Recognising anti-Islam mood is first step to recovery

It’s almost impossible to imagine a conservative leader talking this way in Australia or America: Islamophobia has “passed the dinner-table test” and become widely socially acceptable in Britain, according to Lady Warsi, the Conservative chairman. Warsi, the first Muslim woman to attend Cabinet, is expected to use a speech at Leicester University today to raise…

Arabs would like freedom from us

Arab dictatorships are what the West likes very much. Compliant thugs who do as they’re told. We give them money and support and wonder why terrorism breeds. Robert Fisk issues caution over hoping the Arab world could reform post Tunisia: Yes, we would like a democracy in Tunisia – but not too much democracy. Remember…

Because Israel should just continue fighting and fighting

Is this really how Jews want to be seen? Here’s Melanie Phillips, frothing Zionist, speaking at a conference in the illegal Jewish colony of Ariel in late 2010, on why Israel and the Jews must fight back, must never give in to, well, everybody. Note the complete lack of stated facts. Everything is an emotional…

No, not just Islam that can be vehemently anti-women

Really: Anyone who believes religious traditions only oppress women in faraway places should hear my story. I’ve just won an eight-year legal battle in Brooklyn, N.Y., to keep the house my parents left me. My brother–the first-born son of an Orthodox rabbi–claimed the religious right to evict me. Last month Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court Judge Diana…

Just remind me why the MSM keeps on publishing this man?

Sound familiar? It’s been a very long time since Jewish-speaking peoples brought benefit to humanity by, say, developing new medicines and technology or advancing democracy and human rights. Indeed, the area where the Jews seem most adept at innovation would be terrorism. Airplane hijackings, suicide bombings, and mega-terrorism are among their claims to originality. Oh…

Damascus had hand in Prophet Mohammed outrage

Causing trouble: The government of Syria was active in organizing the 2006 riots that erupted across the Arab world following the publication of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Oslo daily Aftenposten reported Monday, quoting US diplomatic cables released by website WikiLeaks. The cartoons were originally published in neighboring Denmark in 2005. Their publication resulted…

It’s Christmas

So happy holidays to all and yet occupation isn’t going anywhere: Church leaders in Bethlehem have called for peace and reconciliation at the annual Christmas mass held at what is said to be the birthplace of Jesus. Tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims are in Bethlehem for Christmas, in a record year for tourism. Only…

Ignore racism, all that matters is Israel love

The Israeli mainstream and European far-right fascists. A natural fit? An Israeli lawmaker has met with the leader of Austria’s far right amid protests from the Jewish community. He told Ynet later, “According to my research, (the Freedom Party) is the only party in Austria which supported Israel in the aftermath of the raid on…

Women with strong views campaigning in Gaza

Palestinian feminist Asma Al-Ghoul pushes for secularism in Islamic Gaza. It’s vital that growing Islamisation under Hamas is challenged: Recently Asma garnered media attention for two incidents with the Hamas police. In the summer of 2009, she walked on a public Gaza beach with a mixed gender group, and visited a former male colleague and…

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