News You Need to Know 19Oct09

  • How one Islamic reformer met with clerical resistance and a fatwa calling for his beheading
    I discussed the Islamic reforms of Syed Ahmad Khan in my 2003 book Onward Muslim Soldiers. His life, as this retrospective shows, illustrates why there are so few Islamic reformers, and the enormous difficulties they face. “How the clergy wanted Sir Syed beheaded,” by Arif Mohammed Khan in the Times…
  • Al-Qaeda in Pakistan’s Gun Sights – by Stephen Brown
    The Pakistani army begins its offensive into terrorist territory.
  • Israel’s Secret War with Hezbollah and Iran – The Iconoclast – New English Review
    Monday, 19 October 2009
    Israel’s Secret War with Hezbollah and Iran
    Two mysterious explosions in Southern Lebanon last week, led Israeli Ronen Bergman, author of  “The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist Power,”  to cite them and earlier ones as evidence of a “Secret War on Hezbollah,” in a Wall Street [...]
  • Bush 41 Calls Maddow and Olbermann “Sick Puppies”
    George HW Bush calls out Maddow and Olbermann. Maybe he reads NewsReal Blog.
  • Democrats Have Found the Perfect Place for Gitmo Terrorists
    Guantanamo (Gitmo) Bay detainees may soon be headed for a courtroom near you, according to a report on Sunday morning’s Fox and Friends. House Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, have passed a bill that would allow the inmates to be transferred to U.S. soil for prosecution and incarceration. 
    Lawmakers against the legislation have pointed out that [...]
  • U.K.: Jihadist preacher Anjem Choudary calls on Queen to convert to Islam
    The invitation to Islam has long been a prelude to war if the invited party fails to return an RSVP in the affirmative: Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies…
  • From the Pen of David Horowitz: October 19, 2009
    It is a fact of our communal lives that we understand each other only through ourselves, and therefore not well. Writing a memoir about my daughter disclosed things about her that led me to reflect ruefully on the ways I had failed to appreciate her, or respond to her adequately, or support her sufficiently while [...]
  • Feds help feed new market for easy mortgages – Washington Times
    Monday, October 19, 2009
    Feds help feed new market for easy mortgages
    By Patrice Hill
    So you thought easy-money mortgages with little or no down payment for people with bad credit was a thing of the past? Think again.
    You can get just such a loan today – and it’s guaranteed by the federal government.
    Loans insured by the Federal [...]
  • Why Is Media Matters Still Defending ACORN?
    Even now after the undercover sting videos shown on the “Glenn Beck Program” and BigGovernment.com exposed the radical activist group ACORN as the crime syndicate it really is, the character assassins at George Soros’s Media Matters for America continue shilling for ACORN.
    They’re doing so to protect ACORN, which is a key part of the left’s [...]
  • Remove Rangel from tax panel chair | Washington Examiner
    Remove Rangel from tax panel chair
    Examiner Editorial
    October 18, 2009
    Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., understands something that continues to escape House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.: Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is radioactive, owing to multiple investigations of his serial failures to disclose millions of dollars worth of income and investments. Rangel had contributed more [...]

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