http://www.military.com/news/article/us-stalls-on-trial-for-five-at-gitmo.html US Stalls on Trial for Five at Gitmo August 01, 2010 Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As the U.S. military prepares for the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama, its most high-profile case against the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks is stuck in political and legal limbo. Canadian prisoner […]
No-win journalism http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6180804/nowin-journalism.thtml Sunday, 1st August 2010 When I saw today’s story about Shimon Peres in the Sunday Telegraph, I blanched. Under the headline Fury as Israel president claims English are ‘anti-semitic’ the story states: Israel’s president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters. Shimon Peres said […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MzYwZWRjYTJhZGM0YTY4NzJmOTgwMDNiZmI0ZTdjNTE= Ban the Burqa…CLAIRE BERLINSKI Istanbul — I moved here five years ago. In the beginning, I was sympathetic to the argument that Turkey’s ban on headscarves in universities and public institutions was grossly discriminatory. I spoke to many women who described veiling themselves as an uncoerced act of faith. One businesswoman in her mid-30s […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NWY5OTgxNzEwOGU2MWU1ZTk1YmRmNWM4YTVjNjNlYjM= Losing Turkey to the Islamists A look at Turkey’s history shows how very un-Turkish is the mindset of its current Islamist rulers. “Democracy is like a streetcar. When you reach your stop, you get off.†— Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey’s recent open embrace of terrorist regimes like Iran and Syria, its high-profile […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/30/it-is-us/ NUGENT: It is us We’re the ones who allowed anti-Americans to take over America By Ted Nugent @$:Barack Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An army of clueless, disconnected, ignorant Americans invited him to bring his Marxist, glaringly anti-American jihad into our lives. This Barack Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An […]
To Kill an Apostate URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/08/02/to-kill-an-apostate/ Posted By Nonie Darwish Some Muslim leaders in America deny that there are any threats to the lives and safety of Muslims who decide to leave Islam. It is as though they have no role to play in changing the status quo of the tyranny of Islam. […]
Hamas’ Siege on Gaza http://frontpagemag.com/2010/08/02/hamas-siege-on-gaza/ Posted By P. David Hornik In Al-Ahram, Egypt’s largest daily, journalist Ashraf Abu Al-Houl wrote (translated by MEMRI [1]) on July 18: I was last in Gaza in mid-February. Returning three weeks ago, I found it almost unrecognizable…. A sense of absolute prosperity prevails, as manifested by the grand resorts […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/08/fully-veiled-women-sail-through-airport-security-.html Fully Veiled Women Sail Through Airport Security, “Full veiling has been a boon for those participating in criminal and terrorist operations” “We were never allowed to ask anyone with a veil to lift it. It is their religion.†CATSA employee, who, until recently worked as a frontline screener. Veiled women fly past security veiled […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100802/wl_afp/mideastconflictrocketjordanisrael Red Sea ports of Eilat, Aqaba hit by rocket fire by Hazel Ward Hazel Ward 1 hr 13 mins ago JERUSALEM (AFP) – At least five rockets were on Monday fired towards the southern Israeli beach resort of Eilat, causing no casualties in Israel but injuring five in the Jordanian port of Aqaba, officials […]
August 1, 2010 The Palestinians, Alone By EFRAIM KARSH London IT has long been conventional wisdom that the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a prerequisite to peace and stability in the Middle East. Since Arabs and Muslims are so passionate about the Palestine problem, this argument runs, the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate feeds regional anger and […]
