- urbi et orbi
Fukuyama har en særegen opfattelse af Danmark, – vi får en ny udlægning hver gang. Islam er lidt af et tabu for Fukuyama, – der skal et spørgsmål til, før det emne kommer op.
Noget af denne forelæsning er hørt før, andet er nyt. Fra AEI den 2. april 2012 – lyden glipper et par sekunder, men bliver straks ordnet:
The Origins of Political Order
Andre kilder: RealClearPolitics,
Dette australske tv-program hedder Q&A og er fra ABC 5. marts 2012. I panelet: Paul Grabowsky, Amanda Vanstone, Natasha Stott Despoja, Mark Steyn, Jianying Zha. Udsendelsen handler mest om australske forhold og en lille smule om indvandring. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her:
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 3 minutter. Artikler:
The Church of Big Government
By Mark Steyn – March 6th 2012
Discussing the constitutionality of Obamacare’s “preventive health” measures on MSNBC, Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post told Chris Matthews that she reasons thus with her liberal friends: “Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, but they did.”
Maybe. A lot of other constitutional types in the Western world have grown increasingly comfortable with circumscribing religious liberty. In 2002, the Swedish constitution was amended to criminalize criticism of homosexuality. “Disrespect” of the differently orientated became punishable by up to two years in jail, and “especially offensive” disrespect by up to four years. Shortly thereafter, Pastor Ake Green preached a sermon referencing the more robust verses of scripture, and was convicted of “hate crimes” for doing so.
Mere HER hos SteynOnline.
The Fluke Charade
Why should we have to fund a middle-aged schoolgirl’s sex life?
By Mark Steyn – March 10, 2012
I’m writing this from Australia, so, if I’m not quite up to speed on recent events in the United States, bear with me — the telegraph updates are a bit slow here in the bush. As I understand it, Sandra Fluke is a young coed who attends Georgetown Law, and recently testified before Congress.
Oh, wait, no. Update: It wasn’t a congressional hearing; the Democrats just got it up to look like one, like summer stock, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid doing the show right here in the barn, and providing a cardboard set for the world premiere of Miss Fluke Goes to Washington, with full supporting cast led by Chuck Schumer strolling in through the French windows in tennis whites and drawling, “Anyone for bull****?”
Mere HER i National Review Online. Orange County Register her. Investor’s Business Daily her.
Andre kilder: National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online, National Review Online,
Sindssyge muslimer har nu dræbt 30 afghanere og 6 amerikanere. Og hvem skal så straffes for det? Amerikanerne, selvfølgelig. The Washington Examiner:
Since 2007, roughly 70 American troops have been killed by Afghan Security Forces in what is described by the U.S. military as ‘Green on Blue attacks.’
Vi bør overlade afghanerne til deres skæbne og taliban. Ingen kan hjælpe dem, før de giver slip på islam. Flygtninge må tilbydes ophold udenfor Vesten. Dem skal den islamiske verden selv tage sig af.
Conflicting accounts over Afghan Quran burnings
By Patrick Quinn – March 3, 2012
An investigation into the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base has found it was a mistake involving at least five Americans who may face a disciplinary review, a Western official said Saturday, but Afghan investigators claimed it was an intentional desecration.
The conflicting accounts highlight rising tensions between the two countries despite apologies by President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials following the Feb. 20 discovery of charred Qurans and other religious literature in a burn pit at Bagram air base, north of Kabul.
Anger over the burnings already has led the deaths of more than 30 Afghans during violent protests as well as six U.S. soldiers who were shot and killed by ROGUE Afghan security forces.
Mere HER i The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. CBS News har en variant her.
Islamic rages aimed at enslaving the West
By Diana West – March 2, 2012
Six U.S. military men have been murdered by Afghan security forces seized by what may be labeled Quran-Burning Rage.
These murders are an outrage in and of themselves, but it’s crucial we don’t see them as isolated. They fit into a pattern that above all spreads “dhimmitude,” the submissive state of Christians and Jews (known under Islam as the “dhimmi”) in thrall to Islamic law.
Quran-Burning Rage follows Pastor Jones Rage, which, after a Florida pastor burned a Quran in 2011, seized Afghan Muslims and inspired rioting. Some rioters overran a United Nations outpost and murdered seven U.N. personnel.
Mere HER i The Jewish World Review eller her i The Mercury. Se også Reuters:
Andre kilder: Jihad Watch, News10 ABC, Seattlepi, WSJV-TV FOX 28, CTV, The American, The Blaze, Family Security Matters,
Vanvittig mandsperson. Injurier:
Michael Coren vs Rabbi Shmuley Boteach – Feb 23, 2012
Fra 24. februar 2012 – intervieweren hedder Alex Pierson:
Michael Coren on Rabbi Shmuley – Round 2y
Fra 24. februar 2012 – gæst Meir Weinstein:
JDL Canada on Coren vs Shmuley
Jewish groups defend Coren’s comments
February 24, 2012
Toronto Jewish organizations are standing by Michael Coren’s side as the Sun News Network comes under fire for perceived anti-semitism comments on Coren’s show, The Arena.
Both B’nai Brith Canada and the Jewish Defence League have come forward and damned Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s accusations Coren’s remarks about Jewish influence on Hollywood was born from anti-Semitism on Thursday’s show.
“It is truly unfortunate that Rabbi Boteach misunderstood the words of Michael Coren during their on-air discussion and subsequently publicly labeled him as an anti-Semite,” B’nai Brith Canada CEO Frank Dimant said Friday.
Mere HER i The Toronto Sun. Bataljen fortsætter i The Huffington Post:
Apparently, I’m an Anti-Semite
February 23, 2012 – Michael Coren
A little about me: Three Jewish grand-parents, recipient of numerous awards from Jewish organizations, regarded as one of the most vociferous pro-Israel and pro-Jewish voices in Canadian media and — best of all –receiver of daily death threats from assorted Islamic fanatics. Oh, and I was physically attacked at Toronto University last year when speaking at several campuses as the Jewish community’s spokesman against the grotesquely named “Israel Apartheid Week.”
My Israel bodyguard, however, saved the day — and my bacon. Whoops, I said bacon. That must make me an anti-Semite. Which was the hilarious allegation made Thursday by an odd little fellow I had the courtesy of inviting on my nightly T.V. show, The Arena. We knew Rabbi Shmuley Boteach would be a difficult guest when he insisted on a meal being provided, and then kept us waiting for 10 minutes while he worked on his computer outside the studio.
Mere HER i The Huffington Post.
Canadian TV Host Insinuates Jews Control Hollywood
February 23, 2012 - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Today I had what was probably the most unpleasant TV interview of my life on Canada’s Sun News Network (national). Interviewed by host Michael Coren about my book Kosher Jesus, I expected to be asked about the book’s content. The interview started that way. But then Coren quickly got to a question that seemed to be bursting from within. You’ll have to see the exact show, airing tonight at 7pm, for complete accuracy, and I am writing this about an hour after.
Coren essentially asked me why Jews depict Christians so negatively. He went on about how much the Catholic Church and Christians in general have done for the Jews of late. Yet the Jews continue to be so unappreciative, always questioning Christian motivation, always finding fault with Christians no matter what.
Mere HER i The Huffington Post. Mere smudslitteratur fra rabbineren:
The Michael Coren Christians Who Cowardly Deny Church History
February 24, 2012 | Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
I came on to Michael Coren’s TV show in Canada to simply talk about my new book Kosher Jesus, which has received wide attention throughout the world. I left dazed, having heard from him that Jews refuse to appreciate Christians, depict them negatively, and essentially control Hollywood.
Now Coren has shoved his foot far deeper into his mouth with a personal diatribe against me.
Mere HER i The Jewish Journal.
Opdatering 28. februar 2012 – gæst Frank Dimant:
B’nai Brith on Coren vs Shmuley
This thing just won’t die . . .
Andre kilder: The Huffington Post,
Is secularism threatening the British way of life? Sådan lød programmets originaltitel. Her kan man blandt andet se, at Dawkins ikke ligefrem er nogen Hitchens. Fra BBC 14 februar 2012:
Secularism v Religion in national affairs – post-Warsi discussion on BBC Newsnight
Participants: Prof Richard Dawkins, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Ruth Gledhill, Religious Affairs Editor, The Times, Newsnight anchor: Gavin Esler
Douglas Murray har skrevet om den debat, Warsi har startet:
Why Baroness Warsi has it wrong
Douglas Murray – 14th February 2012
For someone who has profited so well from her religion, it is particularly striking that Baroness Warsi should claim today that our societies are suffering because of ‘a militant secularisation’ which she claims is ‘taking hold.’ And worse, she says, that ‘one of the most worrying aspects about this militant secularisation is that at its core and in its instincts it is deeply intolerant. It demonstrates similar traits to totalitarian regimes.’
Not merely ‘militant’ and ‘worrying’, but ‘similar traits’ to those of ‘totalitarian regimes.’
Mere HER i The Spectator.
Andre kilder: The Telegraph, The Telegraph, BBC,
Mød en borgerlig aktivist
19. december 2011 – interview af Sapphos redaktion
Den tidligere politibetjent Lars Kragh Andersen er noget så sjældent som en borgerlig aktivist. Senest har han bevidst overtrådt §266b og opfordret andre til at gøre det samme. Nu afventer han sin dom.
Mere HER i Sappho.
En profetisk bog, alle skal læse
22. december 2011 – klumme af Monica Papazu
Den knap 40 år gamle roman af franskmanden Jean Raspail er profetisk og rummer en rystende appel til Europa, skriver Monica Papazu.
Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til denne uges Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels:
Lidt artikler og video. Verden har mistet en af sine største:
In Memoriam, my courageous brother Christopher, 1949-2011
By Peter Hitchens on 16th December 2011
How odd it is to hear of your own brother’s death on an early morning radio bulletin. How odd it is for a private loss to be a public event.
I wouldn’t normally dream of writing about such a thing here, and I doubt if many people would expect me to. It is made even odder by the fact that I am a minor celebrity myself. And that the, ah, complex relationship between me and my brother has been public property.
I have this morning turned down three invitations to talk on the radio about my brother. I had a powerful feeling that it would be wrong to do so, not immediately explicable but strong enough to persuade me to say a polite ‘no thank you’.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail.
Trial of the Will
By Christopher Hitchens – January 2012
When it came to it, and old Kingsley suffered from a demoralizing and disorienting fall, he did take to his bed and eventually turned his face to the wall. It wasn’t all reclining and waiting for hospital room service after that—“Kill me, you fucking fool!” he once alarmingly exclaimed to his son Philip—but essentially he waited passively for the end. It duly came, without much fuss and with no charge.
Mr. Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota, has had at least one very close encounter with death, more than one update and revision of his relationship with the Almighty and the Four Last Things, and looks set to go on demonstrating that there are many different ways of proving that one is alive. After all, considering the alternatives …
Mere HER i Vanity Fair.
Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens
by George Eaton – 13 December 2011
Exclusive extracts from the writer’s final interview.
Update: Christopher Hitchens has died of oesophageal cancer at the age of 62. This was his final interview.
As we revealed earlier this week, this year’s New Statesman Christmas special is guest-edited by Richard Dawkins (copies can be purchased here). Among the many highlights is Dawkins’s interview with his fellow anti-theist Christopher Hitchens, who began his Fleet Street career at the NS in 1973.
Mere HER The New Statesman. Den næste artikel er af ældre dato, men den skulle lige med også:
Staking a Life
by Christopher Hitchens – Spring 2009
Arthur Koestler opened his polemic against capital punishment in Britain by saying that the island nation was that quaint and antique place where citizens drove on the left hand side of the road, drank warm beer, made a special eccentricity of the love of animals, and had felons “hanged by the neck until they are dead.” Those closing words—from the formula by which a capital sentence was ritually announced by a heavily bewigged judge—conveyed in their satisfyingly terminal tones much of the flavor and relish of the business of judicially inflicted death.
Mere HER i Lapham’s Quarterly.
Christopher Hitchens receives the Richard Dawkins Award
Christopher Hitchens receives the Richard Dawkins Award from Dawkins himself at the 2011 Texas Freethought Convention. Video was recorded on October 8th 2011.
Fra samme arrangement – Hitchens kommer på efter ca. 5 minutter:
Christopher Hitchens Fighting Faith Texas Interview
Andre kilder: SBS, Slate, Slate, The New Yorker, The New Yorker, Newser, The Sacramento Bee, NYDailyNews, The Calgary Sun, Pajamas Media, CNN, Reuters, Big Think, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Washington Post, Fox News, Fox News, Christian Today, The Christian Post, The Daily Mail, The Mirror, The Mirror, Commentary Magazine, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New York Times, The Christian Post, Religion News Service, First Things, The Wilson Quarterly, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, Opposing Views, The Daily Caller,
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Veritas Universalis har egentlig haft videoer med Fukuyama, hvor der bliver sagt nogenlunde det samme, men Fukuyama gør det nu helt godt denne gang, synes jeg. Fukuyama drømmer dog stadig om det arabiske forår. Fra Vanderbilt University den 15. november 2011:
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Stanford professor Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and resident in FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, spoke about his latest book, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Nov. 15 as part of the 2011-12 Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture series.
In his latest book, Fukuyama draws from multiple disciplines including evolutionary biology, anthropology, economics, history and archaeology to trace the evolution and development of societies and political institutions including those in China, India and the Middle East.
The Chancellor’s Lecture Series brings to Vanderbilt and the greater Nashville community intellectuals and critical thinkers who are shaping today’s world.
Og en artikel:
Fukuyama predicts eurozone breakup
Dec 2, 2011 – by Malcolm Curtis
Greece and other “peripheral” countries will likely abandon the eurozone in a bid to salvage their economies, says American political scientist Francis Fukuyama. “The current path, it seems to me, is just not sustainable,” the influential academic and writer told a media conference at the Geneva Press Club on Wednesday.
“Either the EU will deepen into a fiscal union or it will start breaking up, or at least the monetary part of it will break up.”
Mere HER hos SwissInfo.
Fra The Federalist Society den 4. november 2011 – Naser Khader skal for øvrigt arbejde for Hudson Institute, skriver The Copenhagen Post. Nå, video:
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
The Muslim World
Growing Repression in the West
Where Are the Muslim Moderates?
Det sker regelmæssigt, at der afholdes særdeles interessante konferencer i USA, hvorfra der aldrig dukker video op. Don Feder har offentliggjort sin tale fra en af de seneste. Så må vi se, om der drysser mere materiale ud på nettet i de kommende dage:
Islamophobia – A Created Crisis to Crush Dissent
A Speech By Don Feder To ”The Constitution or Sharia: A Freedom Conference”
At The Cornerstone Church, Nashville, November 11, 2011
In politics, as in other forms of mortal combat, the best defense is often an offense. If someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, respond with another question.
You ask a proponent of Islam “Why does carnage follow your religion wherever it goes?” And he asks why you hate him. You ask him to renounce terrorism, and he wants to know why you’re spreading lies about Islam. Hence, the anti-Islamophobia campaign.
According to Muslim activists and their leftist allies, America is in the midst of an epidemic of bigotry. The hilariously misnamed Center for American Progress recently published “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”
Mere HER hos GrasstopsUSA.
Man kan eventuelt vælge sig et par stykker ud. Det er som om, de gentager de samme ting:
Europe’s veil of fear
Special: Latest firebombing of French magazine highlights Islamist threat to freedom
Giulio Meotti – November 5, 2011
The office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was badly damaged by a firebomb on Wednesday, after it published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the victory of the Islamist party in Tunisia’s elections.
The magazine had announced a special issue for publication, renamed “Charia Hebdo,” a play on the French word for Islamic law. The magazine’s website has also been hacked with a message in English and Turkish. The fatwa said: “You keep abusing Islam’s almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech. Be Allah’s curse upon you!”
Mere HER hos Ynetnews.
Charlie Hebdo attack: No more excuses
James Kirchick – 04 Nov 2011
The smoke had barely cleared from the firebombed office of Charlie Hebdo magazine – attacked for publishing cartoons of Mohammed – when TIME magazine’s Bruce Crumley chose to criticise the satirists before the terrorist. James Kirchick denounces a too-familiar tendancy
There exists an unspoken rule in the Republic of Letters — that land where novelists, poets, mere ink-stained wretches like myself, think tank scholars who churn out dry policy reports…really anyone who writes for a living, reside: No one should be physically harmed, let alone threatened, for something that they publish. Don’t get me wrong. I love literary feuds, even the bristling, (if well placed and rare), ad hominem attack. But the minute someone raises a fist, he’s lost the argument. Indeed, it’s a sign of a shallow mind and an insecure personality (see Norman Mailer) when a writer, flummoxed by the prowess of his intellectual adversary, resorts to throwing a scotch glass across the room. I hope that if my worst enemy, someone who wrote things that I absolutely despise, were ever confronted with violence by a fanatic of any sort, (even someone ostensibly “on my side”), I would defend him to the hilt.
Mere HER hos Index of Censorship.
French firebombing: Attack on magazine is a violent reminder of the satirist’s risk
By Michael Cavna
“Satirist dies in retaliatory religious violence.”
It’s a headline I hope never to see, of course — yet I grow increasingly concerned I might.
Home invasions and murder plots. Grisly photos and online threats. Virtual fatwas and firebombs.
In the past six years, such artists as Lars Vilks and Kurt Westergaard and “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and the illustrator formerly known as Molly Norris — to name just a handful — have had reason to fear for their physical safety after depicting and/or satirizing Muhammad.
Mere HER i The Washington Post.
When France’s Laughter Died
By Stephen Brown – November 3, 2011
No one at France’s national satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, was laughing this week after the publication’s Paris offices were destroyed by a firebomb overnight late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning. It is believed Islamists, angry that the editors had named the Prophet Mohammad as guest “editor-in-chief” for this week’s edition, were responsible for the attack. The edition was dedicated to a satire of sharia law, but the firebomb assault took place before it had even hit the newsstands on Wednesday.
“We received threats, but no one had seen this edition,” said Stephane Charbonnier, the magazine’s designer and director. “People reacted violently to the paper yet they were completely ignorant of the edition’s contents; that is the most aberrant and idiotic.”
Mere HER hos AINA. Eller her i FrontPageMagazine.
Firebombing Free Speech In Paris
by Robert Spencer – November 3, 2011
Islamic supremacists have firebombed and caused extensive damage to the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine in Paris, after it ran an issue featuring Islam’s prophet Muhammad as the guest editor.
Some Muslims didn’t get the joke. Recently the magazine’s website was hacked; the hackers left this message: “You keep abusing Islam’s almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech. Be Allah’s curse upon you!” The firebombing followed shortly thereafter.
The destruction of the Charlie Hebdo offices is the ugly obverse of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s ongoing campaign to compel Western states to criminalize criticism of Islam, including discussion of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. The objective of this campaign, of course, is to render Western countries mute and hence defenseless against the advancing jihad.
Mere HER hos AINA. Mere her hos FrontPageMagazine. Se også Diana West i Family Security Matters:
Diana West har endnu en artikel om dette emne på sin blog:
Diana West linker til denne lille video, hvor man ser lidt tegninger fra flere udgaver af Charlie Hebdo – fra 2. november 2011:
Firebomb attack on satirical French magazine
A molotov cocktail has partially gutted the offices of the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Geller kan bare det der. Skønt foredrag - ser ud til at være fra den 18. oktober 2011:
Banned Speech at the Hyatt: Pamela Geller, “Truth is the New Hate Speech”
Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas. This event was originally to be held at the HyattPlace in Sugar Land but was canceled with less than 30 hours notice after the hotel received one email threatening to protest her appearance. The event was relocated to the Sugar Land Community Center.
Der er flere overlap, men pyt:
Pamela Geller Speaks at Fort Lauderdale Tea: “There is a War on the Truth”
See what is banned, prohibited from the public square by Islamic supremacists and their tools that enforce the restriction of free speech under the sharia. Huge thanks to David DiCrescenzo of American Patriots Press for the video of my remarks made at the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party , October 4, 2011.
Hyatt Place Hutton Hotels and the 20 other hotels in Nashville that turned away our Freedom Conference take note — they have sided with the enemies of our cherished freedoms.
Aflysning af arrangementer sker bare igen og igen:
Hotel boots anti-sharia conference
Chad Groening – November 1, 2011
A terrorism expert and Islam watchdog says a Nashville hotel has caved to Islamic supremacism.
The Tennessee Freedom Coalition describes itself as a group dedicated to keeping sharia law from being established in the United States. It had booked space for November 11 at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville to host a 300-person event called “The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference” — and event touted as the first national conference on sharia and the “Islamization of America.”
But Fox News has reported that when hotel officials learned that sharia critics Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were scheduled to speak, they promptly canceled the event and returned the deposit, citing security concerns.
Mere HER hos OneNewsNow. Og igen:
Staver seeking actual cause of hotel’s ‘security concerns’
Chad Groening – 11/4/2011
In the opinion of a Christian law firm, a Nashville hotel was unjustified in canceling an upcoming conference that features several staunch critics of radical Islam.
As previously reported on OneNewsNow, the Tennessee Freedom Coalition had booked space at Hutton Hotel in Nashville to host a 300-person event called “The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference” — an event touted as the first national conference on sharia and the “Islamization of America.”
Mere HER hos OneNewsNow.
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I mange år troede jeg også på, at det var demokrati, ligestilling, tolerance etc., Vesten havde som målsætning i sin politikudformning overfor muslimske lande. Den tro har jeg forladt. Det er islamisering af både Europa og Mellemøsten, der er målet. Det er os, man vil have udryddet. Folkedrab på kristne i Irak og Egypten er bare “collateral damage”. Katrine Winkel Holm er knap så hård:
Arabisk forår, kristen vinter
Af Katrine Winkel Holm, kommentator og redaktør af www.sappho.dk – 22.10.11
Mens den danske offentlighed er ved at gå bagover af forbavselse over, at rettroende muslimer vil indføre shariazoner, har et hjerteskærende rygte verseret blandt mellemøstlige kristne: USA vil komme dem til hjælp!
Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten. Denne type pressedækning er sjælden:
Coptic Christians protest outside White House against violence in Egypt
By Pamela Constable – October 19
Hoisting homemade wooden crosses and photographs of bodies they said were crushed by tanks, hundreds of Coptic Christians rallied Wednesday in front of the White House to protest rising violence against minority Christians in Egypt and to demand that the Obama administration pressure Cairo to protect their rights.
The demonstrators, mostly Egyptian immigrants who traveled in buses from as far as New York and Chicago, included black-robed Coptic orthodox priests and families who had lost relatives in recent violence in Egypt, including the New Year’s Eve bombing of a church and a bloody clash Oct. 9 between protesters and army forces in Cairo that left 27 people dead.
Mere HER i The Washington Post. Halalpressen gør sit yderste for at skjule virkeligheden:
Coptic Christians Protest Obama, Egyptian Govt. Outside White House, Morning Shows Ignore It
By Ken Shepherd | October 20, 2011
Hundreds of Coptic Christians traveled to Washington D.C. yesterday “from as far as New York and Chicago” to call on President Obama to push Egypt’s government to protect their brothers and sisters from persecution.
Mere HER hos NewsBusters. Se også The Daily Express:
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Vatikanet advarer. Fra 27. september 2011:
Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican’s foreign minister told the UN summit
Det skriver Canada.com. Det blev det stærkt islamiserede FN nok ikke ked af at høre. Raymond Ibrahim har lavet en oversigt for september 2011 – posten her er en slags opsamling eller “siden sidst”:
Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011
by Raymond Ibrahim – October 12, 2011
An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, aside from Iran and Sudan, none of the countries that habitually appears in this series was designated among the “countries of particular concern,” defined by the State Department as countries that are “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”
Egypt, for instance—which this year alone has seen over fifty Christians killed, their many churches burned or bombed, and their daughters kidnapped and forcibly converted—was not listed as a “country of particular concern,” despite the fact that the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, has recommended that the State Department designate it so.
Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Kan også læses her hos Middle East Forum. Ibrahim uddyber sin analyse af Hillary Clintons udtalelser:
Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt’s Christians?
by Raymond Ibrahim – October 13, 2011
Soon after Sunday’s Maspero massacre, where the Egyptian military slaughtered Christians demonstrating over the destruction of their churches—including by running them over with armored vehicles—some Egyptian media began reporting that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having seen enough, declared that the U.S. plans on directly intervening in Egypt.
Of course, Hillary said no such thing. According to Al Ahram:
Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch. Ibrahim har endnu en artikel om kristnes forhold – mere om den dødsdømte iranske præst:
Islamism’s Predictability
Apostasy, Execution, and Lies
by Raymond Ibrahim – October 6, 2011
As one ponders the fate of Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor on death row for refusing to renounce Christianity, it is well to reflect that, for all the talk that Islam is perpetually “misunderstood,” it is actually immensely predictable and consistent; not only do its patterns cross time and space, but their manifestations are often identical.
Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.
Christian girl, 12, kidnapped, beaten and raped for eight months until she converted to Islam
By Wil Longbottom on 13th October 2011
- Asian Human Rights Commission claim girl was lured on shopping trip by friend before she was kidnapped.
- Abductors drove her 120 miles before raping her, then forced her to sign marriage papers
- Victim managed to escape eight months later, but police refuse to prosecute rapists because they are tied to militant Islam group
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. British Pakistani Christian Association har en tilsvarende artikel her.
Asia Bibi tortured by prison officers
by Nasarani ki Himmet – 14 October 2011
According to a Pakistani newspaper, the Express Tribune, Asia Bibi, the poster-victim of Pakistan’s wicked blasphemy laws has been tortured by one of wardens at the Sheikhupura jail where she is imprisoned in solitary confinement awaiting a death sentence for defending her Christian faith. The warden Khadeeja allegedly tortured her after claiming he found ‘prohibited items’ in her cell. Other prison staff watched and did nothing to stop the attack. (Well, she’s only a kuffir Christian, after all…..) Thankfully, it appears that (eventually) the culprit has at least been suspended from duty (for how long, we shall have to see).
Don’t forget to pray for Asia Bibi and also her family, who are being threatened and isolated by Islamic militants.
Mere HER hos British Pakistani Christian Association. Lignende artikel her i The Pakistan Express Tribune.
Caroline Glick synes, det er uklart, hvad Vesten ønsker at opnå med sin tavshed. For Europas vedkommende er det nu helt indlysende. Det er europæerne, man vil af med. I sidste halvdel af artiklen kommer der en del interessante taloplysninger om Mellemøstens kristne:
The forgotten Christians of the East
By Caroline B. Glick – October 10, 2011
It is unclear what either Western governments or Western churches think they are achieving by turning a blind eye to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world.
On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt’s state television headquarters in Cairo. The 1,000 Christians represented the ancient Christian community of some 8 million whose presence in Egypt predates the establishment of Islam by several centuries. They gathered in Cairo to protest the recent burning of two churches by Islamic mobs and the rapid escalation of state-supported violent attacks on Christians by Muslim groups since the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February.
Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Family Security Matters her. Townhall her. Caroline Glick her. Se også denne skarpe leder i Investor’s Business Daily:
Diana West om kopterne i Egypten:
Like Good Little Dhimmi, West Stays Silent About Coptic Oppression
By Diana West – October 16, 2011
I am looking at a reproduction of an engraving of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher, said to the be the site of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and burial. The church in this image, based on an 1856 photograph, has neither cross nor belfry. It stands in compliance with the Islamic law and traditions of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, which ruled Jerusalem at the time.
Mere HER hos AINA. WorldNetDaily her. The Washington Examiner her. Diana West her. Vesten kan skam også godt være med:
Facebook, Google, Apple Censoring Religious Speech?
By Stephanie Samuel | Sep. 16 2011
The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) group sounded the alarm Thursday about new media outlets such as Facebook, Google and Apple, which they say have written policies that violate the fundamental rules of free expression, particularly concerning religious free speech.
The NRB released a report at the National Press Club Thursday analyzing the various content policies of social networking websites. What they found was disturbing: new media platforms Facebook, Apple, Comcast, AT&T and Google have adopted policies to censor lawful viewpoints expressing Christian views or controversial ideas on “hot button issues.” Some platforms, such as Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s search engine, have already started to use those policies to remove orthodox Christian viewpoints considered “offensive” or too controversial.
Mere HER i The Christian Post. Barnabas Fund har en tilsvarende artikel her. Og flere eksempler. Nu skal man købe en tilladelse til at læse Biblen i Californien. I hvert fald hvis man har inviteret mere end 3 gæster:
Barnabas Fund har desuden en guide, der fortæller, hvilke firmaer der sælger halalprodukter - et par af dem findes også i Danmark. Så ved man hvilke forretninger, man bør undgå:
Tilsidst en historisk artikel:
The Battle That Saved the Christian West
by Mariano Navarro on Oct 11th, 2011
What some call “the battle that saved the Christian West” took place 440 years ago October 7th. It is a historical event of such importance — and of such relevance to the struggles of today — that I would be remiss not to mention it. Sadly, a cursory look on-line indicates that few people — save military historians, some traditionalist Catholics and a few rarae aves — seem to know much about it.
At about 11:00 a.m. October 7th in 1571, 300 Ottoman ships from Turkey clashed with a scraggly alliance of European naval armies in the tranquil waters between the Albanian coast and the Peloponnesus. Under the command of the 25-year-old Don Juan of Austria, the illegitimate son of Charles V and half-brother of Philip II of Spain, some 212 Christian ships from Genoa, Venice and Spain — as well from the Papal States and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta — had formed the “Holy League” to stop the advance of the Ottoman Armada.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. The Grendel Report her.
Andre kilder: The Telegraph, The Irish Times, WorldWide Religious News, The Percecution Times, Barnabas Fund, Religion.dk, Wikipedia,
Angela Merkel, William Hague og flere andre er gået i forbøn for Naderkhani – ligeledes Michael Nazir-Ali. Fra BBC Radio 4 den 29. september 2011:
Iran: Yusuf Naderkhani – death for apostasy – Michael Nazir-Ali & Eddie Mair
Iran’s Supreme Court has said that Naderkhani’s sentence may be annulled if he renounces Christianity. His lawyer says that he refuses to do so. Now in his early 30s, he converted to Christianity at the age of 19. He was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to death the following year by a court of appeals.
Dr Nazir-Ali, who is working for the UK charity Release, said there was concern in Iran about the growth of house churches, and it “may be that someone is seeking to make an example”.
Hele programmet, der også handler om alt muligt andet, kan høres her i BBCs iPlayer. Der følger en artikel med:
Lawyer optimism for Iranian death-row Christian cleric
September 29, 2011
The lawyer for an Iranian Christian cleric sentenced to death for apostasy says he is optimistic that his client will be acquitted.
The lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, said there was a 95% chance Yusuf Naderkhani would be freed.
Iran’s Supreme Court has said that Naderkhani’s sentence may be annulled if he renounces Christianity. His lawyer says that he refuses to do so.
Mere HER hos BBC.
Fra 30. september 2011:
Christian Pastor, Yousef Nadarkhani, Under Death Penalty in Iran
Bill O’Reilly (The O’Reilly Factor/Fox News) reports on the story of Christian pastor, Yousef Nadarkhani, and Iran’s threat of executing him by hanging.
Se eventuelt også denne artikel af Andrew Bostom hos Family Security Matters:
Der er et større støttearbejde i gang her hos ACLJ.
Opdatering 5. oktober 2011 fra The Helen Glover Show den 3. oktober 2011:
Helen’s Latest Podcast With Dr. Andrew Bostom
In case you missed it, we had Dr. Andrew Bostom on the show this morning to talk with us about the Christian pastor in Iran who is sentenced to hang.
Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Kan også høres hos 920 WHJJ Radio her. Varighed 6 minutter.
Andre kilder: AP, AFP, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, Cranmer, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Fox News, Pajamas Media, Christian Today, Barnabas Fund, Hudson New York, Big Peace, Down & Dromore,
Note: Staves også Youcef Nadarkhani, Youssef Nadarkhani,
Reservelink: Christian Concern,
Opdateret.
The Pope vs. Muslims
By Andrew Roberts – Sep 25, 2011
An upcoming autobiography from press baron Conrad Black reveals that Pope Benedict lamented the ‘slow suicide of Europe’ because of Muslim immigration.
Buried away on page 48 of the former press proprietor Conrad Black’s superb, soon-to-be-published autobiography, A Matter of Principle, is the answer to a burning question that very many people have been asking for several years: What does the pope really think about Islamic immigration into Europe? What, in his heart of hearts, does the Supreme Pontiff of the world’s estimated 1.15 billion Roman Catholics truly feel about the future of Western civilization in a continent that has seen such large-scale Muslim immigration over the past half century?
Mere HER hos The Daily Beast.
Andre kilder: Wikipedia,
Fra 23. september 2011:
Michael Coren Interviews Irshad Manji
Opdatering 28. september 2011 – interview:
Taking on the forces of groupthink
Author Irshad Manji champions need to question all dogmas – not just the Muslim ones
By Sheila Pratt – September 27, 2011
Irshad Manji walks through the near-empty lobby of a downtown hotel late Sunday afternoon wearing a red T-shirt with a message. Her message.
On the front are five words arranged like a multiple-choice test: Asian, White, Black, Hispanic and Human. The last of these has the check mark.
For Canadian author Irshad Manji, labels based on skin colour are the worst form of multiculturalism.
Mere HER i Edmonton Journal.
After Regensburg the silence is deafening
On the fifth anniversary of the Pope’s seismic lecture Douglas Murray says that we are betraying persecuted Christians in Muslim lands
By Douglas Murray on 12 September 2011
It is five years now since Pope Benedict gave his celebrated address at Regensburg on faith and reason. Deeply thought and beautifully expressed, it is largely remembered for neither of these things. Rather, it is remembered for a single line in which Pope Benedict quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor making a disobliging remark about the way in which Islam is spread by violence.
Benedict XVI did not say that he agreed with the line. Indeed, he went out of his way before quoting it to distance himself from it, remarking, among other things, on its “brusqueness”. But this was to no avail.
Mere HER i The Catholic Herald.
Lidt af, hvad der sker rundt om i verden. Kristne, det billige skidt:
The Arab Spring and Christian Persecution
by Joseph Puder on Sep 8th, 2011
While the Western media and governments have been preoccupied with the so called “Arab Spring,” little if any attention has been paid to the increased persecution of Christians in the Muslim Middle East.
Throughout the region, Christians have been targeted by Muslim mobs killing innocent bystanders, burning churches, and destroying Christian properties. Interviewed by The National on June 19, 2011, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury declared that the Arab Spring is posing a threat to Christian minorities throughout the Middle East. He added that “extremists were filling vacuums left by ousting of autocratic regimes,” and “leading to Copts being targeted in Egypt.” In Syria, Archbishop Williams warned, “tensions between Christian communities and Muslim majorities were reaching breaking point.” And, he added that Christians in northern Iraq had been subjected to a form of “ethnic cleansing.” The archbishop made his comments in an interview with BBC radio on August 30, during which he said that even in Bethlehem, Christ’s birthplace, the once-majority Christian population had now become a “marginalized minority.”
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Interviewet med ærkebiskop, Rowan Williams, kan ses eller høres her:
England kan også være med. Biblen er fornærmelig:
Postal workers refuse to deliver Bible recordings because the CDs are ‘offensive’
9th September 2011
Postal workers refused to deliver CDs of Bible readings after deciding they were ‘offensive material’.
Several churches had paid for discs with recordings of St Mark’s Gospel to be produced to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
They were due to be delivered to all households on the Channel Island of Jersey, but church leaders were stunned when they were told postal workers would not handle the 45,000 CDs.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Og i Norge, – landet med det ambivalente forhold til terror, bliver frafaldne fra islam overhældt med syre og kogende vand:
Muslims attack Afghan convert with boiling water and acid
07 September 2011
An Afghan convert to Christianity fears for his life after being attacked with boiling water and acid by Muslims at a centre for asylum seekers.
“Ali” was targeted by fellow asylum seekers at an immigration centre in Norway after they discovered that he had converted to Christianity. He said:
De norske myndigheder bragte den sårede, livstruede mand tilbage til asylcenteret, hvor bødlerne ventede. Naturligvis. Man er vel norsk, ikke? Mere HER hos Barnabas Fund.
Why ‘Christian’ Persecution?
by Raymond Ibrahim – September 9, 2011
Some are asking why my new monthly series, “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” wherein I collate and assess some of the atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians, does not include the persecution of other religious minority groups; others are suggesting I broaden my scope to include all minorities, for instance, homosexuals.
Of course other minority groups—essentially any religion other than Islam (or even the wrong kind of Islam, e.g., Shi’ism, Sufism)—experience persecution in the Muslim world. Accordingly, others qualified in the particulars of the various religions and civilizations persecuted by Islam are encouraged to collate and comment on them, monthly or otherwise.
Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Jihad Watch her. Ibrahims status for august kan ses her:
Og mere om Egypten:
Muslims Blockade Christian Village in Egypt, Demand Demolition of Church
By Mary Abdelmassih – September 9, 2011
Christians in the Upper Egyptian village of Elmarinab in Edfu, Aswan province, have been forbidden to leave their homes or buy food until they remove the dome of St. George’s Church, which was rebuilt in its previous location. Village Muslims, backed by Muslim Salafists from neighboring villages, have threatened to demolish the church on Friday September 9 after prayers and use it as a mosque.
Despite the presence of security forces, Muslims have blocked the roads to the village, refusing passage of any Christians under any circumstance.
Mere HER hos AINA.
Andre kilder: Assist News Service, Anglican Mainstream,
Fra The Hoover Institution, som har uploadet dette interview indenfor de sidste 2 – 3 dage. Om tro, videnskab og ateisme:
Science and religion with David Berlinski
David Berlinski, the author of 1,2,3: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics, discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, his book The Devil’s Delusion.
Andre kilder: Wikipedia,
Warning: The English translation is hopeless
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