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It is time to banish wishful thinking about Islamism
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali – February 8, 2012
A year ago many western commentators were celebrating an Arab spring. The internet generation personified by Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive, would take over power from military dictators and absolute monarchs in democratic elections. Those of us who warned that political Islam would be the principal beneficiary of elections in north Africa and the Middle East were dismissed as scaremongers.
Ever since 9/11, opinions in the west have been sharply divided on the popularity and legitimacy of political Islam. A minority – and I am one of them – argued that Islamism as a political doctrine was held by the mainstream in most of the House of Islam and particularly among Arabs; that violence was inherent in Islamist theory; and that if Islamists won state power they would not deliver prosperity.
Ufatteligt, at Dershowitz kan nå alt det, manden rent faktisk udretter. Døgnet har kun 24 timer, men Dershowitz trodser tilsyneladende naturlovene. Lidt af det nyeste:
Alan Dershowitz & Mona Eltahawy square off “Egypt will only ever be a fair-weather friend”
Desuden ser man David Gergin og Suzanne Malveaux:
Fra The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference April 29, 2012, Marriott Times Square – især om Iran og Israel:
Prof. Alan Dershowitz’s speech at JPost conference
Although critics of the Helsinki mega-mosque have warned that the building will be used by the Iranian regime to recruit impressionable youths to Hezbollah, Finnish politicians have embraced the Shia mosque as a symbol of multicultural progress.
A new mega-mosque has been inaugurated in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Unlike most mosques in Europe, which cater to Sunni Muslims, the mosque in Helsinki ministers to Shia Islam.
The Helsinki mosque has been paid for by the Islamic Republic of Iran; critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group Hezbollah in Europe.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf – ham med ground zero moskeen, Cordoba Initiative – synes, at “profeten” var en revolutionær feminist. Det tyder ikke på at Spencer og Coren ser sådan på den debat, Mona el-Tahawy har rejst. Sun News TV om ”Making Muslims look bad“:
Robert Spencer & Michael Coren on Mona Eltahawy – May 26, 2012
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch joins to discuss why we can’t speak the truth about Islam.
Og mere video – hele det show, vi så glimt af i Corens Arena:
Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed discuss FP “Why DoThey Hate US” piece
Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed discuss FP “Why Do They Hate US” piece on Melissa Harris Perry Show April 28th 2012
Eltahawy’s artikel er denne – Politiken har lavet en dansk oversættelse, som kan læses HER:
Why Do They Hate Us?
The real war on women is in the Middle East.
By Mona Eltahawy | May/June 2012
In “Distant View of a Minaret,” the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep off the ceiling and has time to ruminate on her husband’s repeated refusal to prolong intercourse until she too climaxes, “as though purposely to deprive her.” Just as her husband denies her an orgasm, the call to prayer interrupts his, and the man leaves. After washing up, she loses herself in prayer — so much more satisfying that she can’t wait until the next prayer — and looks out onto the street from her balcony. She interrupts her reverie to make coffee dutifully for her husband to drink after his nap. Taking it to their bedroom to pour it in front of him as he prefers, she notices he is dead. She instructs their son to go and get a doctor. “She returned to the living room and poured out the coffee for herself. She was surprised at how calm she was,” Rifaat writes.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy. Og imam-fjolset Rauf og Leila Ahmed fra videoen ovenfor har også et bidrag:
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf:
As Islam has spread throughout the world, it has combined religion with native cultural practices. Many centuries later, separating the religion from the underlying culture has become difficult. That’s why Islam as practiced in Egypt differs from, say, Islam as practiced in Malaysia.
Mona Eltahawy describes cultural practices in Egypt and the Middle East that predate Islam yet have been embraced by many people now as part of Islam. The practice of genital mutilation of women, for example, is found only in Africa. If it were part of Islam, it would be practiced by Muslims all over the world.
Mona Eltahawy venter på den andre revolusjonen i Midtøsten, den som skal frigjøre kvinnene.
En engelsk versjon av dette intervjuet er også tilgjengelig.
Nils August Andresen – 18. mai, 2012
Mona Eltahawy, få artikler i Foreign Policy har skapt så mye opphetet debatt som din artikkel om kvinnehat i Midtøsten – ”Why do they hate us?” – i siste utgave av bladet. For en utenforstående er det slående hvor smertefullt selvkritikk og offentlig skittentøyvask later til å være i mange kontekster. Det er ikke unikt for den arabiske verden; vi ser kanskje noe av det samme i den ilske tyrkiske reaksjonen på enhver diskusjon om folkemordet på armenerne, eller i den forsinkede og halvhjertede russiske unnskyldningen for Katyn-massakren. Hvorfor tror du essayet har skapt så sterke reaksjoner?
Mere HER hos norske Minerva. Den voldsepisode, Eltahawy blev udsat for, er omtalt her på bloggen:
Muslim Journalist Challenges Sharia, Gets Accused of ‘Hate’
by Robert Spencer – May 31, 2012
Mona Eltahawy receives the typical treatment given to defenders of Muslim women.
Mona Eltahawy’s piece in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy criticized a series of practices that are justified in Islamic law, including child marriage, wife-beating, and female genital mutilation. Counter-jihadist activists and writers have been calling attention to these human rights abuses for years, but Eltahawy’s piece was singular in that she is a Muslim journalist.
Ændringer i navneskikken viser bl.a., hvilken social position forældrene mener, der tilkommer barnet. Det bliver især tydeligt for pigerne, som knapt havde navne i det gamle Rom, skriver Geoffrey Cain.
Nonie Darwish, Cynthia Farahat, Frank Gaffney – May 10, 2012
From Secure Freedom Radio. Commercials and host remarks cut. Nonie Darwish & Cynthia Farahat’s remarks in full. Nonie Darwish explains how Shariah views women as ¼ human. Cynthia Farahat analyzes the role of women in modern Egyptian society.
Audioen er optaget umiddelbart efter denne konference:
Opdatering 17. juni 2012 – Farahat vidnede ved en høring i december 2011 for Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission:
Cynthia Farahat: Jihad & the War on Egypt’s Coptic Christians
Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat testifies before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives. Reps. Frank Wolf and James McDermott presented “Under Threat: The Worsening Plight of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.” Other witnesses included Kathy Fitzpatrick (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State); Nina Shea (Director, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute); Dina Guirguis (Member, Egyptian American Rule of Law Association); Adel Guindy (President, Coptic Solidarity International); and Raymond Ibrahim (Middle East specialist and Associate fellow, Middle East Forum).
Se også artikel om Farahats vidneberetning i The Blaze:
Undercover Mosque - nu fra Sverige. Fantastisk, at den knaldrøde presse stadig opretholder løgnen om den vældige multikultur og den åh så moderate islam. Flerkoneri, kønssegregering, vold og taqiyya:
Med dold kamera i svenska moskéer med SVT:s Uppdrag Granskning
Hela Uppdrag granskning 2012-05-16 Uppdrag granskning i kväll var andlöst spännande. Janne Josefsson skickade in två Niqab-klädda kvinnor i 10 svenska moskéer. En del moskéer blev uppringda. Programmet var mycket bättre än man kunde ha anat. Inga ursäkter, inga “det finns liberala muslimer”. Bara fakta rakt på, bara intervjuer och inspelningar med dold kamera. Det är skrattretande och fruktansvärt avslöjande när en person ur Stockholms-moskéns ledning på slutet av programmet, efter att den avslöjande inspelningen har spelats upp, säger: -Ni kunde ha kommit till oss och frågat hur vi sköter vår verksamhet, ni kunde ha fått filma. Janne Josefsson: -Det var väl tur att vi filmade med dolda kameror, annars hade vi inte fått reda på vad som verkligen pågår i moskén. Muslimska ledare uppmanar kvinnor till underkastelse Dold kamera avslöjar dubbla budskap. Utåt är muslimska ledare i svenska moskéer noga med att framhålla kvinnans och mannens lika värde. Uppdrag gransknings dolda inspelningar ger en helt annan bild — då uppmanas kvinnan tvärtom till total underkastelse.
Stakelbeck on Terror: Islamization in America (with Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller)
CBN News Terrorism Analyst Erick Stakelbeck sits down with Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, two leading voices in the fight against Islamization of the West.
Den dødbringende fortælling om Det Arabiske Forår spiller på den vestlige kulturs gode ønsker for alle. Det forekommer langt mere anstændigt at håbe, at folk, der så længe har været undertrykt, omsider vil kunne ånde frit, end at erkende, at de simpelthen er blevet trætte af den gamle kalif og vil have en ny.
Mere HER hos Sappho. Kan også læses på engelsk hos The New English Review her.
Bevis jeres værd, IMR
Klumme af Kit Louise Strand – 11. maj 2012
Efter årtiers politisk korrekte udmeldinger er der bevægelse i Institut for Menneskerettigheder, men direktøren har stadig ikke forstået, hvad menneskerettigheder går ud på.
Terrorister og islamister har snart vundet. Vesten er færdig lige om lidt. Endnu en af de absurde sager, der efterhånden dukker op flere gange dagligt nu:
Opdatering – mere om vores allahdommelige, kønssegregerede fremtid:
Creeping Sharia: Muslim Girls Convince Michigan High School To Hold Segregated ‘Girls ONLY Prom’
This Prom Has Everything, Except for Boys
By Patricia Leigh Brown – May 1, 2012
The prom countdown was nearly complete, the do-it-yourself Greek columns, pink and white tulle bows and plastic flutes with the “Once Upon a Dream” logo awaiting the evening of evenings.
But as she looked at her reflection in the mirror, her one-shoulder lavender gown matching the elaborate hijab that framed her face in a cascade of flowers — a style learned on YouTube — Tharima Ahmed knew that what lay ahead was more than simply a prom.
Har muslimernes profet overhovedet levet, spørger Robert Spencer, der er aktuel med bogen, Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins.
Mere HER i Sappho. Originalen kan læses på engelsk her i The American Thinker.
Racismeanmeldelser som politisk instrument
05. maj 2012 – artikel af Sapphos medarbejder
Dette kommenterede foto på Facebook fik et medlem af Enhedslisten til at anmelde en DF-politiker til politiet.
Der blev talt højt og tydeligt om kristendom og islam, da de to teologer Massoud Fouroozandeh og Marianne Søndergaard lørdag den 28. april præsenterede deres netop udkomne bog, Global Jihad: Islams sjette søjle, ved en reception i Odd Fellow-logen i Odense.
Og et arrangement den 15. maj 2012 kl. 19:30 på Vartov, Grundtvigstuen, Farvergade 27, 1463 København K:
Den amerikanske forfatter Norman Berdichevsky besøger København
Hans netop udkomne bog, “An Introduction to Danish Culture”, bevidner ikke bare hans dybe indsigt i dansk kultur og historie, men først og fremmest hans kærlighed til og beundring for Danmarks bidrag til de værdier, der er grundlaget for den vestlige civilisation.
Christopher Caldwell anmelder to bøger. Dels “Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation” af Robert S. Leiken og dels “After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent” af Walter Laqueur:
Europe’s Other Crisis
May 4, 2012 | Christopher Caldwell
In two separate incidents in March, Mohammed Merah, a French-born French citizen who thought he was waging jihad, ambushed four soldiers around Toulouse, killing three of them. A week later, he shot dead three children arriving for morning classes at a nearby Jewish school, along with a young rabbi who was father to two of them. The children were aged eight, six, and three. Merah recorded the killings on a micro-camera mounted around his neck and sent the footage to Al Jazeera, which did not air it. Shortly before he died by gunfire, Merah told the soldiers who had surrounded his apartment that he regretted not having done more of what he did.
These were crazy deeds, and one can argue about what role insanity played in them, but something else needs to be candidly acknowledged: the killer was not a lone wolf. He had a measure of community support and a great deal of family support. His brother Abdelkader professed himself “proud” of his relation to the murderer. His mother refused to convince her son to surrender to police. His father threatened to file a wrongful-death suit against the French state. The contemporary culture of politicized Islam, as deracinated Internet-surfers understand it, is what Merah believed he was fighting for. He was upset about French laws that limit the wearing of the Muslim veil among schoolgirls. Someone had whipped him into a frenzy over Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
Mere HER hos The New Republic. OBS: Jeg har valgt at linke til printversionen for at undgå den fjantede sideinddeling, som er her.
François Hollande er Frankrigs nye præsident. Nicolas Sarkozy har tabt. Artiklen herunder er skrevet før valget, – på trods af datoen:
The Lady with the Popular Front
France’s rightists have grown too big to ignore.
May 7, 2012 • By Christopher Caldwell
The French prefer “tenacity” to “cooperation” by a measure of 51-44 percent, according to a poll about political attitudes published this election season. By 57-41 percent they like “hard work and courage” better than “social justice and solidarity.” Such attitudes have not been widespread in France since the war. On Friday, Dominique de Villepin, the foreign minister who led France out of the Iraq war coalition in 2003, professed himself “frightened” of France’s right-wingers. As Attorney General John Mitchell said of the United States in 1970, “This country’s going so far to the right you’re not even going to recognize it.”
De islamistiske organisationer æder sig ind på vore frihedsrettigheder, sagde svensk-iranske Bahareh Andersson på et møde i det svenske Trykkefrihedsselskab. Men ingen i Sverige vil lytte til hende.
Det er aldrig arabernes skyld, hvis noget går galt. De vil snarere opfatte sig som ofre for onde tunger.
I mit sidste indlæg om det arabiske forår kom jeg ind på ordet “mazlum”, der betyder “krænket”. Ordet har en personlig betydning for mig, fordi jeg først så det i en artikel om arabernes livsindstilling, der var skrevet af en forhenværende bekendt, Hussein S.
Mere HER hos Sappho. Cain har to gange tidligere skrevet om Mazlum – Sappho:
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
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
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.
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.
Nonie Darwish – The Devil We Don’t Know / The Dark Side of Revolution in the Middle East
A candid interview with Author, Public Speaker, and Human Rights Activist, Nonie Darwish, concerning her latest book, “The Devil We Don’t Know / The Dark Side of Revolution in the Middle East.”
Og audio. En muslim ringer ind og siger, at “profeten” var drag og homoseksuel. FrontPageMagazine skriver:
Islamic Apologists vs. Nonie Darwish — on The Jamie Glazov Show
Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio.
This week’s guest was Nonie Darwish, the author of the new book, The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time.
Artikler – Tapsons interview er ret godt:
The Devil We Don’t Know, Part I
by Mark Tapson on Apr 12th, 2012
The “Arab Spring.” The mainstream media clung to this phrase last year in their giddy haste to promote what they saw as a flowering of freedom-loving, democratic uprisings across the Arab world, for which they were eager to credit President Obama’s famed Cairo speech as partial inspiration. Instead, it unfolded with freedom-hating Islamic fundamentalists seizing political dominance, and the Arab Spring came to look more a Muslim Winter. What went wrong?
Mark Tapson: You write that “liberty and equality for women in the Middle East are closely linked to defeating sharia.” But you note that “Islamic feminism is a twisted kind of feminism that champions pride in Islamic bondage.” Can you elaborate on that?
Nonie Darwish: It is a fact that there is hardly any Islamic feminist movement. How could it be that female citizens of the most oppressive anti-women system on Earth fail to take the opportunity of the Arab Spring to change their destiny and the destiny of their daughters and granddaughters? The answer to this question is very complex and part of the larger problem of Islam itself. Muslim women are at a much greater disadvantage if compared to Western feminists who did not have to overcome death penalties, humiliation, flogging and societal rejection and isolation if they violate religious laws.
Michael Coren with Robert Spencer: islamic terrorism
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch joins Michael Coren via Skype to discuss the bombing of a Nigerian church during Easter celebrations by members of the Religion of Peace.
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Framing Geller and Spencer For Murder
By Robert Spencer – April 09, 2012
Shaima Alawadi, murdered in her home, and for awhile, it was the fault of Pamela Geller and me. A hijab-wearing mother, in death Alawadi quickly became much more prominent than she had ever been in life. Paired with Trayvon Martin, she was made into the symbol of allegedly rampant anti-Muslim bigotry in the U.S., and the impetus for “Hoodie and Hijab” marches that protested the supposed dire predicament of racial and religious minorities in America today. There was only problem with all this handwringing and finger-pointing: Alawadi’s murder was not a hate crime at all.
This revelation Friday morning, along with the release of information that made it look much more likely that Alawadi was a victim of honor killing than of murderous “Islamophobia,” stopped a few of the more circumspect among the Islamic supremacists: the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) tweeted a claim that it had always had doubts about the “hate crime” claim. Islamic supremacist writer Reza Aslan, however, who had initially blamed Pamela Geller and me for the murder, reacted with scornful indifference to the news disproving his claims, and continued to promote Hoodie and Hijab rallies.
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.
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.
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.”
Mark Steyn joins Michael Coren to discuss Trayvon Martin, the Toulouse Terrorist, Justin Trudeau vs Patrick Brazeau, Human Achievement Day, and, of course, Burkina Faso.
Et lille interview:
Q&A: Mark Steyn
by Phil Morgan on March 29, 2012
commentator Mark Steyn is awfully concerned about America’s future. He’s Hillsdale’s Eugene Pulliam Visiting Fellow in Journalism and will be teaching a two-week class “How to Write a Column.” He shared his thoughts on how much of a weirdo Rick Santorum is, what’s wrong with the Hunger Games, and why there is nothing like a good game of polo with a goat’s head.
PM: In a piece you wrote on Rick Santorum called “Weird Politics” you describe him as weird because he has traditional values. Are people who are traditional really considered weird today?
MS: It was interesting. Anytime I went into an ABC show all the people said, “How can Rick Santorum be a credible presidential candidate? He’s so weird.” Then I actually asked what’s weird about him. He’s weird because he believes marriage is between a man and a woman. He’s weird because the family is the basic building block of society. In fact, it was non-weird for almost all of human history. What’s interesting to me is not Santorum’s weirdness, but the fact that so much of what he says is now presumed to be weird. I think he’s right on the basic issue, which is that the crisis America faces is not primarily an accounting problem or a bookkeeping problem. We’re broke for a reason. This country is the most broke nation in history because it is not the republic of limited government and self-reliant citizenry De Tocqueville observed two centuries ago. So he’s right in the extent that the [financial] brokenness is a symptom of the problem not the problem and in that sense I don’t find Santorum half as weird as 90 percent of his critics.
Mere HER i The Hillsdale Collegian. Omtalte artikel er denne i National Review Online:
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