Top Muslim Cleric Urges Western Muslims to ‘Liberalize’ http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/top-muslim-cleric-urges-western-muslims-to-%e2%80%98liberalize%e2%80%99/ Posted By Raymond Ibrahim A recent episode [1] of the popular Arabic show al-Sharia wa al-Haya (Law and Life), which airs weekly on Al Jazeera and features renowned Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, addressed the important yet little known Muslim concept of taysir (pronounced “tey-seerâ€). Qaradawi, […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383373600358634.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us By STEPHEN POWER Senate Democratic leaders Thursday shelved their effort to cap greenhouse-gas emissions as part of a broad energy bill, putting aside indefinitely a centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s ambitious effort to transform the way Americans produce and consume energy. The proposal would have allowed utilities to trade permits to pollute as they […]
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Germany_rejects_Israel_bid_for_naval_aid_-_report.html?cid=18020178 Germany rejects Israel bid for naval aid – report BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has turned down Israel’s bid to buy a sixth naval submarine, two warships and torpedoes from it at deep German discounts, the U.S. journal Defence News reported. The decision was conveyed to an Israeli Defence delegation in Berlin […]
The Iconoclast Thursday, 22 July 2010 No sale! Says Staten Island parish to Muslim American Society A tip of the Chapeau to Madeline Brooks of Act! Manhattan. There’s the ground zero mosque in Lower Manhattan and the Murfreesboro Mosque in Tennessee still out there roiling the public. No longer the case with the controversial pending […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383373600358634.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us By STEPHEN POWER Senate Democratic leaders Thursday shelved their effort to cap greenhouse-gas emissions as part of a broad energy bill, putting aside indefinitely a centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s ambitious effort to transform the way Americans produce and consume energy. The proposal would have allowed utilities to trade permits to pollute as they […]
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Germany_rejects_Israel_bid_for_naval_aid_-_report.html?cid=18020178 Germany rejects Israel bid for naval aid – report BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has turned down Israel’s bid to buy a sixth naval submarine, two warships and torpedoes from it at deep German discounts, the U.S. journal Defence News reported. The decision was conveyed to an Israeli Defence delegation in Berlin […]
The Iconoclast Thursday, 22 July 2010 No sale! Says Staten Island parish to Muslim American Society A tip of the Chapeau to Madeline Brooks of Act! Manhattan. There’s the ground zero mosque in Lower Manhattan and the Murfreesboro Mosque in Tennessee still out there roiling the public. No longer the case with the controversial pending […]
Subject: FINLAND IS IN ISRAEL’S CORNER When the Nazis came to Finland and told them that they came to help them solve the Jewish problem the answer was “We don’t have a Jewish problem! Finland saved their Jews, and now they stand up for Israel. See below Ted Belman Jerusalem, Israel 972 (0)54 441 3252
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575377911040368760.html?KEYWORDS=BRENDAN+SIMMS A Combatant in the Battle of Ideas A defender of the West when it was most embattled, a defender of reason at a time of dangerous irrationality. By BRENDAN SIMMS ‘I am sorry, I have written another,” Ernest Gellner used to say in his later years before publishing a new book. “I just couldn’t […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/07/23/the_democrats_war_on_the_wes “Why do they hate us?” It’s a burning question on the minds of border-dwelling taxpayers, small-business owners, farmers, and Rocky Mountain oil and gas industry workers suffering under punitive Democrat policies. Eighteen months into the Barack Obama administration, the war on the American West is in full swing. The first battlefront: immigration. On Wednesday, […]