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2011

THE “TRUSTING KHOMEINI” SYNDROME, REDUX? ANDREW BOSTOM *****

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/02/06/the-%E2%80%9Ctrusting-khomeini%E2%80%9D-syndrome-redux/ The “Trusting Khomeini” Syndrome, Redux? By Andrew Bostom Falk’s imaginary Ayatollah, circa February, 1979: Having created a new model of popular revolution based, for the most part, on non-violent tactics. Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane governance for a third-world country. If this is true, then indeed the exotic […]

DIANA WEST:IN AFGHANISTAN WE HAVE ENBABLED A THEOCRATIC POLICE STATE

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1676/Uncle-Sam-Midwife-husband-to-a-Theocratic-Police-State-UPDATED.asp Five years ago, the story of Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert from Islam under prosecution for his faith in US-“liberated” Afghanistan, did not make the pages of the New York Times. The Chicago Tribune reported the story in the most vivid terms (the lead prosecutor, the Trib reported, called Rahman “a microbe in society,” […]

NIDRA POLLER: THE GREAT MIDDLE EASTERN DEMOCRACY SHOW HITS A BUMP

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/81947/sec_id/81947 The Great Middle Eastern Democracy Show Hits a Bump by Nidra Poller (February 2011) Those who truly desire the liberation of the submissive subjects of the oummah will not be fooled by the Democracy Show playing in Tunisia, Egypt, and wherever else it can be produced. Tunisia was a pushover. Egypt may well turn […]

SEE THE HEADLINES ABOUT EGYPT AND THE MUSLIM BROTHREHOOD: ROGER KIMBALL

URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/02/06/egypt-the-muslim-brotherhood-oyster-stew/ Egypt, the Muslim brotherhood & Oyster Stew Posted By Roger Kimball What do you think of these headlines from today’s news?: * Egypt’s Brotherhood to hold talks with government [1] * Brotherhood to Press Demands in Egypt Talks [2] * Muslim Brotherhood Join Egypt Talks [3] If you’re Bruce Riedel, special […]

REP. SUE MYRICK: WHO IS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?

http://myrick.congressnewsletter.net/common/mailings/index.cfm?sniv=2100068310.113987.381.1 Unrest In Egypt: Who Is The Muslim Brotherhood? As Egyptians are protesting in the streets, there is an underground movement by groups in Egypt who want to see the government crumble so that they can take power.  One of these groups is the Muslim Brotherhood.  Click the image below for the answer to the […]

EGYPT’S BROTHERHOOD TO HOLD TALKS WITH GOVERNMENT

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/02/06/general-ml-egypt_8294760.html?feed=rss_asia Egypt’s Brotherhood to hold talks with government CAIRO – Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country’s nearly 2-week-old political crisis but made clear it would insist on President Hosni Mubarak’s immediate ouster. The decision by the fundamentalist Islamic group, […]

DERSHOWITZ: THE US CAN COUNT ON ISRAEL BUT CAN ISRAEL COUNT ON THE US?….SEE NOTE

Lessons For Egypt: The United States Can Count On Israel, But Can Israel Count on the United States? http://www.hudson-ny.org/1865/lessons-for-egypt ALAN DERSHOWITZ SO WHEN WILL DERSH DENOUNCE THE TWO STATE DISSOLUTION AND OBAMA?….RSK It’s too early to learn all the possible lessons—and there will be many—from the current turmoil throughout the Middle East, but one important […]

RAMALLAH NEWS CELEBRATES THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE REHIRING OF THEIR MAN ON CAMPUS

http://ramallahonline.com/2011/02/breaking-good-news-brooklyn-college-rehires-middle-east-studies-prof/ Cecilie Surasky , Jewish Voice for Peace We wrote about Kahane-supporter NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s successful effort to get Brooklyn College to fire adjunct Middle East Studies professor Kristofer Petersen-Overton because a student didn’t like the syllabus for his course.  Hikind also glanced at a sophisticated academic paper on Palestinian identity and decided […]

OBAMA’S FOREIGN GIFTS: THE SULTAN

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Obama’s Foreign Gifts On the third day of Obamass, it came time to list all the gifts sent his way by foreign leaders… and the foreign gift registry has a list of gifts given to Barry Hussein , his family and his associates by foreign leaders. The most expensive gift on the list came […]

AT 100 RONALD REAGAN STILL MATTERS

Reagan Revelation: At 100, Why He Still Matters By Richard Norton Smith http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2044565,00.html?iid=tsmodule “What I would really like to do is to go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again.” —Ronald Reagan Before he became an icon, Ronald Reagan was a paradox: a complex man who appeared simple, at […]