Iran threatens “serious action” over BBC Muhammad documentary http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/iran-threatens-serious-action-over-bbc-muhammad-documentary.html I was interviewed at some length for this documentary; I haven’t seen the finished product yet, but I never had high hopes that my perspective would be given a full or fair hearing. Still, I always think these things are worth doing on the off-chance that […]
Where Is Promised Arab Funding for the Palestinians? Where is Palestinian Accountability? by Khaled Abu Toameh http://www.hudson-ny.org/2255/arab-funding-palestinians The Palestinian Authority has announced that it is facing a severe financial crisis, largely due to the failure of Arab countries to fulfill their promises to help the Palestinians. Because of the failure of the Arab countries to […]
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/06/virgin-surgery-practiced-in-canada OTTAWA – They arrive at the clinic terrified, desperate and in secret – they need to be made virgins again. Some Canadian women who are arranged to be married in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Egypt are getting their hymens surgically repaired at private clinics. “Their husbands want their women to be virgins when […]
http://EconWarfare.org MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA SAUDI ARABIA ITEM 1: FINANCIAL TIMES: Saudi clerics tap into social networks http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8b9834c8-a7ff-11e0-afc2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1RBhlVegV LIBYA ITEM 2: TIMES UK: Libyan rebels gain ground but warn of leadership divisions http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3086184.ece EGYPT ITEM 3: Raymond Ibrahim: Egypt: Desire for Money – Jizya – Prompts Attacks on Christians http://www.meforum.org/2982/egypt-jizya-attacks-on-christians GAZA FLOTILLA […]
ON Sunday, the Gillard Government will at last explain how it will force us on to dearer forms of electricity without driving us broke. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/planet-claims-are-a-load-of-hot-air/story-e6frfifx-1226088401453 A hell of a trick for a bungling government that’s just accidentally destroyed our live cattle exports. But most astonishing is that almost no one asks: er, will this actually […]
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/an-ill-wind-of-change-in-australia/story-e6frfifx-1226088401069 HERE are some things I never thought I’d see in this country I love. I never thought I’d see people picketing shops because their owners were Jews. But in Melbourne last Friday, 19 protesters were arrested as they tried to stop people from shopping at the Max Brenner chocolate and coffee store in Melbourne’s […]
Pollard Guilty, U.S. “Allies” Innocent? by Mudar Zahran http://www.hudson-ny.org/2256/pollard-guilty-us-allies-innocent As a Palestinian, I never thought I would ever end up writing in Jonathan Pollard’s defense, especially as, when he was convicted of espionage in 1987, I was 13 years old. It seems Pollard will remain in jail for his crime against US national security — […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4092335,00.html Who will help real victims? Op-ed: When will European groups send flotillas to help people of North Korea and Syria Freedom House’s Freedom in the World survey showcases an alarming decline in freedom, democracy and respect for human rights around the world for a fifth consecutive year. Only 60% of the world’s 194 countries […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/07/07/whittaker-chambers-communism-and-islam/ Whittaker Chambers, Communism, and Islam Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9898/pub_detail.asp After watching one of the lawyers on Casey Anthony’s defense team jump up and down like a giddy schoolgirl, I realized how damaging an adversarial legal system can become when it sacrifices professional respect for justice to the baser glee of winning, a la Charlie Sheen. High profile criminal trials have assumed the same mantle as […]
