RAYMOND IBRAHIM: THE SILENT EXTERMINATION OF IRAQ’S “CHRISTIAN DOGS”

The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’ by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.meforum.org/2878/iraq-christians-persecution Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.”  Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant.  While last October’s Baghdad church attack which killed some […]

AL NEW QAEDA MAGAZINE: SHAMIKHA…. FOR YOUNG ASPIRING JIHADIS

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-04-19-al-qaeda-magazines.htm Al-Qaeda using magazines to spread message By Mona Alami, Special for USA TODAY The cover of Al-Shamikha magazine promotes such stories as an “Interview with a Jihadi Wife” and “Facing Destruction: Steps to Alleviate your Pain and Ways to Reach a Cleaner and Better Path.” BEIRUT — Leafing through Inspire magazine, one finds glossy, […]

WHO IS THIS WOMAN CHALLENGING ERDOGAN IN TURKEY?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-758101,00.html A Former Judge Takes on Erdogan’s Heavy Hand By Daniel Steinvorth “But in light of an impending “dictatorship of the Erdogan clique,” says Tarhan, she wants to campaign for a different and more modern Turkey. “In this country, religious leaders are now declaring women who have been raped to be partially culpable, because they […]

CLAUDIA ROSETT: PLEASE…NOT ANOTHER JIMMY CARTER JAUNT TO NORTH KOREA

http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/ It would be an act of mercy for the planet, were Jimmy Carter to hang up his carry-on bag and devote the rest of his days to annotating his post-presidential grocery lists, or maybe sign up for Dancing With the Stars — anything where he might at least do no more harm. Instead, in […]

CAIR’S STRONG ARM TACTICS: A LIBERTARIAN FEARS FOR HIS LIFE

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/cair%e2%80%99s-strong-arm-tactics-in-the-cradle-of-liberty/ CAIR’s Strong-Arm Tactics in the Cradle of Liberty  HILLEL ZAREMBA The latest victim of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is a Philadelphia-based libertarian writer who fears for his life. Aaron Proctor, a Philadelphia-based libertarian writer, can count himself the latest victim of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR [1]), an organization that ironically claims […]

JONAH GOLDBERG: THE TRUMP “CANDIDACY” IS A FARCE

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265167 At this point, there’s at least one thing you can’t blame Donald Trump for: being Donald Trump. Like the scorpion in Aesop’s fables that must sting the frog because that’s simply what scorpions do, the world-renowned, self-promoting billionaire clown must tout himself with passion and narcissistic self-regard. It was only a matter of time, […]

MARCO RUBIO’S FOREIGN POLICY:ROBERT COSTA

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265023 Rubio’s Foreign Policy A tea-party candidate tackles global issues. Sen. Marco Rubio sailed into office on the tea-party wave, wagging his finger at the Obama administration’s fiscal mischief. But in the Senate, foreign policy has become his passion. Rubio, in an interview with National Review Online, says that the late senator Jesse Helms, the […]

DANIEL PIPES WILL STEP ASIDE AS DIRECTOR OF MIDDLE EAST FORUM…..SEE NOTE

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/20/efraim-karsh-set-to-take-over-for-daniel-pipes/ Efraim Karsh Set to Take Over for Daniel Pipes Posted By Seth Mandel PIPES HAS BEEN UP FRONT AND CENTER IN DENOUNCING THE TWO STATE SOLUTION AND STANDING UP FOR ISRAEL….WELCOME EFRAIM KARSH AND GRATITUDE TO DANIEL PIPES…..RSK After 17 years of leading the Mideast-focused think tank he founded, Daniel Pipes will be stepping […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: FOGEL FAMILY KILLERS CAUGHT

Fogel Family Killers Caught Posted By P. David Hornik http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/20/fogel-family-killers-caught/print/ Last March 12, Israelis learned that, the night before, terrorists had broken into a home in the West Bank community of Itamar and murdered five members of the Fogel family—the parents, 11- and 4-year-old boys, and a 3-month-old girl. Sunday, the eve of Passover, brought […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: OBAMA GIVES ISLAMISTS A WALK

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/265206/obama-gives-islamists-walk-andrew-c-mccarthy Obama Gives Islamists a Walk “Bush did it, too” is not an excuse. When the first line of defense is “Bush did it, too,” you can rest assured that there is no second line of defense. And on allegations that the Justice Department intervened to prevent the indictment of various Islamist figures and organizations, […]