A ridiculous article that, unfortunately, reflects all-too-common assumptions. “President Obama Seeks to Bridge Differences with Islam,” by Jerome Socolovsky for VOA News, March 18 (thanks to Mackie): U.S. President Barack Obama has again postponed his trip to Indonesia because of pressing issues in the U.S. The trip is part of…
She has been in custody since October, this says. Why are we only hearing about all this now? An update on this story. “U.S. ‘Jihad Jane’ Pleads Not Guilty to Terrorism,” from Reuters, March 18: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane” pleaded not guilty on…
Preliminary results show loss for pro-Iran forces and a triumph for secular democracy.
Welcome to the efforts of the liberal well-to-do class — who are immune from the dictates they impose on others.
Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative to the United Nations in Geneva: Association for World Education (AWE) and the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) : The following joint statement was drafted & delivered by DGL for WUPJ on 16 March: * * * * * WORLD UNION FOR…
Where is the version that instructs believers not to wage war on unbelievers?
The restoration of this one synagogue connected to Maimonides, once court physician to the Fatimids, was not prompted by some sudden deep realization of the need, culturally and politically, to recognize, at least by allowing this one synagogue to be rebuilt, that for thousands of years Egypt had had Jews…
Over at the NewsReal blog they’ve been arguing for several days, while I was flying through the air in a tin can, giving a talk, flying elsewhere in another tin can, etc., over whether or not I am right about the non-existence of moderate Islam. And so now it…
Over at the NewsReal blog they’ve been arguing for several days, while I was flying through the air in a tin can, giving a talk, flying elsewhere in another tin can, etc., over whether or not I am right about the non-existence of moderate Islam. And so now it is time for a Marshall McLuhan [...]
So whom do you want to believe? Do you want to believe those who claim, such as Charles Krauthammer, that there is “Islam” and then there is “Islamism” and there is vast and therefore comforting difference between the two – though that difference is never really adequately discussed in detail…
