Kronik: Forfalskninger i koranen

Koranen begyndte som en kristen bog

Morten Rydal | 31. marts 2011

Den tidlige begyndelse til Koranen skal ikke findes blandt troende muslimer på den arabiske halvø, men blandt østsyriske kristne arabere. Sådan lyser konklusionen i opsigtsvækkende forskning i muslimernes hellige bog

I alle nyere opslagsværker om islam kan man læse, at den moderne koran, den såkaldte Kairo-udgave fra 1923, er nogenlunde identisk med den åbenbaring, profeten Muhammed angiveligt fik i Mekka og Medina for mere end 1300 år siden. Det indrømmes, at der måske kan være tale om en lidt længere proces, men idéen om, at Koranen stort set er forblevet den samme siden 600-tallet, anfægtes ikke.

Mere HER i Kristeligt Dagblad.

Opdatering 4. april 2011 fra WorldNetDaily:

The truth about the Quran revealed

‘Book of terror or book of peace?’ Website offers explanation

By Michael Carl – April 02, 2011

That’s among the questions addressed by former Muslim Al Fadi, who has written a book and hosts a website offering an explanation to that question to non-Muslims, “who want to unravel the mysteries of Islam,” as well as Muslims, “who seek genuine choices far from the culture of ‘indoctrination.’”

Mere HER hos WorldNetDaily.

Anne Bayefsky om Egypten og FN

The People of Egypt Were Abandoned By the U.N. For 30 Years

By Anne Bayefsky | February 03, 2011

There is one main reason why the Obama administration misjudged Egypt entirely – they cannot get their facts straight. For the last two years they have been busy defending the U.N. as an effective vehicle for promoting U.S. interests, in the name of engagement.

But for the three decades of Hosni Mubarak’s reign the U.N. has dedicated its human rights apparatus to demonizing the state of Israel and ignoring the human rights victims in Egypt and across the Arab world. As dissatisfaction and unrest have grown in the region over his presidency, the Obama administration failed to recognize the U.N.’s gross negligence or to take responsibility for ensuring an alternative vehicle to promote democracy. Instead, it legitimized the U.N.’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council (HRC), by joining it.

Mere HER hos Fox News.

Video: ASMEA-konference 2010

Fra en konference afholdt af ASMEA den 4. – 6. november 2010 – “The Middle East and Africa in the 21st Century: Local Trends, Regional Challenges, Global Impacts”. Den mest interessante video er den med Gerald Prunier, som er ret chokerende, men videoerne er faktisk interessante allesammen.

Bernard Lewis indledte konferencen med en tale, som kan ses i posten nedenfor:

• Video: Bernard Lewis i Washington D.C.

Roundtable A: Turkey’s Future as a Democratic Ally

ASMEA 2010 Conference Panel “Turkey’s Future as a Democratic Ally”

Prof. Bassam Tibi ( University of Göettingen )
Prof. Joshua Walker ( Brandeis University )
Prof. Birol Yesilada ( Portland State University )
Mr. Nuh Yilmaz (Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research)

I Q&A-delen hører man bla. debatindlæg fra Bernard Lewis – der er stor uenighed om Tyrkiets udvikling:

Den næste video går hurtigt over til at omhandle militære angrebsstrategier helt ned til det operative niveau. Hvad gør man konkret, hvis USA skal angribe Iran? Den video syntes jeg ikke, var voldsomt interessant:

Roundtable B: “Iran’s Nuclear Program: The Military Option”

Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (USAF-ret.)
CAPT Chuck Nash (USN-ret.)

I denne video hører man bla. om den danske flådes arbejde i farvandet ud for Somalia:

Roundtable C: “The Furture of Military Operations in the Horn of Africa”

RADM Terry McKnight (USN-ret.)

Her får man en god indsigt i et land, men ellers ikke hører alverden om:

Roundtable C: Eritrea and its Discontents

ASMEA 2010 conference discussion led by Dr. Gerald Prunier

Den afsluttende taler her forsøger lidt faderligt at berolige alle:

Lunch Banquet and Keynote Address:

“How to Stop Failing, From Israel to Pakistan”

Dr. Leslie Gelb (President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations)

Caroline B. Glick om Sydamerika og Israel

De vestlige lande er for dårlige til at opbygge og vedligeholde alliancer:

Column One: Why Latin America turned

By Caroline B. Glick

Given the US policy trajectory, it is again obvious that the only one Israel can rely on to defend its interests is Israel.

Israelis can be excused for wondering why Brazil and Argentina unexpectedly announced they recognize an independent Palestinian state with its capital city in Israel’s capital city. Israelis can be forgiven for being taken by surprise by their move and by the prospect that Uruguay, and perhaps Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and El Salvador, will be following in their footsteps because the Israeli media have failed to report on developing trends in Latin America.

And this is not surprising. The media fail to report on almost all the developing trends impacting the world. For instance, when the Turkish government sent Hamas supporters to challenge the IDF’s maritime blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza coastline, the media were surprised that Israel’s ally Turkey had suddenly become Hamas’s ally and Israel’s enemy.

Mere HER i Jerusalem Post. Kan ogsålæses hos Town Hall her eller hos Caroline Glick her.

Michael Ledeen om USA og Iran

Michael Ledeen følger trofast situationen i Iran:

The Blind Who Will Not See: The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Iranian Death Spiral

November 17, 2010 – by Michael Ledeen

I sometimes wonder where some of our smartest people get their ideas.  Take Defense Secretary Bob Gates, for example.  Discussing the possibility of military action against Iranian nuclear weapons facilities, he said: “And if it’s a military solution, as far as I’m concerned, it will bring together a divided nation, it will make them absolutely committed to attaining nuclear weapons and they will just go deeper and more covert.”

I don’t get it.  Is there some sort of evidence? What could it possibly be, aside from the sort I get from my Ouija board?  So I try to imagine one of the tens of millions of Iranian opponents of the regime. Perhaps he’s got a relative in prison; he probably knows people who have lost a family member or two to the regime’s killers and torturers.  He dreams of a free Iran, of an end to the humiliating circumstances in which Iranians now find themselves: widely considered to be terrorists, barbarians, and savages. And then one day somebody blows up a bunch of nuclear labs, some secret military installations, and RG headquarters in the major cities. Does that guy now rally round the supreme leader? I don’t think so.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Kan også læses her hos Family Security Matters.

Video: Tyrkiet, EU, Nato og islamismen

De er faktisk ikke overdrevent interessante at høre på, folkene i dette panel. Hvis man ikke ligefrem studerer udviklingen i Tyrkiet, er er ingen grund til at se denne video. Fra 21. september 2010:

Overcoming Turbulence in U.S.–Turkish Relations And Countering Ankara’s Strategic Drift

Turkey has long been a key NATO partner and a strategic ally of Europe and the United States. However, Turkish and U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially Iran, as well as Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Persian Gulf, have recently diverged. On critical issues, including the Iranian nuclear program and Israeli-Palestinian relations, Turkey currently stands at odds with the United States. Ankara even voted against the United Nations Security Council’s fourth round of sanctions against Iran.

Leading U.S. policymakers blame Turkey’s strategic drift on the European Union’s failure to negotiate accession in good faith. On its current trajectory, Turkey’s relationship with the West could well devolve into a looser affiliation, while Ankara enters into a closer alliance with Iran and other Middle Eastern powers hostile to U.S. global leadership.

Join us as our panelists examine recent trends in U.S.-European-Turkish relations and look at ways for the United States and Europe to address these emerging differences.

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.  – Senior Research Fellow, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies

Sally McNamara  – Senior Policy Analyst, European Affairs, The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom

Walid Phares, Ph.D.  – Director, Future of Terrorism Project, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

James Phillips  – Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies

Præsentationerne varer næsten 6 minutter. Dem kan man evt. springe over:

Bloggere bag tremmer

Det er ikke altid nemt at være blogger. Især ikke, hvis man bor i Kina. Her sidder 50 bloggere i øjeblikket i fængsel på grund af ting, de har skrevet på nettet. Det er langt størstedelen af de 64 mennesker, der på verdensplan er røget bag tremmer for at kritisere deres lands styre online. Det er en af konklusionerne i en ny undersøgelse fra Journalister Uden Grænser, som netop er blevet offentliggjort.

Det skriver EkstraBladet. Det handler om den årlige undersøgelse af graden af pressefrihed i de fleste af verdens lande.

Også i Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam og Egypten er bloggere blevet arresteret og nyhedssider på nettet er blevet lukket. De mest kendte eksempler er WordPress og YouTube, som flere af landene har afskåret deres befolkninger fra at få adgang til. Det har bla. Tyrkiet gjort. Landet indtager plads nummer 101 ud af 169.

I en artikel fra Reporters Without Borders står der, bloggere nu er lige så forfulgte som journalister er. Organisationen nævner specifikt Kareem, som denne blog har skrevet om mange gange:

A young man known as Kareem Amer was sentenced to four years in prison in Egypt for blog posts criticising the president and Islamist control of the country’s universities.

Man kan stadig støtte underskriftsindsamlingen HER.

Her er top 10 – mange lande deler placeringer:

1. Island
1. Norge
3. Estland
3. Slovakiet
5. Belgien
5. Finland
5. Sverige
8. Danmark
8. Irland
8. Portugal

Og bunden:

160. Uzbekistan
161. Laos
162. Vietnam
163. Kina
164. Burma
165. Cuba
166. Iran
167. Turkmenistan
168. Nordkorea
169. Eritrea

Man kan se hele listen på linket til Reporters Without Borders.

Verdens værste regeringer

Freedom House har udpeget i alt otte lande, som organisationen ifølge sine målinger vurderer er de mest undertrykkende.  Det drejer sig om Myanmar, Cuba, Libyen, Nordkorea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan og Uzbekistan.

Hviderusland, Kina, Elfenbenskysten, Ækvatorial-guinea, Eritrea, Laos, Saudi-Arabien, Syrien og Zimbabwe får også bundkarakterer hos Freedom House.

Det skriver dr.dk/Nyheder.

Og landene slipper for billigt, når det gælder om at få på puklen for at undertrykke sine borgere, siger de to organisationer Freedom House og U.N. Watch, og langer dermed ud efter FN’s menneskerettighedsråd.

Ja, det kan man vist roligt sige. FNs Generalforsamling burde sætte ind overfor FNs Menneskerettighedsråd.