Yalla peace: Female beauty in West is considered important factor, while in Islamic world has been considered haram, a sin. There has always been a battle over the issue of beauty pageants involving Arabs and Muslims, representing the clash between modern Westernization and the growing influence of extremism among the religious. It has even become … Continue reading »
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The Best Foreign Policy Saudi Money Can Buy
Let’s say that there are three Muslim countries in the Middle East, which, facing a domestic insurgency, use ruthless tactics to suppress it. Which one gets a pass? The answer is easy. The Saudi ally gets the pass; the others get invaded. But “pass” is too mild a word, because after bombing Libya into submission, … Continue reading »
Thousands of Salafis in Tunisia: Obama, We Are All Osama
Thousands of Tunisians Salafis: “Obama, We Are All Osama”; MC Calls US President “The Ape Obama” – The Internet – May 20, 2012 http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3445.htm http://www.memri.org http://www.memritv.org Follow MEMRI on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/yiot7y Follow MEMRI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/MEMRIReports Related articles Salafis gravitate towards the Brotherhood’s political pole (iranaware.com)
Obama’s Syria Policy: Ask Putin
Some have argued that last week’s massacre in the Syrian city of Houla, where Bashar al-Assad loyalists killed more than a hundred people, a third of whom were children, may in time come to mark the moment when world opinion turned irrevocably against the Syrian strongman, and the democracies finally decided to bring down the … Continue reading »
We Are All Persian Grammarians Now
Sohrab Ahmari and James Kirchick//As the Iranian mullahs’ nuclearization drive reaches its end goal, Western policymakers face a narrowing range of bad options. There are difficult choices ahead, and those choices are made all the more difficult by Tehran’s long track record of vicious rhetoric directed at Israel—the most notorious example of which was Iranian … Continue reading »
Bold Bill in Senate to Stop Palestinian ‘Refugee’ Scam
The US Senate Appropriations Committee has approvedan important amendment to a bill. Proposed by Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois, the amendment would change the definition of “Palestinian refugee” such that the number of people now given that status would shrink from about five million to about thirty thousand. The U.S. currently contributes annually about … Continue reading »
Black is not thought beautiful: Racial intolerance in Lebanon
THE multilingual, fashion-conscious residents of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, fancy their city to be cosmopolitan. But not everyone is welcome. Black people and foreigners from Asia and elsewhere in the third world who make up the bulk of migrant workers are often turned away from the city’s smarter venues. Conscious of the bad blood this can … Continue reading »
Muslim says that a jihadi who murders Spencer and Geller would be doing humanity a great favor
Remember: the real problem is “Islamophobia.” Posted by Robert
Cleanup at Iran’s Parchin site
(Reuters) – U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military site they want to visit. One image from May 25 showed signs that “ground-scraping activities” had taken place at the Parchin facility, as well as the … Continue reading »
Iran smuggling weapons to Syria, Lebanon with passenger planes
German TV station says arms paid for by Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard By Yoel Goldman Iran is smuggling weapons to Damascus and Beirut via commercial aircraft, according to a report aired Wednesday by German broadcaster ZDF. The report cited Western security sources and other unspecified information that the TV station had obtained. The type of … Continue reading »
Iran Threatens U.S. as New Cyber Super-Weapon Strikes
Iran is threatening to attack U.S. bases in the region with its missiles if it is attacked, but the reality is that the regime is already under attack. The latest all-but-certain covert operation is the deployment of sophisticated malware that is being called “The Flame.” Its purpose appears to be the mass cultivation of intelligence … Continue reading »
Egypt: Islamic supremacists blame Christians for Muslim Brotherhood candidate’s failure to win election outright
This campaign is designed to intimidate Christians into voting for the Brotherhood or not voting at all. And if Morsi loses, the Christians will almost certainly be victimized as a result. “Islamists in Egypt Blame Christians for Voting,” by Mary Abdelmassih for AINA, May 29 (thanks to Wimpy): (AINA) — The official results of the … Continue reading »
Commerce considers labeling Arab Americans a disadvantaged minority
By Rachel Leven – The Commerce Department is considering naming Arab Americans a socially and economically disadvantaged minority group that is eligible for special business assistance. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) petitioned Commerce earlier this year to ask that Arab Americans be made eligible for the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), which helps minority entrepreneurs … Continue reading »
“Bank of Palestine” promotional materials
EoZ/EoZ fan Ruchie emailed me that she was at an Arab business conference in Nazareth, and one of the promotional items being given away was this mug from the “Bank of Palestine:” Of course, the map includes all of Israel, without any fear of controversy. Making it really hard to argue that the goal of … Continue reading »
Hannity confronts Ground Zero mosqueteer
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is pushing a whole new narrative on his deception book tour. So it was particularly delicious to watch Sean Hannity interview, or interrogate, the sly imam on his show last week. The imam Rauf has almost never been challenged by a fawning, complicit media, and he was visibly taken aback as … Continue reading »
Israel gas finds launch navy into troubled waters
(Reuters) – When Israeli economists contemplate their country’s untapped natural gas finds far out in the Mediterranean, they dream of energy independence and lucrative export deals. Those charged with Israel’s defense, however, worry that the navy – small and long a middling priority in budgets – may be hard put to protect the multinational drilling … Continue reading »
