http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/12/slouching-towards-teheran.php Two weeks ago, Iran scored a massive victory. Jordan, the West’s most stable and loyal ally in the Arab world began slouching towards the Iranian Gomorrah. On December 12, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Chief of Staff Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei met with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman and extended a formal invitation from Ahmadinejad for […]
Emails Show City Backing Of Mosque By MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL And SUMATHI REDDY Wall Street Journal NY POLITICS DECEMBER 24, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704278404576038090585417146.html The chairman of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission allegedly wanted “political cover” before denying landmark status to a building situated on the site of the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero, giving […]
US, EU Support Violations of Human Rights as Palestinian Authority Escalates Repression, Brutality by Khaled Abu Toameh http://www.hudson-ny.org/1749/palestinian-authority-brutality-repression On a number of occasions over the past two years, Palestinians who protested in public against the policies of the Palestinian Authority have been assaulted and beaten by US-trained Palestinian policemen. Palestinian journalists and human rights activists […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/23/blast-swiss-embassy-rome-wounds-1/ By Frances D’Emilio ROME (AP) — Mail bombs exploded in the hands of employees at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday, seriously wounding two people and triggering heightened security checks at diplomatic missions just as holiday deliveries deluged their mailrooms. Italian investigators suspected the attacks were the work of anarchists, similar to the two-day […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/23/wide-saudi-loopholes-let-charity-funds-slip-to-ter/ Despite some success in disrupting funding for al Qaeda, Saudi authorities face major challenges in regulating the sprawling charitable sector in their desert kingdom, according to officials there and documents. “There are still loopholes,” said a Saudi official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak with the […]
[1] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/255926/me-thinks-senator-graham-doth-protest-too-much-andrew-c-mccarthy Me Thinks Senator Graham Doth Protest Too Much[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy Ever since 13 Senate Republicans joined Democrats in consenting to the terrible New START treaty, Sen. Lindsey Graham has been on a tirade, telling any conservative who’ll listen that “Harry Reid ate our lunch,” meaning that Democratic leadership outmaneuvered Republicans in getting […]
URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/see-no-sharia/ See No Sharia Posted By Andrew G. Bostom Robert Conquest, the preeminent [1] scholar [2] of Soviet Communist totalitarianism [3], in his elucidation of Western vulnerability to totalitarian ideologies wrote [3] that democracy itself is “far less a matter of institutions than habits of mind” — the latter being subject to […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8234/pub_detail.asp I first heard the news report about the threat that al Qaeda might attempt to have their operatives poison foods in restaurants and hotels yesterday morning when I was listening to the local CBS Radio station in New York City. That is certainly not the way you want to start your day! Fox News […]
How Islamic Supremacism Is Overwhelming Democracy Posted By Robert Spencer URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/12/22/how-islamic-supremacism-is-overwhelming-democracy/ After 9/11, you may recall, the United States was going to bring democracy to the Islamic world. Nine years later, we have Sharia Constitutions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. A Shi’ite client of the Iranian mullahs rules shakily in Iraq, while […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/2558 Islamists’ War against ‘the Other’….Nina Shea Under Islamist pressures, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians are vanishing from their ancient homelands. The enduring symbol of Christmas, spanning the world’s diverse Christian cultures and the history of two millennia, is the nativity scene inspired by the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Artistically synthesizing the two gospel stories, […]
