http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/salvation_and_koranic_crucifixion_of_corrupters_comments.html#disqus_thread Rick Moran blogged earlier about a report by Raymond Ibrahim regarding the possible crucifixion of opponents of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) President Mohammed Morsi. According to Ibrahim’s translation of the primary Arabic sources, critics of Morsi were beset by MB-supporting attackers, …with sticks, knives, and Molotov cocktails, crucifying some of them on trees, leading […]
The Washington Times
http://www.danielpipes.org/11843/syria-intervention
WT title: “Stay Out of Syria: Intervention Is a Trap”
Bashar al-Assad’s wretched presence in the Presidential Palace of Damascus may, contrary to Western assumptions, do more good than harm. His murderous, terroristic, and pro-Tehran regime is also non-ideological and relatively secular; it staves off anarchy, Islamist rule, genocide, and rogue control of Syria’s chemical weapons.
As Syria’s civil war intensifies, Western states are increasingly helping the rebels overthrow Assad and his henchmen. In doing so, the West hopes to save lives and facilitate a democratic transition. Many Western voices call for more than the non-lethal aid now being offered, wanting to arm the rebels, set up safe zones, and even join their war against the government.
Helping the rebels, however, neglects a fundamental question: does intervention in Syria against Assad promote our own interests? This obvious question gets missed because many Westerners feel so confident about their own well-being that they forget their security and instead focus on the concerns of those they perceive as weak and exploited, whether human (e.g., indigenous peoples or the poor) or animals (whales and snail darters). Westerners have developed sophisticated mechanisms to act on these concerns (e.g., responsibility to protect, animal rights activism).
For those of us not so confident, however, fending off threats to our security and our civilization remains a top priority. In this light, helping the rebels entails multiple drawbacks for the West.
The Return of the Mahdi — on The Jamie Glazov Show, Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8-9 pm Pacific
by Frontpagemag.com
Who is the Islamic messiah — that large percentages of the world’s Muslims believe is coming soon?
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/the-return-of-the-mahdi-on-the-jamie-glazov-show-tuesday-august-21-2012-8-9-pm-pacific/
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3298/germany-islamists-jihad-europe The report also states that over 100,000 native Germans have converted to Islam in recent years. German Intelligence Chief Gerhard Schindler has issued a warning saying that Europe is at great risk of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists. In a wide-ranging interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Schindler said the German foreign intelligence […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-greenfield/obama%e2%80%99s-nuclear-strike-on-american-workers/ On August 15th, last week, the Obama administration began the implementation of the first mass amnesty for illegal aliens in 25 years. While the 1986 amnesty was at least a lawful act, the 2012 amnesty is an illegal and destructive piece of unilateral legislation from the executive branch. “You can’t stop this force,” Democratic […]
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p19069.xml Last week’s near-massacre at the Family Research Council (FRC) put into sharp relief a curious fact: The people most aggressively denouncing others for their “hatemongering” sure are engaging in a lot of it themselves – with dangerous, and potentially lethal, repercussions. Take, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Back in the heyday […]
Click here: God of Religion Vs God of Government – Maggie’s Farm
The Chronicle of Philanthropy studied “How America Gives.” One of the study’s charts shows a remarkable difference: “Red states are more generous than blue states. The eight states where residents gave the highest share of income to charity went for John McCain in 2008. The seven-lowest ranking states supported Barack Obama.”
Yankee Northeasterners are cheapskates: “In states like Utah and Mississippi, the typical household gives more than 7 percent of its income to charity, while the average household in Massachusetts and three other New England states gives less than 3 percent.”What’s the bottom-line?: “The reasons for the discrepancies among states, cities, neighborhoods are rooted in part in each area’s political philosophy about the role of government versus charity.”
Posted by Bruce Kesler at 10:58
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3264/the-call-the-egyptian-mess
Background:
Israeli President Shimon Peres, supported by a substantial section of Israeli opinion, insists that Israel cannot strike Iran’s nuclear program without the support of the United States. President Obama, as Ha’aretz defense analyst Amos Harel observes, has done everything to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran short of appearing in person before the Knesset. Senior American officials, most recently Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, have been trotted out to assert that Israel can’t stop Iran’s nuclear program single-handed.
The problem is that American foreign policy faces catastrophic failure, or rather a comprehensive set of failures, bearing directly on Israeli security. Not only have sanctions failed to deter Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapons program, but the Islamic Republic has broken out of diplomatic isolation. Turkey, supposedly America’s partner in regional diplomacy, has reached out to Russia and China. And Egypt has reached out to Iran while threatening Israel in the Sinai. China is hosting a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement at which Iran will assume the organization’s three-year rotating chairmanship. Egyptian President Morsi will visit Tehran on Aug. 25 on his way back from the summit.
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/20/campaign-contexts-the-kitchen/print
Campaign Contexts: The Kitchen Table Issues
We know the mess Obama has made of them. But what about Romney’s understanding?
We’ve heard a lot about “context” lately. It’s the first refuge of a scoundrel: what I said doesn’t mean what you think I said if you take it in context with everything else I said, whenever I said it.
But there’s a second part of the “context” issue, and it’s more important than the first. The second part is the context placing what politicians say into the issues that are in voters’ minds. How far apart is the rhetoric from what people really care about?
No longer does anyone claim the “context defense” for Joe Biden. When Mr. Biden he speaks, there is either no context at all, or there are so many unrelated concepts strung together that no one can keep track of them. Biden plays with words like a musician who changes the key he’s playing in three times in the course of one song.
Case in point: last week, Joe started with an accusation that Romney and Ryan would “unchain Wall Street” and ended the same phrase (sentence? paragraph? Who knows?) by telling an audience (about of which half were black), “…they’ll put y’all back in chains.” Only Joe would string together an accusation the first half of which is class warfare and the second half is the threat of a return of slavery. Rudy Giuliani had it about right in saying Biden evidently lacks the mental capacity to serve as vice president or president.
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2210/Warning-2012-Is-For-Keeps.aspx First, kudos to Mitt Romney for choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate. Now, the danger: Romney, Ryan, their surrogates, their supporters and the American people will continue to treat election 2012 as just another contest to determine whose hand is at the helm of state for the next four years. No, this election […]
