Romancing the Jihad

"Ask those on the Left what values they champion, and they will say equality, tolerance, women’s rights, gay rights, workers’ rights, and human rights. Militant Islamists oppose all that, not infrequently through the application of lethal force. So how does one explain the burgeoning Left-Islamist alliance?"

Dr. Phyllis Chesler on Honor Killings in America & Easter Terror Plot in U.K. Thwarted

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Bull in a foreign-policy shop

"Obama's foreign policy – keeping true to liberal Democrat tradition – has no basis in logic or common sense. Most Americans know, our current economic woes notwithstanding, that we're better off than Europeans. We've also seen the futility of appeasement as regards Islamic factions and the danger of evidencing any weakness whatsoever in their eyes."

Obama: Islam Has Shaped the U.S.A. But How??

"Did Muslims play a role in the great struggle over slavery that defined so much of our contemporary understandings of the nature of this republic and of the rights of the individual within it? They did not. Did the Islamic faith shape the way the United States responded to the titanic challenges of the two World Wars, the Great Depression, or the Cold War? It did not. Did the Islamic faith, with its legal apparatus that institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims, shape the civil rights movement in the United States? The Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandated equality of access to public facilities – a hard-won victory that came at a great cost, and one that Muslim groups have tried to roll back in the United States recently. One notable example of such attempts was the alcohol-in-cabs controversy at the Minneapolis-St. Paul international airport, when Muslim cabdrivers began to refuse service to customers who were carrying alcohol, on Islamic religious grounds. The core assumption underlying this initiative – that discrimination on the basis of religion is justified – cut right to the heart of the core principle of the American polity, that 'all men are created equal,' that is, that they have a right to equal treatment in law and society."

And they said it wasn't a 'holy war'

"We so quickly forget incidents such as that in 2003, when Sgt. Asan Akbar, a Muslim, of the 101st Airborne Division, killed Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert by lobbing a grenade into a tent when their battalion was stationed in Kuwait. Right now, there are several cases in America being prosecuted or in which fugitives are being sought in connection with 'honor killings' of women and children. These crimes are all cases in which Islamic sensibilities dictated the perpetrator's actions.

"Over the weekend, it was disclosed that the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group is smuggling guns, drugs and people into the U.S. across our border with Mexico. A noteworthy development

, to say the very least, but I will be astounded if we hear word one about it from our president. "

WJC blasts UNHRC religious criticism resolution

"'The World Jewish Congress, long a leader in the effort to champion human rights and freedom of religion, has for many years defended the rights of the members of all faiths, including the Muslim faith,' said WJC President Ronald S. Lauder. 'However, we strongly oppose the issue of "defamation of religions" being cast as a human rights violation at the United Nations. We see it as weakening the rights of individuals to express their views and criticize other religions, and, in the case of this specific resolution, particularly Islam.'

"Lauder went on to say that the resolution was an attempt to bring blasphemy laws prevalent in some Muslim countries to the UN, stressing that in accordance with human rights laws, the rights of individuals to express their views should be protected and not restricted or punished by the state."

Hanged for being a Christian in Iran

"Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand's father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer. Alasdair Palmer reports."