analyzing the various content policies of social networking websites. What they found was disturbing: new media platforms Facebook, Apple, Comcast, AT&T and Google have adopted policies to censor lawful viewpoints expressing Christian views or controversial ideas on “hot button issues.” Some platforms, such as Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s search engine, have already started to use those policies to remove orthodox Christian viewpoints considered “offensive” or too controversial.

Mere HER i The Christian Post. Barnabas Fund har en tilsvarende artikel her. Og flere eksempler. Nu skal man købe en tilladelse til at læse Biblen i Californien. I hvert fald hvis man har inviteret mere end 3 gæster:

• Christian Concern: American couple fined for holding bible study in own home

Barnabas Fund har desuden en guide, der fortæller, hvilke firmaer der sælger halalprodukter - et par af dem findes også i Danmark. Så ved man hvilke forretninger, man bør undgå:

• UK retailer halal guide

Tilsidst en historisk artikel:

The Battle That Saved the Christian West

by Mariano Navarro on Oct 11th, 2011

What some call “the battle that saved the Christian West” took place 440 years ago October 7th. It is a historical event of such importance — and of such relevance to the struggles of today — that I would be remiss not to mention it. Sadly, a cursory look on-line indicates that few people — save military historians, some traditionalist Catholics and a few rarae aves — seem to know much about it.

At about 11:00 a.m. October 7th in 1571, 300 Ottoman ships from Turkey clashed with a scraggly alliance of European naval armies in the tranquil waters between the Albanian coast and the Peloponnesus. Under the command of the 25-year-old Don Juan of Austria​, the illegitimate son of Charles V and half-brother of Philip II of Spain, some 212 Christian ships from Genoa, Venice and Spain — as well from the Papal States and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta — had formed the “Holy League” to stop the advance of the Ottoman Armada.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. The Grendel Report her.

Andre kilder: The Telegraph, The Irish Times, WorldWide Religious News, The Percecution Times, Barnabas Fund, Religion.dk, Wikipedia,

Video: Michael Rubin, Walid Phares, Daniel Pipes, Diana West, Claire Lopez, Efraim Karsh, Elan Journo, John David Lewis, Peter Brookes, Yaron Brook

Om balladen i Mellemøsten fra et interessant panel:

9/11 – A Decade Later – Lessons for the Future

In this panel discussion, titled “Upheavals in the Middle East: Assessing the Political Landscape,” Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, Walid Phares, Author and Advisor to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, Efraim Karsh, Director at Middle East Forum, and Daniel Pipes, President of Middle East Forum, discuss the political situation of the Middle East in light of the lessons learned since 9/11. Moderated by Elan Journo, Fellow and Director of Policy Research, Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. This event was recorded on September 8, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Om i islamisk indoktrinering af børn, terrorgrupper, ytringsfrihed, Kurt Westergaard, islam i Afrika og mere:

9/11 – A Decade Later – Lessons for the Future

In this panel discussion, titled “The Islamist Threat: From AfPak to Jyllands-Posten and Times Square,” Peter Brookes, Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at the Heritage Foundation, John David Lewis, Visiting Associate Professor at Duke University and Diana West, Author and Syndicated Columnist assess the threat posed by radical Islam in light of the lessons learned since 9/11. Moderated by Elan Journo, Fellow and Director of Policy Research at Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. This event was recorded on September 8, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Om Israel, Iran, Palæstina, medier, shia-islam og mere:

9/11 – A Decade Later – Lessons for the Future

In this panel discussion, titled “Iran, Israel, and the West,” Elan Journo, Fellow and Director of Policy Research at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights Efraim Karsh, Director at Middle East Forum, Claire Lopez, Senior Fellow at Center for Security Policy and Michael Rubin, Resident Scholar at American Enterprise Institute discuss the West’s relationship to Israel and Iran, and what their conflict means to us. Moderated by Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute. This event was recorded on September 8, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Video: Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Tarek Fatah

Fra Eglinton Grand Theatre i Toronto den 15. september 2011, arrangeret af Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Tarek Fatah

Christopher Hitchens om Anwar al-Awlaki, sex, kvinder, humor og Joan Didion

Hitchens er flittig for tiden. Og han skriver om alt muligt:

Citizen Enemies

Those who protest the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki have to say what they would have done instead.

By Christopher Hitchens | Oct. 3, 2011

Probably because it mainly provides the kind of short-term cinematic satisfaction that characterizes the Hellfire terminus, the flashy ending of al-Qaida’s main media star has only led to the reopening of some pressing questions about the nature of the jihadi menace. It has also forced us to confront the idea of words as weapons, and the relationship between ideas and actions, in a world of conscienceless criminal violence that operates without employing any code or precedent of its own.

Mere HER i Slate. Kan også læses her i National Post.

Take my husband . please

Christopher Hitchens | Sept. 17, 2011

Be your gender what it may, you will certainly have heard the following from a female friend who is enumerating the charms of a new (male) squeeze: “He’s really quite cute, and he’s kind to my friends, and he knows all kinds of stuff, and he’s so funny .” (If you yourself are a guy, and you know the man in question, you will often have said to yourself, “Funny? He wouldn’t know a joke if it came served on a bed of lettuce with sauce bearnaise.”) However, there is something that you absolutely never hear from a male friend who is hymning his latest (female) love interest: “She’s a real honey, has a life of her own . (interlude for attributes that are none of your business) . and, man, does she ever make ‘em laugh.”

Mere HER i National Post.

Joan Didion

By Christopher Hitchens – October 2011

In The Year of Magical Thinking, the 2005 best-seller, Joan Didion dissected the trauma of losing her husband, John Gregory Dunne. With Blue Nights, to be published in November by Knopf, she agonizingly explores the heavier blow that followed: the death of their daughter, Quintana Roo. Christopher Hitchens contemplates a tragic achievement.

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Inside the Orgone Box

By Christopher Hitchens – September 23, 2011

“Among other members of our cell, I remember Dr. Wilhelm Reich. He . . . had just published a book called ‘The Function of the Orgasm,’ in which he had expounded the theory that the sexual frustration of the proletariat caused a thwarting of its political consciousness; only through a full, uninhibited release of the sexual urge could the working class realize its revolutionary potentialities and historic mission; the whole thing was less cockeyed than it sounds.”

Mere HER i The New York Times.

Anwar Al Awlaki dræbt

Vi snupper lige en post om Anwar Al Awlaki. Targeted killing. Farvel til en af Bin Ladens efterfølgere:

Al Awlaki is gone but his Jihadists are multiplying

Walid Phares – September 30, 2011

Imam Anwar al Awlaki held two important positions in the cobweb of international Jihadi terror. First, he was one of the emerging younger leaders of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Out of Yemen, from which his family originates, he had built a network of recruits capable of performing missions in the Arabian Peninsula, but also communicating with the Shabab of Somalia and many cells inside the West. His reach in recruitment was as far as Jihadists have been indoctrinated. The Nigerian Abdelmutalib, known as the Christmas day bomber in the US, was also connected to the Yemeni-based cleric. In a sense, al Awlaki was one of the most effective al Qaeda international officers. His loss will undoubtedly be felt –at least for a while – within the ranks of the network.

Mere HER i Family Security Matters. Kan også læses her hos The Cutting Edge. International Analyst Network her. Newsmax her. Se eventuelt også The Daily Mail:

• New York on alert over possible revenge attacks after Bin Laden hunters wipe out Al Qaeda boss who preached hate in America

Eller denne af Frederick W. Kagan i The American:

• Targeted Killings Can’t Be Total Strategy to Defeat al Qaeda

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, Reuters, Fox News, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, Pajamas Media, National Review Online, Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy,

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Video: Pamela Geller på Beverly Hills Hotel

Alletiders video. Geller er bare god. Mark Tapson introducerer og gør det aldeles glimrede:

Pamela Geller – Stop the Islamization of America

Pamela Geller’s remarks at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Video: Wafa Sultan, Zudhi Jasser, John Bolton, Jon Voight, Jason Kenney

Nu kommer videoerne fra de mange FN-, Durban III- og protest-arrangementer dryssende. Her er resten af dem, der ikke allerede er blogget, men jagten går naturligvis videre. Først Wafa Sultan – fra CBN News 23. september 2011:

P.A. Submits Statehood Application to the UN

While dozens of Muslim nations support a Palestinian state, some Arabs are opposed to the idea. Syrian-born Wafa Sultan is a human rights activist and political commentator.

CBN News asked Sultan what he believes is the underlying reason and motivation behind the P.A.’s effort.

“To create another Islamic country,” Sultan replied without hesitation. “We have enough of those dictatorships. We don’t need any more dictator countries in our region.”

CQBlogger fra Hot Air interviewer – 22. september 2011:

Zudhi Jasser at Durban Watch

I spoke with Jasser for a few minutes about the obstacles to American action in the Arab Spring.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser discusses his objections to Durban III

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser joined a list of prominent speakers at the Hudson Institute’s critique of the Durban III Conference. Dr. Jasser discusses how the UN is losing faith by continuing to allow Despots to run the Human RIghts efforts of the UN. He also discussed the opportunity that exists with the Arab Spring.

John Bolton on the legitimacy of the UN

Also on the Palestinian proposal being essentially meaningless, at least legally.

Jon Voight TV appeal: ‘Defend Israel, the Jewish State, against global anti-Semitism’

Jon Voight speaks-out for Jewish Israel on US TV telethon, Sept 25, 2011

Den canadiske integrationsminister, Jason Kenney, har fået meget ros for denne tale:

Minister Kenney Speaks at Durban Watch Conference

Fra 23. september 2011 – her spørges der en smule ind til talen ovenfor:

Brian Lilley Interviews Jason Kenney On Durban III

Canada’s Jason Kenney, Current Minister of Citizenship, Promises Canada WILL Stand by Israel

Rally at Canada Christian College to protest the unilateral declaration of Palestinian Statehood.

Raymond Ibrahim – mere om apostasi

Henrettelser af ikke-kriminelle er åbenbart en del af den højt besungne muslimske fred:

A Tale of Two Apostasies

by Raymond Ibrahim – September 16, 2011

Cases dealing with apostasy in Islam—whereby Muslims who convert to other religions are tortured and executed—are on the rise and need to be acknowledged for what they are: one of Islam’s most visible attempts to suppress the human conscience—a phenomenon that has dire implications beyond religious freedom. Consider these two recent stories. First, from Somalia:

“A kidnapped Christian convert from Islam was found decapitated on Sept. 2 … Juma Nuradin Kamil was forced into a car by three suspected Islamic extremists from the al-Shabaab terrorist group on Aug. 21, area sources said. After members of his community thoroughly combed the area looking for him, at 2 p.m. on Sept. 2 one of them found Kamil’s body dumped on a street. The kidnapping and subsequent manner of murder suggests that al-Shabaab militants had been monitoring him, Christian leaders said. Muslim extremists from al-Shabaab, a militant group with ties to al Qaeda, have vowed to rid Somalia of Christianity.”

Mere HER i Middle East Forum. Jihad Watch her. Victor Davis Hanson’s Private Papers her.

The Real Iran

by Raymond Ibrahim – September 21, 2011

In a globalized world where debate and diplomacy predominate, there is one sure way to discern the sincerity of any particular government: see how it behaves at home, where it is in power; see especially how it treats its minorities.

Consider the government of Iran. Gearing up for the Durban III Conference, supposedly against racism, scheduled to take place in New York City this week, Tehran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad no doubt plan on complaining to the international community about Israel as in former conferences—portraying the Jewish state as “the most cruel and repressive racist regime,” a “barbaric” government that engages in “inhuman policies” against the Palestinians.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. FrontPageMagazine her. Raymond Ibrahim her. Middle East Forum her.

Douglas Murray om Den Tavse Kirke

After Regensburg the silence is deafening

On the fifth anniversary of the Pope’s seismic lecture Douglas Murray says that we are betraying persecuted Christians in Muslim lands

By Douglas Murray on 12 September 2011

It is five years now since Pope Benedict gave his celebrated address at Regensburg on faith and reason. Deeply thought and beautifully expressed, it is largely remembered for neither of these things. Rather, it is remembered for a single line in which Pope Benedict quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor making a disobliging remark about the way in which Islam is spread by violence.

Benedict XVI did not say that he agreed with the line. Indeed, he went out of his way before quoting it to distance himself from it, remarking, among other things, on its “brusqueness”. But this was to no avail.

Mere HER i The Catholic Herald.

Video & interview: David Horowitz & Glenn Beck om USA & islam

Ja, mit kroniske videoflip er voldsomt aktivt lige nu. Sådan er det bare. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her hos FrontPageMagazine:

David Horowitz – Glenn Beck 8 SEP 2011

David Horowitz interviewed on Glenn Beck

Desuden et interview fra Pajamas Media:

A Point in Time: An Interview with David Horowitz

“Our quests for happiness, for fame, and especially for a ‘better world’ are efforts to distract ourselves from the fact that our lives are meaningless.”

September 8, 2011 – by Mark Tapson

Be not troubled, for all things are according to nature and in a little while you will be no one and nowhere. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People usually associate David Horowitz, former radical leftist and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, with the intellectual pugilism that has made him the nemesis of the left, in books such as Indoctrination U: The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom and Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. But his new book A Point In Time caps an unofficial trilogy of lyrical meditations that began with The End of Time, then progressed through A Cracking of the Heart. In his latest, he uses the works of Marcus Aurelius and Fyodor Dostoevsky as starting points for his own intimate reflections on meaning and mortality.

Mark Tapson: How does this new book relate to your previous work?

David Horowitz: Most of my writings are engagements in the battles of our time. They are books designed to defend free societies in the face of the assault the left has mounted against them. I have written books to support individual rights and therefore property rights, and racial tolerance, and to uphold intellectual standards and intellectual freedom. My new book has a different inspiration, and in that way is a kind of sequel to another I wrote in the wake of 9/11.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

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Raymond Ibrahim om muslimsk ekstremisme og muslimsk forfølgelse af kristne

Raymond Ibrahim med status over muslimsk forfølgelse af kristne – for august måned:

Muslim Persecution of Christians: August, 2011

by Raymond Ibrahim – September 7, 2011

This series was developed in order to collate some—by no means all—of the foulest instances of Muslim persecution of Christians that surface each month. It serves two purposes:

1.Intrinsically, to document that which the mainstream media does not: habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.
2.Instrumentally, to show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is ultimately rooted in a Sharia inspired worldview.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Hudson New York. Family Security Matters her.

“Muslim Radicalization”: In the Eyes of the Beholder

by Raymond Ibrahim – September 1, 2011

Because the phrase “Muslim radicalization” has become increasingly popular in American discourse, it behooves us to establish once and for all what it means. Without an agreed upon definition, it may be that we are each talking about different things—or worse and more likely, nothing at all.

Most dictionaries define “radicalization” and “radicalize” as “to make radical.” The word “radical”—especially in a socio-political context—means “extreme,” “fundamental”; as a noun it means “a person who holds or follows strong convictions or extreme principles; extremist.”

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.