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September 2010

ANDREW McCARTHY: IMAM RAUF’S PRECIOUS CONCERN FOR OUR “NATIONAL SECURITY”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246132/imam-raufs-precious-concern-our-national-security-andy-mccarthy Imam Rauf’s Precious Concern for ‘Our National Security’ September 9, 2010 2:20 P.M. By Andy McCarthy  I don’t know about you, but I’m having trouble following Imam Feisal Rauf’s logic on the relationship between the Ground Zero mosqe (GZM) and jihadist terror. As those of us who oppose the GZM have pointed out, even if […]

FRAU MERKEL DOES THE RIGHT THING….HONORS KURTWESTEGAARD THE DUTCH CARTOONIST

http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/245906/chancellor-merkel-honor-dutch-cartoonist THANKS TO PAM GELLER ATLAS SHRUGS    Chancellor Merkel to Honor Dutch Cartoonist [ Berlin: Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who in 2005 portrayed the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban, is to receive the M100 Media Prize in Germany on Wednesday, organisers said.   The prize is to be awarded for Westergaard’s […]

ADRIAN MORGAN:CAN IMAM RAUF BE TRUSTED?

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7301/pub_detail.asp Can Imam Rauf be Trusted? September 9, 2010 – The Editor Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf appeared on CNN last night, on the Larry King Show. Interviewed by Soledad O’Brien, he spoke of how he has served his community. The video is below. Strangely – considering how the president had argued at an iftar dinner on Friday […]

THE SULTAN: THE DAY THE SKY FELL

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The Day the Sky Fell Tuesday. Another morning in downtown Manhattan. The canyons of the financial district swell with men and women in business suits, briefcases confidently swinging, a cup of coffee or a pastry dangling from one hand. Few of them were bothering to look up at the sky. They owned the sky. […]

THE BURNING QUESTIONS….ANDREW McCARTHY

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/246033/burning-questions-andrew-c-mccarthy ANDREW McCARTHY Burning Questions The Koran-burning stunt is a stupid and pointless provocation — sound familiar? How do you know your vacation has been too short? You leave behind one charlatan, whose concept of “building bridges” is a patently offensive project to build a giant Islamic center on a site where the remains of […]

FROM BURNING HERETICS TO BURNING BOOKS…..BRAVO!!!

ADRIAN MORGAN From Burning Heretics to Burning Books http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7289/pub_detail.asp September 8, 2010 –  Currently, the airwaves around the world are reverberating to the news of the proposed actions of a few angry evangelical Christians. The congregation of the Dove World Outreach Center, led by Pastor Terry Jones, intends to incinerate a few thousand Korans on Saturday, […]

BRET STEPHENS ON TIME RAGAZINE COVER AND STORY ON ISRAEL

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703946504575469502667359126.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion&mg=com-wsj#printMod ‘Rhymes With Fagin’ Time magazine adds its voice to the chorus of those attempting to delegitimize the Jewish state. TIME’s latest cover Israel news photo: TIME Magazine By BRET STEPHENS If you’re a reader of a certain age, you might understand the headline. In May 1977, when Menachem Begin was elected Israel’s prime minister, […]

STEVE BARBER: THE FAST GROWING NEW ECONOMY OF TERROR

The fast-growing “New Economy of Terror” http://australianconservative.com/2010/09/the-“new-economy-of-terror”/ The Financing of Islamist Terrorism: its importance, sources, linkages, structures and mechanisms; how to shut it down and the implications for counterterrorism policy. 1. Introduction – The Importance of the ‘New Economy of Terror’ Much was written in the late 1990s and early 2000s by the world’s economic […]

THOSE NETTLESOME AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS…..HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON?

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/how-long-will-it-all-last-20100907-14ziu.html How long will it all last? Greg Craven September 8, 2010 With coalition partners from opposite political poles, Labor may be torn in two. WHEN it comes to elections there are odd results, strange results and bizarre results. Australia has just managed to achieve the surreal. The Gillard government has survived with two independent […]

STILL NO PEACE PROCESS: PART TWO PROFESSOR BERES

http://www.thejewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=45175 By: Louis René Beres The explicit application of codified restrictions of the laws of war to noninternational armed conflicts dates back only as far as the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. Recalling, however, that more than treaties and conventions comprise the laws of war, it is also clear that the obligations of jus in […]