Left: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) attend a welcoming ceremony upon Putin's arrival in Cairo, Feb. 10, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin) On February 9-10, 2015, … [Read more...] about President Putin Visits Egypt*
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Weekly Briefing – February 16-20, 2015
"If Only Germany Had Solved Its Unemployment Problem in 1933, Germans Wouldn’t Have Become Nazis...Er, Maybe not." - David P. Goldman (Sprengler) Denmark’s Compromised “Values” - Rachel Ehrenfeld - The Danes should have known better, but they … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – February 16-20, 2015
Denmark’s Questionable “Values”
Soon after the jihadist attacks in Copenhagen, Danish Prime Minister, Thorning-Schmidt declared, “this is not a conflict between Islam and the West…this is a conflict between the core values of our society and violent extremists.” To this, a … [Read more...] about Denmark’s Questionable “Values”
Weekly Briefing, February 8-13, 2015
Deterring ISIL is Not Enough - Rachel Ehrenfeld - "Muslims need to change the religious discourse and remove from it things that have led to violence and extremism.”... President Obama’s requested Congressional authorization to indefinitely use U.S. … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, February 8-13, 2015
Dumping Riyadh For Tehran
Left: Zacarias Moussaoui The Oscar worth direction of Iran’s image-laundering campaign is drowning, as hoped by the Obama administration and Tehran, in media headlines about the “new” evidence of Saudi funding of al Qaeda. Documentation of the … [Read more...] about Dumping Riyadh For Tehran
Southeast Asian Islam, gentle and ungentle
A “rage against history”: a bewildered and at times visceral sense, a disquiet in the soul and gut, that “history has gone wrong”, departed from its divinely ordained path. Religious “supersessionism”: or, underlying that sense of historical … [Read more...] about Southeast Asian Islam, gentle and ungentle
Weekly Briefing – February 1-6, 2015
Hell on Earth - Dr. Mordecai Kedar@Arutz7 - Burning alive a human being is a method of eliminating enemies that is well known and documented in early Islamic sources, and based on a deductive legal principle of Sharia law… Anyone who attacks Islamic … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing – February 1-6, 2015
Beware of the Ides of March
March 2015 is looking like it is going to be a very "interesting" month, to quote the well-known Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". First Prime Minister Netanyahu will address the joint houses of Congress while he is in Washington to … [Read more...] about Beware of the Ides of March
Hell on Earth*
Burning alive a human being is a method of eliminating enemies that is well known and documented in early Islamic sources, and based on a deductive legal principle of Sharia law. Islamic State publicized a horrifying twenty minute video this week, … [Read more...] about Hell on Earth*
On “supersessionism”: Abrahamic faiths in history
Prologue Supersessionism (also called replacement theology or fulfilment theology) is a Christian theological view on the current status of Jews and Judaism. Supersessionism designates the belief that the Christian Church has replaced the Israelites … [Read more...] about On “supersessionism”: Abrahamic faiths in history