Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, according to Adam Serwer of the American Prospect, says that “what Muslims want is to ensure that their secular laws are not in conflict with the Quran or the Hadith, the sayings of Muhammad.” Robert Spencer points out that “for Muslims in the…
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Hugh | June 21, 2010 | Posted in
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What was it all about, really, that rally in Lower Manhattan a few weeks ago? I mean the one that was attended by thousands (though the police did not offer an official estimate, a policeman present told one of the organizers that he estimated the crowd at “5,000″). I mean…
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Hugh | June 19, 2010 | Posted in
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The Turkish organizer of the soi-disant “Freedom Flotilla,” Bülent Yıldırım, addressed a Hamas Rally in Gaza back in 2009, in which he declared that “All the Muslims of the World Will March to Gaza.” Well, apparently he couldn’t wait to do it by land, so he chose to do it…
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Hugh | June 13, 2010 | Posted in
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On May 25, 2010, the New York Times carried a story by Sabrina Tavernise on Pakistan, “U.S. Is a Top Villain in Pakistan’s Conspiracy Talk.” The entire piece describes how Pakistan and Pakistanis, over many decades the recipients of tens of billions of dollars in economic and military aid from…
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Hugh | June 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Remember how Bush and his loyalists were reported as believing that if Iraq, or rather the fiction they described as “the Iraqi people,” could be made “prosperous” through the introduction of “free-market ideas,” then the lure and appeal of terrorism would be diminished? Remember how Americans were not only to…
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Hugh | May 29, 2010 | Posted in
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(L-R): Robert Spencer, Harvey Kushner, Hamid Mir, 2006 The other day at JW we learned more about Hamid Mir, a prominent figure in Pakistani broadcast journalism. The source was an article in The Daily Times, a Pakistani paper, fittingly titled: “Hamid Mir’s terrifying indiscretions.” That article spoke of “a…
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Hugh | May 19, 2010 | Posted in
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Well, now we know why Faisal Shahzad did what he did. For god’s sake, you don’t have to be Robert Pape to know that Islam had nothing to do with it. It was loss of status. It was poverty. Here was poor Faisal Shahzad, the son of a high-ranking Pakistani…
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Hugh | May 15, 2010 | Posted in
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I listened recently on NPR to a discussion about Empowerment of Women In Islam. The two guests were Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan who for many years lived in the United States and is now back in Afghanistan, and Isobel Coleman, who after years in business (mainly as a McKinsey consultant),…
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Hugh | May 15, 2010 | Posted in
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The ineffable New York Times carried a story last week, one that from first to last was designed – whether by the reporter, Scott Shane, or by his editors, is unknown – to tug at the heartstrings of the reader. And those heartstringed-tugged readers were to sympathize with the parents…
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Hugh | April 27, 2010 | Posted in
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On April 19 – Patriot’s Day – The New York Times ran a story about the new solicitude shown to Muslims in America by the Obama Administration. There were many things of importance left out of the story, and what was in the story was presented in such a way…
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Hugh | April 22, 2010 | Posted in
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