http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/246269/imam-rauf-s-books-ibn-warraq The Two Faces of Feisal Rauf What’s wrong with What’s Right With Islam. This is part two of a two-part series. You can read part one here. The problems with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s book What’s Right with Islam begin with the title. As Andrew McCarthy noted on National Review Online, the book, whose full […]
Islam, Islamism, and Moderation http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/islam-islamism-and-moderation/ Posted By David Solway The distinction frequently drawn between Islam, which is said to be moderate and peaceable, and Islamism, which is understood as a perversion of the cardinal tenets of the faith, seems both academic and unhelpful. Dutch politician Geert Wilders [1] has claimed that no distinction exists “between […]
Professors for Hijab http://frontpagemag.com/2010/09/14/professors-for-hijab/ Posted By Phyllis Chesler So many educated people are afflicted by the equivalent of a blank stare where genuine thought should exist. It’s as if they’re sleepwalkers, oblivious to reality, or under plexiglass, where they can’t hear anything with which they don’t already agree. Here’s a case in point. A woman […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703466704575489453411397686.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion “One answer is that there are about 1.5 million Jews in the EU today, as against some 16 million Muslims, and politicians are responsive to numbers. Fair enough. The other answer is that Europe—and not just Muslim Europe—is pervasively anti-Semitic.” If a top European mandarin mouths off about Jews and the rest of Europe’s […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/09/14/purging_evil/print Terry Jones, the Florida “minister” who threatened to burn the Koran on the anniversary of September 11, is as much a distraction from the real challenge facing America as was Senator Joseph McCarthy when it came to communism. Communism was (and remains in its Chinese incarnation) a real threat. But radical Islam — rabid, […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/sep/13/taliban-deface-koran-sell-heroin/ Sgt. John Ellis, left, conducts searches in towns near his platoon’s remote outpost. Ellis says he has found children selling heroin wrapped in torn pages of the Quran. By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Taliban Deface Koran to Sell Heroin The Taliban are using pages torn from the Koran to package heroin sold on the […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/13/send-away-the-marines/print/ Force review could leave the Corps high and dry By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. – The Washington Times 6:30 p.m., Monday, September 13, 2010 Marines!” For many generations, successive U.S. presidents have given those orders, from early in our nation’s history in places like Montezuma’s palaces in Mexico to the Barbary pirates’ shores of […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703453804575479841244178372.html? mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r3:c0.0833683:b37249726 “It’s not too early to assess the damage done by America’s 44th president. He squandered his mandate and the public’s enormous good will. He alienated voters and dropped a heavy yoke on his party with useless spending and a shockingly unpopular health-care bill. With pressure mounting and a potentially epic loss looming, Mr. […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/13/build-the-ground-zero-mosque-or-else/ EDITORIAL: Build the Ground Zero Mosque, or else… Muslim nations despise America no matter how much we pander By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – The Washington Times 7:54 p.m., Monday, September 13, 2010 Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, in New […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/13/justice-ig-probing-black-panther-case/ Justice IG probing Black Panther case Civil Rights Division the target in suspected worker harassment **FILE** Members of the New Black Panther Party walk toward the U.S. Capitol for the Million More Movement rally to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March on October 15, 2005. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times) By […]
