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American Thinker is a site I check regularly, at least twice a day.  It’s not just that the editors are kind enough to publish my work occasionally.  It’s because the articles that appear there routinely range from really good to out-of-the-park stupendous.
Today, there are two that fall in the latter category.  These are the kinds [...]

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Didn’t Obama bow to the king?
A Saudi court on Saturday convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, and sentenced her to 60 lashes.

Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against [...]

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There is no bliss inherent in the ignorance displayed by one judge in England:
A judge lambasted a rapist for claiming his victim was a liar – then commended him for becoming a muslim.
Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC sentenced Stuart Wood for seven years for the attack, then told him: ‘You have turned to Islam and this [...]

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A few days ago, I wrote a post examining why I believe Islam is not a religion like other religions, so that pluralist societies should view it with a distrust they do not extend to other religions.  Daniel Pipes also tackles that issue.  I’ll give you the first and last paragraphs of his article.  You [...]

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Movie review one:
The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise.
[snip]
Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the psychological essence and [...]

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Charles, at LGF, is concerned that the “extreme right white supremacist” (his phrase) BNP party in England is gaining political ground.  If you check out the party’s blog, though, racial purity a la the Nazis or the KKK is not part of the party’s platform.  As far as I can tell, it wants to close [...]

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In an earlier post, I directed your attention to the incredibly disturbing footage of Pakistani village authorities brutally whipping a teenage girl before a throng of men, because she violated Sharia norms by being seen in public with her father in law.  The footage is disturbing on many levels, not the least of which is [...]

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Reading this, it makes you think that if, God forbid, Iran truly gets the bomb (although I place faith in Israel to prevent that), those at the epicenter might be the lucky ones:
An Iranian-American journalist — held in Tehran in solitary confinement now for 47 days — has reportedly been broken by Iranian prison [...]

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If I had to give one single reason for drilling the hell out of whatever energy resources America has to offer, it would be to de-fund the medieval sharia system that thrives in Saudi Arabia.  Right now, Egypt is in an uproar because a 53-year old Egyptian physician convicted of malpractice against one of the [...]

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A thirteen year old (or, maybe, a 23 year old) was stoned to death for adultery after 3 men raped her. Showing their humanity, Somali authorities had nurses on hand to check on the girl.  When the nurses exhumed her from the hole they’d placed her in for the stoning, and reported that she was [...]

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Watch Pat Condell quick before they try to ban him again:
Also, if you’re British, sign the petition.
And if you’re British and don’t have enough info to sign the petition, Condell provides these helpful links:
YouTube censors comedian shock
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknew…
Saudi cleric favours one-eye veil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/midd…
Islamic finance in London
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/…
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6&s…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfr…
Saudi threats end fraud enquiry
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/…
Hate speech revealed in [...]

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I have the pleasure and privilege of being on some wonderful email lists, where I get to engage in conversations from all over America (and the world).  There’s a very interesting conversation going on right now about a new policy that Tyson Chicken announced:  It’s scrapping Labor Day as one of its official holidays and [...]

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From the every first paragraph of a lengthy New York Times Magazine article about Sharia law, you know you’re in for an intellectually dishonest voyage through the multi-culti mindset of the New York Times, this time as put forward by Noah Feldman who is, unsurprisingly, a law professor at that bastion of liberal think, Harvard. [...]

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You recall the uproar a few weeks ago when the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it’s unfair for Muslims to have to follow British law and that it would be a good thing to incorporate elements of Sharia law into British law.  It turns out that he’s not the only one thinking these thoughts.  The [...]

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