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Mere EU? Nej tak! Fra CBC – The Lang & O’Leary Exchange:
Harvard University history professor Niall Ferguson talks about Europe’s banking crisis
The board of directors of Spain’s troubled bank, Bankia, has asked the Spanish government for €19 billion ($24.5 billion Cdn) in financial support.
Andre kilder: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,
Om EU, Tyskland og Sarrazins nye bog:
You wanted brave, Mr Draghi? Well, meet Mr Sarrazin
By Christopher Caldwell – May 26, 2012
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi urged European governments to make a “brave leap” towards greater fiscal union this week. Seldom do people who call for intellectual bravery genuinely want it. As the Bundesbank warned German taxpayers of the “considerable risks” they had already taken on by vouching for Greek debts, two men who have won adulation for their new ways of thinking about the eurozone crisis spoke in Berlin. Neither received a warm reception.
Thilo Sarrazin, the economist, Social Democrat and former Bundesbank governor, is nothing if not brave. Two years ago his profound book about the decline of Germany’s social market economy – The Abolition of Germany – became the biggest-selling non-fiction book of the past decade, largely for its bluntness about immigration, education and welfare. His new book, Europe Doesn’t Need the Euro, topped the bestseller lists as soon as it went on sale on Wednesday.
Mere HER hos iPolitics. Artiklen er egentlig fra The Financial Times, men de har låst den inde.
Endnu et interview fra Wilders besøg i USA:
Geert Wilders & Frank Gaffney – May 4, 2012
From Secure Freedom Radio: Geert Wilders from the Dutch Party of Freedom, analyzes the Islamist threat in Europe and America
Genialt foredrag. Opdatering – udskrift hos Citizen Times her:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A Secular Spring or an Islamist Winter? – April 14, 2012
This is a brilliant speech: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a human rights activist especially for the rights of women under Islam. She is utterly fearless in her condemnation of repressive regimes and religions where the rights of dissidents, male or female are oppressed.
She was born in Somalia, the daughter of a political opponent of the ruling dictator. Raised as a Muslim, she attempted to be a devout believer but fled an arranged marriage to what initially was a sanctuary in Holland. She became a Dutch citizen and was elected to parliament from 2003 to 2006.
She left the Netherlands after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was making a film about the treatment of women under Islam. Ayaan had scripted the film and she was targeted as being the next to die.
Ayaan now lives and works in Washington DC and her current work is researching the relationship between Islam and the West. She is very interesting and critical about the failure of Western liberals to defend free speech and the rights of women under Islam.
She speaks here at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne in a talk entitled “The Arab protests of 2011: A secular Spring or an Islamist Winter?”
Videoen kan også ses her eller her hos australske ABC. Og en prisoverrækkelse – der tales tysk i starten. Leon de Winter taler efter godt 3 minutter – på engelsk. Hirsi Ali taler efter ca. 19 minutter. Vi hører blandt andet om tragedien i Norge:
Verleihung des Axel-Springer-Ehrenpreises 2012
Preisverleihung des Axel-Springer-Preises für junge Journalisten am 10. Mai 2012 in der Berliner Ullstein-Halle: Einführung durch Marc Thomas Spahl, Laudatio von Leon de Winter, Preisübergabe durch Friede Springer und Dankesworte von Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Opdatering – fandt et interview:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Protecting Women From Militant Islam
Even in democratic nations, mothers and daughters are held back from basic freedoms
By Kathleen Burke – May 15, 2012
In the United States, author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali continues her work on behalf of Muslim women and girls with her eponymous Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation. She spoke with Smithsonian about the Foundation’s mission and its ongoing efforts to protect Muslim women in this country from oppression and violence.
Could you discuss the work of the AHA Foundation, the essence of your goal and what your future plans are?
The foundation’s mission is to protect women from violence justified in the name of culture and religion. By religion, first and foremost I mean militant Islam. The violence that these women encounter is the result of their desire to be free. The freedom they seek is to pursue education; freedom to work, and most importantly, freedom to own their own bodies. To be mistresses of their own bodies, they want to choose their own mate, to choose how many children they have. In some Muslim households, this is not possible.
Mere HER hos The Smithsonian.
Vi skal lige se lidt Farage for at fejre, at det er weekend. Capital Account fra Russia Today den 9. maj 2012. Lauren Lyster interviewer:
Nigel Farage on the “EU Titanic” and the “Rebirth of National Socialism in Europe”
Welcome to Capital Account. It’s Europe Day! And what a day it is, at a time when the political parties seeing gains in multiple countries are those who want less Europe, not more. In fact, some of them, like Golden Dawn want a rejection of all of Europe. We speak with Euroskeptic member of European parliament and leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage about his recent speech in Brussels, his non-wine tasting event and his prospects for the European Union’s future.
Nigel Farage has talked often about the lack of democracy, the rise of technocracy, and predicted a country like Greece was headed towards some kind of revolution. We also speak to him about his party’s recent results in local elections in the United Kingdom, where UKIP had its best showing ever. For years, since the early 1990s when Farage was a founding member of the UK Independence party, Farage has been a Euroskeptic, pushing for the UK to pull out of the EU. For years he was a lone voice in European Parliament calling the Eurozone project a disaster.
And sticking to Europe, is Greece the poster child for what happens when the price mechanism of democracy, which has been suppressed by technocracy finally unleashes itself? Will technocrats, eurocrats, central bankers and big money succeed in manipulating it? Are we seeing the rise of national socialism in Europe and has the the EU titanic really hit the iceberg, as Nigel Farage put it during his latest speech to european parliament. Will this force a stop to the madness of integration as he sees it, or will the continent of Europe sink deeper into the sea of discontent and social unrest?
Lauren asks Mr. Farage if he thinks this is an important turning point for a country like Greece and for the EU, or if he thinks eurocrats in brussels will find some way, working alongside their viceroys in deficit countries, to keep Greece under their thumb?
Farages vurdering af EUs krise har aldrig være mere dyster – Eric King interviewer:
Nigel Farage – There Will Be an Attempt to Install a Dictatorship
May 8, 2012
With escalating fears regarding the stability of the eurozone, today King World News interviewed former LBMA commodities broker and trader and current MEP Nigel Farage to get his take on the situation. Farage told KWN he believes there will be an attempt, within months, to install a dictatorship in Europe. Here is what Farage had to say about the deteriorating situation:
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer små 15 minutter. Og artiklen fortsætter her hos King World News. I videoen taler Farage ved en boglancering:
The Right and the Left Rising Across Europe Against the EU – Nigel Farage
- European Parliament, Brussels, 9 May 2012
- Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the ‘Europe of Freedom and Democracy’ (EFD) Group in the European Parliament
- Book Presentation: Europe Falters: The Abduction of Europe by the EU, by Wim van Rooy, Remi Hauman and Sam van Rooy
Og tale i Europaparlamentet:
Farage: We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution
- European Parliament, Brussels, 9 May 2012
- Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the ‘Europe of Freedom and Democracy’ (EFD) Group in the European Parliament
- Debate: Statement by the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz MEP, on the occasion of Europe Day
Andre kilder: ZeroHedge, The Daily Mail, BBC,
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.”
Mere HER i The Weekly Standard.
Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten,
Jødehad er rasende populært nu om dage:
Alan Dershowitz: Suppressing Ugly Truth for Beautiful Art
By Alan M. Dershowitz – May 2nd, 2012
The Metropolitan Museum in New York, in its current exhibit on the collection of Gertrude Stein and her family, has made a decision to suppress the ugly truth about her collaboration with Nazism during the German occupation of France. Anyone walking through this beautiful exhibit of the Stein family’s exquisite tastes in art would learn nothing about Gertrude’s horrendous taste in politics and friends. Stein, a “racial” Jew according to Nazi ideology, managed to survive the Holocaust, while the vast majority of her co-religionists were deported and slaughtered. The exhibit says “remarkably, the two women [Stein and her companion Alice Toklas] survived the war with their possessions intact.” It adds that “Bernard Fay, a close friend…and influential Vichy collaborator is thought to have protected them.” That is an incomplete and distorted account of what actually happened. Stein and Toklas survived the Holocaust for one simple reason: Gertrude Stein was herself a major collaborator with the Vichy regime and a supporter of its pro-Nazi leadership.
According to a new book entitled Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay and the Vichy Dilemma, by Barbara Will, Stein publicly proclaimed her admiration for Hitler during the 1930s, proposing him for a Nobel Peace Prize. In the worst days of the Vichy regime, she volunteered to write an introduction to the speeches of General Phillipe Petain, the Nazi puppet leader who deported thousands of Jews, but who she regarded as a great French hero. She wanted his speeches translated into English, with her introduction, so that Americans would see the virtues of the Vichy regime. In that respect she was like other modernist writers, such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot who proudly proclaimed their pro-Fascist ideology, but Stein’s support for Fascism was more bizarre because she was Jewish.
The Jewish Press HER. The Gatestone Institute her. The Huffington Post her.
Reformationens færdreland tillader ikke længere religionskritik. Protestantismen ville ikke eksistere, hvis kritikere ikke havde sagt noget. Eller det må man måske heller ikke sige? Den Korte Avis om Tyskland og Kurt Westergaard:
Pro-NRW har under valgkampsmøder vist plakater med både egne karikaturer og tegninger fra Westergaards pen.
Og:
Nu udsteder indenrigsministeren for Tysklands folkerigeste delstat, Nordrhein Westfalen, Ralf Jäger (SPD), et forbud mod at vise Westergaards tegninger offentligt.
Indenrigsministeren i delstaten, Ralf Jäger, kalder udstillingerne for “åndelig brandstiftelse.” Han frygter, at tyske institutioner og tyske borgere i udlandet bliver bragt i fare.
Skynd jer ud af Europa. Vi er færdige her. Alt er tabt, vi kan ikke længere gøre noget…
Fra 3. maj, skriver ABC på sin hjemmeside. De er hurtige, der Down Under. Intervieweren hedder Ticky Fullerton:
UKIP Nigel Farage on ABC Australia – May 2012
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage on ABC Australia talking about UKIP, The French election and the Euro.
Andre kilder: The Independent,
Fra King World News den 18. april 2012:
Nigel Farage: There Are Going to Be Serious Banking Collapses
With escalating fears regarding the stability of the eurozone, today King World News interviewed former LBMA commodities broker and trader and current MEP Nigel Farage to get his take on the situation. Farage had some very interesting comments regarding the Italians moving large quantities of gold to Switzerland, but when KWN asked about the chaos in Europe, Farage stated, “Well, so far, from all of the European officials and from the new IMF branch office in Washington, we’ve had unanimity that there was no prospect, at any stage, of the euro being under threat.”
Audioen startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player (knap 11 min.) og artiklen om Farage fortsætter her hos King World News.
Andre kilder: Collapse Network, This is Hull and Eastriding, BBC, The Telegraph, ITV
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.
The Retreat – fra David Horowitz Freedom Center 30. marts – 1. april 2012:
Losing the Middle East
Ward Connerly
Victor Davis Hanson
På Blip TV kan man se flere videoer fra arrangementet: Congressman Mike Rogers, Senator Ron Johnson, The 2012 Elections: Jay Cost, Martha Zoller, Pat Caddell and Brian Calle, The 2012 Elections Q&A, Hollywood and the Culture Wars: Dwight Schultz, Michael Walsh, Jeremy Boreing, Bill Whittle, Mark Tapson, Hollywood and the Culture Wars Part 2, Hugh Hewitt – Part 1, Hugh Hewitt – Part 2, Daniel Henninger – Part 1, Daniel Henninger – Part 2, Ed Royce, Ben Horowitz: The Economy and Technology, Jim Gilliam: The Economy and Technology,
Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, FrontPageMagazine, David Horowitz Freedom Center,
Vi må ikke være et folk. Vi må ikke være en nation. Nej, fremtiden skal være renteslaveri for alle Europas pseudo-lande. Garanterne for den Europæiske Centralbank er os – indbyggerne i de tidligere selvstændige nationer. Fremover skal vi give afkald på rettigheder, fordi vi skylder os selv penge. Unionen skal reddes for enhver pris, – vi hæfter solidarisk for de penge, vi skylder os selv. Deutsche Bundesbank skal køres ud på et sidespor - mere magt til Goldman Sachs, Den Europæiske Centralbank og lignende skurkagtige foretagender. Få dog den åndsvage union afviklet. Ned med EU! Og tag lige 82-årige Soros med, forresten:
Reversing Europe’s Renationalization
George Soros – Apr. 11, 2012
Far from abating, the euro crisis has taken a turn for the worse in recent months. The European Central Bank managed to relieve an incipient credit crunch through its long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), which lent over a trillion euros to eurozone banks at one percent. This brought considerable relief to financial markets, and the resulting rally obscured underlying deterioration; but that is unlikely to last much longer.
The fundamental problems have not been resolved; indeed, the gap between creditor and debtor countries continues to widen. The crisis has entered what may be a less volatile but potentially more lethal phase.
Mere HER hos Project Syndicate. Forbes har en artikel om artiklen:
Andre kilder: Wikipedia,
Worldcrunch har oversat Broders artikel, der stammer fra Die Welt:
‘A Well-Meaning, Educated Anti-Semite’ – Günter Grass Slammed For Israel-Iran Poem
Op-Ed: The 84-year-old German Nobel laureate’s new poem entitled “What Must Be Said” accuses Israel of plotting to destroy Iran, while acknowledging the risk of being dubbed anti-Semitic. Grass’s long-hidden stint as a teen member of the Nazi SS doesn’t help his case.
By Henryk M. Broder
Günter Grass has written a poem called “Was gesagt werden muss” (What Must Be Said) that was published Wednesday in Germany by the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily. It starts off like this:
“Why do I keep quiet, I’ve been holding back too long…”
From these opening lines, some readers might think that the 84-year-old German Nobel literature laureate is finally about to explain why he kept quiet for so long about his stint with the Nazi SS. But that’s not the case: the moralizing poet has moved on. This time it’s about an immediate concern to us all. It’s about sheer survival.
Mere HER i Worldcrunch.
Opdatering:
An Open Letter to Günter Grass
April 8, 2012 – by David P. Goldman
Herr Günter Grass:
By now you must be tired of hearing how shameful it is for a former SS man to denounce Israel as a threat to world peace at a time when the government of Iran (among others) publicly threatens to annihilate the Jewish state. It is obscene to suggest, as you did in your diatribe “What Must Be Said,” that Israel might “annihilate the Iranian people.” Now that we have that out of the way, I would to set you straight about your own country’s tragedy. It’s all your fault. Well, perhaps not exactly your fault, but the fault of your way of thinking and of people who thought like you. I am not talking about your enthusiastic service to the Nazis. I am going to surprise you.
People tend to forget that you hate Germany and the Germans almost as much as you hate Israel and the Jews. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the disgusting German Democratic Republic collapsed, you will recall, you pleaded with your government to give this monster another lease on life — not to reunify Germany, but to keep the GDR intact. As I used to tell my German friends before Wiedervereinigung, if you Germans had been as smart as us Jews, you would have gotten your own national homeland right after the war, like we did. But you hate the Germans so much that you did not want them together in a single state. That doesn’t make us Jews feel any better, but your consistency is duly noted.
Mere HER i PJ Media.
Gunter Grass Shouldn’t Be Barred From Israel
by Alan M. Dershowitz – April 9, 2012
The decision by Israel’s Interior Minister to bar German writer, Gunter Grass, from entering the Jewish state is both foolish and self-defeating. Grass wrote an absurdly ignorant and perversely bigoted poem comparing Israel to Iran and declaring Israel to pose a great danger to world peace. He also warned Germany that by selling submarines to Israel, it is becoming complicit in a crime against humanity.
These wrong-headed views deserve to be rebutted on their demerits, as Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did quite effectively in his public response to Grass, by exposing his “shameful moral equivalence between Israel and Iran, a regime that denies the Holocaust and threatens to annihilate Israel,” by pointing out that “it is Iran, not Israel, that threatens other states with annihilation,” and that it is Iran who supports the Syrian regime’s crackdown of its people and “stones women, hangs gays and brutally represses tens of millions of its own citizens.” Grass’ poem has also been effectively critiqued by Israelis across the political and literary spectrum. That is as it should be in an open, vibrant democracy, accustomed to rancorous public debate. But a great nation, committed to freedom of expression and dissent, should not bar a critic, even a critic as bigoted as Grass, from its territory.
Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. The Huffington Post her.
Günter Grass Goes From Bad to Verse
by Bruce Bawer on Apr 9th, 2012
The only surprising thing about the anti-Semitic “poem” that Günter Grass published last week, and that has created an international firestorm, is that he waited so long to write such a thing. Anti-Semitism, after all, is all the rage these days among left-wing European literary intellectuals (excuse the multiple redundancy), and Grass has always prided himself on being in the forefront of these trends, not being a Johann-come-lately.
Who is Günter Grass, you ask? For decades after the 1959 publication of his first and most famous (and highly overrated) novel, The Tin Drum, he was described by admirers as the conscience of postwar Germany. His detractors had other words for him: smug, arrogant, obnoxious. Even Richard Gilman, a writer for the left-wing The Nation whom one might have expected to celebrate the guy, complained in 1982 about his “lofty, hectoring tone,” stating: “Today there is no writer more swollen with self-importance…than Gunter Grass, who has begun to think of himself as identical with the fates of German literature, German politics, and German mores.” John Updike, for his part, saw Grass as a “cautionary case” for politically engaged writers: “he can’t be bothered to write a novel; he just sends dispatches…from the front lines of his engagement.”
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.
Opdatering 12. april 2012:
The First Death of Günter Grass
Bernard-Henri Lévy – April 11, 2012
There is North Korea and its autistic tyrant, equipped with a by and large operational nuclear arsenal.
There is Pakistan, armed with warheads — no one knows how many, nor precisely where they are located, nor what guarantees we have that they will not, one day, fall into the hands of groups linked to Al Qaeda.
There is Putin’s Russia, which, in the space of two wars, has accomplished the exploit of exterminating a quarter of the population of Chechnya.
There is the butcher of Damascus, whose body count so far is at 10,000 and whose criminal stubbornness threatens the region’s peace.
Mere HER i Huffington Post. Kan også læses her hos Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Andre kilder: The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Washington Post, Israel Hayom, The Telegraph, The Tablet,
Opdateret.
Spanien er tæt på økonomisk kollaps – EU opfører sig totalt vanvittigt. Der er ikke nogen følgetekst hos King World News denne gang:
MEP Nigel Farage
March 29, 2012
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 12½ minut.
Andre kilder: Zimbio, UKIP, Nigel Farage, This is Kent, The Commentator,
So much of the state controlled and state owned media in Europe – it is this sort of unholy alliance between broadcasters, politicians and bureaucrats - is not actually allowing this side of the argument to get through
Nigel Farage
Opdatering – fra 6. april 2012:
UKIP Nigel Farage – BBC Any Questions – April 2012
UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage answers questions on police & teachers
Fra 31. marts 2012:
Michael Coren & Robert Spencer: The fight against islamofascism
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch joins Michael Coren to discuss the clear and present danger of islam in the West.
Fed opsang her – fra 31. marts 2012:
Michael Coren: Shut up!
The March 31, 2012 of Michael Coren’s occasional “Shut Up!” feature.
Og tilbage til Spencer:
The Empire of Fear
By Robert Spencer – March 26, 2012
As I wrote last week, Muslim and non-Muslim analysts often tell us that Muslims hate the West for its decadence, its immorality, its lasciviousness, which they contrast unfavorably with the supposed morality and uprightness of the Islamic world. Often this boils down to a Muslim critique of Western “freedom,” especially as Bush and Obama pursued military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan ostensibly to bring Western-style freedom to those countries.
In line with that, the Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, once complained that “Australian law guarantees freedoms up to a crazy level.” Yet genuine freedom is an indispensable prerequisite for any cultivation of real virtue. Even the post-Christian West makes it more possible to be virtuous than the apparently much more straitlaced Islamic world. With its stonings, amputations, death penalties for an array of offenses including apostasy, Islam has created not a framework in which people can become genuinely good, but an empire of fear. People don’t dare step out of line, not out of an authentic understanding that the path of moral and ethical uprightness is preferable to the alternative, much less out of love for God or a real desire to please him, but because they are afraid of what would happen to them if they did depart from Islam’s vision of morality.
Mere HER hos Atlas Shrugs.
The Toulouse Massacre: More Jihad Denial
Robert Spencer – March 25, 2012
Every time a Muslim commits murder in the name of Islam, the denial begins again: Western leaders and the mainstream media tie themselves into knots trying to explain what happened without making any reference to its guiding motivation.
Last week was no different: Muhammad Merah was a self-styled “Islamic warrior” who killed a rabbi and several children at a Jewish day school in Toulouse, France, in an attack that the international media widely reported initially as having been perpetrated by a neo-Nazi. When it became clear that Merah was actually a jihadist, the predictable denial began: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the attack had nothing to do with Islam, and the call echoed worldwide not to allow the murders to harm French “pluralism.”
Mere HER i The American Thinker.
Accommodating Islam On the Checkout Line
By Robert Spencer – April 02, 2012
Wegman’s, a supermarket in Rochester, New York, has set up a special checkout line for a hijab-wearing Muslim cashier, directing customers to go to other lines if they have pork or alcohol.
Islamic law forbids Muslims not just to eat, but to handle or sell pork or alcohol, and Wegman’s customers seemed happy to go along. One said, “I feel like if they’re going to hire her and she’s got to have the job, why shouldn’t we respect her. Just go to another cashier.” Another added: “I would respect her beliefs and go to the next line if I had alcohol.”
Mere HER hos Atlas Shrugs. Et flot interview:
Robert Spencer interviews Nicolai Sennels: “Muslims are taught to be aggressive, insecure, irresponsible and intolerant”
By Robert Spencer on April 2, 2012
Nicolai Sennels regularly contributes to Jihad Watch, with articles on psychology and translations of Scandinavian and German news. To help you get to know Sennels better, we decided to do an interview.
Nicolai Sennels (born 1976) is a Danish psychologist. His first appearances in the Danish media concerned his unorthodox therapy methods that he developed as the only psychologist at Sønderbro, the youth prison (see here, here, here, here and here). He taught the young prisoners about mindfulness meditation and developed a special program on anger management. Sennels also developed a psychotherapeutic method that focused on teaching criminals with a low understanding of emotions and empathy how to take responsibility for their own behavior. In 2008, the prisoners of Sønderbro voted the facility as the best prison in Denmark. The leader of Social Services in the Copenhagen municipality concluded that this was due to the work of Nicolai Sennels (Amagerbladet, November 3, 2008).
Mere HER hos Jihad Watch. Vdare her.
CAIR Blocks Discussion of Islam – But Only Temporarily
by IPT News • Apr 5, 2012
Efforts by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to squash a lecture by writer Robert Spencer have been thwarted.
Spencer originally planned to speak April 18 at the New York law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel about his forthcoming book, Did Muhammad Exist? The talk was sponsored by the Middle East Forum (MEF), headed by Daniel Pipes.
CAIR issued an action alert March 29 calling on the firm to rescind its invitation, claiming the event would promote “Spencer’s claim that Islam’s Prophet Muhammad may never have existed.” Spencer’s book is based on his review of the 130-year scholarly tradition that raises fundamental questions
Mere HER hos The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Andre kilder: FrontPageMagazine, OneNewsNow, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, Middle East Forum, Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch,
Fukuyama er stadig venstresnoet, men det har været værre. Fra TVO 26. marts 2012:
America: The Land of the Future?
Once hailed as the land of the future. The leader of the Western World. Today’s America looks like it has lost its edge. Is the United States in terminal decline, or will it remain an indispensable power? Robert Kagan, Francis Fukuyama and Walter Russell Mead answer the question: Is the United States declining as a global power?
Foreign Affairs LIVE: The Future of History with Francis Fukuyama
On March 22, Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose led a conversation with renowned political scientist and author Francis Fukuyama on themes from his decades of research and writing, and the conclusions he drew in a recent contribution to Foreign Affairs, The Future of History.
Watch them discuss the history and future of liberal democracy and the factors–from technology and biomedicine to popular uprisings in the East and socioeconomic disparity–that will determine the arc of humanity.
Spiegel Interview with Francis Fukuyama
February 1, 2012
‘Where Is the Uprising from the Left?’
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama was once the darling of American neo-conservatives. In a Spiegel interview, the author of “The End of History” explains why he now believes that the excesses of capitalism are a threat to democracy and asks why there is no “Tea Party on the left.”
Spiegel: Professor Fukuyama, you are best known for your essay “The End of History,” in which you declared that, after the demise of the Soviet Union, liberal democracy had emerged as the triumphant global model. Now, your latest research claims that the flaws of capitalism and globalization could endanger this democratic model. How do you explain this shift?
Fukuyama: Capitalism is the wrong word to use here, because there is not a viable alternative to capitalism. What we are really talking about is just economic growth and the development of modern economic societies. A combination of factors is beginning to challenge their progress in the United States. We have had a lot of technological change that substituted for low-skill labor and made many people in Western democracies lose their jobs.
Mere HER i Der Spiegel. Mangler arabere værdighed og respekt? De kunne jo starte med at respektere kvinder, kristne og andre grupper, der lider under islam. Problemet er dem selv:
The Drive for Dignity
It’s hard power that often makes the headlines. But never underestimate the strength of the simple desire for respect.
By Francis Fukuyama | January 12, 2012
The legend now has it that the Arab Spring was kicked off in early 2011 when a Tunisian vegetable seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, had his fruit cart confiscated by the police. Slapped and insulted by a policewoman, he went to complain but was repeatedly ignored. His despairing response — to set himself on fire — struck an enormous chord across the Arab world.
What was it about this act that provoked such a response? The basic issue was one of dignity, or the lack thereof, the feeling of worth or self-esteem that all of us seek. But dignity is not felt unless it is recognized by other people; it is an inherently social and, indeed, political phenomenon. The Tunisian police were treating Bouazizi as a nonperson, someone not worthy of the basic courtesy of a reply or explanation when the government took away his modest means of livelihood. It was what Ralph Ellison described as the situation of a black man in early 20th-century America, an Invisible Man not seen as a full human being by white people.
Mere HER i Foreign Policy. I en af videoerne refereres der til det berømte essay af Francis Fukuyama fra 1989. Det kan læses i sin helhed hos Wes Jones:
Andre kilder: The American Interest, The American Interest, The American Interest, The American Interest, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Time Magazine, The Blogmocracy, The Spectator,
Fra Sun News 31. marts 2012:
Michael Coren with Mark Steyn
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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Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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