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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.
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.
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.
The Sounds of Silence
Right Side News 21 August 2009
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report
A Palestinian writer is calling out what he sees as a double standard among Arabs and Muslims. Little, if any, outrage or condemnation is expressed when Palestinians kill other Palestinians in political fighting, as has happened at least 700 times since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007.
Muslim smugglers hid heroin in Koran -- watch for the international riots
Jihad Watch 21 August 2009
Remember Newsweek's spurious "Koran in the toilet" story, and the outrage and murder it touched off? There is almost certainly going to be no similar outcry from Muslims about this story -- which provides
Egyptian Coptic Priest Banned From Village, Under Death Threat
AINA 21 August 2009
By Mary Abdelmassih
On August 14 Rev. Estefanos Shehata, a Coptic priest, sent a letter to the Middle East Christian Association (MECA) stating the Muslim elders of his village have issued a death Fatwa (religious edict) against him, and
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.
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
Chadors in the Cabinet Can't Cloak Iran's Misogyny
Patriot Post 20 August 2009
By Jeff Jacoby
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Sunday that for the first time since the 1979 revolution, women will be named to the Iranian Cabinet, a development the news media promptly described as a bid “to soften
NEFA Foundation: AQIM Claims Bombing at French Embassy in Mauritania
Counterterrorism Blog 20 August 2009
By Evan Kohlmann
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new statement from Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claiming responsibility for an August 8 suicide bombing attack on the French embassy in
A New Mecca in Dordrecht
Gates of Vienna 20 August 2009
By Baron Bodissey
Our Flemish correspondent VH has compiled an exhaustive report on the upcoming installation of a ka’aba in Dordrecht, the birthplace of Calvinism in the Netherlands. VH says, “This scandal arose in June, but the project was postponed. Now it has become clear that the permit has been issued and the project will be unveiled Friday, September
Sweden's Orwellian concept of free speech
Israelmatzav 20 August 2009
By Carl
On Wednesday, the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv issued a statement condemning the vile accusations made in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet that Israel harvests the organs of dead 'Palestinians' for re-sale
Jihad from North Carolina to Kosovo - Al Qaeda flags keep showing up around the globe
The Weekly Standard 20 August 2009
By Stephen Schwartz
On Tuesday, August 18, U.S. authorities unsealed a warrant that had authorized searching the homes of two individuals from the vicinity of Raleigh, N.C. The pair were among eight men charged late
Wearing Out Their Welcome
Gates of Vienna 19 August 2009
By Baron Bodissey
In the midst of the raging economic crisis, with the tourist industry in Austria experiencing a dramatic drop, the number of Arab visitors to Austria vacation spots remains the same. Even though Middle Eastern tourists are propping up the Austrian economy, not all Austrians are happy with the ethnic shift in the tourist industry.
