http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/from_kabul_taliban_threatens_t.html POSTED BY ANDREW BOSTOM Kabul, 4 May (AKI) – The Afghan Taliban have created a special unit to avenge the killing of Al-Qaeda’s leader by US special forces in Pakistan on Monday, a commander in eastern Afghanistan has told Al-Jazeera. “We have created a special unit to avenge the martyr Sheikh Osama Bin Laden,” […]
Wintour’s Whitewash: Vogue on my Mind By Pamela Geller http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/wintours_whitewash_vogue_on_my.html WHY THE SURPRISE? VOGUE RAGAZINE HAD A FAWNING PROFILE OF ASSAD’S WIFE AND DEFENDED IT: READ http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/02/28/vogue-defends-glowing-profile-of-asma-al-assad/ While traveling to Ohio to screen our AFDI/SIOA documentary, The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks, at Ohio University, tired after finishing my next book […]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-btselem-witch-trials/ The B’Tselem Witch Trials Noah Pollak — May 2011 – Abstract When the United Nations released the so-called Goldstone Report in September 2009, Israelis and their supporters around the world were astonished by the blunt words near its conclusion: “There is evidence indicating serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law were committed by […]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/ Contentions Sullivan Trolls Anti-Semitic Sites for Anti-Israel Quotes Alana Goodman In a post today on the Tony Kushner debate, Andrew Sullivan attributes highly offensive simile to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. The problem is, the Israeli leader never actually said it. JTA’s Ron Kampeas thought the quotation looked suspicious and checked into its citation, […]
MYERS: Osama is dead, but radical Islam is not Muslim Brotherhood moves more slowly but is no less of a threat http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/2/osama-is-dead-but-radical-islam-is-not/print/ Americans can rightly rejoice at the long overdue demise of Osama bin Laden. His death, however, as with the deaths of other key al Qaeda leaders – from Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq […]
http://bigpeace.com/abostom/2011/05/06/the-muslim-brotherhood-and-spring-time-for-sharia-in-araby/ LTC Joe Myers has a useful Op-Ed in the Washington Times underscoring the more insidious (cultural) jihadist threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, relative to Al Qaeda. In follow-up to Myer’s piece, it is important to recognize why the Muslim Brotherhood certainly does represent the apotheosis of the so-called “Arab Spring”—or more aptly, “Spring […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ William Hague Welcomes the Fatah-Hamas Accord and Closer British Ties With Turkey Speaking on Monday in Cairo after meeting Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby, British Foreign Secretary William Hague – who prersides over what analyst Robin Shepherd has termed “the bizarre, contradictory mess that is British foreign policy towards Israel” – told reporters: “We […]
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME.XEF74562.html BIN LADEN: EGYPT, THOUSANDS OF SALAFISTS MARCH AGAINST USA (ANSAmed) – ROME, MAY 6 – Thousands of Egyptian Salafists have today organised a march in protest against the United States over the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The march began at the Al Nur mosque in the Abbasiya area of Cairo and ended outside […]
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/ Columbia University Awards Al Jazeera Highest Journalism Award Fox News “Al Jazeera English has performed a great service in bringing the English-speaking world in-depth coverage of the turmoil in the Middle East,” said Dean Nicholas Lemann. “We salute its determination to get to the heart of a complicated story unfolding in countries where news […]
IBD EDITORIALS VIEWPOINT We’re Culturally Sensitive And Tote Really Big Guns By MARK STEYN As my old friends at the Spectator in London pointed out on Monday morning, I scooped the entire planet in breaking the news of Osama bin Laden’s death: “Osama bin Laden is dead, says Mark Steyn.” This was in the Spectator’s edition […]
