Category: Islam

Something fundamentally disturbing

France Has Been No Friend to Muslims By Gordon Adams, November 17, 2015   Once again, a violent jihadi terrorist attack has hit France, this time with at least 450 victims, 129 of them fatal. Rallying around the French flag, even pasting it over our Facebook avatars, follows, because an attack on European soil somehow …

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Fooled by Obama?

  Dear editor: While listening to conservative talk radio commentator Mark Levin recently, he said this about Obama — “We have never had a president in the White House that hates Christians and Jews like Barack Obama does!” I personally couldn’t agree more with that statement. But how could that be true? Doesn’t Obama say …

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Correct reading, it used to work wonders

  Kamal Salibi: Scholar and teacher regarded as one of the foremost historians of the Middle East By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 07 September 2011   Almost two decades ago, recording a BBC radio programme on Islam, I dropped by the American University of Beirut to interview an old Christian Protestant friend, Kamal Salibi. I asked …

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Apoplexy of fear and hatred

Brigitte Gabriel is a vicious and probably deranged Islamophobe By Hussein Ibish, October 1, 2009   A lot of readers seemed to benefit from and enjoy my evaluation of Irshad Manji from yesterday’s Ibishblog posting, and I have been asked to give my views on another charmer, called Brigitte Gabriel. I argued that Manji is …

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Funny things

Dear editor, This is a letter about funny things. A random collection perhaps, but some readers may discern a veritable fountain of flummery, deep and wide, that flows through them all. Funny thing about that young bigot slaughtering all those people away yonder in a Charleston church just a few weeks ago. Suddenly there’s a …

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Hazardous, illusory, and sadly unchallenged

America’s Virulent, Extremist Counterterrorism Ideology By Micah Zenko, May 21, 2015   Throughout the 13-plus years of the war on terrorism, one line of effort that everyone in Washington agrees on is the necessity to counter the ideology put forth by terrorist groups. Unfortunately, everyone also agrees that U.S. government agencies have done a terrible …

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A country that is overrun by idiots

Exorcising Our Rights By Jeffrey Melvin Hutchins, May 12 2015   Here’s the thing about rights: You have them, even if you don’t use them. Twenty years ago, I learned several things about trademarks. One of the most important things is that if a company owns a trademark and does not protect it, then the …

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