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August 2011

“IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM IS A MATTER OF CONSENSUS AND PRIDE” MOUSAVIAN…A SPEAKER IN CHAUTAUQUA

Mousavian: Iranian nuclear program is matter of consensus, pride August 5, 2011 by @chqdaily 0 Comments During the question-and-answer portion of Friday’s morning lecture, Seyed Hossein Mousavian addresses comments regarding the relationship between Western nations and Iran.  Nick Glunt | Staff Writer The final lecture of Week Six’s topic, “Iran: From Ancient Persia to Middle East […]

ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA POSTS ON CHAUTAUQUA…SEE LIST OF SPEAKERS ON IRAN

http://www.isna.net/Services/pages/MUSLIM-HOUSE-OF-CHAUTAUQUA.aspx MUSLIM HOUSE OF CHAUTAUQUA 2011 Chautauqua Season: June 25–August 28 Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. Over the course of nine weeks, […]

OUTRAGEOUS DEVELOPMENT IN CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: IMAM RAUF PLANNING A MUSLIM CENTER…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION IS VERY INFLUENTIAL AND IS GETTING VERY COZY WITH MOSLEM APOLOGISTS…..STAY TUNED…..RSK Mr. Abdul Rauf said last week that he had spent recent months lecturing on tolerance and American Islam and working to establish a Muslim center at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York and writing a book. Developers of Islamic Center […]

MOURNING, MEMORY AND ART: RICHARD McBEE MAGNIFICENT ART

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/8/main-feature/1/mourning-memory-and-art David Roberts (1796–1864) was a Scottish painter who in the late 1830’s traveled extensively in the Levant and Egypt documenting “Orientalist” sites in drawings and watercolors. Together with the lithographer Louis Haghe, he marketed his work to a public eager for exotic scenes.  Queen Victoria was one of his first customers. Among Roberts’s paintings […]

JESSE JACKSON ON OBAMA: “SOME LEVEL OF THE EXCITEMENT IS GONE”…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-778990,00.html EXCITEMENT? JACKSON MADE EVERY EFFORT TO DERIDE OBAMA WHILE HILLARY WAS STILL VIABLE… IS THAT THE THRILL HE MISSES?  JACKSON IS NOW SO IRRELEVANT  …..RSK In an interview with SPIEGEL, civil rights activist and Baptist minister Jesse Jackson discusses Black America’s frustration with Barack Obama and the president’s failure to anticipate the Republicans’ tenacious will to ‘destroy’ […]

DAVID SOLWAY: THE CHILDREN OF EDWARD SAID

The Children of Edward Said Posted By David Solway http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/09/the-children-of-edward-said/     There is a fascinating passage from the Koran, surah 101, its initial lines variously translated as “The Disaster! What is the Disaster?” (N.J. Dawood, The Koran), “The Crashing Blow. What is the Crashing Blow?” (M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an), “The day of Noise […]

BEN SHAPIRO: IN DEFENSE OF DAVID YERUSHALMI

In Defense of David Yerushalmi Posted By Ben Shapiro http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/09/in-defense-of-david-yerushalmi/   The New York Times recently ran a hit piece on lawyer David Yerushalmi, who has led the charge to stop the rise of shariah law in the United States.  With typical anti-religious flair, the newspaper pointed out that Yerushalmi is “a little-known lawyer … […]

THE MARKET PLUNGE AND THE BLAME GAME: ARNOLD AHLERT

Market Plunge and the Blame Game Posted By Arnold Ahlert http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/09/market-plunge-and-the-blame-game/   Stocks plunged Monday, suffering their worst losses since December 2008, as Wall Street reacted to the news of the unprecedented U.S. credit downgrade assigned by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) late last Friday. The Down Jones Industrial Average ended the day with a 634.76 […]

ANDREW BOSTOM: BERNARD LEWIS, THE PIED PIPER OF WESTERN CONFUSION ON ISLAM

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/09/bernard-lewis-pied-piper-of-islamic-confusion/ Bernard Lewis: Pied Piper of Islamic Confusion This summer’s  Claremont Review of Books contains a featured review essay by Robert R. Reillyi which discusses Bernard Lewis’s essay collection “Faith and Power,” ii and the nonagenarian historian’s reflections upon the so-called Arab Spring unrest in the Middle East, particularly North Africa.iii As distilled by Reilly, […]

US MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ACTIVIST ACCUSED OF ACTING AS AGENT OF PAKISTANI INTEL

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10122/pub_detail.asp Global media is reporting on the arrest of U.S. Muslim Brotherhood activist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, accused by the FBI of acting as an agent for the Pakistani intelligence service involved in secret lobbying efforts inside the U.S. According to a Hudson N.Y. report [2]: Relations between U.S. and Pakistan grow more and more tense. […]