Video: Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Nonie Darwish, Simon Deng

Hyl og hvin. Skrig og skrål. Ballade og protester. Demonstrationer og sabotage. Venstrefløjen kan ikke lide ytringsfrihed. Konferencen fandt nu sted alligevel og der er video fra den:

Robert Spencer and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University

Part 1 – Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.

David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. The speakers were introduced by Temple University student, Alvaro Watson. Robert Spencer was the first speaker; listened to by most, although there was the to-be-expect disruption by a few (this happens in a couple of moments during Spencer’s opening remarks) and handled by the speaker (security seemed to just stand by and watch). He was followed by Pamela Geller

Pamela Geller and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University

Part 2 – Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs

David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. In spite of a couple of hecklers, Ms Geller confidently waited them out and then spoke of her organization, dedicated to the individual human rights and to women’s rights. The next speaker was Nonie Darwish.

Nonie Darwish and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University

Part 3 – Nonie Darwish

David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. Ms Darwish spoke of her upbringing as a Muslim In Egypt, of leaving Islam and the Islamic Apartheid against Former Muslim, Christians and Jews. The next speaker: Simon Deng.

Simon Deng and “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University

Part 4 – Simon Deng

David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. Simon Deng was enslaved at the age of 9 by Muslims in the Sudan; a horrible practice that continues throughout the Muslim world today. This was a powerful presentation….

Q and A ( Part 1) on “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University

Part 1 of the Q and A. One heckler remained in the crowd ( ignored by security) and then many of the ‘questions’ were instead statements of propaganda. All handled superbly by the speakers. Audience mic was set too low so I tweaked the audio as best I could when questions were asked. In Part one: Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish and Pamela Geller.

David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. the speakers were Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, Nonie Darwish, Former Muslims United and Simon Deng, a Sudanese Refugee

Q and A ( Part 2) on “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University

Part 2- Q and A continues with a concerned young man asking Robert Spencer about what he has read in the Quran. He doesn’t like the violence in the Quran. The loud mouth heckler shouts out a few times, but the Q and A continues in spite of him. Part 2 is intense and quite interesting . Reminder, the audience mic was set too low so I tweaked the audio as best I could when questions were asked.

David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. The speakers were Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, Nonie Darwish, Former Muslims United and Simon Deng , a Sudanese Refugee

Q and A (Part 3) on “Islamic Apartheid” at Temple University

Part 3 ( end of the Q and A) The students get more argumentative. Their minds are closed but the speakers, Spencer, Geller, Darwish and Deng are politely confident as they continue to address The Islamic Apartheid ….a truth these students refused to listen to.

Reminder, the audience mic was set too low so I tweaked the audio as best I could when questions were asked.

David Horowitz Foundation and The Students For Intellectual Freedom hosted this conference at Temple University on the evening of April 23, 2012. The speakers were Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, Nonie Darwish, Former Muslims United and Simon Deng , a Sudanese Refugee.

Artikel om balladen:

Islamic Apartheid Conference Sparks Protest

by Ali Watkins on Apr 25th, 2012

Dean of Students Stephanie Ives foreshadowed the inevitable contention in Kiva Auditorium at the Islamic Apartheid Conference, sponsored by Temple University Students for Intellectual Freedom, yesterday, April 23.

“I ask you all to keep the principles of free speech and civil discourse in mind tonight,” Ives urged the packed auditorium prior to the conference’s start.

Featuring controversial panelists Robert Spencer, director of the blog “Jihad Watch,” Pamela Geller, former-Muslim Nonie Darwish and Sudanese refugee Simon Deng, the conference addressed issues such as honor killing and Jihad in the Arab-world, and specifically focused on Islam’s contribution to said issues.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. The Temple News her.

Save the Misunderstanders of Islam!

By Robert Spencer – April 16, 2012

Why don’t the leading Muslim groups in the United States care about Muslims?

It’s a serious question. Its urgency became clear yet again last week, when three more warriors of Allah got their just desserts: Tarek Mehanna, a young Muslim in Massachusetts, got seventeen and a half years in prison on Thursday for conspiring with jihadis to murder American soldiers in Iraq. The same day, Agron Hasbajrami, a Muslim who lives in Brooklyn, pled guilty to trying to aid terrorists and attempting to go to Pakistan to join them. And Jubair Ahmad, a twenty-four-year-old Muslim from Woodbridge, Virginia, was sentenced Friday to twelve years in prison for aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba, a jihad terrorist group in Pakistan. But these cases point up yet again an even larger problem: the denial and deception of Muslim spokesmen and organizations in the U.S.

Nowadays when fresh arrests, trials, guilty pleas and convictions of jihad terror plotters come down the pike, Muslim leaders and Islamic advocacy groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) don’t even bother to issue condemnations. They don’t have to. After over ten years of constant propaganda from the mainstream media, government and law enforcement about how Islam is religion of peace and how anyone who commits violence in its name is misunderstanding and misusing its basic tenets, most Americans take for granted, if they hear about the likes of Tarek Mehanna, Jubair Ahmad and Agron Hasbajrami at all, that they are not true Muslims.

Mere HER hos Atlas Shrugs.

Opdatering:

Fighting the fascists at Temple University

Pamela Geller tells of battle to present anti-Shariah message over protesters

Last week, Islamic Apartheid Week was announced at Temple University in Philadelphia. A singular brave student organization at Temple wanted to counter the blood libel and propaganda of Israeli Apartheid Week, which is so common and so awful on college campuses, with the reality of the Shariah and the oppression, subjugation and persecution of women and non-Muslims living under Islam.

No sooner was it announced than the Islamic smear machine went into high gear. Numerous articles appeared in the Philadelphia City Paper, Naked City and elsewhere, smearing and defaming the speakers (Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Simon Deng and me), but most egregiously me. Hamas-CAIR sent out a string of email alerts in support of the Occupy Muslim student groups’ protests.

Mere HER i WND.

Andre kilder: FrontPageMagazine, FrontPageMagazine, FrontPageMagazine, FrontPageMagazine, The Land of Israel,

Video: Pamela Geller, Kathy Shaidle & Michael Coren

Bloggere hos Michael Coren – fra i går. I Afghanistan myrder man små piger, hvis de går i skole. Allah vil ikke have det, siger koranen. Samme hadefulde skrift skal uddeles til alle hustande i Tyskland. Pamela Geller:

Michael Coren with Pamela Geller: islam in Germany

Følgeteksten til ovenstående video er denne artikel:

Merkel ally says Islam not part of Germany

By Madeline Chambers – Apr 19, 2012

A leading conservative politician said on Thursday that Islam did not belong in Germany, fuelling tension at a conference on integrating Muslims that also debated a controversial Salafist campaign to hand out copies of the Koran across the country.

“Islam is not part of our tradition and identity in Germany and so does not belong in Germany,” Volker Kauder, head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in parliament, told the Passauer Neue Presse.

Fortsætter HER hos Reuters. Og om terroristen, Omar Khadr:

Michael Coren with Kathy Shaidle: Omar Khadr

Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury joins Michael Coren to suggest ways in which terrorist Omar Khadr can be dealt with when he gets to Canada.

Video: Mark Durie i Chicago

Fra The Moody Church i Chicago november 2011. Den første video handler især om kristendom og forfølgelse af kristne, som beskrevet i Biblen:

Biblical Response To Persecution – Dr. Mark Durie

Om kristendom i Mellemøsten:

The Legacy of the Eastern Church in the face of Persecution – Rev. Bassam Madanay

Mark Durie om dhimmier:

Non-Muslims Living Under Islamic Law & Call To Prayer

Desuden en artikel:

Islam’s Tradition of Breaking the Cross

by Mark Durie – March 9, 2012

In the recent destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Benghazi, Libya (YouTube Video), you can see not just the desecration of graves, but attacks on crosses.

The radical Muslims who are kicking over and smashing headstones marked with crosses (and one with a Star of David), also took pains to demolish a tall “Cross of Sacrifice” standing at the edge of the cemetery.

This was no “furious mob” on a “rampage,” as a Daily Mail report put it. Nor was there any evidence in what they were saying that they were angry or reacting to Koran burning by the US military.

Mere HER hos Stonegate Institute eller her hos The Middle East Forum.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali om muslimsk forfølgelse af kristne

Skarp artikel:

The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World

Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Feb 6, 2012

From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith.

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.

The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.

Mere HER i The Daily Beast. The New English Review har artiklen her. AEI her. Nina Shea skriver artikel om artiklen:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Breaks the Media Silence on Anti-Christian Persecution

By Nina Shea – February 7, 2012

Best-selling author, film director, women’s-rights advocate, former Dutch parliamentarian, Islamist death-threat survivor, refugee from a Somalian forced marriage, and a fierce champion of individual freedoms — that of others as well as her own — Ayaan Hirsi Ali has demonstrated her courage once more. In the cover story she penned for the current issue of Newsweek, entitled “The War on Christians,” which is excerpted in The Daily Beast, Hirsi Ali gives a tour d’horizon of the most politically incorrect subject of all human-rights reporting: the ongoing religious persecution of Christians in the Muslim world. It makes heartbreaking reading.

She criticizes the media for giving short shrift to this development, favoring instead the narrative that Muslims are the victims of religious persecution by the West. She writes:

Mere HER hos AINA. National Review Online her.

Opdateret.

Video & artikel: Sudan & Sydsudan – jihad

Halalslagteri for fuld styrke. Sand islamisk “fred”:

Sudan in Crisis

By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi on November 1, 2011

South Sudan is now independent, but its northern neighbor continues to press in an Islamist direction.

Three months after the birth of South Sudan, how is the northern neighbor of the world’s newest nation faring?

The country, witnessing minor demonstrations, generally managed to escape the large-scale protests that have swept across the Middle East and North Africa since last winter, but as the Financial Times reports, Sudan’s economy has been hit severely by the secession of the south, which was by far Khartoum’s largest source of oil revenues.

Indeed, the oil boom in the early 2000s made Sudan one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Yet owing to a 75 percent drop in oil revenues since July, the Sudanese pound — Khartoum’s currency — has dropped by up to 60 percent on the black market, while annual inflation reached 21 percent last month, with the price of meat now reaching $10 per kilogram. Of course, these developments could well re-ignite popular protests.

Mere HER i The American Spectator. Kan også læses her hos Middle East Forum.

Fra 2. september 2011 - The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN om jihad:

Sudan Christians Suffering Ethnic Cleansing

The Nuba Mountains are home to one of Sudan’s largest Christian communities. And they are being tormented by daily by the nation’s Islamic regime.

Se eventuelt også:

• Jihad i Sydsudan?

Andre kilder: Google News, CBN News, BCNN1, Middle East Forum, Middle East Online, San Francisco Chronicle, AINA, Barnabas Fund, Barnabas Fund, BosNewsLife, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Compass Direct News, ReliefWeb, AllAfrica, Worthy News, Voice of America, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, WorldNetDaily, WorldNetDaily, BBC, BBC, BBC, BBC, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Yahoo News, Yahoo News, Reuters, Satellite Sentinel Project, Sudan Tribune, B.T., B.T., Jyllands-Posten,

Video: Pamela Geller – to flotte foredrag

Geller kan bare det der. Skønt foredrag - ser ud til at være fra den 18. oktober 2011:

Banned Speech at the Hyatt: Pamela Geller, “Truth is the New Hate Speech”

Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas. This event was originally to be held at the HyattPlace in Sugar Land but was canceled with less than 30 hours notice after the hotel received one email threatening to protest her appearance. The event was relocated to the Sugar Land Community Center.

Der er flere overlap, men pyt:

Pamela Geller Speaks at Fort Lauderdale Tea: “There is a War on the Truth”

See what is banned, prohibited from the public square by Islamic supremacists and their tools that enforce the restriction of free speech under the sharia. Huge thanks to David DiCrescenzo of American Patriots Press for the video of my remarks made at the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party , October 4, 2011.

Hyatt Place Hutton Hotels and the 20 other hotels in Nashville that turned away our Freedom Conference take note — they have sided with the enemies of our cherished freedoms.

Aflysning af arrangementer sker bare igen og igen:

Hotel boots anti-sharia conference

Chad Groening – November 1, 2011

A terrorism expert and Islam watchdog says a Nashville hotel has caved to Islamic supremacism.

The Tennessee Freedom Coalition describes itself as a group dedicated to keeping sharia law from being established in the United States. It had booked space for November 11 at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville to host a 300-person event called “The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference” — and event touted as the first national conference on sharia and the “Islamization of America.”

But Fox News has reported that when hotel officials learned that sharia critics Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were scheduled to speak, they promptly canceled the event and returned the deposit, citing security concerns.

Mere HER hos OneNewsNow. Og igen:

Staver seeking actual cause of hotel’s ‘security concerns’

Chad Groening – 11/4/2011

In the opinion of a Christian law firm, a Nashville hotel was unjustified in canceling an upcoming conference that features several staunch critics of radical Islam.

As previously reported on OneNewsNow, the Tennessee Freedom Coalition had booked space at Hutton Hotel in Nashville to host a 300-person event called “The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference” — an event touted as the first national conference on sharia and the “Islamization of America.”

Mere HER hos OneNewsNow.

Opdateret.

Tip: Tak til Asdic.

Simon Deng om FN & arabisk racisme

Eller skulle der have stået FNs der i overskriften? Fra den alternative Durban-konference 20. – 22. september 2011:

The United Nations: Accessory to Slavery and other Crimes Against Humanity

by Simon Deng – October 19, 2011

Like you, I came to this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance to protest this third Durban conference which is an effort based on a set of lies, and organized by nations who are themselves are guilty of the worst kinds of oppression.

Durban III will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel. The UN has lost its way. Its obsession with the Jewish obvious: . For over 50 years, 82% of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state – Israel. Hitler could not have been made happier.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Somalia: It’s Islam, Stupid…

Ja,  hvad skulle hungersnøden ellers skyldes?

Famine in Somalia: It’s the Politics…stupid

By Richard Dowden – July 28, 2011

“Here we go again”. These words should have been heard in November last year. Not since. That’s when the drought early warning lights flashed in Eastern Africa. No one should be saying it now. But now we are seeing pictures of starving Somali babies – pictures that we were promised we would never see again.

The aid agencies are out with their begging bowls as if this had never happened before. To be fair, some of the best have been issuing alerts for some time based on the early warning systems which measure rainfall and food prices. They were put in place after the Ethiopian famine of 1984. The alarm sounded in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008 and each time the response arrived, but often late.

Mere HER hos Royal African Society eller her i African Arguments.

Video: Walid Phares & Frank Gaffney

Walid Phares fælder egentlig en meget hård dom over præsident Obama, men han siger det så pænt. Der er tale om bedrag:

Walid Phares: The Obama administration is fooling the American public

The Muslim Brotherhood could very well take over in Egypt, Syria, Tunesia, Libya. The Brotherhood is about Sharia law, taqiyya and a caliphate, all experts agree. So: Why is the Obama administration trying to fool the American public, Walid Phares askes. From Secure Freedom Radio on July 14, 2011. Interviewer: Frank Gaffney.

Walid Phares kalder USAs tilnærmelser til Det Muslimske Broderskab for en monumental fejltagelse:

Andre kilder: Big Peace,

Jihad i Sydsudan?

I visse dele af Afrika og Mellemøsten, føres jihad kun i skyggen af et khat-træ. Og der er masser af khat i Sudan, hvor planten vokser vildt. Sydsudan eksisterer ikke endnu, men narkomane jihadister stømmer allerede til for at myrde kristne. Masser af respetable islamkritikere er ellers optimister på det kommende Sydsudans vegne. Det er der absolut ingen grund til. Til gengæld kan man lære noget ved at læse artikler fra de store kristne organisationer. Denne her fra Eternal Perspective Ministries er til at brække sig over:

• Horrors in Sudan: an Urgent Plea for Prayer from Make Way Partners

Den skinhellige halalpresse informerer kun om halvdelen. Bloomberg har heller ikke opdaget, hvad der i virkeligheden sker:

• Sudan Fighting Causes Almost 113,000 to Flee Abyei Border Region, UN Says

I Foreign Policy tror de, at krigen handler om olie. Det gør den ikke:

• Trouble in Khartoum

Der er ikke så mange steder i verden, hvor en khatnarkoman kan pleje sin afhængighed og være jihadist samtidig. Sydsudan er deres helt store chance for at møde 72 jomfruer uden at få abstinenser. Om ikke andet så i form af småpiger eller kvinder, som man selv voldtager.

Khat har mange navne i området. Her er et udvalg: Catha edulis, khat, kot, qat, tschat, miraa, Abyssinian tea, African salad, Bushman’s tea, chat, gat, kat, oat, qaadka, quat.

Opdatering 22. juni 2011:

Nord- og Sydsudan har underskrevet en aftale om afmilitarisering af den omstridte region Abyei.

Fredsbevarende styrke fra Etiopien skal sættes ind, skriver Jyllands-Posten HER.

Opdatering 28. juni 2011:

Genocide In Sudan – Again

by Stephen Brown on Jun 27th, 2011

Imagine the outcry if the American government was suddenly to engage in a campaign of extermination against the Navajos, one of America’s aboriginal peoples. The protests, especially from the Left, would be deafening.

But what would be unimaginable in America today is currently taking place in Sudan, whose rulers are no strangers to genocide. Sudan’s original people, the African Nuba tribes inhabiting central Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, are currently facing a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Arab and Islamist central government, whose leader, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, is currently under indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Darfur.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Opdatering 14. juli 2011:

The Precarious Birth of South Sudan

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – July 13, 2011

On July 9th 2011, South Sudan formally proclaimed its independence. In the capital Juba, in front of a cheering crowd, it officially announced the birth of the new African State, followed by the oath of office uttered by the new president of the republic, Salva Kiir. After last January’s referendum, in which the people of South Sudan gave unanimous support to secession, South Sudan, with a Christian and animist majority, separated from the Muslim North. The secession came after fifty years of wars between Southern rebels and the Sudanese central government in Khartoum that caused the death of millions of people.

Mere HER i Hudson New York.

Andre kilder: Christian Today, Time Magazine, Yahoo News, Andrew Bostom,

Sydsudan – verdens yngste land

Sudan kan sætte gang i et afrikansk forår

Af Tore Hamming

Sudan overses, mens verden følger oprørene i Mellemøsten og Nordafrika. Men når Sydsudan om få måneder officielt bliver selvstændigt, kan det sætte gang i en lignende massebevægelse i resten af Afrika. En bevægelse, der en gang for alle kan gøre op med kolonitidens fingeraftryk.

Mere HER i Ræson.

Mellemøsten: Christopher Hitchens pessimisme

What I Don’t See at the Revolution

As someone who has witnessed many stages of upheaval, whether in Eastern Europe, Asia, or South Africa, the author puts forth a wary prognosis for the brave Egyptians who thronged Tahrir Square: they likely haven’t got the resources to break the chains of tyranny.

By Christopher Hitchens – April 2011

When anatomizing revolutions, it always pays to consult the whiskered old veterans. Those trying to master a new language, wrote Karl Marx about the turmoil in France in the 19th century, invariably begin haltingly, by translating it back into the familiar tongue they already know. And with his colleague Friedrich Engels he defined a revolution as the midwife by whom the new society is born from the body of the old.

Surveying the seismic-looking events in Tunis and Cairo in January and February of this year, various observers immediately began by comparing them to discrepant precedents. Was this the fall of the Arab world’s Berlin Wall? Or was it, perhaps, more like the “people power” movements in Asia in the mid-1980s? The example of Latin America, with its overdue but rapid escape from military rule in the past decades, was also mentioned. Those with longer memories had fond recollections of the bloodless “red carnation” revolution in Portugal, in 1974: a beautiful fiesta of democracy which also helped to inaugurate Spain’s emancipation from four decades in the shadow of General Franco.

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Muslimsk slavehandel

Muslimsk slavehandel har nu varet i 1400 år

Kirsten Valeur | 19. februar 2011

Den senegalesiske antropolog Tidiane N’Diaye har beskrevet arabiske muslimers 1400-årige udnyttelse, drab og deportationer af millioner af afrikanere. Slaver er ved kastrering blevet afskåret fra at få efterkommere. N’Diaye betegner dette underbelyste emne som et tilsløret folkemord

Man associerer almindeligvis slavehandelen med europæernes transport af afrikanere tværs over Atlanten i tætpakkede skibe til plantagearbejde i Amerika. Fem procent af denne transport gik til USA, og deres efterkommere er som befolkningsgruppe et vidnesbyrd om deportationen. De største aktører inden for slaveri-institutionen var imidlertid ikke europæerne, men de arabiske muslimer, og deres ofre var ud over afrikanere også cirka 1.250.000 europæere.

Mere HER i Kristeligt Dagblad.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia,

Jihad i Tunesien?

Der kommer ikke noget egentligt demokrati ud af oprøret, det er pålidelige iagttagere enige om. Men hvad der ellers vil ske med landet, er der ikke nogen helt klare bud på. Robert Spencer, Josef Joffe, Caroline Glick, Daniel Pipes, Khaled Abu Toameh, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Fisk:

A Jihad In Tunisia

by Robert Spencer – January 18, 2011

When Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled from power and fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin hailed this “Jasmine Revolution” as a “remarkable event: a popular, secular revolt in a Muslim country” that “poses an opportunity and a risk for the U.S.” Mona Eltahawy, also writing in the Post, explained that “a 29-day popular uprising against unemployment, police brutality and the regime’s corruption” brought down Ben Ali. But there are numerous indications that there were other sources of dissatisfaction in Tunisia with Ben Ali — including the relatively secular character of the government. Pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist forces are poised to take advantage.

The popular perception is that Ben Ali was brought down by the will of the people. The French government declared that Tunisians, by toppling Ben Ali, had “expressed their democratic will.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her support for “real democracy” in the North African nation, adding in a message to officials of the new Tunisian government: “I appeal to you to use this deep break in Tunisia’s history as a new departure.”

Mere HER hos Human Events.

Why Tunisia Isn’t a Tipping Point for the Arab World

Don’t expect a new wave of democratization.

Josef Joffe – January 18, 2011

How to explain the Tunisian revolution? By consulting Samuel Huntington—not the Huntington of Clash of Civilizations fame, but the author of The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, published in 1991. His model is too complex to be laid out here in all of its subtleties. But the basic message, to borrow from Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, is: “It’s the economy, stupid!” We should also add education, urbanization, and globalization—all those items that go into the tale “The Making of a Middle Class.” Tunisia has it all, and that is why it now sticks out like a bloody thumb from the rest of the Arab world, that vast arc from Rabat to Damascus where politics remains frozen, where the birth rate keeps dwarfing economic growth, and where King or Colonel is despotism’s name.

The Tunisian revolt fits Huntington’s model to a T. Looking at the third wave of democratization between 1974 and 1989, he found that rising wealth spells falling tyrants. How much money did it take? A per-capita income between $1,000 and $3,000, which would now be adjusted for inflation. Of the non-democracies which moved into that range in the 1970s and 1980s, three-quarters got rid of their overlords. To illustrate the point, Huntington recalls how the Spanish finance minister predicted in 1960 that his country would tumble into the democratic column once it had reached $2,000. Huntington’s terse comment: “It did”—in 1975.

Mere HER i The New Republic.

Our World: Tunisia’s lessons for Washington

By Caroline B. Glick – January 17, 2011

Tunisian president’s regime was not the only thing destroyed. The two main foundations of ‘expert’ Western analysis of the Mideast have also been undone.

If at the height of the anti-government protests in Tunisia last week, Israel and the Palestinians had signed a final peace deal, would the protesters have packed up their placards and gone home?

Of course not.

So what does it tell us the nature of US Middle East policy that at the height of the anti-regime protests in Tunisia, the White House was consumed with the question of how to jump start the mordant peace process between the Palestinians and Israel?

Mere HER i Jerusalem Post eller her i Townhall. Kan også ses på Glicks blog her.

OBS – opdatering: Nu kan artiklen nedenfor også læses på dansk HER på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside.

Turmoil in Tunisia

by Daniel Pipes – January 18, 2011

The sudden and as-yet-unexplained exit of Tunisia’s strongman, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 74, after 23 years in power has potential implications for the Middle East and for Muslims worldwide. As an Egyptian commentator noted, “Every Arab leader is watching Tunisia in fear. Every Arab citizen is watching Tunisia in hope and solidarity.” I watch with both sets of emotions.

During the first era of independence, until about 1970, governments in Arabic-speaking countries were frequently overthrown as troops under the control of a discontented colonel streamed into the capital, seized the presidential quarters and the radio station, then announced a new regime. Syrians endured three coups d’état in 1949 alone.

Mere HER på Daniel Pipes’ hjemmeside eller her i The Washington Post. Kan også læses her i National Post.

Will Arab Dictators Learn The Lesson?

by Khaled Abu Toameh – January 18, 2011

The toppling of Bin Ali has brought joy to the Arab masses and panic to their corrupt leaders. The majority of Arab presidents and monarchs, however, continue to live in denial. They are only concerned with one thing: how to maintain their regimes and fortunes.

Arab dictators think that by banning Facebook and Google they can hide the sun with one finger.

It is not that these dictators have not learned the lesson; they do not want to learn the lesson.

The deposed Tunisian dictator and his family thought that they could keep their people in the dark forever. Obviously, they were mistaken: in the age of modern technology and Youtube, it is almost impossible to hide the truth. The Tunisian uprising is a tsunami that is threatening to sweep the entire Arab world, and there is not much the Arab dictators can do to stop it.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Tunisia Grows Up

Here’s hoping the Jasmine Revolution improves upon the legacy of Habib Bourguiba, the nation’s first president.

By Christopher Hitchens – Jan. 17, 2011

Visiting Tunisia three years ago, I thought that it was easy enough to see the main problem. The state was publicly dedicated to modernity and secularism and development—what used so long ago to be called “Westernization”—but it didn’t really trust its citizens to be grown-ups. The country had only had two heads of state since becoming a republic in 1957, after winning independence from France in 1956, and the second of them had come to power in a palace coup. I wrote that without ever seeing President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, I could have passed an exam in his superficial physical characteristics, since his face was displayed everywhere one looked. He had been known to exceed 90 percent of the vote at election time; so seldom a good sign. Policemen were to be seen in Internet cafes; another distressing symptom. The official excuse for all this was that special measures needed to be taken against Islamic extremists, but those adopting this seductive line had forgotten what Saul Bellow says at the opening of Augie March: “Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining.”

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

Robert Fisk siger også  noget om sagen:

The brutal truth about Tunisia

Bloodshed, tears, but no democracy. Bloody turmoil won’t necessarily presage the dawn of democracy

By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent – 17 January 2011

The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in Jordan, and presidents – another very old one in Egypt and a young one in Syria – because Tunisia wasn’t meant to happen. Food price riots in Algeria, too, and demonstrations against price increases in Amman. Not to mention scores more dead in Tunisia, whose own despot sought refuge in Riyadh – exactly the same city to which a man called Idi Amin once fled.

Mere HER i The Independent.

Note: Når arabere taler om korruption, så mener de meget ofte moralsk korruption – altså uislamisk opførsel. Den detalje går – ligeledes meget ofte – helt hen over hovedet på vestlige journalister, der tror, at den megen snak om mellemøstlig korruption er lig med bestikkelse, nepotisme og lignende. Når det gælder islamiske lande og magthavere, er det mere reglen end undtagelsen, at der er tale om begge dele.

Andre kilder:  euronews,

Caroline Glick om det nye Sydsudan

Mon Sydsudan får fred nu? Man kan have sine tvivl:

Our World: Sudanese crossroads

By Caroline B. Glick – January 10, 2011

With the West openly supporting southern Sudanese independence, a new war’s consequences will not be limited to Sudan itself.

On Sunday, the southern Sudanese began voting on a referendum to secede from the Republic of Sudan and establish their own sovereign nation. By all accounts, they will soon secede from the Arab, Islamic country and form an independent African, Christian and animist state.

The consequences of their actions will reverberate around the world.

Mere HER i Jerusalem Post eller her på Caroline Glicks blog. Townhall har den her.