Karen Elliott House: From Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh? – WSJ.com. Think it can’t happen here? I would rather not live to find out. ========== In any authoritarian regime, instability seems unthinkable up to the moment of upheaval, and that is true now for Saudi Arabia. But even as American influence recedes across the Middle East, the U.S. soon may ... Read more
Archive for the ‘Radical Islam’ Category
Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood
February 15 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Middle East, Radical Islam, The LeftStephens: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood – WSJ.com. So you think they are moderates, eh? =============================== It’s what the good people on West 40th Street like to call a “Times Classic.” On Feb. 16, 1979, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Richard Falk, a professor of international law at Princeton, under the headline “Trusting Khomeini.” “The depiction of... Read more
Blasphemy Sentence Sparks Riot
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Politically correct, Radical Islam, Religious PersecutionBlasphemy Sentence Sparks Riot – WSJ.com. I don’t hear any voices in the [liberal] West condemning the violence… ====== By ERIC BELLMAN JAKARTA—Hundreds of protesters burned churches and attacked a courthouse in central Indonesia Tuesday after a Christian convicted of blasphemy against Islam was given what they considered a lenient sentence. The rioting was the latest in a string of... Read more
Cameron’s Multicultural Wake-Up Call
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Politically correct, Radical IslamDouglas Murray: Cameron’s Multicultural Wake-Up Call – WSJ.com. I sure hope our leaders are paying attention – and not just our political leaders… =========== By DOUGLAS MURRAY London ‘Multiculturalism has failed,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron last weekend in Munich. If anybody thought they had read those words before, it is because they have. Many times. Last October German Chancellor Angela... Read more
David Cameron, on “Multiculturalism”
February 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Radical IslamBritish Prime Minister David Cameron speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. [ and a powerful message, indeed.] [T]he biggest threat that we face comes from terrorist attacks, some of which are, sadly, carried out by our own citizens. . . . Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other... Read more
