The War on Brigitte Bardot
By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com
In the 1960s, Brigitte Bardot was France’s national icon, a pouty-lipped poster girl for the glories of her home country. So it is a sign of how radically times have changed that yesterday’s silver-screen darling is today’s enemy of the people.
Bardot’s “crimes,” such as they are, are straightforward: She has committed the sin [...]
Turkey’s Turning Point - Could there be an Islamic Revolution in Turkey?
by Michael Rubin
National Review Online in Middle East Forum
Few U.S. policymakers have heard of Fethullah Gülen, perhaps Turkey’s most prominent theologian and political thinker. Self-exiled for more than a decade, Gülen lives a reclusive life outside Philadelphia, Pa. Within months, however, he may be as much a household a name in the United States as [...]
Beneath the Fear of Democracy
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Part I
In Caroline Glick’s article “Fear of Democracy” (Jerusalem Post, April 4), we learn that the UN’s Human Rights Counsel instructed its expert on freedom of expression to report to the Council on all instances in which individuals “abuse” their freedom of speech by giving expression to racial or religious bias. Since [...]
The Shape of the Enemy
Prof. Paul Eidelberg says that the current system of government and leaders must be overthrown in Israel as quickly as possible and at any cost. I think he’s right, as far as needing to throw the bums out and make drastic reforms to the structure of government in Israel.
The reader might say, “how can [...]
Fitna the Movie by Geert Wilders
Dutch MP Geert Wilder’s long awaited movie about Islam. Quotes from the Koran calling for war against infidels and murder is interspersed with current scenes of Islamic war and murder of infidels, and a call to Muslims to renounce jihad.
Islam 101
An excellent documentary about political Islam, its goal to control the world, its methods and its current success. Featuring scholars on the Mideast and Islam, testimony by Muslims, and Arab video proving the point.
Turkey: More Rumbles of Change
Background: On March 14 the Special Prosecutor of the Turkish High Constitutional Court, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, accused the AKP, Turkey’s Islamic (and West friendly) party of being the center of anti-secular activities, and ordered the party to be shut down and its elected members, including Prime Minister Erdogan, to step down from office. This is not [...]
Geert Wilder’s speech to the Dutch Parliament
Following is an English translation of a speech that Dutch politician Geert Wilder gave in the Dutch Parliament, discussing Islam in the Netherlands.
Mr. Wilder is considered by many to be racist and anti-semitic, although he has supporters among Dutch Jews. In this particular speech there is no anti-semitism. I don’t know enough about him to [...]
The Psychological Asymmetry of Islamist Warfare
by Irwin J. Mansdorf and Mordechai Kedar
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2008, pp. 37-44
U.S. military lawyers acknowledge that “civilians may not be used … to render an area immune from military operations… [or] to shield a defensive position, to hide military objectives, or to screen an attack. Neither may they be forced to leave their homes or [...]
Study: 3 in 4 U.S. Mosques Preach Anti-West Extremism
Secret survey exposes widespread radicalism
WorldNetDaily
An undercover survey of more than 100 mosques and Islamic schools in America has exposed widespread radicalism, including the alarming finding that 3 in 4 Islamic centers are hotbeds of anti-Western extremism, WND has learned.
The Mapping Sharia in America Project, sponsored by the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, has trained [...]
How Far Will Paperless Trail Carry Obama?
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287964608613151
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
There’s no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity.
Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: Bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed tap water) and charge more than they pay for gasoline.
Or consider how Google found [...]
