Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Modern Islam uses burqas, niqabs, and hijabs to control women. It wasn’t always this way, as a 1958 speech by Egyptian President Nasser shows. Throughout the Muslim world — and, increasingly, throughout Europe and America — women are “appearing in public” in hijabs (head scarfs), burqas (full body tents), and
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I’ve cleared my spindle and the articles I linked are a feast for the hungry mind — the Middle East, climate change, policing, gender, Obamacare, and more. There’s land if the Palestinians want it. Did you know that President al-Sisi in Egypt has offered the Palestinians a state that would
Continue readingYesterday, I got around to reading Michael Crowley’s ‘We Caved’ : What happened when Barack Obama’s idealistic rhetoric collided with the cold realities of war and dictatorship in the Middle East and beyond. I recommend it. It’s a depressing look at what happens when the Progressive Ivory Tower meets the
Continue readingSherif Gaber is an Egyptian activist who looked past the smears and insults and who now argues compellingly that Israel’s existence is a good thing that makes the world a better place — including a better one for her Arab neighbors. The video is in Arabic, but you can follow
Continue readingI’m trying to see a silver lining in the Iran deal that Obama is shilling so hard (and more on that shilling below). Although I haven’t quite glimpsed the silver, there are certainly some ironies, not the least of which is that Israel is now working openly with Saudi Arabia,
Continue readingOkay, here’s what we know. First, this was Obama: Second, Morsi is the black knight: Third, and now I’m getting serious, Egypt is either going to explode or the military will impose harsh military rule very quickly to prevent an explosion. Morsi is under house arrest, which makes his refusal
Continue readingThings in Egypt are coming to a head. The protest in Tahir Square on Sunday is being billed as the largest political protest ever. In addition to Cairo, people are protesting all over. A mob burned down the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. Obama, after staying silent for some time, finally called
Continue readingI went out to run one errand and came back to discover that Egyptian President Morsi had fled his palace after protesters breached police barricades. I have no idea whether this means Morsi’s brief sharia reign is over, or whether he’ll be be, redoubling the oppression. What do you think?
Continue readingI’m guessing that a majority of Americans (a slim majority, but still a majority) know that America entered WWII because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. What few stop to consider is why we ended up fighting, not only the Japanese who had just bombed us, but the Germans as well,
Continue readingFirst of all, it appears that the suspicions I voiced yesterday about the film that started it all are, if not true, at least headed in the right direction. Poynter has a post detailing all the peculiarities about the film — the lies, the misdirection, and the purpose behind it
Continue readingThe story goes that Sam Bacile, an Israeli living in America, created a crude video that so inflamed Egyptian sensibilities that they had to besiege the American embassy in Cairo. I’ve been wondering how they got wind of that silly video in the first place. Now I’m wondering if this
Continue readingWe all recall how Michael Moore mercilessly savaged George Bush because, when the first reports about the 9/11 terrorist attacks began, Bush was reading a story book to small children, and chose not to run screaming out of the room. Fast-forward eleven years and we have a president who boasts
Continue readingYes, I understand that the embassy in Cairo is besieged but it does strike me as cowardly to abandon core principles as this juncture (emphasis mine): U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement September 11, 2012 The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to
Continue readingWhen it comes to the Middle East, I’m hard-put to think of a more astute, knowledgeable observer than Barry Rubin. In light of the Egyptian court ruling striking down large parts of the recent elections, and the military’s subsequent power move, he’s not sanguine about Egypt’s future: The Egyptian Supreme
Continue readingI’ve been quiet about a lot of the revolutions in the Middle East. The only one as to which I was really vocal was the attempted revolution in Iran — and that was because I thought the uprising could only benefit America. That regime is so evil, that destabilizing it
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