http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics-and-sports-journalism-dont-mix/article/2515155 Perhaps it’s fitting that a year swamped in journalistic malpractice would end with what sports “journalists” have done with the case of Jovan Belcher. Last Saturday, Belcher, a Kansas City Chiefs football player, murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself. Later that day, Fox Sports blogger Jason Whitlock wrote a piece on whether […]
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives190.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Despite mounting international pressure, Israel must follow up on its recent declaration to build in and around Jerusalem, particularly in Area E1, which connects the capital to the settlement of Maaleh Adumim. Creating continuous Jewish settlement in that area is necessary to enable Israel to have secure access to the strategic Jordan […]
http://www.romirowsky.com/12642/two-state-litmus-test Sixth-five years ago on Nov. 29, 1947, the Arab world rejected partition of Palestine in favor of Zionist annihilation. That rejection has become the backbone of the Palestinian culture and decision-making throughout all the years of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Carl von Clausewitz’s famously described war as a “continuation of politics (Politik) by other means” […]
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/12/hamas-warns-that-female-idf-soldiers.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Hamas warns that female IDF soldiers are trying to seduce Gazans! From Hamas’ Palestine Times: Security sources belonging to the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip disclosed that the “Karkal” Israeli unit – predominantly female – intensified its work on the eastern border of the Gaza in order to blackmail the Palestinians. The resistance […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/01/fitzgerald-a-tribute-to-christiane-amanpour.html Fitzgerald: A tribute to Christiane Amanpour Christiane Amanpour, despite her family background, has no real experience or knowledge of Islam. Herself secular, and married (in a mariage blanc) to James Rubin, she is confused about Islam. She knows Iranian Muslims who are nothing like the Iranian Muslims now in power, but she fails to […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/08/fitzgerald-the-point-of-cnns-religious-fundamentalism-series.html
OVER AT JIHAD WATCH HUGH FITZGERALD WROTE ABOUT MS AMANPOUR’S FORAYS INTO HISTORY IN 2007….RSK
Fitzgerald: The point of CNN’s religious fundamentalism series
Christiane Amanpour has at least one parent who was part of what one would have hoped to describe as the intelligent secular ancien regime. They were the people pushed out by Khomeini and his epigones, and therefore, one would have thought, comprehending the nature of Islam. Well, it turns out that not everyone who has fled Iran quite has that necessary understanding. Some like to pretend that Khomeini is a sport, when the real sport was the Shah and his father, in their de-emphasis on Islam, their emphasis on the pre-Islamic past of Iran, and their willingness to limit the power of the mullahs — and, above all, to give the non-Muslims of Iran, the Christians, Jews, and Baha’is, reasonable security and even something akin to legal equality.
But Amanpour does not realize that. Nor, in her aggressive climb through the media ranks, has she stopped to study Islam. She has not stopped to find out what happened to the Zoroastrians or what happens to them in Iran today. She has not stopped to find out why, even in the 20th century, a Jew could be killed for going out in the rain (where a drop might ricochet off him and hit an innocent Muslim with this raindrop of najis-ness, thus contaminating him).
She might, that is, have begun with the history of Islam in Iran and considered the treatment of non-Muslims, and how Shah Abbas II overnight ordered the conversion of all the Jews and Armenians in an Iranian city (possibly Tabriz), and why the real, as opposed to the Iranian exile’s dreamy fictional history of Iran, is full of such episodes. She might have gotten hold of E. J. Browne’s work on Persian literature, and studied Hafiz and Sa’adi. She might have read Omar Khayyam, and come to realize just how un-Islamic he was. She might have read the Shahnameh of Firdowsi, and seen how his literary talent was put to work preventing the linguistic and cultural imperialism of the Arabs from successfully coming to damage and then overwhelm the Iranian culture. She might have done a special program on Islam as a vehicle of Arab cultural and linguistic imperialism, and used Iran as an example of one place where it did not succeed as it did elsewhere.
Oh, there are many things that raw-boned massive Christiane Amanpour might have done, if she had allowed herself the leisure to think, and be something more than one more media star, one more mere reporter incapable of making sense of what she reports on.
To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=462100##ixzz2EMberzQc Michael Doran is the Hertog Senior Fellow at the Saban Center at Brookings, a former senior director at the National Security Council and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Author of “Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question,” Dr. Doran is currently writing a book on the […]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/06/clinton-excludes-israel-again-from-counterterror-summit/ Last year, the Obama administration and State Department promoted the Global Counterterrorism Forum, but acquiesced to Turkey’s demand that Israel be excluded from the forum. Apparently, as seen by his repeated endorsements of Hamas, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan believes that terrorism is always bad, unless directed at Israelis. Last July, Rick Richman and […]
Baseball, Dennis & the French
by Jamie Glazov
Paul Croshaw discusses his new film about how listening to Dennis Prager led him to conservatism and faith.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/baseball-dennis-the-french/
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3485/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012 “Why these acts? Why are we not safe?” Despite promises to reform the school textbooks, the Saudi education system continues to indoctrinate children with hatred and incitement, especially against Christians and Jews. The textbooks teach — among a long list of hate-filled passages, all of which originate in the Qur’an or the Hadith — […]
