http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,761763,00.html Pakistan’s Effort to Resocialize Former Taliban By Hasnain Kazim in the Swat Valley, Pakistan For two years, the Taliban terrorized the beautiful Swat Valley in northern Pakistan. Now that Islamabad has regained control, it is trying to resocialize those who supported the Islamist radicals. In “deradicalization” courses, they learn how they can be good Muslims without […]
Hamas leader: We’ll accept 1967 borders, but never recognize Israel http://www.jihadwatch.org/ This makes no sense: 1967 borders with what? How can they have borders with a polity they refuse to recognize? And if they still intend to “liberate” all of “Palestine,” that means they don’t accept any borders at all, 1967 or otherwise. This is […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576315142981152396.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The foul outpouring of sneering anti-Americanism and concern for bin Laden’s human rights has left me deeply ashamed. By ANDREW ROBERTS I never thought I’d say this, especially less than a fortnight after the Royal Wedding, but my countrymen’s reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden have made me doubt my pride in […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576313102116341240.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Duplicity has been a hallmark of Pakistan’s approach to the U.S. for years. Beginning in the 1970s, Islamabad denied it was pursuing nuclear weapons, even as Washington repeatedly confronted it with concrete evidence. Presidents and Congresses fulminated, but the nuclear program continued and a device was successfully tested in 1998. So no one should […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576313373286655488.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop Before the ink dries on last week’s deal to bring Hamas into the Palestinian government, the Obama Administration is trying to suggest it’s no big deal. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the door remained open to continued U.S. support. Other officials suggested that Hamas might change—or in any case the accord will prove […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576315680040526802.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories By JAY SOLOMON And CAROL E. LEE WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death and embrace a new era […]
Egyptian Christians Under Attack Posted By Rich Trzupek URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/11/egyptian-christians-under-attack/ The assault on Christians living in Muslim nations has reached boiling new levels as members of Egypt’s Coptic Church continue to be the target of increasingly violent attacks from Muslims. According to Coptic Christians living in Cairo, Muslims looted and burned St. Mina’s […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/266866 I can’t tell you how excited I am at the news that good ol’ SpongeBob is throwing his and Callista’s Squarepants into the ring for the Stupid Party’s 2012 designated-loser/presidential-candidate sweepstakes, thus joining an already crowded field of unelectables, has-beens, never-wases, never-will-be’s, who’s-he mystery men, libertarians, radical libertarians, pizza guys, former governors of Minnesota, […]
The Muslim World’s Inferiority Complex by Khaled Montaser Translation by Raymond Ibrahim Http://www.hudson-ny.org/2111/muslim-world-inferiority-complex Translated, abridged and introduced by Raymond Ibrahim What if an entire civilization developed an inferiority complex? What ramifications would that have on the rest of the world? How would such paranoia play itself out in the interaction of civilizations? An Arabic op-ed […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/white-house-art-exalting-misogyny-murder-and-mayhem-invited-poet-called-for-the-burning-of-then-pres.html White House “Art”: Exalting Misogyny, Murder and Mayhem, Invited “Poet” Called for the “Burn[ing]” of then-President George W. Bush and Police Killing “Common’s racist opposition to mixed race relations goes beyond a crude song lyric. He not only opposes the mixing of the races, he sees women outside his race as nothing more than […]
