Nearly 58% of Swiss voters Sunday cast their ballots in favor of banning the construction of new minarets in the Alpine republic, a surprise result that led at least one Swiss member of parliament to declare that “the foundations of Switzerland’s direct democracy have failed.”
That is clearly wrong. Swiss direct democracy shows its mettle when [...]
Iran today sent a defiant signal to the international community by announcing plans to build 10 uranium enrichment plants days after it was condemned by the UN for concealing activities that are feared may be designed to produce an atomic bomb.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government said the plants would be the same size as the main enrichment [...]
Dominos. “Al-Shabaab rebels seize town close to Kenyan border,” from the Daily Nation, November 29 (thanks to Maxwell): Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents have captured a key town close to the border with Kenya. The al Qaeda linked rebels are said to have driven out combatants of Hizbu-Islam, another Islamist group opposing…
srael could release 980 Palestinian prisoners in a possible deal to win the freedom of an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for three years, prosecutors disclosed Sunday.The number from Israel’s State Prosecutor’s Office is the first official estimate of how many Palestinians could be freed in exchange for Cpl. Gilad Shalit, who was captured [...]
Aiding the jihad and being victimized by it almost simultaneously. Iran is believed to be aiding the Chechen jihad. Of course, Russia is not the only country that is doing that. From our bulging Suicidal Short-Sightedness File: “Russia, Iran agree on new gas, oil projects,” from the Tehran Times, November…
Aiding the jihad and being victimized by it almost simultaneously. Of course, Russia is not the only country that is doing that. From our bulging Suicidal Short-Sightedness File: “Russia, Iran agree on new gas, oil projects,” from the Tehran Times, November 30 (thanks to Maxwell): TEHRAN – The Russian energy…
I tend to find myself agreeing with Nick’s commentary on the nature of God and how to pursue holiness. He left it on today’s David Horowitz Quote of the Day:
2009 November 29
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The most challenging of these questions emerge when after one agrees to seek, he considers the Nature of God. Is God an [...]
Islamic Tolerance Alert. While the article does not elaborate, the fact that he was apparently active in some capacity as an advocate for the Sikh community — and thus an undesirably uppity dhimmi — likely singled him out to be targeted as an example to others. “Pak Sikh thrashed for…
A year ago, on November 26, my friend, Alan Scherr, 58, and his daughter Naomi, 13, were murdered in the restaurant of the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai by one of the 10 Islamic terrorists conducting attacks at several carefully selected locations. Over 200 persons were murdered and more than 308 wounded in the attacks, which [...]
