Warren Kozak: What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path? – WSJ.com.
Leyla Zana – Quite a Woman
June 12 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Politically correct, Radical IslamBBC News – Turkey election: Leyla Zana eyes Kurdish comeback. What is the cost of freedom?
Reuel Marc Gerecht: The Slaughter That Could Not Be Ignored – WSJ.com
May 6 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Philosophy, Radical IslamReuel Marc Gerecht: The Slaughter That Could Not Be Ignored – WSJ.com. The Jihadists keep killing other Muslims. So why is Islam growing? === By REUEL MARC GERECHT Like all fundamentalists, Osama bin Laden was attuned to the past. When his speeches weren’t about the economic decline of America, they recalled Islam’s classical age, especially the rise of the Prophet Muhammad... Read more
Fouad Ajami: Osama Bin Laden, Weak Horse – WSJ.com
May 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle EastFouad Ajami: Osama Bin Laden, Weak Horse – WSJ.com. Ajami has pretty good sense. ==== The trail had grown cold, but the case for justice had never gone away. Osama bin Laden had warred against the United States, he had called on every Muslim “by God’s will to kill the Americans and plunder their possessions wherever he finds them and... Read more
The U.N. you know you love!
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Middle East, Obama, The LeftReview & Outlook: Syria’s U.N. Admirers – WSJ.com. Bashar Assad’s regime has murdered at least 500 Syrians, and perhaps hundreds more, in putting down its democratic uprising. So what does the United Nations do? Nothing, except hold out the prospect of a seat on its Human Rights Council for the Syrian regime. Welcome back to the looking glass ... Read more
