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Islam

Obama’s Risky Ploy – Iran

March 15, 2012

There are now many self-evident and destabilizing developments: 1) Obama feels more comfortable with Turkey’s Erdogan, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, perhaps even with the Iranian leadership, than with Netanyahu. He likely believes Netanyahu is the least rational, the least predictable in the arena.

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Syria – A Minefield

February 28, 2012
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Senator Clinton’s vocal (though not military or financial) support as well as the White House’s ambivalent backing for the Free Syria Coalition, now after 7,000 deaths and a year of violent revolution, may come back to haunt us. 

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Shari’a and Western Compliance

August 25, 2011
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Article 22 of the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam states: 1. Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari’a.

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The Impossibility of Absolution

July 27, 2011
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God created the universe. Fine. Largely logical and eminently reasonable. Man however invented words, which by definition exist only in the subjective recesses of human existence; every meaning, all implications, therefore, are relative.

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Hypocrisy and Selective Democracy

May 19, 2011
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Egypt was weak and Mubarak was weaker. Egypt – or, rather, Egypt’s government and army – relied on 3 billion dollars of US aid per year, and was allied with the relatively unaggressive but super wealthy Saudi Arabia and associated Arab Emirates. So when ambiguous protests germinated, with a sprinkling of democrats and liberals, Obama [...]

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The Elephant in the Room

March 19, 2011
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Recall the seemingly absurd rationale (among others) given by president George W. Bush for invading Iraq: to bring freedom and democracy to the Arab Middle East. Satirists had a field day, while the bulk of the West’s intellectual and political classes mocked George junior with no respite.

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Obama’s White House – A Policy of Discrimination

February 3, 2011

Obama’s pledge, when running for president, was to focus on human rights not war, on democracy, not special interests. In Israel’s case, at the UN, he has come up sorely wanting.

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72 Virgins and their Civil Rights

December 30, 2010

Rumor has it that suicide-bombing martyrs to the cause of fanatical Islam are granted 72-virgins black-eyed upon their ascent to heaven. Don’t we owe these pictures of purity a modicum of civil rights? We’re sending them the most uncouth of men,murderers, and naïve, gullible children. Don’t these virgins have any choice in the matter, any [...]

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Who Needs to Talk for Hamas?

October 6, 2010

As talks between Israel and Fatah grind along, many commentators have asked: where is Hamas? Who is speaking for the duly elected leaders of a good portion of the factitious Palestinian Authority? The answer, of course, is that Hamas speaks very well for themselves. Just read the group’s charter: in Arabic for the Arabs, and [...]

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The Grand Coalition

August 19, 2010

From leftist radicals and boycotting unions to Osama Bin Laden and his ilk—the call is the same: “Israel – get out of Gaza”. Ironically the so-called occupation ended 5 years ago when Israel removed every last soldier and Jewish resident from within Gaza’s border.

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