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"Inflammatory and Tasteless"?
DianaWest.net 24 August 2009
By Diana West
Warning: The following images may be "inflammatory" and/or "tasteless." It is up to you to determine which are so.
1) The Saudi Arabian flag.
Earlier this summer in Copenhagen, speaking in the Danish parliament, Wafa Sultan projected an image of the Saudi flag on the wall behind her and explained the symbolism: 
80 percent of US mosques have been radicalized by Saudis according to expert on terrorism
Examiner.com 24 August 2009
By Richard Bean
According to Yehudit Barsky, head of the AJC's Division on Middle East and International Terrorism, over 80 percent of mosques in the US have been radicalized by the Wahhabi form of Islam. According to the article found here, Barsky notes, "The United States has a hard time understanding the extremists' ideology. Americans don't like to
Killing Rifqa
American Thinker 24 August 2009
By Andrew Bostom
Rifqa Bary faces death for her apostasy from Islam, while the media ignores the solid religious and institutional grounding for the practice. Today. In America.
Magdi Allam, is an intrepid Egyptian-born writer and vociferous critic of jihadism who was publicly converted to Christianity from Islam by Pope Benedict XVI during an Easter eve service in St Peter's Basilica broadcast worldwide, Saturday March 22, 2008. Writing at the time of his public apostasy, Allam highlighted the West's weakness and flaccidity, foremost, its stifling multiculturalism.
Obama And The Swedish Welfare State
The Brussels Journal 21 August 2009
By Richard Rahn
Stockholm, Sweden. Do you think America would be better off with a Swedish-type welfare state?
This question tends to evoke strong reactions from both the left and right, yet few understand Sweden's economic history and the revisions it has been making to its welfare-state model in recent years. Sweden was a very poor country for most of the 19th century. The poverty of those years caused many to emigrate from the country, mostly to the U.S. Upper Midwest.
LSE Law Professor Urged to Step Down from U.N Gaza Inquiry over Bias
UN Watch Blog 21 August 2009
GENEVA. The U.N. fact-finding mission into alleged violations in the recent Gaza conflict is being asked to disqualify London School of Economics law professor Christine Chinkin, over prior statements she made
UK Minister condemns Lockerbie Bomber's hero's welcome
Examiner.com 21 August 2009
By William Skordelis
The British Foreign Secretary David Miliband finds it “deeply distressing” and “deeply upseeting” that the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi received a hero’s welcome when he arrived at home in
Lockerbie bomber is being punished by “a higher power” says Scottish Minister
The Herald 21 August 2009
By DEBORAH ANDERSON, CHRIS WATT & ROBBIE DINWOODIE
The gun had just fired from the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, the rain poured down on the capital, and Kenny MacAskill strode into the packed media briefing room at St Andrew's House to confirm the
Libyan Oil is Thicker than American Blood
The Terror Finance Blog 21 August 2009
By Rachel Ehrenfeld
In a chillingly cynical excuse Scotland released the former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi who blew up Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The pretext “compassion” for the allegedly terminally ill Libyan, barely disguised the real reason - oil buried deep in the Libyan sand.
American outrage as bomber gets hero's welcome
Sydney Morning Herald 21 August 2009
BARACK OBAMA led condemnation of Scotland's administration for allowing the Lockerbie bomber to return home to Libya. The US President's criticism of the ''mistake'' added to a growing backlash
Florida urged to help converted Christian girl
Religious Intelligence Ltd 21 August 2009
International Christian Concern (ICC) is calling upon officials in Florida to retain custody of a Rifqa Barry, a Christian girl who has alleged that her fundamentalist Muslim Father in Ohio threatened to kill her upon
Yale Economics 101: Crush Cartoons, get Sharia-Backed Gold
Town Hall 21 August 2009
By Diana West
The official story is that fear of Muslim violence drove Yale University Press (YUP) to censor the Danish Muhammad Cartoons and other imagery of Muhammad from an upcoming book about, well, the Danish Muhammad Cartoons. That's what Yale, its administration and press, says publicly, matter-of-factly, and, it seems, without shame.
Atlas Exclusive: A Plea from Wafa Sultan for Rifqa Bary
Atlas Shrugs 21 August 2009
By Pamela Geller
The bravest woman (person) in the United States, Wafa Sultan, expert on Islam and the only American citizen forced to live in hiding in the US because of the death threats against by devout Muslims, speaks out for Rifqa Bary. Author, writer, speaker, Sultan was born to a Sunni Muslim family in Baniyas, Syria. Sultan trained as a psychiatrist in Syria and is a US naturalized citizen.
Freedom of Religion: A Precious American Right, an Islamic Capital Crime
Pajamas Media 21 August 2009
By Phyllis Chesler
Rifqa Bary, Islamic Apartheid, and the Mainstream Media
Given the anti-Christian views of many Muslims and of all the Western book-and-column writing atheists and secularists, I wonder if Rifqa Bary, the teenage convert from Islam to Christianity, is not respected as a hero who is fighting for her freedom of religion but seen, rather, as someone who has taken yet another reactionary path. Perhaps if Rifqa had launched a lawsuit for the right to wear hijab or a burqa in Ohio she might immediately have gotten mainstream media sympathy.
Asking insensitive questions during Ramadan could offend your Muslim colleagues
Salem News 21 August 2009
By Gail Zoppo
"... when you have a friendly work environment, you will have better performing and more loyal employees." - Niham Awad, Council on American-Islamic Relations
Cartoon Jihad Continues
Human Events 20 August 2009
By Robert Spencer
A much-needed new book is coming from Yale University Press: The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen, a professor of politics at Brandeis University. It discusses the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad that were published in the largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, late in 2005, touching off murderous rage from Muslims around the world.
Listening to Islamists - Holbrooke's dialogue with radicals only legitimizes them
Washington Times 20 August 2009
The Obama administration is continuing its outreach efforts to radical groups. On Tuesday in Islamabad, U.S. envoy Richard C. Holbrooke met with Liaqat Baloch, a leader of Pakistan's Islamist Jamaat-i-Islami party.
Obama Administration Says: Hooray for Jihad
Global Politician 20 August 2009
By Prof. Barry Rubin
I’m beginning to understand the Obama administration strategy, at least in its initial phase, as a “bridge too far” approach. That expression came after the heroic Allied operation at Arnheim in World War Two, when what seemed a clever idea—to capture a key bridge far ahead of the existing Allied lines—turned into a military disaster.
US Town Says "No" to New Mosque
WKBW-TV 20 August 2009
By Ginger Geoffery
The Islamic Cultural Center of Niagara Falls bought an old credit union property at 2931 Military Road in the Town of Niagara with the idea of turning it into a mosque. The center currently operates from a
Al Qaeda's "Legitimate Grievances"?
Jawa Report 20 August 2009
By Rusty
I've already highlighted John O. Brennan, Obama's assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, new "strategy" elsewhere. But I think I overlooked this part, highlighted by Daniel Pipes
Facts are unimportant in Jerusalem
Global Politician 20 August 2009
By Maurice Ostroff
A Google search for Israel evictions yields 195,000 results, almost all condemning Israel because two families were evicted from homes in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on August 2, implying that
