http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/treating-israel-like-dirt/ In a critical passage from The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James associates evil with the concept of “dirt.” Evil, he says, is “an alien unreality, a waste element, to be sloughed off and negated, and the very memory of it, if possible, wiped out and forgotten.” It is “diseased, inferior, and excrementitious stuff,” […]
Romney and Gingrich on Jihad (and Sharia)Andrew G. Bostom http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/romney_and_gingrich_on_jihad_a.html During an interview with US News reporter Dan Gligoff published June 3, 2009, Mitt Romney offered the following bizarre observation about the living Islamic institution of jihad, ostensibly to “clarify” remarks made during an earlier speech at the Heritage Foundation: I spoke about three major […]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9LOSDKG0&show_article=1 NEW YORK (AP) – A decade ago the U.S. government attacked Al-Jazeera as a propagator of anti-American propaganda. Now Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is citing the network for fine news coverage—and tweaking the U.S. media in the process. The Arab broadcaster says it’s ready to take advantage of what it considers a […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/564996/201103041845/Why-Are-We-Still-In-Germany-.htm Why Are We Still In Germany? By MARK STEYN According to Bismarck’s best-known maxim on Europe’s most troublesome region, the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Americans could be forgiven for harboring similar sentiments after the murder of two U.S. airmen in Germany by a Kosovar Muslim. Remember Kosovo? […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Friday Afternoon Roundup – Muslim Men and Non-Muslim Women WATCH THE MOVIE “NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER”….RSK When American mother Melissa Bender married Pakistani Mohammad Khan, she brought three children from a previous marriage into the relationship. Today the children are in protective custody after police discovered that her 13 year old daughter, Jessie Bender […]
http://www.aina.org/news/20110304222016.htm AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George. There are conflicting reports about the whereabouts of the Church pastor Father Yosha and three deacons […]
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/03/now-we-know-how-obama-administration-is.html Now We Know: How the Obama Administration is Going to Bring Disaster to the Middle East and U.S. Interests By Barry Rubin In a moment, I’ll present you with what might be the most frightening paragraph in the modern history of U.S. Middle East policy. But first, here’s one that’s among the most deplorable. […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261366/jean-jacques-jihad-andrew-c-mccarthy Jean-Jacques Jihad There is a reason leftists and Islamists collaborate: totalitarianism. The one thing that absolutely could not be tolerated was true freedom, the liberty of the individual. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the “social compact” would otherwise be “an empty formula.” The irreducible core of the utopia he envisioned, the “undertaking which alone can give […]
Queen’s gambit Mary Ann Sieghart http://www.spectator.co.uk/ Rania of Jordan’s glamour and eloquence have won her celebrity friends in the West – and comparisons to Marie Antoinette at home To the western world, she is the closest the 21st century gets to Princess Diana: glamorous, beautiful, charitable and royal. But to many of her citizens, she […]
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq_ed_board/Susan_Abulhawa_The_dream_at_the_revolutions_core.html FROM AN E PAL…. To the editor, In Susan Abulhawa’s fictional Middle East, “there are Muslims and Christians, women and men, rich and poor, united in a peaceful struggle for freedom.” There are, however, no Jews. And that is only part of where her idyllic vision diverges from the region’s harsh truths. In the […]
