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February 2013

How Muslim Proselytizing Creeps Into Public Schools by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2013/02/19/how-muslim-proselytizing-creeps-into-public-schools/ The Loudoun County School Board is reaching the denouement of a multiyear deliberation about an application for a charter school that has strong ties to Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Islamist. His followers have already started some 135 American charter schools. Their focus is to promote an increasingly Shariah-dominated Turkey. Incredibly, the school board’s members […]

A Hard Reckoning by Shoshana Bryen

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3596/syria-assad-reckoning Whatever the fate of Bashar Assad, Iran is unlikely to abandon its investment in Hezbollah or in other Syrian groups, but Iran’s interests go well beyond the Syria/Hezbollah axis. Iranian influence in predominantly Shiite Iraq continues to grow and there are reports of Iran building Iraqi Hezbollah militias as the security situation continues to […]

Steven Plaut: The Collapse of Iran’s Rial

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3597/iran-rial-collpase The Iranian banking system is rife with corruption and embezzlement. Of loans to public entities, over 90% are non-performing. The Ayatollahs seem to understand that the real threat to their hold on power comes from Iranians on the street and in the bazaar – people who understand that the government, not sanctions, has ruined […]

STEVE EMERSON: I STAND BY MY FILM “THE GRAND DECEPTION”

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3916/steve-emerson-i-stand-by-my-film Steve Emerson: I stand by my film ‘The Grand Deception’ was well-researched, using sources that included faithful Muslims and the FBI. Instead of addressing facts, CAIR chose to attack me personally. When the facts are on your side, argue the facts, the old legal cliché instructs. But, in the case of CAIR-LA Executive Director […]

JACK ENGELHARD: LET OBAMA BRING HIS BIBLE TO JERUSALEM

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/novelists-view-world/2013/feb/21/let-obama-bring-his-bible-jerusalem/ NEW YORK, February 21, 2013 – This might be a good time for some Bible diplomacy as the President prepares to visit Israel March 20. Every right to build on the land of Israel was already codified and blessed for the Jewish people in Scriptures. ——————————————————————————– SEE RELATED: Anti-Semitism: Coming to a college near […]

SARAH HONIG: NOT ALL REFUGEES ARE CREATED EQUAL

http://sarahhonig.com/2013/02/22/another-tack-not-created-equal/ Not all refugees are created equal. This is an incontestable fact – regardless of prevalent propaganda fronting as humanitarian indignation. Some refugees are the world’s darlings and have unremittingly been tugging hard at its heartstrings for decades. Others got a passing glance at most, accompanied – for a fleeting moment – by quasi-compassionate handwringing. […]

RUTHIE BLUM: ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE APARTHEID ASPERSION

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3493 On Wednesday, British MP George Galloway caused a stir at Oxford University. Galloway was participating in a debate on whether “Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank,” organized by Christ Church College. Galloway argued that it should. His opponent in the debate was Eylon Aslan-Levy, a third-year philosophy, politics and economics student at […]