For those of you old enough to remember, during their epic heavyweight battle in 1974 known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” Muhammad Ali made famous a defensive ploy known as the “Rope-a-Dope.” Flailing on the ropes, the former boxing great feigned being beaten by then World Heavy Weight Champion George Foreman. Allowing Forman to […]
http://www.meforum.org/3262/palestinian-history-nonsense For nearly two decades the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been denying Israel’s right to exist, and a recent “Nakba Day” was no exception. In a Gaza speech on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas, his personal representative made the following statement: National reconciliation [between Hamas and Fatah] is required in order to face Israel and Netanyahu. […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3113/despots-collaborator So, while Israel is “barbaric” and a “slaughter,” Syria is merely an “internal problem.” This is boilerplate hypocrisy for Galloway who has spent his career in obsequious servitude to any tyrant on condition that he has money, is anti-Israel, and anti-Western. Viva Palestina is a charity that was started in the UK and which […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3111/germany-does-away-with-itself “The values represented by Islam must correspond to our constitution. What applies here is the constitution, not Sharia law…. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.” — Chancellor Angela Merkel German President Joachim Gauck recently said in a newspaper interview that Muslims living in Germany are a part of […]
MATTHEW SHMITZ WROTE A COLUMN ENTITLED ” Fears of ‘Creeping Sharia’ This chimerical battle in the culture war poses real dangers.http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302280/fears-creeping-sharia-matthew-schmitz
WHICH OCCASIONED A SERIOUS DEBATE AT NRO. HERE IS ANDREW BOSTOM’S RESPONSE…..
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/302833/sharia-denial-and-cultural-relativism-andrew-bostom
Sharia Denial and Cultural Relativism
Matthew Schmitz’s response — consistent with his initial diatribe against those who object to encroaching sharia — ignores virtually all the substantive evidence I adduced. (Ditto for Ramesh Ponnuru, who chimes in with nothing evidence-based to add — just more flimsy, disproven assertions.)
Schmitz remains in steadfast denial about the liberty-crushing, dehumanizing nature of sharia: open-ended jihadism to subjugate the world to a totalitarian Islamic order; rejection of bedrock Western liberties — including freedom of conscience and speech — enforced by imprisonment, beating, or death; discriminatory relegation of non-Muslims to outcast, vulnerable pariahs, and even Muslim women to subservient chattel; and barbaric punishments which violate human dignity, such as amputation for theft, stoning for adultery, and lashing for alcohol consumption. Refusing to acknowledge sharia’s ugly, living essence, Schmitz instead makes a factually challenged, immoral equivalence between totalitarian Islamic law — a form of state governance — and modern Church canon law, which is deliberately confined to religious affairs, even glibly asserting, “Surely Catholics would love to see canon law cover the globe.”
In lieu of forthrightly acknowledging all the data that was presented about aggressive sharia encroachment in the U.S., and offering any reasoned challenges to this evidence, Schmitz maintains, falsely, that “the only concrete evidence Bostom offers is a study ‘Sharia Law and American State Courts.’” This tendentious claim is debunked by simply reading what I originally wrote. Schmitz continues to ignore: ominous polling data from U.S. Muslims; jihad-funding trial revelations, and the content of more banal Muslim litigation proceedings; mosque surveillance reports; analyses of Islamic educational institutions and their Muslim schoolchildren’s textbooks; the issuance of obscurantist “fatwas” (Islamic legal rulings) by the respected, mainstream Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America; and an open declaration by one of America’s largest mainstream Muslims organizations, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), in its 2010 ICNA Member’s Hand Book, which calls for the (re-)creation of a global Muslim Caliphate, and the imposition of sharia in America.
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/06/14/the-sad-silence-about-muslim-wife-beating/?print=1 Some leading conservative voices, notably Princeton law professor Robert George, denounce the anti-Sharia movement as an attack on religious freedom. Now Matthew Schmitz, the deputy editor of First Things (where I was senior editor from 2009 to 2011), abominates what he calls “anti-Muslim bigotry” in a commentary published June 14 at National Review. Mr. […]
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/19958-Another-Self-Serving-Security-Leak-Re-Syria.html Another Obama Re-Election Security Leak Re: Syria The current Time magazine features “Hillary’s Little Startup: How the U.S. Is Using Technology to Aid Syria’s Rebels,”about “how Americans helped turn him [pseudonym] into a cyberwarrior.” Once again, the secrets of the United States are being deployed in President Obama’s re-election image making. [L]ocal dissident leaders […]
IN THE OLD DAYS AS STALINISTS GO….SO GOES “THE NATION”….AND NOW AS ISLAM GOES SO GOES “THE NATION”…. THEY FAILED WITH MARXISM AND NOW IN THE DEATH THROES OF THAT ENTIRE MOVEMENT THEY ARE LATCHING ON TO “ISLAMOPHOBIA”….. BLUMENTHAL IS JOINED IN THIS FORUM BY THE FOLLOWING CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Also in This Forum
Moustafa Bayoumi, “Fear and Loathing of Islam [1]”
Jack Shaheen, “How the Media Created the Muslim Monster Myth [2]”
Petra Bartosiewicz, “Deploying Informants, the FBI Stings Muslims [3]”
Laila Lalami, “Islamophobia and Its Discontents [4]”
Abed Awad, “The True Story of Sharia in American Courts [5]”
Ramzi Kassem, “The Long Roots of the NYPD Spying Program [6]”
Laila Al-Arian, “When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism [7]”
A POX ON THIS VICIOUS RAGAZINE….RSK
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/168374/sugar-mama-anti-muslim-hate
The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate
In late April, Geert Wilders arrived in New York City to tell his quixotic tale to a rapt American audience. The far-right Dutch Party of Freedom leader—perhaps the world’s most prominent anti-Muslim populist—was poised to release Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me, a memoir just out from Regnery, the right-wing US publishing house, in which he recounts his courageous efforts to stop the “Islamicization” of Europe. On his US tour, Wilders proudly portrayed himself as a man on the run—a round-the-clock security detail guarding him against radical Muslims whose violent passions he had supposedly inflamed by his truth-telling—and as a man on the rise: the exodus of his party from the governing coalition had forced new elections in the Netherlands, throwing the country’s ossified establishment into chaos.
Upon Wilders’s arrival in New York, a little-known think tank called the Gatestone Institute rolled out the red carpet for him. On April 30, before a select crowd that according to Gatestone’s website had paid $10,000 a head, he held forth on the persecution he had endured during his recent trial for incitement to hatred and discrimination. “This charade that happened in the Netherlands for the last few years could not have happened in your great country,” Wilders said in his speech. Then he cut to the heart of his appeal: “Islam is primarily a dangerous ideology rather than a religion. This is the truth. This violent ideology wants to impose Islamic Sharia law on the whole world, including us—the Kafirs, the non-Muslims…. Islam is the largest threat to freedom which the world is currently facing.”
Some Dutch liberals have branded him a demagogue who summons the ghosts of Europe’s dark past, but Wilders counters the accusation by assiduously cultivating Jewish support. He quotes Zionist forefather Theodor Herzl and boasts of his more than forty trips to Israel, where he once toiled on a rural kibbutz. Wilders, in fact, has made a special friend of right-wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. In Wilders’s world, the Jewish state represents Fort Apache on the frontiers of the war against the barbarians threatening Western civilization. “Mothers in the West can sleep safely because Israeli mothers at night worry about their sons in the army,” he told the Gatestone Institute. “Their fight is our fight. We should support it.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/13/islamically-correct-counterterrorism/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS CAIR pressure tactics at work throughout government The Department of Justice and the FBI are revising their counterterrorism training material to remove “inaccurate and biased information” at the direction of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. The Department of Homeland Security, which uses the most funding for counterterrorism […]
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German police launch raid on Islamic Salafists
BBC
Thursday, June 14, 2012
News
German police have launched nationwide raids targeting ultra-conservative Islamic Salafists, suspected of posing a threat to public order. Read more…
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Panetta denies leak to makers of bin Laden film
Associated Press
Thursday, June 14, 2012
News
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says no unauthorized information was provided to filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Read more…
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German police launch raid on Islamic Salafists
BBC
Thursday, June 14, 2012
News
German police have launched nationwide raids targeting ultra-conservative Islamic Salafists, suspected of posing a threat to public order. Read more…
Panetta denies leak to makers of bin Laden film
Associated Press
Thursday, June 14, 2012
News
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says no unauthorized information was provided to filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Read more…
Kennedy pivotal in court’s Obamacare decision
Bloomberg
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
News
Anthony Kennedy has cast pivotal votes at the U.S. Supreme Court on terrorism, school integration, clean water, the death penalty, gun rights, abortion and campaign finance. Health care may be next. Read more…
U.S. energy boom casts shadow on OPEC meeting
Financial Times
Thursday, June 14, 2012
News
The rise of U.S. shale oil, along with other sources such as Canada’s tar sands, is raising the prospect that OPEC’s share of the global market for crude, and hence its influence over the price, could be undermined. Read more…
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