News You Need to Know 07Dec09

  • Police, Protesters Clash at Iran’s Universities – WSJ.com
    Violence erupted at and around university campuses across Iran on Monday as demonstrators took to the streets during the regime-sanctioned Student Day, but used the occasion to press their months-long protest against the government.
    Students chanted “Death to the Dictator” and set fire to pictures of Iran’s Islamic leaders and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, chanting anti-regime slogans, [...]
  • U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat — latimes.com
    The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism.Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated radicalization among American Muslims, driven by a wave of English-language online propaganda and reflected in aspiring fighters’ trips to hot spots [...]
  • MARK STEYN: Obama the unrealistic realist, National Review Online
    If you happen to live in Kabul or Jalalabad, Ghurian or Kandahar, then a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is, indeed, about Afghanistan. If you live anywhere else on the planet, a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is really about America — about American will, American purpose, American energy. How quickly the bright new dawn [...]
  • ROSS DOUTHAT: Europe’s Minaret Moment, NYTimes.com
    Op-Ed Columnist – Europe’s Minaret Moment – NYTimes.com.
  • AFP: Khamenei says US, Britain will fail to isolate Iran
    Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out Sunday at the US and Britain, labelling them Tehran’s main “enemies” and warning they will fail to isolate Iran over its nuclear issue, a report said.
    “Americans are at the head of the list of enemies and the British are the most awful of them,” state television reported Khamenei [...]
  • BBC NEWS | Africa | Somali adulterer stoned to death
    Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.
    via BBC NEWS | Africa | Somali adulterer stoned to death.
  • Obama Administration officials starting to realize there’s a jihad on U.S. soil
    …being waged by native-born jihadists. “U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat: This may have been the most dangerous year since 9/11, anti-terrorism experts say,” by Sebastian Rotella for the Los Angeles Times, December 7 (thanks to Twostellas): Reporting from Washington – The Obama administration, grappling with a spate…
  • Makeup is against Islam
    Halal (left) and haram (right) There Is No Fun In Islam* Alert: “Makeup? It’s against Islam, Iran women told,” from AFP, December 3 (thanks to all who sent this in): TEHRAN: Women appearing in television programmes will not be allowed to wear make-up because it is against Islamic law,…
  • Is Climategate The Last Gasp of Global Warming Hysteria?
    As the Climategate scandal continues to unfold, it appears the final chapter is being written in the great anthropogenic global warming swindle pushed so vigorously and for so long by the world’s leading climate change hoax-perpetrator, former Vice President Al Gore. The scandal is a case of “scientists cooking the books, changing the research, changing [...]

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  • Sayyid, It’s Cold Outside
    The Muslim Brotherhood’s second great theorist, after its founder Hasan al-Banna, was Sayyid Qutb, “the father of modern [Islamic] fundamentalism.” He sharpened his distaste for the West while living in the United States from November 1948 to August 1950. While hospitalized for a respiratory ailment in Washington, D.C., in…

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