http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-20/al-qaeda-s-zawahiri-bigger-threat-than-osama-raymond-ibrahim.html Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri, Bigger Threat Than Osama?: Raymond Ibrahim By Raymond Ibrahim – Jun 20, 2011 Now that Ayman Zawahiri has assumed leadership of al-Qaeda, it is important to end the widespread perception that he is a dour intellectual who is disconnected from young, would-be jihadists. The fact is, Zawahiri is a wily, dangerous and […]
http://melaniephillips.com/let-uk-muslims-enjioy-freedom Let UK Muslims enjoy freedom Melanie Phillips In both Britain and the US, there are now attempts to push back against the steady encroachment of sharia law. In Britain, a Private Members’ Bill has been introduced in the House of Lords by the cross-bench peer Baroness Cox to curb the increasing use of sharia […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Five months ago Chinese leader Hu Jintao held a high profile state dinner with Obama. Since then Obama has premised his policy proposals on a competition with China. Yet if he learned anything from that visit, it isn’t at all obvious. For Hu Jintao, his American visit was a chance to reaffirm China as […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110618/wl_mideast_afp/saudiexecutionindonesia_20110618112437/print Saudi beheads Indonesian woman convicted of murder JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – An Indonesian woman was beheaded by the sword on Saturday after being convicted of murdering a Saudi woman, the interior ministry said. The woman named Roiaiti Beth Sabotti Sarona, according to a transliteration from Arabic, was found guilty of killing Saudi Khairiya […]
Saudi Arabia’s Silent Battle to Halt HistoryBy Susanne Koelbl in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,768368,00.html Saudi Arabia’s rulers are doing their utmost to resist the tide of history. The wealthy Arab country wants peace and stability within its society and in the region. But even the ultraconservative kingdom has not remained untouched by the unrest in […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269979/new-republican-foreign-policy-stanley-kurtz For a New Republican Foreign Policy By Stanley Kurtz There’s been some talk of late about a an alleged decline in the GOP’s hawkish consensus. Several Republican candidates for president have expressed skepticism about our intervention in Libya. The operation in Afghanistan, now the longest war in American history, is also raising skeptical eyebrows […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/269969 LibzGetReal How could the Left not fall for the Arab-lesbian-blogger hoax? Last week was a great week for lesbians coming out of the closet — coming out, that is, as middle-aged heterosexual men. On Sunday, Amina Arraf, the young vivacious Syrian lesbian activist whose inspiring blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” had captured hearts […]
The Jewish Queen of Wimbledon http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ It being near the start of that glorious time of the year, Wimbledon Fortnight, I thought I’d briefly recall the period – not that I have firsthand memories of it, you understand! – when a Jewish girl from France was the queen of the courts at the All England Tennis Club […]
Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/06/remembering_the_altalena.htm Israel confronts increasingly virulent worldwide challenges to its legitimacy. An expanding chorus of politicians, journalists, academics, and Israel-haters relentlessly denounces the Jewish state as a racist apartheid abomination. Any resemblance between their shrill diatribes and the persistent rhetoric of anti-Semitism during the past two thousand years is not coincidental. Legitimacy problems […]
Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/06/the_muslim_brotherhood_and_weiner.html Far more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner’s dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Furthermore, Huma Abedin’s brother, Hassan, “is listed as a fellow and partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members.” Hassan works at the Oxford Centre for Islamic […]