http://markdurie.blogspot.com/ Mark Durie is an Anglican vicar in Melbourne, Australia, author of The Third Choice, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle Eastern Forum See here for my recent media foray over the proposed invitation of eminent Meccan Sheikh Al-Sudais to Melbourne in March 2013. I was interested to read the response of Mr Razvi […]
http://www.theage.com.au/national/fiery-imam-invited-to-speak-here-20121211-2b7td.html IT’S billed as the ”largest, the biggest and the best-ever Islamic event in the history of Australia” – a three-day festival for an expected 20,000 Muslims – and it will be held in Melbourne in March. But the chief attraction is a Saudi imam who has called for violent jihad. The description above comes […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335709/doctor-won-t-see-you-now-mark-steyn A few years ago, my small local hospital asked a Senate staffer if she could assist them in obtaining federal money for a new building. So she did, expediting the process by which that particular corner of northern New Hampshire was deemed to be “under-served” and thus eligible for the fed gravy. At the […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335716/blasphemy-and-islam-andrew-c-mccarthy In Cairo on Wednesday, a Coptic Christian blogger named Alber Saber was convicted of blasphemy and “contempt of religion.” There’s a tragic irony: As any of the country’s Christians can tell you, contempt of religion is not merely permitted but encouraged in the new, post-Mubarak Egypt. What is criminal, what has become increasingly perilous, […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12592 The leniency with which the European Union (EU) judges Palestinians’ reforms compared to the strictness of EU demands for reform by the Turks reveal Europeans’ duplicity and lack of integrity, and should disqualify the European Union from playing any significant role in the Middle East peace process, under the guise of being an honest […]
Lawmakers: Obama Watering Down Iran Sanctions, PA Punishment There are some in Congress who are fed up not only with the unilateral actions taken by the Arab Palestinians to subvert the agreed-upon path to Middle East conflict resolution, but also with this administration’s repeated efforts to create unlevel footing such that Israel is doomed to […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2012/12/14/media-oddly-silent-on-wikileaks-proceedings-n1466618/page/full/ Some thoughts about Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s pretrial hearing, which concluded this week. Manning, of course, is charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the website WikiLeaks and, at his trial in March, will be pleading guilty to certain charges while rejecting the military’s contention that he “aided the enemy” in […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/12/14/hadd-times-ahead-for-egypt/ Ahmad al-Zind, Egypt Judges Club chairman, said his judicial body has decided to reject overseeing Dec. 15th and 22nd 2012 constitutional referendum. He also said this on November 26, 2012: “The judges have a burning desire to instate shari’a laws regarding Islamic hudud punishments” ** Today (12/14/12), the senior Egyptian judges […]
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=295915 In interview following ‘Post’ Conference, Czech ambassador warns against relying too much on international community. Czech Ambassador Tomas Pojar was in the hall attending The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Herzliya on Wednesday when Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman made an example of his country, saying Israel was not about to become “the second Czechoslovakia.” […]
http://send.hadavars.com/index.php?action=message&l=2096&c=14567&m=13071&s=4cd27f3da5dfa876ce4b7531a605e261 The assumption that the rising tide of the Islamist forces, on the Arab Street, is led by politically-pragmatic and moderate Islam, is divorced from reality. The supposition that the surging Islamic forces, on the Arab Street, aim to eschew violence, moderate the Arab Street, focus on economic growth rather than the spread of Islam […]
