CAMERA just produced a 2 minute, 45 second video on media bias in the Hizballah War. It can be accessed at the following link:
http://websrvr90va.audiovideoweb.com/va90web25021/Lebanonwar.html
Monday, October 09, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
Deadly pretense
Rice Feeds Fiction that Palestinian State Is Key to Peace - Sidney Zion
The idea that a Palestinian state would bring peace to the world is a sick joke. As is the notion that the Palestinian people want peace, but are prevented by their leaders.
[S]ome things are not soluble by reason. Certainly it would be in the best interests of the Palestinian people to run out Hamas, to reject the intransigence of Fatah, to just say let's live together with the Jews. But the Arabs do not always do what is in their best interests.
(New York Daily News)
Lessons of the Hamas-Fatah Fighting - Ze'ev Schiff
The bloody clashes between Hamas and Fatah in the Palestinian Authority show that the international financial and economic siege of the Hamas government, led by the U.S, is succeeding.
(Ha'aretz)
The idea that a Palestinian state would bring peace to the world is a sick joke. As is the notion that the Palestinian people want peace, but are prevented by their leaders.
[S]ome things are not soluble by reason. Certainly it would be in the best interests of the Palestinian people to run out Hamas, to reject the intransigence of Fatah, to just say let's live together with the Jews. But the Arabs do not always do what is in their best interests.
(New York Daily News)
Lessons of the Hamas-Fatah Fighting - Ze'ev Schiff
The bloody clashes between Hamas and Fatah in the Palestinian Authority show that the international financial and economic siege of the Hamas government, led by the U.S, is succeeding.
(Ha'aretz)
Practicing in Europe...get ready America
The Attack of Radical Islam on Europe Continues - Zvi Mazel
The most serious incident in recent days was the threat on the life of Robert Redeker...who published an article on September 19 in Le Figaro criticizing Muslim aggressiveness in Europe.
A few days later, an Internet site that represents extreme Muslim groups published pictures of Redeker, his place of work, his address, instructions on how to get to his house, and a decision to execute him. French security forces took these threats seriously and moved Redeker and his family to a safe house.
(JCPA-Hebrew, 4Oct06)
The most serious incident in recent days was the threat on the life of Robert Redeker...who published an article on September 19 in Le Figaro criticizing Muslim aggressiveness in Europe.
A few days later, an Internet site that represents extreme Muslim groups published pictures of Redeker, his place of work, his address, instructions on how to get to his house, and a decision to execute him. French security forces took these threats seriously and moved Redeker and his family to a safe house.
(JCPA-Hebrew, 4Oct06)
Thursday, October 05, 2006
The Economics of Hatred
A Nation of Holocaust Deniers? - Azadeh Moaveni
Most Iranians don't share Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel worldview. They have no blood feud with Israel, and would cheerfully accept better relations if it meant their daily lives would improve.
Iranians are no dummies. Millions of middle-class Iranians travel to Turkey on vacation and see the shiny cars, international banks, and consumer bounty that come along with a policy of accommodation. They want that for themselves. Sadly, their government wants to share its bounty with Hizballah.
(TIME)
Most Iranians don't share Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel worldview. They have no blood feud with Israel, and would cheerfully accept better relations if it meant their daily lives would improve.
Iranians are no dummies. Millions of middle-class Iranians travel to Turkey on vacation and see the shiny cars, international banks, and consumer bounty that come along with a policy of accommodation. They want that for themselves. Sadly, their government wants to share its bounty with Hizballah.
(TIME)
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Miracles
Right On: A miracle of biblical proportions - MICHAEL FREUND
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193360806&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[T]he Bnei Menashe of northeastern India [will] finally begin the long journey home to Zion. The significance of this should be readily apparent, even to the most hardened of cynics. After all, whoever heard of an ancient lost tribe returning to its ancestral homeland 2,700 years after their deportation? Without exaggerating, it seems fair to say that this is a miracle of Biblical proportions.
[I]t sends goosebumps down my arms when I think about how the vision of Isaiah is literally coming to pass before our eyes.
The aliya of the Bnei Menashe is a historic event. It is a timely and welcome example of just what Israel, and its wondrous rebirth, is truly all about: the ingathering of our exiles...
[THE JERUSALEM POST]
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193360806&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[T]he Bnei Menashe of northeastern India [will] finally begin the long journey home to Zion. The significance of this should be readily apparent, even to the most hardened of cynics. After all, whoever heard of an ancient lost tribe returning to its ancestral homeland 2,700 years after their deportation? Without exaggerating, it seems fair to say that this is a miracle of Biblical proportions.
[I]t sends goosebumps down my arms when I think about how the vision of Isaiah is literally coming to pass before our eyes.
The aliya of the Bnei Menashe is a historic event. It is a timely and welcome example of just what Israel, and its wondrous rebirth, is truly all about: the ingathering of our exiles...
[THE JERUSALEM POST]
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Rubin suggests saber rattling
To end Iran standoff, plan for war Michael Rubin
http://www.meforum.org/article/1026
If a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear problem is to be found, it is time for Washington to plan for war. Diplomats cannot break the current impasse simply by trying more aggressive diplomacy. Tehran will only change course if it believes it faces a credible threat for defying the will of the world.
[W]ar preparation is itself a form of diplomacy.
With the U.S. Army tied down in Iraq, Iranian officials believe the U.S. military is hamstrung. But the U.S. Navy and Air Force are not hamstrung.
Perhaps it is time to stage war games and exercises in the Persian Gulf and on Iran's borders. The Iranian government should know what it is up against. Only the threat of force, and not the threat of UN finger-wagging, can persuade Tehran to stop spinning its centrifuges.
[New York Daily News]
http://www.meforum.org/article/1026
If a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear problem is to be found, it is time for Washington to plan for war. Diplomats cannot break the current impasse simply by trying more aggressive diplomacy. Tehran will only change course if it believes it faces a credible threat for defying the will of the world.
[W]ar preparation is itself a form of diplomacy.
With the U.S. Army tied down in Iraq, Iranian officials believe the U.S. military is hamstrung. But the U.S. Navy and Air Force are not hamstrung.
Perhaps it is time to stage war games and exercises in the Persian Gulf and on Iran's borders. The Iranian government should know what it is up against. Only the threat of force, and not the threat of UN finger-wagging, can persuade Tehran to stop spinning its centrifuges.
[New York Daily News]
Ahmadinejad pimps media
Ahmadinejad Superstar - Fiamma Nirenstein
CNN and Time Magazine outdid themselves by giving this well-known Holocaust denier a cover story glorifying him and turning him into a star of Hollywood proportions. The media went further than its usual apology for terrorists, giving the maniac from Teheran an even larger platform to express a new gem: that there are no Jews in the State of Israel - only Zionists.
There is nothing strange about the press presenting different points of view, however abhorrent. What is inexcusable in this case is the moral relativism with which the issue was treated, as though blatant anti-Semitism on the part of a world leader is no different from a movie actress talking about her midlife crisis. The media, in its desperate search for new stars, becomes a very dangerous equalizer in times of the war on Islamic terrorism.
Another example is the way Hamas is treated journalistically. Reportage using the term "National Unity Government" to describe a potential merger between Abu Mazen's Fatah party and the party that advocates in its charter the killing of every last Jew is a serious abuse of communications. The phrase "National Unity Government" is supposed to refer to the joining of political parties within a democracy. The confusing of language and images does enormous political and moral damage to freedom and democracy, precisely in a time when we are supposed to be defending these values with all our might.
(JCPA-Hebrew, 1Oct06)
Arabs Still Openly Call Jews "Their Dogs," Even in San Francisco -
Joseph Abdel Wahed
I was at the anti-Israel demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco... The demonstration, organized by a Palestinian group called Al Awda, was loud, boisterous, and passionate. Suddenly and shockingly, demonstrators began chanting in Arabic: "Al Yahud Kelabna," or "the Jews are our dogs."
(Chronwatch)
CNN and Time Magazine outdid themselves by giving this well-known Holocaust denier a cover story glorifying him and turning him into a star of Hollywood proportions. The media went further than its usual apology for terrorists, giving the maniac from Teheran an even larger platform to express a new gem: that there are no Jews in the State of Israel - only Zionists.
There is nothing strange about the press presenting different points of view, however abhorrent. What is inexcusable in this case is the moral relativism with which the issue was treated, as though blatant anti-Semitism on the part of a world leader is no different from a movie actress talking about her midlife crisis. The media, in its desperate search for new stars, becomes a very dangerous equalizer in times of the war on Islamic terrorism.
Another example is the way Hamas is treated journalistically. Reportage using the term "National Unity Government" to describe a potential merger between Abu Mazen's Fatah party and the party that advocates in its charter the killing of every last Jew is a serious abuse of communications. The phrase "National Unity Government" is supposed to refer to the joining of political parties within a democracy. The confusing of language and images does enormous political and moral damage to freedom and democracy, precisely in a time when we are supposed to be defending these values with all our might.
(JCPA-Hebrew, 1Oct06)
Arabs Still Openly Call Jews "Their Dogs," Even in San Francisco -
Joseph Abdel Wahed
I was at the anti-Israel demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco... The demonstration, organized by a Palestinian group called Al Awda, was loud, boisterous, and passionate. Suddenly and shockingly, demonstrators began chanting in Arabic: "Al Yahud Kelabna," or "the Jews are our dogs."
(Chronwatch)
Friday, September 29, 2006
Reflections on the prevailing winds
Islamic Fascism 101 - Victor Davis Hanson
To read bin Laden's communiques is to be reminded of Admiral Yamamato assuring his peers that his years in the U.S. in the 1920s taught him that America, despite its fancy cars and skyscrapers, simply could not match the courage of the chosen Japanese.
Just as it was idle in the middle of World War II to speculate how many Germans, Japanese, or Italians really accepted the silly hatred of Hitler, Mussolini, or Tojo, so too it is a vain enterprise to worry over how many Muslims follow or support al-Qaeda. Most people have no ideology, but simply accommodate themselves to the prevailing sense of an agenda's success or failure. It doesn't matter whether Middle Easterners actually accept the tenets of bin Laden's worldview - not if think[ing] he is on the ascendancy, can bring them a sense of restored pride, and humiliate the Jews and the West on the cheap.
(National Review)
Islam and the Pope - Thomas L. Friedman
We need to stop insulting Islam. What is insulting is the politically correct, kid-gloves view of how to deal with Muslims that is taking root in the West today. It goes like this: "Hush! Don't say anything about Islam! If you say anything critical or questioning about Muslims, they'll burn down your house. They are not capable of a civil, rational dialogue about problems in their faith community." Now that is insulting. It's an attitude full of contempt and self-censorship, but that is the attitude of Western elites today.
I have to admit I am confused as to what Islam stands for today. I don't get it. How can Muslims blow up other Muslims on their most holy day of the year - in mosques! - and there is barely a peep of protest in the Muslim world, let alone a million Muslim march? Yet Danish cartoons or a papal speech lead to violent protests. What matters is not what Muslims tell us they stand for. What matters is what they tell themselves, in their own languages, and how they treat their own.
(New York Times, 29Sep06)
To read bin Laden's communiques is to be reminded of Admiral Yamamato assuring his peers that his years in the U.S. in the 1920s taught him that America, despite its fancy cars and skyscrapers, simply could not match the courage of the chosen Japanese.
Just as it was idle in the middle of World War II to speculate how many Germans, Japanese, or Italians really accepted the silly hatred of Hitler, Mussolini, or Tojo, so too it is a vain enterprise to worry over how many Muslims follow or support al-Qaeda. Most people have no ideology, but simply accommodate themselves to the prevailing sense of an agenda's success or failure. It doesn't matter whether Middle Easterners actually accept the tenets of bin Laden's worldview - not if think[ing] he is on the ascendancy, can bring them a sense of restored pride, and humiliate the Jews and the West on the cheap.
(National Review)
Islam and the Pope - Thomas L. Friedman
We need to stop insulting Islam. What is insulting is the politically correct, kid-gloves view of how to deal with Muslims that is taking root in the West today. It goes like this: "Hush! Don't say anything about Islam! If you say anything critical or questioning about Muslims, they'll burn down your house. They are not capable of a civil, rational dialogue about problems in their faith community." Now that is insulting. It's an attitude full of contempt and self-censorship, but that is the attitude of Western elites today.
I have to admit I am confused as to what Islam stands for today. I don't get it. How can Muslims blow up other Muslims on their most holy day of the year - in mosques! - and there is barely a peep of protest in the Muslim world, let alone a million Muslim march? Yet Danish cartoons or a papal speech lead to violent protests. What matters is not what Muslims tell us they stand for. What matters is what they tell themselves, in their own languages, and how they treat their own.
(New York Times, 29Sep06)
Of Magic & Money
PA National Unity Government an Exercise in Magic - Steven Erlanger
A national unity government is a clever idea, but the whole exercise [is like] a magician wooing an audience desperately hoping to suspend disbelief. (International Herald Tribune)
Is Financial Aid from the West Supporting Palestinian Terrorists?
Jonathan D. Halevi
In order to encourage donating countries to transfer as much money as possible to finance its budget, the PA is striving to magnify the image of a "humanitarian crisis" in the territories. However, without proper supervision, the West's financial aid might directly or indirectly find its way to funding Palestinian terror.
(JCPA-Hebrew, 27Sep06)
A national unity government is a clever idea, but the whole exercise [is like] a magician wooing an audience desperately hoping to suspend disbelief. (International Herald Tribune)
Is Financial Aid from the West Supporting Palestinian Terrorists?
Jonathan D. Halevi
In order to encourage donating countries to transfer as much money as possible to finance its budget, the PA is striving to magnify the image of a "humanitarian crisis" in the territories. However, without proper supervision, the West's financial aid might directly or indirectly find its way to funding Palestinian terror.
(JCPA-Hebrew, 27Sep06)
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Fascinating: Anti-Shia coalition taking shape?
Saudi-Israeli Contacts a Sign of Need, Not Love - Herb Keinon
The apparent willingness of a senior member of the Saudi royal family to meet with Prime Minister Olmert in Jordan earlier this month was an indication of just how threatened the Saudi monarchy feels. Despite denials from both Olmert and the Saudi royals, diplomatic officials in Jerusalem have confirmed that a high-level meeting between senior officials from the countries did indeed take place. The Saudis are worried about a nuclear Iran, Shi'ite extremism, and al-Qaeda no less than Israel is.
(Jerusalem Post)
The apparent willingness of a senior member of the Saudi royal family to meet with Prime Minister Olmert in Jordan earlier this month was an indication of just how threatened the Saudi monarchy feels. Despite denials from both Olmert and the Saudi royals, diplomatic officials in Jerusalem have confirmed that a high-level meeting between senior officials from the countries did indeed take place. The Saudis are worried about a nuclear Iran, Shi'ite extremism, and al-Qaeda no less than Israel is.
(Jerusalem Post)
Capitulating to Islamic law...again
Opera Canceled Over a Depiction of Muhammad
JUDY DEMPSEY and MARK LANDLERA
German opera house canceled performances of Mozart's "Idomeneo" after a scene that depicts the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad prompted an anonymous threat.
(New York Times)
JUDY DEMPSEY and MARK LANDLERA
German opera house canceled performances of Mozart's "Idomeneo" after a scene that depicts the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad prompted an anonymous threat.
(New York Times)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Pushing the economic button
An Economic Coalition of the Willing - Ilan Berman
Washington has not yet seriously tackled the economic dimension of the current Iranian nuclear crisis, or explored the financial levers by which Iran can be confronted.
Iran's first vulnerability is its dependence on foreign investment. The regime in Tehran currently needs $1 billion a year to maintain current oil output levels... By complicating the flow of foreign investment into Iran, the U.S. and its allies can force the regime to draw down its hard-currency reserves, reducing the resources that it has available to forge ahead with its nuclear program - or to fund radicalism in the region.
Iran's second weakness stems from its centralized economic hierarchy. The vast majority of the regime's wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people.
Far and away the biggest chink in Iran's economic armor is its reliance on foreign gasoline. 40% of gasoline in Iran now comes from foreign sources. A comprehensive gas embargo could quickly wreak havoc on Iran's industrial sectors.
Instead of relying on the UN, the White House should be thinking creatively about an economic "coalition of the willing" capable of implementing the specific financial levers that are most likely to alter Iranian behavior, and of doing so without further delay.
(Wall Street Journal, 26Sep06)
Washington has not yet seriously tackled the economic dimension of the current Iranian nuclear crisis, or explored the financial levers by which Iran can be confronted.
Iran's first vulnerability is its dependence on foreign investment. The regime in Tehran currently needs $1 billion a year to maintain current oil output levels... By complicating the flow of foreign investment into Iran, the U.S. and its allies can force the regime to draw down its hard-currency reserves, reducing the resources that it has available to forge ahead with its nuclear program - or to fund radicalism in the region.
Iran's second weakness stems from its centralized economic hierarchy. The vast majority of the regime's wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people.
Far and away the biggest chink in Iran's economic armor is its reliance on foreign gasoline. 40% of gasoline in Iran now comes from foreign sources. A comprehensive gas embargo could quickly wreak havoc on Iran's industrial sectors.
Instead of relying on the UN, the White House should be thinking creatively about an economic "coalition of the willing" capable of implementing the specific financial levers that are most likely to alter Iranian behavior, and of doing so without further delay.
(Wall Street Journal, 26Sep06)
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Jack Bauer saves Los Angeles: VideoBite
Fox's hit show "24" seems to come alive in this clip of ABC News Chief Brian Ross detailing how Los Angeles was saved by coersive interrogation...click on link below:
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/20/bombshell-abc-independently-confirms-success-of-cia-torture-tactics/
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/20/bombshell-abc-independently-confirms-success-of-cia-torture-tactics/
Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally at the UN 9/20
Source:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20060920IsraelRally/
For videobites of the rally go to:
Video: Israel Solidarity Rally in Front of UN (One Jerusalem)
A Bad News Day
Quartet Approves PA Government with Hamas - Nathan Guttman
It was the first time the U.S. had supported the idea of a Palestinian government that included Hamas.
Israeli diplomats were surprised by U.S. support for a Hamas-Fatah government. Senior sources in Jerusalem said Israel would not recognize Hamas, nor any organization of which Hamas was a member.
(Jerusalem Post)
Courting Terrorists - Zalman Shoval
[J]oining a coalition with other, more moderate parties, Hitler and his henchmen soon subverted the new government and grabbed absolute power. One important lesson is that whenever a coalition is formed between moderates and anti-democratic extremists, it is only a matter of time until the extremists take over. This is what's probably going to happen soon on the Palestinian political scene, where Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas terrorists have announced the imminent formation of a national unity government.
(Washington Times)
Mubarak's Son Proposes Nuclear Plan - Michael Slackman and Mona El-Naggar
Gamal Mubarak...proposed Tuesday that his country pursue nuclear energy, drawing strong applause from the nation's political elite. Raising the topic of Egypt's nuclear ambitions at a time of heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear activity was seen as a calculated effort to raise the younger Mubarak's profile and to build public support through a show of defiance toward Washington, political analysts and foreign affairs experts said.
(New York Times)
The Pope Was Right - George Weigel
The pope said that irrational violence aimed at innocent men, women, and children "is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the [human] soul." If adherents of certain currents of thought in contemporary Islam insist that the suicide bombing of innocents is an act pleasing to God, then they must be told that they are mistaken.
We know that, in the past, Christians used violence to advance Christian purposes. The Catholic Church has publicly repented of such distortions of the Gospel and has developed a deep theological critique of the misunderstandings that led to such episodes.
By quoting from a robust exchange between a medieval Byzantine emperor and a learned Islamic scholar, Benedict XVI was trying to illustrate the possibility of a tough-minded but rational dialogue between Christians and Muslims.
(Los Angeles Times)
It was the first time the U.S. had supported the idea of a Palestinian government that included Hamas.
Israeli diplomats were surprised by U.S. support for a Hamas-Fatah government. Senior sources in Jerusalem said Israel would not recognize Hamas, nor any organization of which Hamas was a member.
(Jerusalem Post)
Courting Terrorists - Zalman Shoval
[J]oining a coalition with other, more moderate parties, Hitler and his henchmen soon subverted the new government and grabbed absolute power. One important lesson is that whenever a coalition is formed between moderates and anti-democratic extremists, it is only a matter of time until the extremists take over. This is what's probably going to happen soon on the Palestinian political scene, where Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas terrorists have announced the imminent formation of a national unity government.
(Washington Times)
Mubarak's Son Proposes Nuclear Plan - Michael Slackman and Mona El-Naggar
Gamal Mubarak...proposed Tuesday that his country pursue nuclear energy, drawing strong applause from the nation's political elite. Raising the topic of Egypt's nuclear ambitions at a time of heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear activity was seen as a calculated effort to raise the younger Mubarak's profile and to build public support through a show of defiance toward Washington, political analysts and foreign affairs experts said.
(New York Times)
The Pope Was Right - George Weigel
The pope said that irrational violence aimed at innocent men, women, and children "is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the [human] soul." If adherents of certain currents of thought in contemporary Islam insist that the suicide bombing of innocents is an act pleasing to God, then they must be told that they are mistaken.
We know that, in the past, Christians used violence to advance Christian purposes. The Catholic Church has publicly repented of such distortions of the Gospel and has developed a deep theological critique of the misunderstandings that led to such episodes.
By quoting from a robust exchange between a medieval Byzantine emperor and a learned Islamic scholar, Benedict XVI was trying to illustrate the possibility of a tough-minded but rational dialogue between Christians and Muslims.
(Los Angeles Times)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Welcome to New York...
The Worm in the Apple - Editorial
New Yorkers have, God knows, welcomed plenty of truly disagreeable dignitaries to our shores...
And now we have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran...
[He] assert[s] that Iran is divinely entitled to secret nuclear programs that UN inspectors aren't permitted to inspect. If the UN wants to give a speaking invite to a man who regularly spits in its face, well, there's not much to be done about diplomatic courtesies. We're stuck with Ahmadinejad. We try to be polite. Welcome to New York, you medieval goon.
(New York Daily News)
New Yorkers have, God knows, welcomed plenty of truly disagreeable dignitaries to our shores...
And now we have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran...
[He] assert[s] that Iran is divinely entitled to secret nuclear programs that UN inspectors aren't permitted to inspect. If the UN wants to give a speaking invite to a man who regularly spits in its face, well, there's not much to be done about diplomatic courtesies. We're stuck with Ahmadinejad. We try to be polite. Welcome to New York, you medieval goon.
(New York Daily News)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Catholics on the front lines...
Enough Apologies - Anne Applebaum
Radical clerics from Qatar to Qom have called, variously, for a "day of anger" or for worshipers to "hunt down" the pope and his followers.
We can all unite in our support for freedom of speech and of the press. And we can also unite, loudly, in our condemnation of violent, unprovoked attacks on churches, embassies, and elderly nuns.
Nothing the pope has ever said comes even close to matching the vitriol, extremism, and hatred that pour out of the mouths of radical imams and fanatical clerics every day, all across Europe and the Muslim world, almost none of which ever provokes any Western response at all.
Maybe it's time that it should...
(Washington Post)
The West Should Be Free To Criticize Islam -Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3968
[T]he Muslim uproar has a goal: to prohibit criticism of Islam by Christians and thereby to impose Shariah norms on the West.
Should Westerners accept this central tenet of Islamic law, others will surely follow.
(New York Sun)
Radical clerics from Qatar to Qom have called, variously, for a "day of anger" or for worshipers to "hunt down" the pope and his followers.
We can all unite in our support for freedom of speech and of the press. And we can also unite, loudly, in our condemnation of violent, unprovoked attacks on churches, embassies, and elderly nuns.
Nothing the pope has ever said comes even close to matching the vitriol, extremism, and hatred that pour out of the mouths of radical imams and fanatical clerics every day, all across Europe and the Muslim world, almost none of which ever provokes any Western response at all.
Maybe it's time that it should...
(Washington Post)
The West Should Be Free To Criticize Islam -Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3968
[T]he Muslim uproar has a goal: to prohibit criticism of Islam by Christians and thereby to impose Shariah norms on the West.
Should Westerners accept this central tenet of Islamic law, others will surely follow.
(New York Sun)
AND THE IRONIC TITLE OF THE WEEK:
Pope implies Islam a violent religion ... Muslims bomb churches
(Red State blog)
Lebanon unfolding
Nasrallah's Malaise - Ehud Yaari
Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah is showing clear signs of "dejection, melancholy and depression," according to the editors of the Lebanese daily al-Safir, who are counted among his most steadfast supporters. Nasrallah is worried about not being able to continue the armed resistance...
There are already signs that Hizballah has started moving its military equipment from the south toward the Lebanese Bekaa Valley. In other words, Nasrallah understands that the south has ceased to be "Hizballahstan."
(Jerusalem Report/Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah is showing clear signs of "dejection, melancholy and depression," according to the editors of the Lebanese daily al-Safir, who are counted among his most steadfast supporters. Nasrallah is worried about not being able to continue the armed resistance...
There are already signs that Hizballah has started moving its military equipment from the south toward the Lebanese Bekaa Valley. In other words, Nasrallah understands that the south has ceased to be "Hizballahstan."
(Jerusalem Report/Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
********
Shock and Awe in Lebanon - William M. Arkin
I just returned from a week touring Beirut and southern Lebanon, and from visiting northern Israel. In Beirut, the destruction was efficient and impressive. The destruction in Israel, on the other hand, was random and scattered. When Hizballah rockets were fired on Israel, landing meant success. So here is the truth: Israel did not do anything close to what it was capable of doing. Hizballah did all it could.
(Washington Post)
Monday, September 18, 2006
VideoBite: Pipes on Pope
For a videobite of Daniel Pipes commenting on the Pope's statements go to the following link:
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/18/video-daniel-pipes-on-popemania/
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/18/video-daniel-pipes-on-popemania/
Friday, September 15, 2006
Al Qaeda Dreamin'
THE MASTER PLAN - Lawrence Wright
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060911fa_fact3
In the fourth stage, lasting until 2013, Al Qaeda will bring about the demise of Arab governments.
Then an Islamic caliphate can be declared, inaugurating the fifth stage of Al Qaeda’s grand plan, which will last until 2016.
The sixth phase will be a period of “total confrontation.” The now established caliphate will form an Islamic Army and will instigate a worldwide fight between the “believers” and the “non-believers.” Hussein proclaims, “The world will realize the meaning of real terrorism.” By 2020, “definitive victory” will have been achieved. Victory, according to the Al Qaeda ideologues, means that “falsehood will come to an end. . . . The Islamic state will lead the human race once again to the shore of safety and the oasis of happiness.”
New Yorker Magazine
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060911fa_fact3
In the fourth stage, lasting until 2013, Al Qaeda will bring about the demise of Arab governments.
Then an Islamic caliphate can be declared, inaugurating the fifth stage of Al Qaeda’s grand plan, which will last until 2016.
The sixth phase will be a period of “total confrontation.” The now established caliphate will form an Islamic Army and will instigate a worldwide fight between the “believers” and the “non-believers.” Hussein proclaims, “The world will realize the meaning of real terrorism.” By 2020, “definitive victory” will have been achieved. Victory, according to the Al Qaeda ideologues, means that “falsehood will come to an end. . . . The Islamic state will lead the human race once again to the shore of safety and the oasis of happiness.”
New Yorker Magazine
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