I really wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this probably ends that hope forever. ========= WSJ 12/27/2016 If you are like this columnist, you may have missed the recent prayer vigil in front of St. Peter’s, which featured Pope Francis leading tens of thousands of the faithful in protest of the sickening Russian military strikes in Aleppo that have... Read more
Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category
Where’s the Pope on Syria?
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Politically correct, Religion, The LeftHelping our Friends?
May 29 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, ObamaI would be surprised…. ====== y Mario Loyola May 29, 2015 6:24 p.m. As the fight to retake Ramadi from Islamic State, also known as ISIS, heats up, I can’t help thinking of my visit to the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province nearly eight years ago, and of America’s broken promises since then. In September 2007, I was in Ramadi for a gathering... Read more
‘Headscarves and Hymens’
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Losing Freedom, Middle EastWhere is the Left on behalf of women? ================= By Bari Weiss April 27, 2015 7:22 p.m. ET If you are cursed to be born a girl in Egypt, there is a 90% chance you will have your genitals cut in the name of purity. In Yemen, there is a 55% chance you will never learn to read and a 79% chance you... Read more
Noonan: A New Kind of Terrorist Threat
August 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Noonan, Radical Islam, TerrorismDid you notice there were NO “declarations of dismay” when Obama authorized air strikes against ISIS? Have we got “The Left’s Attention, finally???” Let’s be done with all this talk of “let’s just co-exist in a happy world”. How many “religion haters” “Jewish haters”, “Christian haters” are lining up to join ISIS and their view of “co-exist”?? =============== The question... Read more
Cameron on ISIS
August 24 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Radical Islam, TerrorismNot the first time I have thought: “Why do I agree more with British leaders than American?” ========== British Prime Minister David Cameron writing in the Telegraph (London), Aug. 16: The creation of an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and extending into Syria is not a problem miles away from home. Nor is it a problem that should be defined by... Read more
Mr. Speaker, please… We are being slaughered…
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, The LeftWhere is the “moral outrage”???? ========== From a translation by the MEMRI organization of a plea on Aug. 5 by Vian Dakhil to her fellow members of the Iraqi Parliament, on behalf of the Yazidi, a religious sect whose members are besieged on Mount Sinjar by the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham: I beg you, Mr. Speaker, my people are... Read more
