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Via The Washington Post: ‘Al-Qaida-Linked Militants Seize BP Complex In...
Full post here. Escalating: ‘In what could be the first spillover from France’s intervention in Mali, Islamist militants attacked and occupied a natural gas complex in southern Algeria on Wednesday....
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Michael Totten At World Affairs: ‘Benghazi Circles The Drain’
Full post here. It was a mess when Ambassador Stevens was there, and was killed, but is it getting worse?: ‘As Westerners evacuate Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, Islamist militias—whose fighters...
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Brian Stewart At The American Interest: ‘The Boy From Bombay’
Full piece here. We have strong and vigorous free speech laws and traditions in the U.S., and as we see in Europe, radical, marginalized imams and multiculturalists can make strange bedfellows,...
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Najat Fawzy Alsaeid At The Center For Islamic Pluralism: ‘The War Of...
Full piece here. Interesting piece: ‘If one were to ask an Arab what has happened to the Arab countries, and why the terrorism and extremism we see today did not exist in the 1950s and 1960s, the...
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Via The BBC: ‘Germany Bans Three ‘Anti-Democratic’ Islamist Groups’
Full piece here. “Salafism, as represented by the groups banned today, is incompatible with our peaceful, democratic system,” Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said in a statement. “DawaFFM,...
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A Few More Thoughts On The Marathon Bombing: Free Speech Is Key
There are two goals I think many Americans should have in mind: We should resist the pull of the multicultural Left: The moral relativists, the purveyors of ‘class’ warfare and those who really have...
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Update And Repost: Via Youtube-Uncommon Knowledge With Fouad Ajami And...
————————- A quote from Hill’s forward to Ajami’s new book on Syria as discussed in the video: “[The] greatest strategic challenge of the twenty-first century is involves “reversing Islamic...
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Islamism, Immigration & Multiculturalism-Melanie Phillips Via Youtube
Here’s Briton Melanie Phillips speaking about Muslims in Britain, and also finding excessive fault with multiculturalism (~15:00 min): ———————- Phillips wrote a book called Londonistan, and perhaps...
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Terrifying News Story Of The Day-From The London Evening Standard: ‘Man...
Full piece here. ‘Terrorism returned to the streets of London as two suspected Muslim fanatics butchered a man in broad daylight in the name of “Allah”.’ The details are grisly, and the openness of the...
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From Kenanmalik.com: ‘Introduction: How Salman Rushdie Changed My Life’
Full piece here. Malik is British, the son of East Asian immigrants, and offers quite a bit of insight about his experiences and the culture that received him: “The Rushdie affair gave notice not just...
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Melanie Phillips At Her Blog: ‘A Hysterical And Ignorant Response’
Full post here. Which was a response to the flak she got for this original post. ‘By banning from the country as extremists the American anti-jihadis Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, the Home...
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Al Qaeda On The Run? No, Still There For The Most Part
Some links on the Islamist threat, with an eye towards sober assessment: From Via Media-The War On Terror Is Here To Stay: ‘Presidents Bush and Obama both thought they saw the evolution of a peaceful,...
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More Syria-From Via Media: ‘Congress on Syria: Going In On A Wing and A Prayer’
Essay here. ‘In voting to authorize force against Syria, Congress will be hoping for a short and inconsequential war; Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, however, will all get to vote on what kind of...
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Michael Moynihan At The Daily Beast: ‘The Repentant Radical’
Full interview here. Ahmed Akkari, one of the men behind the Danish cartoon protests, spends time on Greenland decompressing from the Islamist cocoon, and comes to renounce his former ways: “He’s very...
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From The American Interest: ‘Ending Al-Qaeda’
Full piece here. Is it really possible?: ‘If the U.S. government can organize itself to devise and propagate the right message, from the right voices, to the Islamic and Arab worlds, while at the same...
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Christopher Hitchens At Slate: ‘Reflections on Political Violence’
Full piece here. On the murderer of Salman Taseer in Pakistan: “As “a slave of the Prophet,” he had the natural right to murder Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, not even for committing...
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From Michael Totten: ‘From Tehran To Cairo’
Full interview here with Lee Smith. Two Americans who’ve spent time on the ground in the Middle-East try and assess what’s going on: Totten: ‘The Middle East is as trashed right now as I’ve ever seen...
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In The Mail-More On The Boston Marathon Bombers: ‘The Fall Of The House Of...
Full piece here. The Boston Globe invests in some long-form journalism for the Marathon Bombers. A lot of shoe-leather on this one with some video included. I get the family-breakdown angle: Once...
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Art & War-Detroit & Homs: Two Links
From The Detroit Free Press: Notice the argument is still over how to divvy up the remains: ‘But others, including David Skeel, author of “Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America,”...
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Boko Haram & Al Qaeda-What’s The Strategy, Here?
It seems to me there continue to be dedicated groups of Islamist radicals and terrorists, often acting locally but willing to act globally, making universal claims to truth and willing to act on their...
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