Geert Wilders, the Dutch Parliamentarian being prosecuted in his own country because of reaction to his film “Fitna,” and his remarks challenging the contention that Islam is a religion of peace, spoke yesterday morning at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. and in the evening at the Conservative Political Action Conference …
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist who has labored to build bridges between Israel and his country, was beaten this morning in the Dhaka offices of his newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, by thugs he believes to be members of the Bangladeshi government’s ruling party, the Awami League.
Choudhury suffered eye, …
This week the United Arab Emirates (UAE) refused to grant entry to Shahar Peer, an Israeli female tennis champion, to compete in the Barclay’s Dubai Tennis Championship.
The UAE offered this explanation: “We do not wish to politicize spots, but we have to be sensitive to recent events in the region and …
Interesting piece in today’s Los Angeles Times about Barack Obama’s more-moderate-than-expected moves (or lack thereof) in such areas as stem cell research, detainee policy, and faith-based initiative policy. His caution and prudence so far in dealing with these extremely complex issues is a good thing, in the eyes of this commentator. Faith-based initiatives, for …
From Jewish World Review
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Last week former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration’s national security policies, including holding “hard core” terror suspects at the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Cheney’s warning that granting rights to, and possibly releasing, hard-core terror suspects would …
This fine piece by Judea Pearl, father of late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, should be required reading for anyone who buys the bull&%$# that terrorism is the expression of “desperation” or constitutes legitimate political expression. Daniel Pearl (pictured above) was murdered by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (who, thankfully, sits incarcerated …
Saturday’s provincial elections in Iraq were a great triumph for democracy worldwide and especially for the Iraqi people. William Shawcross in The Guardian has written an excellent column on the subject.
For the first time in Iraq’s democratic history, Iraqis handled security themselves - a remarkable accomplishment.
When considering the courage …
Hard, fast, and creative - but not dirty. That’s the characterization of the Pitsburgh Steelers’s play, and specifically that of safety Troy Polamalu - that all of us here in the ‘Burgh are hoping will carry our home team to victory this evening in Superbowl 43.
If the Steelers win tonight, it will …
Bangladeshi Journalist, Champion of Free Speech in the Muslim World, Attacked
From The Huffington Post
By HEATHER ROBINSON
On Monday, a gang of thugs stormed the newspaper office of The Weekly Blitz, an independent newspaper based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and physically attacked its editor, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.
Choudhury, 39, advocates normalized relations between his country and Israel, …