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Hating Islam (and being proud of it)
The controversy over Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ film on Islam, Fitna, is not hard to understand. It’s a crude, embarrassingly racist compilation of the most extreme Islamic statements and anti-Semitic rants. The clear attempt is to argue that all Muslims share the al-Qaeda view of the world and want to kill all non-Muslims. Please. It’s…
The “risky” religion
..Over one third of all media reports in Germany see Islam as primarily a terrorist threat and security risk (36.6 % of coverage in German in 2007).
How to talk to an Islamist
Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, March 24: Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, in a recent interview with a German magazine, embellished Rusi’s complaints of naivety and “flabby thinking”. Radical Islam won’t stop, he warned, and the “virus” would only become more virulent if the US were to withdraw from Iraq. The charge of naivety…
Listen to the words
Israel is a rogue state but boycotting its writers seems futile: Opening the Paris Book Fair should have been a low-key cultural event during the state visit to France of President Shimon Peres of Israel. Instead, it was charged with Middle East tensions. Several Arab countries are boycotting the prestigious annual fair, where Peres was…
Welcome to your racist Jewish state
Version one: Harsh words were exchanged Wednesday as Knesset Member Effie Eitam (National Union-NRP) addressed remarks made by a number of Arab lawmakers during a rally in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm in protest of IDF activity in Gaza. “The day will come when we will banish you from this house (Knesset) and the…
How to know nothing about something
This is how to distort Islam and its practitioners (courtesy of the Murdoch press.) Take one. Take two.
The power of the pulpit
Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, February 25: Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and most powerful civil opposition group are definitely mistaken. Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never be…