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  • Oriana Fallaci asks: Is Muslim immigration to Europe a conspiracy?

    03/16/2006 11:00:36 AM PST · by Leisler · 89 replies · 4,628+ views
    LA Weekly ^ | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 | BRENDAN BERNHARD
    In The Force of Reason, the controversial Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci illuminates one of the central enigmas of our time. How did Europe become home to an estimated 20 million Muslims in a mere three decades? How did Islam go from being a virtual non-factor to a religion that threatens the preeminence of Christianity on the Continent? How could the most popular name for a baby boy in Brussels possibly be Mohammed? Can it really be true that Muslims plan to build a mosque in London that will hold 40,000 people? That Dutch cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
  • A Clash of Civilizations

    03/12/2006 5:53:28 AM PST · by Teófilo · 17 replies · 507+ views
    The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat ^ | 12 March 2006 | Pedro Vega
    Tolerant indifference won’t tame militant IslamAs published in The Johnstown Tribune-DemocratBy PEDRO O. VEGA We ignore the challenge of militant Islam at our peril. The Muslim reaction in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere to the publication of editorial cartoons in Danish and French newspapers that satirized Islam and its founder, Muhammad, illustrates a fact that our policymakers and cultural elites cannot stomach: That a Clash of Civilizations – as Samuel P. Huntington described it in his book of the same name – is ongoing between Islam and the post-Christian West. I understand the anger and hurt believers feel when...
  • There Is No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentalities...

    03/05/2006 4:57:45 PM PST · by Delta 21 · 30 replies · 787+ views
    Middle East Media Research Institute ^ | 2/21/2006 | Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan
    Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights,...
  • Islam's March Against the West

    03/04/2006 8:29:25 PM PST · by FFforFreedom · 170 replies · 2,613+ views
    Islam's March Against the West By Brigitte Gabriel Excerpted from Brigitte Gabriel's speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC, Saturday February 18, 2006. We gather here today to share information and knowledge. Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or armament or disposition of military forces. The most important element of intelligence has to be understanding the mind set and intention of the enemy. The west has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and denial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against innocent victims in the name of Allah. I was ten...
  • Muslims in Athens wait for city’s first mosque (another citadel falls?)

    03/03/2006 5:20:08 PM PST · by voletti · 17 replies · 417+ views
    Daily Times ^ | 3/4/6 | Reuters
    Although the steady immigration of Muslims to Athens continues - mostly economic migrants from the Middle East and Asia - the city remains the only capital in western Europe without an Islamic place of worship IN a small, cold and decrepit apartment in central Athens, scores of Muslims trip over each other to find a space to pray as rain drips onto their heads from the leaky roof. The stairwell is in darkness and there is grime in every corner. But for these faithful, there is no other choice. About 130 makeshift mosques like this - windowless, airless basements or...
  • Respect religions, says Saudi king

    02/19/2006 6:28:20 PM PST · by milestogo · 125 replies · 1,314+ views
    Respect religions, says Saudi king RIYADH: King Abdullah on Saturday called for mutual respect among all religions and beliefs and condemned what he called “the clash of civilisations.” Speaking during a cultural festival in Riyadh, he said, “I call for the next stage in relations between countries to be a stage of real dialogue where each side respects the other side,” he was quoted as saying. ap
  • Another Chapter in the Clash of Civilizations

    02/19/2006 6:06:23 AM PST · by Dark Skies · 9 replies · 654+ views
    Faithfreedom.org ^ | 2/19/2006 | Ibn Iblis
    Who would've though that a group of Danish cartoonists would strike the most crippling blow to the Islamist political jihad in Europe to date? Even more crippling than the murder of Theo van Gogh, the implications of which, for the most part, did not expand past Holland's borders, the explosion of Islamic rage surrounding these cartoons has forced the Islamists' hand far earlier than would've been prudent and many - not all - Europeans are starting to wonder whether Islam has any place in Western civilization. In Van Gogh's case, the murder of this one man turned a nation of...
  • Losing Civilization

    02/10/2006 6:20:15 AM PST · by mal · 29 replies · 1,548+ views
    The great wealth and leisure created by modern technology have confused some in the modern age into thinking that history is linear. We expect that each generation will inevitably improve upon the last, as if we, the blessed of the 21st century, would never chase out Anaxagoras or execute Socrates — or allow others to do so — in our modern polis. Often such material and moral advancement proves true — look at the status of brain surgery now and 100 years ago, or the notion of equality under the law in 1860 and in 2006. But just as often...
  • Moral Atomic Bomb

    02/09/2006 1:27:39 PM PST · by dervish · 27 replies · 1,742+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/9/06 | Bernard-Henri Levy
    ...it is hard not to see that insidious forces have brought these drawings to the attention of the Muslim masses... this calculated offense (calculated, mind you, by the organizers of the distribution of the cartoons), it is hard not to link this blasphemy to a new planetary configuration, itself determined by three recent and major events. The diversionary tactic of a Syria which we never saw so concerned over religious matters... 'snip' The hardening of Iran's Islamic Republic, ready to make all kinds of theological concessions (including a grand historic alliance of Shiites and Sunnis, which experts have been telling...
  • Controversy is about culture clash, not cartoons

    02/08/2006 2:06:46 PM PST · by GeorgiaDawg32 · 6 replies · 268+ views
    JewishWorldReview ^ | 2/8/06 | Jonah Goldberg
    The riots and demonstrations across the Middle East and Western Europe (though not yet playing here) over some cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad have set off a parallel intellectual riot in the West over the nature of free speech and free expression. Many pundits and editorialists have worked feverishly to keep this a debate about the propriety of running cartoons. Some news outlets are updating their procedures so as not to offend "religious" sensibilities in the future.
  • There’s No Clash Here: Only one civilization cares to put up a fight (On the cartoon wars)

    02/07/2006 9:47:49 AM PST · by SirLinksalot · 29 replies · 1,386+ views
    National Review ^ | 02/07/2006 | Lee Harris
    There’s No Clash Here Only one civilization cares to put up a fight. By Lee Harris Does the so-called "cartoon war" represent the clash of civilizations? I wish I could answer "yes," but I can't. In order for there to be a clash of civilizations, it is necessary for there to be two civilizations, both of which are prepared to defend their deepest cultural values. Those in the Islamic world who are violently protesting the Danish cartoons clearly represent a civilization that is keen on maintaining its own deeply held traditions and convictions, as the Muslim rioters are prepared to...
  • Get out of Australia, 'radical' Muslims told

    02/06/2006 6:01:50 PM PST · by george76 · 174 replies · 5,855+ views
    AFP ^ | 24 August , 2005 | Lawrence Bartlett
    Muslims who want to live under the Islamic Sharia law were told Wednesday to get out of Australia as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and...
  • Peace Be Upon Them (EXTREME IRONY ALERT!)

    02/06/2006 3:56:26 PM PST · by Dark Skies · 59 replies · 1,643+ views
    The Rolling Stone ^ | 2/6/2006 | Tim Dickinson
    We're witnessing a tectonic clash of civilizations -- over a simple line drawing. And it is now clear to me, in a way that it never was before, that Islamists truly do hate our freedoms, our way of life. I have no doubt that the cartoonish depictions of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper are blasphemous to millions of believers worldwide. But, hell, so is the Rolling Stone cover depicting Kanye West as Christ in his crown of thorns. Just like fatwa against Salman Rushsdie, the violence spawned by these Danish illustrations is unjustifiable in the civilized world, and...
  • Europe Awakes

    02/05/2006 9:48:58 PM PST · by Daralundy · 66 replies · 2,305+ views
    Real Clear Politics ^ | February 6, 2006 | Victor David Hanson
    Over the last four years Americans have played a sort of parlor game wondering when—or if—the Europeans might awake to the danger of Islamic fascism and choose a more muscular role in the war on terrorism. But after the acrimony over the invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo, pessimists scoffed that the Atlantic alliance was essentially over. Only the postmortem was in dispute: did the bad chemistry between the Texan George Bush and the Green European leadership who came of age in the street theater of 1968 explain the falling out? Or was the return of the old anti-Americanism...
  • Editorial Cartoon ["We Are All Danes, Now" -- Brave, MUST-READ Editorial!]

    02/05/2006 2:44:38 AM PST · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 121 replies · 3,739+ views
    Hamilton Spectator ^ | 02/04/2006 | Dianne Rinehart
    We are all Danes now, as Paul Belien, editor of the Brussels Journal said in his editorial this week. Or we should be. Because today Denmark is taking a beating for us all, fighting for press freedoms that can mean the difference between democracy and totalitarianism, between free speech and terror, between sleeping at night and being afraid of the knock on the door, between light and despair. And that tiny democracy is doing so under threat of economic sanctions -- and death for its citizens and those of other Western countries where news media have rallied to the defence...
  • Iran’s president sees “final war” between Muslims, West

    01/21/2006 8:05:03 AM PST · by beaversmom · 102 replies · 2,509+ views
    Iran Focus ^ | January 21, 2006
    Tehran, Iran, Jan. 21 – Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told senior leaders of a radical Palestinian group in Damascus on Friday that the Middle East conflict has become “the locus of the final war” between Muslims and the West, Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, reported. Ahmadinejad, who was speaking on the second day of his two-day trip to Syria, told the leaders of Hamas, “Today, victory in Palestine has become a matter of life and death for the Islamic world and for Global Arrogance (the West)”. The Iranian president urged the Palestinians to reject moves such as Israel’s withdrawal...
  • Pope Says Terror Provokes 'Clash of Civilizations'

    01/09/2006 8:48:24 AM PST · by Pyro7480 · 15 replies · 569+ views
    Yahoo! News (Reuters) ^ | 1/9/2006 | Philip Pullella
    Pope says terror provokes 'clash of civilizations'By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Monday warned of a clash of civilizations caused by the "moral perversion" of terrorism, called for peace between Israel and Palestinians, and urged cuts in arms spending to feed the poor. The 78-year-old German Pope offered his considerations of the international scene in his first "state of the world" address -- a traditional new year speech to diplomats accredited to the Vatican from more than 170 countries.... The danger of a "clash of civilizations" had been "made more acute by organized terrorism, which has already...
  • Cheney Calls Terror War 'Struggle Between Civil Societies, Barbarism'

    01/06/2006 5:51:07 PM PST · by SandRat · 44 replies · 624+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Jan 6, 2006 | Gerry Gilmore
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2006 – Vice President Dick Cheney today praised U.S. servicemembers and vowed victory in the war against terror, calling the global conflict a struggle between civil societies and barbarism. "The war on terror is a battle for the future of civilization," Cheney told servicemembers gathered at the U.S. Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. "It's a battle worth fighting. It's a battle we are going to win," he said. Cheney recalled his pre-Christmas trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he thanked deployed U.S. servicemembers "for all they've done to bring freedom, stability and peace to...
  • 2006 is shaping up to be the ‘Year of Speaking Dangerously’

    01/02/2006 8:30:52 AM PST · by SJackson · 6 replies · 642+ views
    Jewish World Review ^ | 1-2-06 | Diana West
    From Bangladesh to Paris, speaking out against Islamic outrages can get you in serious trouble --- and worse Now that Baby New Year is taking over again from Father Time, the observant celebrant might notice something new. In addition to the traditional top hat and diaper, and besides the 2006 banner across his chest, Baby New Year has something else in his kit: a gag. That's because 2006 is shaping up to be the "Year of Speaking Dangerously." This isn't to suggest that 2005 was a banner year for freedom of speech. But the reaction, tepid at best, to significantly...
  • THE WEST’S LAST CHANCE WILL WE WIN THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

    12/30/2005 10:29:56 AM PST · by Deacon_m · 15 replies · 882+ views
    THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | September 13, 2005 | Tony Blankley
    THE WEST’S LAST CHANCE - WILL WE WIN THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS By Tony Blankley THE WASHINGTON TIMES September 13, 2005 'An Islamist threat like the Nazis' But that survival instinct is threatened by the multiculturalism and political correctness advocated in media and academe -- and institutionalized in national and European Union laws and regulations for half a century. Europe's effort at cultural tolerance since World War II slowly morphed into a surprisingly deep self-loathing of Western culture that denied the instinct for cultural and national self-defense. If Europe doesn't rise to the challenge, Eurabia will come to pass. Then...