Hamas celebrated its 23rd anniversary by parading a terrorist dressed as kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, bespectacled, in an IDF uniform and handcuffed. The Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas staged the march in a Gaza village in another attempt to play on Israeli’s emotions to pressure the government to free more than 1,000 Arab prisoners and […]
Next week the British House of Commons will be voting on the following motion: That this House notes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v the United Kingdom in which it held that there had been no substantive debate by members of the legislature on the continued justification for maintaining […]
Paris (AP) – Al-Jazeera’s offices in Cairo were stormed and torched and its Website hacked Friday, says the Pan-Arab broadcaster, while the top U.N. human rights official complained that media covering Egyptian pro-democracy protests are being arrested “in a blatant attempt to stifle news.” Qatar-based Al-Jazeera — widely watched in the Middle East — portrayed […]
“Muslims are ruining our country.” So claims Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the German Central Bank, in his runaway best-seller “Germany Is Doing Away with Itself,” which already has sold more than a million copies in Germany Sarrazin’s claim is that Germany’s Muslims are not only bleeding the country’s welfare system but also lowering […]
Judea and Samaria, or, in mediaspeak, “the West Bank,” is one of the most-mentioned geographical areas in the world media – and certainly identifiable to most Europeans and Americans who follow world news. But just how much do people actually know about the region – in particular, Samaria (Shomron in Hebrew)? Not very much, says […]
With no fewer than five major areas of unrest/revolutions/regime changes going on in the Arab world, Arab satellite television, one of the mainstays of information dissemination in the Middle East, has been playing a major role in communicating news – or attempting, if not to suppress it, then at least to spin it. For most […]
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said that Dr. Donald Berwick, re-nominated this week by President Obama to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is qualified to oversee a nationwide health care system in England or Sweden. “I think Don Berwick would be a great head of health care in maybe England […]
Iranian political dissidents are notorious for their bitter factions and for not being able to work together—probably the single biggest cultural asset the Islamic Republic regime has. However, the Iran Democratic Transition Conference showed Iranians finding unity on a common purpose, bringing democracy to their home country where the longing for it runs deep. Taking […]
For the Western media, the argument between Russian orthodox church spokesperson Vsevolod Chaplin (head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society )and Russian feminists was familiar stuff. Chaplin had claimed that immodest dress by women invited sexual assault. After arousing a torrent of protest, Chaplin refused to back down and added that a woman […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times January 18, 2011 The sudden and as-yet-unexplained exit of Tunisia’s strongman, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 74, after 23 years in power has potential implications for the Middle East and for Muslims worldwide. As an Egyptian commentator noted, “Every Arab leader is watching Tunisia in fear. Every Arab citizen […]
