Some of the remarks by Ibn Warraq at the Former Muslims United press conference. I was shocked when Salman Rushdie had the death fatwa put on his head, and intellectuals such as Germaine Greer attacked him. They were more concerned about the delicate sensibilities of Muslims. Then in 1995 I…
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Fourteen Columbia professors are protesting the university’s apparent decision to award tenure to Joseph A. Massad, a controversial anti-Israel professor of Arab studies.
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Sara Dogan | September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Tuesday night on Countdown, Lawrence O’Donnell, substituted for Keith Olbermann and he did his best to live up to the low intellectual and moral standards of the regular host.
O’Donnell, who styles himself as a more sophisticated and honest lefty, willing to take on his own side and occasionally praise the other side, engaged in juvenile [...]
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From ElSe on my post about Bill Maher’s Sugar Stalinism:
I’m not sure that you’ve got right the idea of Stalinism, David. When one reads Solzhenitsyn’s memoires (or any memoires of the Stalin’s survivors, in that matter) one clearly sees that Stalin’s meat-grinder wasn’t meant to reshape the society or have had any particular targets , [...]
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David Swindle | September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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I’m here in Washington at the Former Muslims United press conference. Nonie Darwish kicked it off. Here is a liveblog of her remarks:”The worst kind of tyranny is of victims who are scared to speak.” She explains that this is the situation of those who have left Islam. Being a…
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Collaborators in the War Against the Jews: Norman FinkelsteinBy: John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, September 24, 2009 Norman Finkelstein’s luck was to be born (in 1953) to parents who had survived the Holocaust. With audacious perversity, Finkelstein has drawn upon this birthright in legitimating the anti-Semitism that he has perfected into something like a nightclub routine [...]
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John Perazzo | September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Obama’s U.N. Speech and IsraelBy: Joseph Klein FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, September 24, 2009 President Obama delivered his long-awaited speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, Wednesday, September 23rd. The address was entitled “Responsibility for our Common Future”. He claimed major accomplishments in fighting al-Qaeda, dealing with climate change, working for peace in the Middle East, moving [...]
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Joseph Klein | September 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Monday night’s Red Eye discussed John Edwards’ continuing, disgraceful treatment of his family. Andrew Young, a former aide to Edwards, has proposed to write a book making some serious allegations regarding the senator’s extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter (which isn’t her real name), including Edwards’ pledge to someday marry Miss Hunter in a rooftop wedding complete [...]
A Bomb in Every IssueBy: Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, September 24, 2009 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Peter Richardson, the editorial director at PoliPointPress, lecturer in the humanities department at San Francisco State University, chair of the California Studies Association, and author of American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams (University of Michigan, 2005). His new book is A Bomb in [...]
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Seven years of bad luck are over. “Complaints against Alberta newspapers dismissed by human-rights commission,” by Karen Kleiss for the Edmonton Journal, September 23 (thanks to Sounder): EDMONTON — Alberta’s Human Rights and Citizenship Commission has dismissed nine complaints filed against the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald in connection…
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