THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO: YOUSSEF IBRAHIM

http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/12/mosque-at-the-world-trade-center-muslim-renewal-or-insult-near-ground-zero.php December 16, 2009 5:00 AM by Youssef M. Ibrahim Mosque At the World Trade Center: Muslim Renewal Or Insult Near Ground Zero An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood — to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques. […]

A MESSAGE TO COPENHAGEN FROM NEWT: WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION AND WE THE PEOPLE GOVERN!

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=34850   Message to Copenhagen: Our Constitution Begins, ‘We the People…’ by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 12/16/2009 ET Tomorrow morning, the delegates at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will awaken to a very simple but powerful message:      “In America, We Have a Constitution. It Begins:  We the People…” […]

ISRAEL’S FALSE DREAM OF PEACE: THE SULTAN

Israel’s False Dream of Peace http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ During the time of Chanukah, a holiday inspired by the resistance of a band of brothers to the tyranny of Aniochus IV of the Seleucid Empire, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is instead confronting the consequences of buckling under to Obama’s tyranny by imposing a building freeze on hundreds of […]

CHECK OUT FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS TODAY

MUST READS http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/   Exclusive: In Matters of Foreign Policy, Actions Speak Louder than Words Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD While the Oslo speech was generally a fine speech…it was just a speech, and America’s enemies will judge the president more by his actions than his rhetoric.   Exclusive: The […]

DUTCH JUDGE WARNS THAT A CROSS MAY LEAD TO “AGGRESSIVENESS” BUT HEAD SCARVES ARE OKAY

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/ Amsterdam: Why headscarves and not crosses [2] Amsterdam: Why headscarves and not crosses [2] Last week I posted a story about a Christian tram driver in Amsterdam who sued his employers, GVB, in order to be able to wear a cross on a chain. The driver, Ezzat Aziz, said that just as Muslim employees […]

MINARETS NICHT! GERMAN GROUP SEEKS EU REFERENDUM TO BAN MINARETS

SPIEGEL ONLINE Mosque Madness German Group Hopes for EU Referendum on Minarets Just weeks after Swiss voters banned minarets in the country, a German right-wing group is hoping to use a new European Union law to hold a minaret referendum across the 27 member bloc. Last month, the Swiss voted to ban minarets. Now, it […]

DANISH POLICE USE BATONS AND TEAR GAS TO DISPERSE THE CLIMATE DEMONSTRATORS

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091216/ap_on_sc/climate/print Danish police tear gas climate protesters By CHARLES J. HANLEY, Associated Press Writer Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press Writer COPENHAGEN – Police are using tear gas and batons to disperse crowds of protesters trying to disrupt the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen. Police spokesman Per Larsen says 230 protesters have been detained in the […]

SLEEPWALKING OFF THE CULTURAL CLIFF: MELANIE PHILLIPS

– Melanie Phillips’s Articles – http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new – Sleepwalking off the cultural cliff The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, comes in for a lot of stick — not least from columnists like me. But in the past few days, he has said something important. He has criticised Government ministers for thinking that Christian beliefs are […]

UK CABINET “CAN LIVE WITH NUCLEAR IRAN” AND A PEERAGE FOR ABDUL MOHAMMED BARI

White flag politics? http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5637066/white-flag-politics.thtml Two disturbing reports reach me on the grapevine. I am told that, in the upper echelons of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet, the sanguine conclusion has been reached that they can ‘live with a nuclear Iran’. I am also told that, in the Downing Street bunker, the Prime Minister is considering bestowing […]

ESPERANTO COMING BACK? I PERSONALLY PREFER YIDDISH

L.L. Zamenhof: Who He Was, Why He’s on Google Ker Than December 15, 2009 No, Google hasn’t been taken over by a foreign country. The green-and-white flag over the Google logo today is the banner of the artificial language Esperanto, flying in recognition of the 150th birthday of its inventor, L.L. Zamenhof. Born on December […]