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IRAN’S HORMUZ THREAT Editorial Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2011 So now we know the kind of sanctions that hit Iran’s regime where it really hurts. The U.S. and Europe are at last mustering the gumption to target Iran’s multibillion-dollar oil industry, and almost immediately Tehran is threatening to bring Persian Gulf tankers to a […]
THE YEAR WE LOST AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, EGYPT, TURKEY, TUNISIA AND MOST OF THE MIDDLE EAST Daniel Greenfield FrontPage, January 3, 2012 About the only people having a Happy New Year in the Muslim world aren’t the Christians who are huddling and waiting out the storm, but the Islamists who use a different calendar, but are […]
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VIOLENCES DE BEIT SHEMESH: QUI SONT CES ULTRA-ORTHODOXES? Julien Bahloul Guysen.com, 28 décembre 2011 Qui sont les ces ultra-orthodoxes responsables des violences de ces derniers jours? Les orthodoxes israéliens refusent d’être tous mis dans le même sac. Et pour cause. Le groupe à l’origine des récents évènements est affilié à la petite secte […]
REACHING FOR THE PRIZE Eliezer Yaari Jerusalem Report, December 20, 2011 I feel as if a helicopter has just dropped me off on the summit of Mount Everest, and now I am standing there, applauding those who climbed up on their own, those who for decades have fought their own intellectual and physical limitations to […]
Analysis
On Sunday, October 23, a devastating magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southeast Turkey, killing hundreds and injuring thousands more. In a show of solidarity, Israeli officials called their Turkish counterparts to offer sympathy and relief aid. Turkey’s response prompted Commentary magazine editorialist, Jonathan S. Tobin, to pen the following: “How determined is Turkey to repudiate […]
Last Thursday, France’s National Assembly passed a law making it a crime to deny that the atrocities against Armenians committed by Ottoman Turks from 1915-1918 constituted a genocide. In response, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chastised French President Nicholas Sarkozy, accused France of committing its own genocide in Algeria, and cited the bill’s […]
According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, approximately 70,000 Syrians demonstrated in a large square in the restive city of Homs on Tuesday, as Arab League observers began a visit to the country to monitor a peace deal aimed at ending President Bashar Assad’s deadly nine-month crackdown. The observer mission is part […]
«LA FÊTE DE NOËL EST ILLICITE» – JOYEUX NOËL MALGRÉ TOUT! Dépêche Pointdebasculecanada.ca, 22 décembre 2011 La Muslim Students’ Association (MSA – section Université Concordia) recommande plusieurs sites à ses supporteurs qui désirent approfondir leur compréhension de l’islam. Parmi ceux-ci le site islamweb.net en langue française rappelle les préceptes de l’islam en […]
THE FIFTH CANDLE Stewart Weiss Jerusalem Magazine, December 23, 2011 There is no life at Buchenwald. Its gray barracks contain only fear and dread; fear of what tomorrow will bring, the dread of what waits beyond the door. Barbed-wire fences and watchtowers surround the entire compound; the steady rat-atat of machine guns can be heard […]
On December 4, news broke that an advanced American stealth drone, the RQ-170 Sentinel, had fallen into Iranian hands, a situation described by former Vice President Dick Cheney as “a significant intelligence loss.” According to foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran deliberately delayed the announcement of the drone’s capture to test US reaction. And […]
Against the backdrop of the Shafia honour-killing trial in Kingston, Montreal’s Concordia University graduate Sikander Ziad Hashmi, an imam with the Islamic Society of Kingston, tells us “there is no such thing as ‘honour killing’ in Islam.” Last week, Hashmi challenged readers of Canada’s National Post Full Commentonline to find one classical Islamic religious text […]
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