Video: Robert Spencer vs. Nadir Ahmed

Fra maj 2012 – Spencer skrev på Jihad Watch i går:

Last Thursday I was in Chicago and agreed to debate an Islamic apologist named Nadir Ahmed, who had been longing for that moment for years. But as you watch him getting shredded in the video below, you will at once understand why Ramadan, Esposito, Aslan and the rest decided that in response to my invitation to debate, [...] “silence is sometimes an answer.”

Og videoen, hvori man blandt andet diskuterer, hvad der er tilladt indenfor islamisk slaveri og anden lavpraktisk dhimmihåndtering. Må slaveejeren voldtage sine kvindelige slaver? Må man dræbe vantro, blot fordi de er vantro? Meget vigtige spørgsmål, selvsagt, eftersom de vedrører europæernes fremtid:

“Does Islam Teach Violence?” Robert Spencer vs Nadir Ahmed

Video & audio: Walid Phares om Egypten og Iran

Iran og Det Muslimske Broderskab har delt Mellemøsten imellem sig. Fra EWTN:

Walid Phares on The World Over with Raymond Arroyo: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Walid Phares speaks about the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and persecution of Christians in Egypt.

Programmet herunder hedder “Context with Lorna Dueck” og er fra 18. januar 2012:

Egypt Uprising: One Year Later | Egypt Revolution | Tahrir Square | 1119

www.ContextwithLorna.com | The Egyptian uprising and struggle for democracy. With the Muslim Brotherhood now elected, we’ll hear about the tensions in the country from Christians and Muslims. Joining Lorna for the discussion throughout the program are: Walid Phares, Ramy Botros, Ghada Melek and Muhamad Khatib.

Fra 12. januar 2012:

Brotherhood’s ‘Lenin’ Plotting Islamic Super-State

Der følger en artikel med, som man kan læse her hos CBN. Se eventuelt også The Washington Post:

• Final results confirm Islamists winners in Egypt’s elections

Og audio:

Helen Glover Show

February 03, 2012

Dr Walid Phares on Iran

Mideast expert Dr Walid Phares from FOX News joins Helen to talk about rising tensions between Iran and Israel.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 8 minutter.

Andre kilder: Voice of America, Voice of America, Catholic Tide, Wikipedia,

Video: Interview & forelæsning med Bernard-Henri Lévy

Forelæsningen nederst efterlader seeren fuldstændigt stum af forbløffelse. Hvordan kan man være så naiv? Først et interview, hvori Lévy fortæller om lidt af hvert - fra SHOWstudio den 16. december 2011:

SHOWstudio: In Your Face: Interviews – Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and journalist, the founder of New Philosophers school, discusses his approach to philosophy and politics in the second interview of the In Your Face series – a twist on the coaxing, cajoling tradition of interviewing prevalent in art and fashion journalism, our ‘In Your Face’ interview series pits interviewer against interviewee in a collection of confrontational conversations. With subjects drawn from the worlds of art, fashion and celebrity this series pushes the boundaries of a typical face-to-face interview into a one-on-one face off.

Og dagdrømme om Libyen:

Talk: Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Libyan intervention and universal values – IQ2 talks

This talk took place at the Royal Geographical Society on 13th December 2011.

Event info:

Bernard-Henri Lévy

He was in Libya six times during the uprising. He was on the frontlines and amongst the very first foreigners to enter Tripoli the day after it was liberated. He took the rebel military commanders three times to meet Nicolas Sarkozy. He was with Sarkozy and Cameron in Benghazi and Tripoli and witnessed the curious nature of their relationship.

Bernard-Henri Lévy is France’s best-known public intellectual, passionately committed to the causes he believes to be just. In this rare appearance in London for Intelligence Squared BHL will be lecturing on liberal interventionism, the race for the US presidency, French politics, the crisis in Europe and what he really thinks about Cameron and Sarkozy.

Questions: Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Libyan intervention and universal values – IQ2 talks

Desuden en artikel om økonomi:

Downgrade Moody’s!

Bernard-Henri Lévy – Dec 14, 2011

Ratings agencies, with the careless batting of an eye, can bring down entire economies. Yet their decisions are veiled in mystery and cheapened by conflicts of interest.

These rating agencies, these institutes whose triple-As make the planet of finance quake and the real planet tremble, these oracles, these modern gods didn’t see the 1997 crisis coming. They understood nothing of the subprime catastrophe.  Four days before it went bankrupt, in 2001, they continued to give the energy broker Enron good marks. Up to the very last moment, they supported a Lehman Brothers that was circling the drain of bankruptcy. During the current euro-zone crisis, not content to have failed to see it coming, they aggravated the situation by keeping Greek securities in the basket of first class world bonds and, in so doing, contributed to the laxness of a government that preferred to sink deeper in debt rather than to review its accounts, clean up its public finances, and reform. In short, these agencies whose task it is to foresee have committed blunder after blunder. These agencies of credit have behaved like agencies of discredit. And the dictatorship they impose upon the markets stands back to back with faults, defaults, and an abuse of authority that might tempt one to laugh were the consequences not tragic.

Mere HER i The Daily Beast.

Kritikken hagler ned over Tyrkiet

Lidt artikler:

Analysis: Israel, Egypt, Turkey – shifting sands

By Zvi Mazel – September 18, 2011

The many commentators who have lamented in the past few days about the isolation of Israel in the Middle East have apparently forgotten that this is nothing new. Arab armies tried to destroy the newborn state in 1948; successive attempts having failed as well, Arab states dealt with the existence of the Jewish state as with something which had to be endured, not accepted. Yes, peace was achieved between Israel and Egypt, then Jordan, but this was a peace between governments, not peoples. Incitement against the Jewish state never stopped, finding fertile soil in the minds of youngsters taught from the cradle that Jews are the enemies of Islam and will be destroyed on Judgment Day.

What was left were agreements fueled by transient political interests.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post.

Erdogan Has Good Reason To Be Crazy

September 18, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan brings to mind the story about the housewife who calls her husband during rush hour. “Be careful driving home on the Beltway, dear,” she advises. “The news says that there’s a maniac driving in the wrong direction.” “What do you mean, ‘a maniac’?,” he replies. “Everybody’s driving in the wrong direction!”

Now that Turkey has threatened Europe with a “freeze in relations” if Cyprus (as planned) assumes the presidency of the European Union in 2012, it must seem to Erdogan that everyone is driving in the wrong direction. Earlier this month Turkey declared “null and void” the United Nations’ Palmer Commission report, which supported Israel’s right to enforce a blockade against Gaza. That was a minor gaffe, because United Nations dicta have the authority of revelation to the liberal media, except, of course, when they support Israel. It’s one thing for Turkey to freeze relations with Israel — we take it for granted these days that everybody hates Israel — but the Europeans? Everybody likes the Europeans, who have replaced their defense ministries with an answering machine that says, “We surrender.” And over Cyprus? Even Russia, Turkey’s key trading partner and the host for millions of Turkish guest workers, is aghast at Erdogan’s tantrum. Russia has strong ties to Cyprus.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Turkey’s Moralpolitik: World Leader in Imprisoning Journalists

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – September 23, 2011

Some analysts, under the impression that Turkey is severing relations with Israel because Turkey claims that it is its duty is to champion “human rights” in the Middle East, have written that Turkey is abandoning “realpolitik” for “moralpolitik.”

According to a large number of academics and journalists in the Western media, especially in Europe, Turkey has chosen to follow a new ethical policy based on moral attitudes. This simplistic and naïve interpretation of the Turkish agenda is becoming so that the international community fails to denounce human rights abuses in Turkey. In Italy, several media sources, such as the newspaper La Stampa, wrote that Turkey is an example of democracy to be followed in the Middle East, whereas the Washington-based Middle East Institute wrote in an article published by Dr. Gonul Tol that Turkey is balancing strategic interests with idealism.”Turkey views its conduct of foreign policy as a balance between diplomacy and hard power to pursue its interests, both moral and geopolitical,” Tol wrote..

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Erdogan Creates International Complications for Turkey

Dore Gold – September 23, 2011

While Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has been using his anti-Israeli rhetoric to build up Turkey as a new great power in the Arab world, his neo-Ottoman policy is sparking  a reaction among other countries that could pose for him serious problems in the period ahead. For Erdogan has not only been using aggressive rhetoric against Israel. In the last few weeks the Turkish government has also been threatening Cyprus for developing its undersea gas resources in the Mediterranean. As a result, Russia has been drawn in to neutralize Turkish behavior.

Cyprus just signed an agreement with the Texas-based Noble Energy, which is in a partner in developing Israeli maritime gas fields, as well. Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Bağış let it be known that the Turkish Navy could intervene if Greek Cyprus does not call off the project. He said “That’s what a navy is for.”  As a result, the Russian Foreign Ministry publicly backed the right of Cyprus to develop its Mediterranean gas. Cyprus, in turn, described Russia as “a shield against any threats by Turkey.”

Mere HER hos Dore Gold.

Opdatering:

Turkish Prime Minister Cuts All Ties with Syria

And more from the Turkish Press

by AK Group – September 23, 2011

Turkey has suspended talks with Syria and may impose sanctions on Damascus, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said, the clearest sign yet that Ankara has parted ways with President Bashar al-Assad over his bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Andre kilder: The New York Times, Asia Times, Pajamas Media,

Video: Beslan 1. september 2011

Årsdag for tragedien. Russia Today ser tilbage på 2004:

School Horror: Children of the siege retrace terror attack

Seven years on – Russia commemorates the victims of the deadly hostage-crisis that took place in a school in the town of Beslan, Russia’s republic of North Ossetia. Over three hundred people died during the brutal siege, most of them children. And as RT’s Madina Kochenova reports, the tragedy has left behind wounds unlikely to ever heal.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia,

Sookhdeo: Moderat islam er en myte

Denne lidt ældre artikel er skrevet i lyset af terrorbombningerne i London, som fandt sted den 7. juli 2005. Patrick Sookhdeo har et godt overblik. Og en lysende, analytisk begavelse:

The myth of moderate Islam

By Patrick Sookhdeo – 30th July 2005

Patrick Sookhdeo says Islamic teaching has been aggressive for 1,400 years, and requires radical re-interpretation

The funeral of British suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer was held in absentia in his family’s ancestral village, near Lahore, Pakistan. Thousands of people attended, as they did again the following day when a qul ceremony was held for Tanweer. During qul, the Koran is recited to speed the deceased’s journey to paradise, though in Tanweer’s case this was hardly necessary. Being a shahid (martyr), he is deemed to have gone straight to paradise. The 22-year-old from Leeds, whose bomb at Aldgate station killed seven people, was hailed by the crowd as ‘a hero of Islam’.

Some in Britain cannot conceive that a suicide bomber could be a hero of Islam. Since 7/7 many have made statements to attempt to explain what seems to them a contradiction in terms. Since the violence cannot be denied, their only course is to argue that the connection with Islam is invalid. The deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Brian Paddick, said that ‘Islam and terrorists are two words that do not go together.’ His boss, the Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, asserted that there is nothing wrong with being a fundamentalist Muslim.

But surely we should give enough respect to those who voluntarily lay down their lives to accept what they themselves say about their motives. If they say they do it in the name of Islam, we must believe them. Is it not the height of illiberalism and arrogance to deny them the right to define themselves?

Mere HER i The Spectator. Jeg har valgt at linke til printversionen for at undgå den irriterende sideinddeling, som ses her.

Patrick Sookhdeo er - foruden at være islamkritiker – også præst, forfatter og stifter af Barnabas Fund. Og på fondens hjemmeside kan man høre en audio i to dele fra “Focus on the Family”. Talen starter som en slags prædiken, men tager hurtigt form som et stærkt foredrag om muslimsk grusomhed overfor kristne. Part to er Q&A, som starter efter at studieværterne har fået snakket af, – det er de næsten 13 minutter om. Man går ikke glip af alverden ved at spole forbi – det samme gælder slutningen. Fra februar 2008:

Radical Islam`s Threat to the Western World – Focus on the Family interview with Patrick Sookhdeo

Focus on the Family is featuring Patrick Sookhdeo on their daily syndicated broadcast on Tuesday, February 5th and Wednesday, February 6th. The talks will air on stations in the United States, and will be available via the internet after being broadcast.

Link til audio hos Barnabas Fund HER.

Andrew C. McCarthy om sharia og islam i USA

Lidt hygge fra USA:

Christie’s ‘Crazies’

Sharia is not a figment of our imagination.

Andrew C. McCarthy – August 6, 2011

This “sharia-law business is crap . . . and I’m tired of dealing with the crazies!” So blustered Chris Christie. Bluster is the New Jersey governor’s default mode. It has certainly served him well. When directed at surly advocates of New Jersey’s teachers’ unions — who, after all, deserve it — bluster can apparently make a conservative heartthrob out of a pol whose bite is bipartisan moderate, however titillating his bark may be.

The style is so effective that Christie seems to be trying it out on everyone. A few weeks back, a local reporter had the audacity to ask His Honor whether he believes in creationism or evolution — a question that seemed more pertinent than impertinent in light of the controversy over whether the former ought to be taught in the schools that the governor’s 9 million constituents subsidize to the tune of $11 billion annually. Yet his answer was to growl, “That’s none of your business.”

Mere HER i National Review Online. Robert Spencer har også taget emnet op:

Christie’s Sharia Crap

by  Robert Spencer – August 9, 2011

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this year appointed a Muslim attorney, Sohail Mohammed, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County.  Mohammed was the lawyer for Mohammed Qatanani, a Muslim Brotherhood operative who pled guilty to membership in the jihad terror group Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.  But when questioned about the wisdom of the appointment, Christie stoutly defended Mohammed and went out of his way to slam opposition to Sharia in the U.S. as “crap.”

What is actually “crap” is the idea that Chris Christie is fit to be President of the United States.

Mere HER i Human Events.

Opdatering den 10. august 2011 – Frank Gaffney interviewer Andrew C. McCarthy om ovenstående artikel på Secure Freedom Radio her.

Andre kilder: Atlas Shrugs, Daniel Pipes,

Blondine søges til sex, forefaldende arbejde og slaveri

Russian Blonds Wanted for Islamic Sexual Slavery

By Nonie Darwish – June 13, 2011

When Muslim Sheikhs discuss the topic of sexual slavery of women, which is allowed in the Qur’an, it comes out a bit politically incorrect even to the taste of the majority of Muslims, who have long forgotten that slavery is a well- established institution in Islam. Saudi Arabia officially abolished slavery as late as 1962, not because Islam made the Saudis do it, but because the Saudis wanted to save face after an international cry against slavery. But now some Muslims are demanding its return. So Muslim spin misters are advocating the embarrassing, but legal, topic through the mouths of Muslim women.

A Kuwaiti woman who is called an “activist” and former candidate to the Kuwaiti parliament, spoke to the Kuwait Times about the establishment of a new law permitting men to buy and sell non-Muslim girls, captured in jihad, as sexual slaves in order to protect Muslim men against seductive sexual immorality. The Arabic Al Arabiya had more details on what that woman, Salwa al-Mutairi, is advocating:

Mere HER hos AINA – FrontPageMagazine her.

Arabisk slavehandel med børn

The Dark World of the Arab Child Slave Trade

by Stephen Brown on Jun 10th, 2011

In a story last week in the British newspaper The Sun, a private investigator stated that Madeleine McCann, the subject of probably the world’s most famous unsolved kidnapping case, is in the United States. The British girl was three years old when she went missing five years ago from a seaside resort in Portugal, where her parents were vacationing. The Portuguese police, in what has been termed a “bungled investigation,” at first accused the parents of the abduction but later cleared them. Portuguese security officials halted their investigation to find the missing child in 2008 after stating she had probably been “stolen to order.”

Since her disappearance, numerous alleged sightings have been made of the little girl across Europe, Africa, in North America and in Australia. The investigator making the latest claim concerning McCann’s whereabouts is an amateur sleuth originally from Angola. He told The Sun that a Portuguese pedophile ring, also responsible for other child abductions, took the McCann girl and has handed his findings over to authorities. The claim that a pedophile ring is responsible for McCann’s disappearance has been made before, especially concerning one in Belgium. And while Madeleine McCann girl may have very well been snatched by such evil hands, it is surprising that an equally depraved institution — one of gigantic size — has never even been considered by investigators or the media as McCann’s possible kidnapper: namely, the Arab child slave trade.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Audio: Alan Dershowitz & Albert Mohler

Fra Albert Mohler Radio den 23. maj 2011. Om religion og moral – komplet udskrift her:

Moral Reasoning in a Secular Age: A Conversation with Professor Alan Dershowitz

Thinking in Public – May 23, 2011

Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 53 minutter. Interviewet slutter efter 43 minutter. Resten af tiden snakker Mohler alene.

Andre kilder: Delivered By Grace,

Michael Nazir-Ali om islamsk forfølgelse

Freedom in the Face of Resurgent Islam

Michael Nazir-Ali – May 2011

As I have recently returned from a tough but rewarding visit to Iraq, my mind has turned quite naturally to the role of religion in that part of the world and particularly to what is happening to Islam there and, conversely, to how it is affecting the political and social situation in these countries.

We have so often heard the mantras of “violent extremism”, “Islamism” or even “Islamist terrorism” that we are in danger of not noticing that the common element in so much of the turmoil in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and West Africa is not extremism or terrorism as such but a resurgent Islam. [...]

Mere HER i Standpoint Magazine.

Opdatering 8. maj 2011 – artikel om ovenstående:

Anglican Bishop Blasts West’s Reticence on Christian Persecution

By Christian Today | May 07, 2011

An Anglican bishop in the Church of England has criticized the West’s reticence on violence against Christians and other minority communities in the Middle East, South Asia and other parts of the world.

Writing in the latest edition of Standpoint magazine, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said the United Nations had taken the necessary steps to protect people in Libya from attacks by their own government, but questioned why the United Nations or the West was “unable to tackle the widespread and growing persecution of Christians?”

Mere HER i Christian Today eller her i Christian Post.

Afghanistan: Hvilke strategier har vi?

Længere essay her:

Reforming the Village War

The Afghanistan Conflict

by David Katz – Spring 2011

In the strategic debate over Afghanistan, two opposing schools of thought have emerged. The first asserts that a durable victory requires a functioning, legitimate, and representative nation-state; the second contends that U.S. national security concerns can be satisfied without committing to a wholesale restructuring of the country. The predominate school advocates surging ground troops and deeper national commitment; its counterpart seeks solution through long-distance punitive strikes using cruise missiles, unmanned predator drones, or raids by special operations forces.

Limiting the strategic response to whether America is either spending billions of dollars and suffering thousands of dead to restructure whole countries or is a distant sword bearer antiseptically raining down death and destruction is, however, a false choice. Washington’s challenge is to field a decisive and cost-effective global strategy implemented by successful tactics to bring a durable victory.

Mere HER i The Middle East Quarterly. Kan også læses her hos Family Security Matters.

Ruslands muslimske fremtid

Putin Putting Russia’s Fate in Iranian Hands?

Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret) – February 21, 2011

Rather than the January 24th suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport (that claimed 36 lives and wounded almost 200) giving rise to a soul searching by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, it has sadly given rise to hypocrisy on his part.

Moscow’s investigation into the attack is still ongoing. But earlier this month, in a very chilling video, Doku Umarov—the self-styled emir of the Causasus Emirate—claimed responsibility for it.Threatening further attacks, Umarov said, “With Allah’s grace, we will make this year for you a year of blood and tears.”

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Audio: Året der gik i USA, England og Danmark

USA overlader vi til Mark Steyn, som har sine kommentarer på audio. Man kan følge med i en komplet udskrift her:

Year In Review With Mark Steyn

The Hugh Hewitt Show – Dec 29, 2010

The Columnist To the World tries to cover 16 big stories of 2010 in just under ten minutes.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player.

Opdatering – nogen har været så venlig at youtube Steyn:

Englændernes oplevelse af året der gik, kommer fra Hudson New York:

UK Rundown 2010: Shaken but not Stirred

By A. Millar – December 27, 2010

With an election having taken place in May, 2010 should have been the year in which politics took center stage. Instead, the pressing issues of the day were largely ignored during the campaign period, as they have been for the last decade. Partly as a consequence, 2010 turned into the year in which politics spilled over into the streets.

Welfare cuts were, perhaps inevitably, an issue that the parties somewhat tackled. Still, students – the base of Britain’s third party, the Liberal Democrats – expressed their outrage at the university-fees hike proposed by the coalition government (of which the Lib Dems are the junior partner). The students were also whipped up into rioting throughout November and December by various socialist organizations – a situation that appears to have remained off the radars of both the authorities and the media.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Danskernes 2010 har Jyllands-Postens Troels Heeger og Søren Villemoes skrevet om:

Terrorkavalkade 2010

31. december 2010

2010 blev terrorens år. Det startede med det modbydelige økseoverfald på Kurt Westergaard d. 1. januar og sluttede med et større terrorangreb mod Jyllands-Posten, der ser ud til at være afværget i sidste sekund af PET og svenske SÄPO i samarbejde. Der skal herfra bloggen lyde en uforbeholden tak til de mange anonyme tjenestemænd, der tilsyneladende endnu engang har gjort et fremragende stykke arbejde. Men det kan ikke ændre på den ubehagelige kendsgerning, at 2010 slog alle rekorder i antallet af afværgede og mislykkede terrorforsøg, samt religiøst/politisk motiverede trusler og overfald her i Skandinavien.

Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.

Video: Victor Davis Hanson om Europa, Asien og Amerika

Victor Davis Hanson har igen været gæst hos Hoover Institutions Peter Robinson. Videoen er blevet frigivet i denne uge:

Victor Davis Hanson – The New Old World Order

Hoover Institution | October 14, 2010

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian, professor of classics, and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of more than a dozen and a half books. His most recent volumes are Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, which Dr. Hanson edited, and The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, a volume of Dr. Hanson’s own essays.

Beginning with an explanation of why the post-Cold War New World Order is rapidly breaking apart, Victor Davis Hanson sees a world where nations are returning to the ancient passions, rivalries, and differences of past centuries. In light of this world transformation, Hanson looks at key challenges the United States faces around the globe: in Europe, Asia, Russia, Mexico, and Iran.

Posten opdateret.

Video: Beslan 6 år efter

Denne video er fra Russia Today. Programmet, der har en ganske utrolig indledning, ser tilbage på 1. september 2004 og de dage, der fulgte efter. Hele 334 mennesker blev dræbt i gidseldramaet, - heraf 186 børn:

Wounds, screams & tears: RT in Beslan 6 years after tragedy

RT’s special report “Town of Little Angels”. Six years have passed since the bloody tragedy in Beslan. The siege of a school No. 1 in North Ossetia at the beginning of the scholastic year lasted for three days. People in the small town of Beslan and over the world had never seen such savagery. The terrorist attack claimed 335 lives, including 186 children. To this day, people cannot forget the tragedy, especially those mothers who lost their children. But life goes on.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia, Wikipedia,

Video med og artikel af Dr. Norman Berdichevsky

Der er egentlig utroligt, at det stadig strømmer ud med støtteerklæringer til Danmark så mange år efter muhammedkrisen. I denne flotte artikel, der handler om pressens blinde øje mht. den muslimske voldskultur, nævnes Danmark igen:

Jihad against non believers and deviates, Shi’ites, Alawites, Ahmadis, Druze, Bahais, Yazidis:

The Media’s Vain Search for Why Muslims “Become Radicalized”

By Dr. Norman Berdichevsky – August 24, 2010

Our media and government have essentially promoted an ignorance of what motivates Muslims to undertake violent acts preferring to focus on their individual problems of being marginalized in Western societies and subject to discrimination, estrangement due to their inability to integrate or be successful. The look of benign puzzlement on the face of Attorney General Holden when asked about the common factor of “Radical Islam” in the behavior and attempted acts of terrorism by those individuals apprehended and questioned over the past year and a half of the Obama administration reveals a profound avoidance of following the dictum if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.

No, for Obama and Holder, for The New York Times and for a large majority of those who pretend to be journalists not only in the United States, but in practically all Western societies including paradoxically, those like Spain and the U.K. that have already suffered atrocious acts of wanton terrorism, the guilty are “certain people who act from a variety of motives”.

Mere i Canada Free Press HER.

Denne video om islam i Nordafrika stammer fra et symposium ved navn ”Decline, Fall and Islam”og er en geografisk tilgangsvinkel til islam-problematikken.

Det er i og for sig en lidt “tør” gennemgang og videoen vil måske kun være noget for de meget islam-interesserede.

Man hører især om de problemer Spanien har haft gennem tiderne. Symposiet blev afholdt af tidsskriftet, The New English Review den 18. – 19. juni 2010: 

Norman Berdichevsky NER Symposium Nashville

Norman Berdichevsky discusses the complex geography of Islam in North Africa

Video: Andrew Bostom om jihad

Interessant gennemgang af jihad-fænomenet. “Profeten” Muhammeds myrderier og erobringstogter belyses i detaljer. Dhimmi-status skæres næsten ud i pap og muslimsk slaveri bliver også forklaret. Den amerikanske Rabbi Shaul Praver interviewer Andrew Bostom i Rabbi Rock TV Show. Fra 8. oktober 2005:

Andrew Bostom

Rabbi Shaul Praver interviews Dr. Andy Bostom: Editor of a huge anthology, “The Legacy of Jihad” of previously untranslated works about Jihad, it’s meaning and history.

Den gode rabbi er lidt længe om at få afleveret sin indledning, men det kan man jo spole forbi:

Og andel del af interviewet:

Audio: Bernard-Henri Levy om venstrefløjen

En af de mere fornuftige venstrefløjsere, når det gælder islam. Og hans accent er altid lige charmerende:

The Brian Lehrer Show

Barbarians on the Left

Bernard-Henri Levy, writer, philosopher, and the author of Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism (Random House, 2008), takes the political left to task for its human rights record.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Opdatering: Udsendelsen kan høres som mp3 i Windows Media Player HER.

Video: Beslan 5 år efter

Russia Today ser tilbage på gidseldramaet på skole nummer 1, der startede den 1. september 2004:

Beslan: 5 years on 
 
A group of armed men, wearing masks, took 1,128 hostages at School Number 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia.

It was five years ago, but people still remember that horror. The word Beslan became synonymous with sorrow after the tragic loss of so many innocent lives. 333 hostages died, 600 wounded, and 10 Special Forces soldiers were killed

What is life like for those who escaped from that hell? Especially for those who lost their loved ones or saw them severely wounded?