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AMIL IMANI: RELIGIOUS IMPRINTING AND JIHADISM

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9019/pub_detail.asp Religious belief is emotional at its core. And emotions are not governed by logic or reason. Becoming religious is similar to imprinting, most dramatically seen in ducklings. During a critical period of time after hatching the ducklings become imprinted on any moving object—be it the mother duck, a mechanical duck, or a moving human. […]

REBECCA BYNUM: WHY ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION

Rebecca Bynum has written a thorough original and thought provoking book. The title is somewhat provocative “Allah is Dead- Why Islam Is Not a Religion”. Bynum’s goal, as stated immediately in her introduction is: In this book, I take a highly focused look at Islam and whether it should be calssified as a religion, let […]

THE SHARIA CATCHISM: ROLAND SHIRK

The Sharia Catechism http://www.jihadwatch.org/ I must admit that when I first began studying Islam and its political manifestations, I found myself puzzled and put off by the sheer foreignness and apparent complexity of the issues—in much the same way that patriotic Americans who supported the free market and a free society felt when confronted (during […]

THE AUDACITY OF GOLF: MARK STEYN

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/262499 The Audacity of Golf No-Change You Can Believe In! By the time you read this, President Obama will be taking a well-deserved break from the 54th hole of today’s scheduled golf game and the grueling responsibility of picking out his Final Four priority high-speed-rail projects on ESPN by relaxing on a beach in . […]

THE SULTAN’S WEEKLY RUNDUP

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ So now we have a No Fly Zone resolution on Libya. And the man who ran for the Democratic nomination in 2008 as being the candidate who wouldn’t have gone into Iraq, is now running in 2012 as the candidate who will go into Libya. Hypocrisy is a beautiful beast and politics is a […]

CAROLINE GLICK: THE MEDIA HAVE TURNED THE MASSACRE OF THE FOGELS INTO A STORY ABOUT “SETTLEMENT”

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=212716 Instead of considering what murder says about Palestinian society, media have turned massacre of Fogel family into story about “settlements.” Over the past several years, a growing number of patriotic Israelis have begun to despair. We can’t stand up to the whole world, they say. At the end of the day, we will have […]

US SHOULD SHUN NO FLY ZONE IN LIBYA: ANDREW BOSTOM

US should shun enforcing no fly zone in Libya Andrew G. Bostom http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/us_should_shun_enforcing_no_fl.html President Obama has given an ultimatum to Col. Qaddafi: “accept an immediate ceasefire, pull back from Libyan rebel strongholds and permit humanitarian assistance – or face the full onslaught of UN-endorsed air strikes.” The aptly named (hat tip Diana West) American “Libya […]

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GLORIFIES AND ENCOURAGES FEMALE JIHADISTS

http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2011/03/muslim-brotherhood-glorifies-and.html The Muslim Brotherhood Glorifies and Encourages Female Jihadists Posted by Al Mutarjim Writing for the European Council of Fatwa and Research, a Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization headed by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Dr. ‘Ali Muhiy al-Din al-Qarah Daghi in his 2006 treatise “Al-mar’a wal-musharika al-siyasia wal-dimuqratia” (Women and Political and Democratic Participation) lists six political rights that women […]