http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/clashofcivilizations/ en-us Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:35:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087170/posts [Alison] Pargeter, too, may jolt some in her European audience by dismissing many of the common explanations for Muslim radicalisation. It is not, she argues, a reaction to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, given that many of those involved in acts of violence turned radical before those wars. Nor is it simply a manifestation of deprivation and social alienation, let alone a straight reaction to racism and “Islamophobia”, a term that in her view is much shouted about by those seeking to accentuate a separate Islamic identity. She also shrugs off the criticism that Britain’s multiculturalism has allowed Muslims... Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087170/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2077808/posts While self confident debaters, politicians and other sorts of experts argue over which country in the world actually is the best example of a guiding light to humanity there ever was (GWB would say it is the US of today, Obama would claim it's the UN, while a proud European like my fellow countryman Hans Blix probably would say it is Saddam Hussein), evidence of the rapid decline of Western civilization is everywhere. Yes, there are still parts of the West that function very well and where most people are well educated and well off, but for how long? An... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2077808/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:22:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076273/posts TEARS OF THE DESERT - Arab Muslim Bigoted Genocide in Dafur, Gang Rape as a Weapon Amazon.com: Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur ...Amazon.com: Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur: Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis: Books. http://www.amazon.com/Tears-Desert-Memoir-Survival-Darfur/dp/0345506251 amazon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076273/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:10:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073053/posts “Islam has bloody borders.” So wrote Samuel Huntington in “The Clash of Civilizations?,” his 1993 Foreign Affairs article later expanded (minus the question mark) into a best-selling book. Huntington argued that, eclipsing past eras of national and ideological conflict, “the battle lines of the future” would be drawn along the “fault lines between civilizations.” Here, according to Huntington, was where current and coming generations would define the all-important “us” versus “them.” At the time of its writing, “The Clash of Civilizations?” had, beyond the virtues of pithiness and historical sweep, something to recommend it on purely empirical grounds. It seemed... Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073053/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:31:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053276/posts Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components. Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well. Here's how it works. As long as the Muslim population remains around... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053276/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:11:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051965/posts Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is on record stating his ambitions to make his country a modern and secular state modeled on the Turkish republic under Kemal Ataturk. Ironically, even as that goal appears mind bogglingly unachievable for Pakistan, recent events will conspire to push Turkey in the direction of Pakistan; into becoming a breeding ground for a new class of Islamic militants. The transition of Turkey into a new front for Saudi interests will follow typical ideological, strategic and political trends... It is no mere coincidence that the Saudis need a functioning Sunni army to counter the likely expansionism of... Asia Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051965/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:34:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047843/posts MADRID — A conference convened by Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for the purpose of gathering together leaders of the world's religions ended here yesterday with little sign as to whether the Saudi monarch's efforts to counter religious extremism would continue. The conference concluded on a sour note this afternoon as Christian and Jewish participants complained that the organizers, the Muslim World League, had too much control over the conference's closing communiqué. The three-day gathering in Madrid of more than 200 religious leaders was closely watched because it is the first time that a Saudi monarch had invited Jewish rabbis to... nysun.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047843/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:25:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044158/posts FIFTEEN YEARS have passed since Foreign Affairs published Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?" in its summer issue. It has subsequently become the most sought after article for reprints in the magazine's history. It, and the book by the same title minus the question mark, caused a storm among political scientists, many of whom simply refused to believe that, after the end of the Cold War, future conflicts would be over something so old fashioned. Only George Kennan's article on how to contain the USSR after World War II, bylined X, can compete with Huntington's in terms of influence. "The... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044158/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:02:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044132/posts The U.S. failed to recognize the significance of the radical Islamists. The timing is right for a major new history of America's engagement with the contemporary Middle East. Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come, both in the United States and elsewhere. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story of how we came to our current predicament. Enter Sir Lawrence Freedman, a specialist on nuclear strategy and the Cold War and... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044132/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043599/posts I was Brooklyn bound - or so I thought. I took the subway to see a fellow alumna of New York's High School of Music and Art (as today's LaGuardia High School for the Arts was then called). I looked forward to the nostalgic reunion. I hadn't been in NYC for ages, and catching up with an old classmate seemed an indispensable component of walking down memory lane. What's more, Kathy still lives at the same address in the cozy middle-class neighborhood where I sometimes visited her way back then. It was common for the house-proud Irish to keep property... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043599/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:35:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009478/posts An apocryphal internet tale provides a double insight into the fundamental problems of the Western world. A senior Australian army officer, General Peter Cosgrave, is being interviewed by a woman presenter. She questions him about a scheme to introduce boy scouts to army barracks. What will they do there, she asks; he replies, climbing, canoeing, archery and rifle-shooting. "Shooting? Don't you admit that that's a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children? You're equipping them to become violent killers." "Well ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, and you're not one, are you?" Now, this story is widely believed, not... The Irish Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009478/posts#comment Thu, 1 May 2008 01:33:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003457/posts “Europe will be Muslim in a dozen years,” promises the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Guide (dictator) who is racing full-speed ahead to make as many bombs as possible with long-range missiles capable of delivering their payload anywhere in the world. This past Friday, Yunis al-Astal, a leading Muslim cleric and Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament, declared on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV that "the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital," would soon be conquered by Islam and Rome become an advance post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003457/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:24:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985835/posts Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it. On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a "strong, true, consistent conservative."... motherjones.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985835/posts#comment Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/530348/posts Lights, Camera – Reason By Frank Schirrmacher FRANKFURT. President George W. Bush did not say what was in the script. One could even write that he did not say what Americans until now believed one should say at such a moment. He has withstood the pressure of succumbing to the collective consciousness and -- if one interprets the impressions correctly -- by doing so he has reinvented a piece of America. His address will do more than bolster international solidarity with the United States. Despite his allusions to Pearl Harbor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bush's breaking the mold heralds a ... F.A.Z (English Version for German Paper) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/530348/posts#comment Sun, 23 Sep 2001 03:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/530816/posts It is beginning to sink in that what happened on September 11 was not a single terrorist attack on a single country, but the Pearl Harbor of Islamism in its war against the West. In 1941, Americans were surprised by the Japanese attack, but at least knew what and where Japan was. In retrospect, the great defeated "isms" of the last century, Nazism and Communism, are well understood. Now we are groping for an understanding of the new "ism" that has declared war on us. The first shocker, of course, is that someone is out to get the West in ... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/530816/posts#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:04:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980801/posts How to balance military needs, international humanitarian law, and the reality of facing an enemy whose tactics are not restrained by accepted conventions are challenges to which Israel and other Western nations need to devote serious thought. The asymmetry of battle that Israel faces requires a rethinking of strategy to deal with threats from forces whose ideologies allow them not just to frustrate many Western military advantages but to use the openness of Western societies—especially their print and image media, and the organizations through which the Western penchant for self-criticism is expressed—to their own advantage. Ideology, including the perception of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980801/posts#comment Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973148/posts Herb Denenberg: The Advocate As Europe Yields To Islamofascism, Is U.S. On The Same Path? By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin 02/13/2008 The once mighty, the once invincible, the once courageous and brave-beyond-belief Britain is in the process of surrendering to Islamofascism without firing a shot. Here are the latest examples indicating how far along that process has gone: British government ministers have declared that Islamic terrorism will no longer be so described. In the future, Muslim fanatics, murderers and suicide bombers will be referred to as pursuing "anti-Islamic activity." This new language, turning the truth on its head, was announced... thebulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973148/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971697/posts Professor Gwyn Prins, one of the authors of the RUSI report made a most important point on the Today programme (0830) when he observed that 'we are at war', although we are behaving as if we are in peacetime. This is undoubtedly true and is the source of so much of the current confusion (Guantanamo, 42 days, etc) and wholly inadequate government and establishment response to the Islamist threat. As the report asks:Is there any longer a clear distinction between being at war and not being at war? A declaration of war is almost inconceivable today, and yet both our... The Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971697/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:20:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958652/posts This links to an outstanding commentary (and a brief attempt at refutation) by a lucid, articulate woman who now, no doubt, has a price on her head. http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=nul Memri TV http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=nul http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958652/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:22:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955174/posts No mystery as to why Christian missionaries might be having their greatest success in the Kabyle. In Algeria, that remains the Berber heartland. It is where the Berbers, that is those who were not forcibly transformed, during the centuries of Arab rule (interrupted by 132 years of French rule) into "Arabs" (how many of those "Arabs" who now persecute the Berbers realize that they themselves are a generation, or two, or five removed from their clearly Berber origins?) The cause of the Berbers is hardly known in this country. The writer Kateb Yacine, a Berber who refused to write in... New English Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955174/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:33:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954989/posts Muslim Councillor Tells Rotterdammer: 'Shut Up, Minority' ROTTERDAM, 17/01/08 - Labour (PvdA) politician Bouchra Ismaili has reviled a citizen of Rotterdam in an e-mail. The man was told that as a member of the white minority in his district, he should not complain about the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. Ismaili, who has Moroccan nationality, is a council member for PvdA in the Rotterdam district council of Charlois. "You are the immigrants here!!!", she wrote to the white man who drew her attention by e-mail to statements by the controversial Muslim organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. Ismali also wrote in her e-mail reply... nisnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954989/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:06:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953958/posts JEDDAH, 15 January 2008 — The history of science and civilization, as taught by many institutions in the West, often fails to include more than 1,000 years of Islamic heritage and civilization, according to Dr. Salim Al-Hassani of the UK-based Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilization. “The Renaissance couldn’t have happened out of nothing,” said Al-Hassani while speaking at Dar Al-Hekma College here yesterday. “In the West, there’s total ignorance of the contributions of other civilizations. Did modern civilization really rise from nothing?” Al-Hassani explained how many Western discoveries are of Muslim origin. There was a lost age of Muslim... Arab News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953958/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:15:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944832/posts Reacting to the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson told WND, "This is a war, a clash of civilizations." Thompson, commenting at the FAIR talk radio row in Des Moines, Iowa, said he suspected al-Qaida was responsible for the attack. "The chance that a secular woman had a possibility of ascending to power in Pakistan drove the more radical Islamic elements in the country to violence," Thompson said. The former Tennessee senator said the Bhutto assassination was "part of a much larger picture." "This is an international war we are engaged in," he... Worldnetdaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944832/posts#comment Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:35:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/585445/posts With the ouster of the Taliban and eradication of the al-Qaida in Afghanistan, Islamic extremism has sustained a crushing defeat. But what continues to unsettle Americans is that film of Arab and Islamic people, wildly cheering the barbaric atrocities of Sept. 11. Is a war of civilizations coming? Clearly, not a few in the Islamic world and the West so believe, and ardently desire. And, with the War Party cawing for an attack on Iraq, with Sharon unleashed after the atrocities in Jerusalem and Haifa, with the U.S. press calling for a reappraisal of our ties to Saudi Arabia and ... Creators Syndicate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/585445/posts#comment Fri, 7 Dec 2001 05:06:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900327/posts A global Islamic revival is creating conflicts that go beyond the War on Terrorism. Much of the civil unrest around the world—in Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines, Sudan, among others—has to do with Muslims attacking Christians. Meanwhile, in tribal villages from Asia through Africa, Islam and Christianity are competing for the souls of the people. Even the jihadist assaults against America and Europe may be seen as a Muslim war on the civilization that Christianity produced. Though the secularists cannot imagine such a thing, the world is convulsed in a religious war. The Washington Post's Phillip H. Gordon recognizes that... WORLD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900327/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:49:02 GMT