http://bigpeace.com/rkahlili/2011/03/08/iran-oil-will-be-cut-off-to-the-infidels-soon/ Iran: All Middle East Oil For the Infidels Will Be Cut Off Soon Posted by Reza Kahlili Sepah News ( the Iranian Revolutionary Guards) reports: On Wednesday, March 2nd, Commander of the Basij organization, Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi spoke at a conference of specialist working groups of Basiji corps of engineers. “Seventy percent of […]
Re re re re: One More Thing, One Mo’ Time http://www.steynonline.com/ http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261561/re-re-re-re-one-more-thing-one-mo-time-mark-steyn Scrolling down through the back-and-forth today re Charles Krauthammer and “nation-building”, I incline more to Andy than Derb, but would like to offer a slightly different angle: Even if one were in favor of “nation-building”, there is nothing to be said for half-hearted, […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ ‘Young Hoodlums in their Hundreds … screaming “Yahud, Yahud”’: A British Professor Recalls the Big Tripoli Pogrom of 1945 Judah Benzion (Ben) Segal (1912-2003) was Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University from 1961-82, and then President of Leo Baeck College in London. During the Second World War […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Negative Reports Bring Negative Results. Yet, “Impartiality – something that interests me greatly” says the BBC’s Middle East editor! Yep, folks, the demonization of Israel in which the BBC is a master, both at home and abroad, is doing its nefarious work.The BBC World Service asked people in 27 countries their opinion of 16 […]
http://www.jidaily.com/thelastoftheredhots/e The Last of the Red-Hots? By Sam Munson The past decade has witnessed a seeming revival in the fortunes of America’s old, new, and newest Left. Some notable elders, including Mario Savio and Bill Ayers, have enjoyed career recrudescences. For years after the 2000 presidential elections, a cadre of young people vocalized their rage […]
http://www.jidaily.com/STBP/e http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/60688/the-novelist/ Friends and Politics, Part 1: Saul Bellow. The Nobel Prize-winner and I shared a love of literature and of Yiddish, but our friendship was tested by decades-long disagreements over politics. On March 26, 2005, while my husband Len and I were out of town, Saul Bellow left a message on our answering machine—speaking […]
Sacred Values vs. Scientific Dispassion by Herbert I. London http://www.hudson-ny.org/1944/sacred-values-scientific-dispassion As you might guess, discrimination is high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference where psychologists discuss racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism, and so on. Remarkably the most controversial speech at this year’s meeting was by Professor Jonathan Haidt from the […]
Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia: Now What? by Raymond Ibrahim http://www.hudson-ny.org/1938/caliphate-jihad-sharia “Suppose you prove beyond any shadow of doubt that Islam is constitutionally violent, where do you go from there?” This question was asked from thre floor by Columbia professor Hamid Dabashi during a 2008 debate titled “Clash of Civilizations” (see first minute here). It came inresponse […]
Law in Austria: Guilty for Questioning Islam by A. Millar http://www.hudson-ny.org/1946/austria-law-guilty-questioning-islam The European “elite” has increasingly asserted that any questioning of Islam is criminal. A few weeks ago Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was fined 480 Euros for the “denigration of religious teachings of a legally recognized religion in Austria.” In a three-part seminar Mrs. Sabaditsch-Wolff had referred […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2011/03/08/the_$50,000_orgasm/print BTW: I AM THE MUM OF A NORTHWESTERN ALUM…AND THE FALL 2010 ALUM NEWS PROUDLY ANNOUNCED THE SISTER CAMPUS IN QATAR (REMEMBER TO PRONOUNCE IT CORRECTLY AS GUTTER)…”NORTHWESTERN’S NEW HOME IN THE MIDDLE EAST”…GEEZ DO YOU SUPPOSE THE SHARIA POLICE THERE WOULD APPROVE NORTHWESTERN’S EXPLICIT “SEXUALITY” EXHIBIT???? DENNIS PRAGER On Feb. 21, the 600 […]
