Get ready for it: two of NewsReal Blog‘s contributors, Mark Meed and Michael Merritt, will attend Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally and report about it for all of us. “Restoring Honor” promises to be a fantastic event, that could have a major impact politically and, perhaps, culturally. Fox News has been promoting it for weeks [...]
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, we heard relentlessly about how Barack Obama would usher in the era of Post-Racial America. Upon his Presidential nomination and subsequent election, it reached a fever pitch, with every speech he made being lauded as the second coming of Martin Luther King, Jr. In reality, not so much. In fact, [...]
From Tablet yesterday, David Horowitz debated Daniel Luban on “Islamophobia” and the libelous allegation that the anti-Jihad movement is similar to anti-Semitism: When Daniel Luban published an essay in Tablet Magazine last week finding resonances between what he called Islamophobic opposition to the Park51 Islamic center and past anti-Semitism, one comment on the piece jumped out [...]
"Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women’s rights by Muslims immigrants as obstacles to recognising Islam as an official religion in Italy." All eminently reasonable concerns. Meanwhile, the standard response from "moderates" would be to insist these issues have nothing to do with…
Western education, that is. Islamic education, fine. "Nigeria killings raise fears of Muslim sect’s return," from The Associated Press, August 27 (thanks to Twostellas): MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The targeted killing of three police officers in northern Nigeria has investigators worried a radical Muslim sect may be making a violent comeback….
How is it that they attended this mosque, and so were apparently reasonably observant Muslims, and yet misunderstood Islam so as to think it had something to do with terrorism? Were they influenced by anything they heard at this mosque? What is being taught at this mosque? Does anyone know?…
What a surprise: the group dedicated in its own words to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within" has connections to the "moderate" Ground Zero mosque. "Mosque’s Saudi Patron," from Investor’s Business Daily, August 26: Islamofascism: New dots are emerging from the probe into who’s behind the Ground Zero mosque,…
This odd one came through Facebook. This "secret supporter" of mine is going to encourage Muslims to attack and stab me. Of course, the overheated rhetoric of Hamas-linked CAIR and other Islamic supremacists is directly responsible for this and a similar message Pamela Geller received from the same person. Contrary…
When the Carmelite nuns erected a cross just outside Auschwitz in the 1980s, Frances Kissling was outraged by the brazen insensitivity. Fast forward to 2010 and we find the professional abortion rights activist a passionate supporter of the proposed Cordoba Initiative mosque at Ground Zero. Reflecting on how the Carmelites’ cross and the Park51 project [...]
