White House defends Obama envoy to OIC: “This is an individual that has written extensively on why some have used religious devices like the Qur’an to justify this [terrorism] and why that is absolutely wrong”

It’s all right that he defended a jihad terror leader and then tried to cover up that fact, because he wrote about how the Qur’an doesn’t justify terrorism. Got that? If anyone can direct me to Hussain’s writings about the Qur’an, please write me at director [at] jihadwatch.org. “W.H. affirms…

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Steyn: Dutch court “is explicitly attempting to criminalize the political opinions of a large swath of the Dutch electorate”

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Steyn: Dutch court “is explictly attempting to criminalize the political opinions of a large swath of the Dutch electorate”

Mark Steyn on the imminent prosecution of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands (thanks to the peerless Kathy Shaidle): …in the Netherlands and other European countries, the political elite understands that there are frictions between an ever more assertive Muslim population and an ever more resentful “native” working class, but that,…

Poetic Lunch Break

Miserere
Se Mercé fosse amica a’ miei disiri*
This fallen night the ancient girl
My hot agitated digits furled, and
These hands enjoined; they hailed her world.
Ave!

Yet flagrant grief incensed me.  Hence
I groped her gracious confidence–
Fessing high crimes that spurn defense.
Ave! Ave!

Silent condemnation thundered.
What whispered treaties were, were sundered
Into stupefied and wilding wonder.
O! O, ave!

Now blasted [...]

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