Displaying posts published in

May 2010

THE FREEDOM TO CARTOON: THE SULTAN

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/   Those Damned Pictures and the Freedom to Cartoon On the one hand it’s odd that the debate between Freedom and Islam has become centered over cartoons. The Danish cartoons of Mohammed and South Park’s more recent attempts to depict a cartoon image of Mohammed. Unlike novels, plays and other more high minded stuff, […]

SPITTING IN THE FACE OF EVERYONE MURDERED ON 9/11: GADI ADELMAN

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6177/pub_detail.asp Exclusive: Spitting in the Face of Everyone Murdered on 9/11 Gadi Adelman Well, its official, we have all lost our minds. I read about this last December – plans for a mosque at Ground Zero. But like a fool, I assumed that New Yorkers would never let this come to pass. A mosque just […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: THE WASHPO TALKS SENSE ON INTERROGATION AND DETENTION

National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor May 10, 2010 4:00 A.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/433823/the-iwashington-posti-talks-sense-on-detention-and-interrogation/andrew-c-mccarthy The Washington Post Talks Sense on Detention and Interrogation Will the Obama administration listen? On Sunday, the Washington Post dropped many a jaw with a powerful editorial (“Questioning Suspected Terrorists”) that beseeched the paper’s champion, President Obama, to rethink his […]

NOTES FROM TOM GROSS….SEE NOTE PLEASE

I OMITTED THE COLUMNS ON JUDGE GOLDSTONE AND APARTHEID….FOR THOSE YOU CAN GO TO THE SITE…GOLDSTONE IS A CUR AND A BASTARD BUT I FIND THE NAZI METAPHORS OF DERSHOWITZ TO BE A TAD OVERBLOWN….ESPECIALLY SINCE HE THINKS ABUMAZEN/ABBAS A HOLOCAUST DENIER AND A BLACKBELT TERRORIST IS A PROPER “PEACE PARTNER” FOR ISRAEL….I’LL GIVE DERSH […]

J CALL EXPOSED BY EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/as-mainstream-as-they-come-1.288857 As mainstream as they come The JCall argument is self-serving, because it allows the group to don the mantle of victimhood. By Emanuele Ottolenghi What are we to make of JCall, the new European liberal Jewish movement launched last week? Two Jews and three opinions is a tirelessly repeated joke that conveys a sense […]

A CHALLENGE TO THE PRESIDENT FROM TEXAS: SECURE OUR BORDERS

A message from the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas: secure our borders, Mr. President, or Texas will follow in Arizona’s footsteps. Border Security Is President Obama’s Responsibility, Whether He Likes It or Not Posted By Cathie Adams On May 10, 2010 In the wake of increased border violence, kidnappings, and incursions into its […]

FROM ABBOTTABAD AND COSTELLOBAD….TIMES SQUARE WAS A US CONSPIRACY

http://www.jihadwatch.org/ Pakistan: Political leaders blame terrorism on “well-hatched,” U.S.-backed conspiracy Conspiracy paranoia and displacement of responsibility often travel together, as in this case. “Anti-Islam forces behind Pak unrest,” from The News (Pakistan), May 10: ABBOTTABAD: Leaders of various religio-political parties on Sunday said terrorism was promoted in Pakistan under a well-hatched conspiracy. Addressing a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat […]

FOUAD AJAMI: ISLAM’S NOWHERE MEN

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703338004575230142684329162.html FOUAD AJAMI: “This is a long twilight war, the struggle against radical Islamism. We can’t wish it away. No strategy of winning “hearts and minds,” no great outreach, will bring this struggle to an end. America can’t conciliate these furies. These men of nowhere—Faisal Shahzad, Nidal Malik Hasan, the American-born renegade cleric Anwar Awlaki […]

THE DEPRAVITY OF THE SEALS’ FAILED ACCUSER

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/10/report-details-depravity-of-seals-failed-accuser/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_must-read-stories-today Monday, May 10, 2010 Report details depravity of SEALs’ accuser Rowan Scarborough The just-concluded military trials of three exonerated Navy SEALs showed the terrorism suspect at the center of the case to be one of the most dangerous men in Iraq. Ahmed Hashim Abed initially was described as the insurgent who planned the killings […]

TEA PARTIES AND RACISM: ROBERT WEISSBERG

May 10, 2010 Tea Parties and Racism By Robert Weissberg Get used to it, Tea Partiers: You are going to be called racists. A Google search on “racism tea parties” gets 190,000 hits. Fortunately, I am a self-appointed one-man rescue squad to help beleaguered Tea Partiers fight back. Having written about “racism” for over two […]