Conservatives frequently make unfavorable comparisons between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, but it’s a rarer occurrence to see leftists do the same. So when a lefty zealot like Eric Alterman does precisely that in his latest Daily Beast article, it’s bound to raise eyebrows, though it shouldn’t—where The One reminds right-wingers of Carter through his international and economic ineptness, Alterman sees Obama aping some very different traits from his predecessor.
The article does mention the “ideology of global jihad” — we’ll give them that — but softens the assertion by saying the “youths” under its sway are “driven by poverty.” The problem there is, of course, that the jihadist ideology does not depend on poverty, which is why we see…
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Marisol | June 5, 2010 | Posted in
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Is it significant that, in Islam, the pillars of faith are rituals rather than moral values?
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Jamie Glazov | June 4, 2010 | Posted in
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More members of the Tiny Minority of Extremists in moderate, tolerant, pro-American Kosovo? Of course, their presence in the Balkans is commonly written off as the product of Wahhabi influence. And while Saudi money has been instrumental in exporting jihad ideology and funding the activity that results, this explanation is…
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Marisol | May 23, 2010 | Posted in
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“It is crucial to study the supremacist ideology of Islam and to recognize, for example, that the building of a mosque especially at Ground Zero is viewed by Muslims as a decisive victory over the infidels in Islam’s march to establish its ultimate goal: the submission of all others to…
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Robert | May 19, 2010 | Posted in
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Why UC San Diego administrators won’t censure calls for genocide of Jews on their campus.
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Jonah Goldberg | May 19, 2010 | Posted in
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Gee, Riedel, what was your first clue? This story is an exercise in seeing all the evidence and yet refusing to draw the obvious conclusion. “Next big terrorist attack on US will be postmarked ‘Pakistan’: CIA analyst,” from IANS, May 15: WASHINGTON: A former CIA analyst, who helped President Barack…
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Robert | May 15, 2010 | Posted in
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Why the U.S.-mediated “proximity talks” with the Palestinians spell danger for Israel.
In a recent speech to the Young Democratic Socialists, an arm of the Democratic Socialists of America, longtime ACORN luminary Bertha Lewis publicly embraced her socialist ideology, declaring: “First of all let me just say any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is alright with me.” She also suggested that conservatives planned to reinstitute segregation and [...]
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John Perazzo | April 26, 2010 | Posted in
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The hard-left “human rights” organization takes off its mask.
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Jamie Glazov | April 23, 2010 | Posted in
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