http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303678704576440263221151194.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Are You Better Off? Obama will have to answer the question Reagan asked in 1980. White House adviser David Plouffe was hammered this week when he offered that “the average American” isn’t going to “vote based on the unemployment rate.” His remark gained instant notoriety after Friday’s dismal jobs report showing an unemployment rate […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Even as Australia was banning the veil, New Zealand was caught in a scandal over the veil after the Saudi consulate complained when two of their masked slaves were refused access to a Kiwi bus. But the two bus drivers dodged accusations of Islamophobia by claiming that they instead suffer from Maskphobia. Maskphobia being […]
Ibn Warraq: The Judeo-Christian Origins of Islam (Part 1) http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/ibn-warraq-the-judeo-christian-origins-of-islam-part-1.html As Patricia Crone once put it, “new religions do not spring fully fledged from the heads of prophets, old civilizations are not conjured away.” Islam did not somehow emerge fully developed, as the Islamic traditional accounts would have us believe, but slowly, over a long […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/former-czech-prime-minister-faces-criminal-complaint-for-criticizing-islam.html Former Czech prime minister faces “criminal complaint” for criticizing Islam Milos Zeman “has been known for his strong statements.” The ones he made about Islam got him hauled into court. “Former Czech PM sued over statements on Islam,” from the Prague Monitor, July 7 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): Prague, July 7 (CTK) – Retired […]
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=gul-puts-de-facto-end-to-oath-taking-crisis-2011-07-10 WAKING UP TO TURKISH TRICKS? SHAME ON ISRAEL FOR FALLING FOR THE PRETENSE OF “ACCOMMODATION AND PEACE”….RSK Israeli Foreign Minister Slams Turkish PM for Furthering Divide Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of having “shut the door” on reconciliation with Israel and having no intention of normalizing […]
The Prayer Strategy by Herbert I. London http://www.hudson-ny.org/2262/the-prayer-strategy Like a tide that ebbs and flows, isolationism in what some have called Fortress America arrives at the water’s edge each generation. War fatigue, monstrous expenditures, casualties and the cry that we cannot be the world’s policeman contribute to the belief from both the left and the […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145589 Glenn Beck at Knesset: Biblical Esther and Ruth Guided Me by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu American news personality Glenn Beck told the Knesset Aliyah and Absorption Committee Monday that the Biblical Esther and Ruth have guided him as he stands up for Israel. “Esther knew she had no choice but to come out and speak,” […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/07/11/entebbe-celebrated Thirty-five years ago last week, Israeli commandos flew into the heart of Africa to the old terminal building at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. In a lighting operation, they freed 103 hostages. 248 passengers and 12 crewmembers had been hijacked a week earlier aboard Air France Flight 139 en route from Athens to Paris. The hijackers […]
CAIR Spokesman Turns Blind Eye to “War on Islam” Rhetoric http://www.investigativeproject.org/3032/cair-spokesman-turns-blind-eye-to-war-on-islam CAIR Spokesman Turns Blind Eye to “War on Islam” Rhetoric A Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) spokesman demanded Friday that the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) either back up its claim that CAIR officials have repeatedly described the war on terrorism as a […]
It’s time to park the peace process By Gideon Rachman http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f9ceb04-abf1-11e0-945a-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1RrTaHrBc A lot has changed in the Middle East since the Arab uprisings began. But one thing that remains constant is the obsession of international diplomats with the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process”. Monday saw yet another effort to drag the unwilling parties back to the negotiating […]
