Tag: "Islamism"
Bad News for the Islamists, A Good Laugh for the Rest of Us
This is the funniest blog-post title I’ve seen in a long time. Tragedy: Gaza baby-milk-smuggling tunnel collapses; militant milkmen squashed Read all of see-dubya’s post, and the post that introduced the “baby milk tunnel”. Read also, in that first post, his comments on the news that female circumcision is down in Egypt. His opinion matches [...]
A Little Sharia Couldn’t Be Bad, Right?
Bye Bye Britain. The most senior judge in England tonight gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance. He went on to say that Sharia [...]
Stay Classy, Democrats
It’s one thing to be snarky to a political opponent. It’s quite another to not so subtly wish death on him at the hands of al-Qaeda. Allah’s hardly angry about it. As he says, “this is our politics now” and he’s right. The left has elevated simple disagreeements over policy to bloodfeuds and has conflated [...]
Abandoning the Women of Pakistan
The Washington Times is asking why the West has been so silent on the brutality being visited on women in Pakistan and plenty of other countries. Unfortunately, the answer they get from a prominent liberal big-brain is completely wrong. The reason is rooted deep in the war on terror, which has made the United States [...]
You Say “Sectarian”, I Say “Iranian”. You say “Violence”, I say “Invasion”.
I am finding the AP’s reporting on the war currently raging in Lebanon very interesting. Here are two stories today. There’s one word used in common that I believe is highly deceptive and blunts the importance of what is actually happening. (Story One) Lebanese security officials say three days of sectarian fighting in Beirut have [...]
Meet the “Most Powerful Man in Iraq”. He Isn’t Iraqi.
I”m at a bit of a loss to describe this article from the McClatchy News Service. On one hand, I’m given to discounting much of what comes from McClatchy as biased and distorted, because it generally is. On the other hand, it is one of the most solid articles on Iraq I’ve read by anyone [...]
Sadr: Did I Say “Open War”? I Meant “Kill the Americans!”. You Iraqis are Okay By Me.
When we last saw Moqtada al-Sadr, he was blustering from his super-secret undisclosed location about how he was going to bring “open war” to Iraq. That was a couple days ago. Today? Not so much. It looks like someone pointed out that it probably wasn’t a very good idea to talk smack to the Prime [...]
Sadr’s a Hundred Miles Away, Son. Ready to Strike!
You know, I’m not surprised that the average American gives conflicting signals about what they think about Iraq. I’d be pretty confused if all I had to read were the occasional MSM stories. Let’s take as an example some recent reporting on Moqtada al-Sadr. Yesterday, the AP published this story, which said that Moqtada al-Sadr [...]
That’s What You Said