“Dear World, pay attention: Muslims protesting in the millions against Islamism. This is Historic.”
Let’s hope so.
(Updated at 2pm with video)
Not A Muslim
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian theocracy to vote for: Egyptian President Mohamad Morsi is destroying the country with a toxic mix of ideology and incompetence, and the city of Luxor is now in open revolt after he appointed a terrorist as the governor.
Speech in Cairo Update: US Marines stationed in Southern Europe have been placed on alert.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and in “10 years Islam could be dominant religion in UK”.
Related!
(h/t peterj)
Those Moderate Muslims!
Christendom’s Greatest Cathedral to Become a Mosque;
The desire to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque is not about Muslims wanting a place to pray — as of 2010, there were 3,000 active mosques in Istanbul alone. Rather, it’s about their reveling, and trying to revivify, the glory days of Islamic jihad and conquest: Reuters added that Muslims “staged the prayers ahead of celebrations next week marking the 559th anniversary of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet’s conquest of Byzantine Constantinople.” According to Salih Turhan, a spokesman quoted by Reuters, “As the grandchildren of Mehmet the Conqueror, seeking the re-opening Hagia Sophia as a mosque is our legitimate right.”
h/t peterj
Hezbollah’s Theme Park
Michael Totten: It’s open to visitors from everywhere in the world except Israel, so I had to see it. My friend and occasional traveling companion Sean LaFreniere joined me, and we set out in a rental car from Beirut.
Humanitarian aid is correct.
Via Drudge, we learn that Syria, is Libya, is Eygpt. Like, “surprise”, or something.
Good call, PM Harper. We really don’t need to be spending more lives supporting radical Islamists who are going to be worse than the disease.
Paris In The Arab Spring
“This is a laboratory,” said Manar Skandrani, a former activist in the ruling Islamist Ennahda party who has pulled away to try to form a party calling for dialogue between the secular-minded and the fundamentalists.
The political choices are particularly clear-cut in Tunisia, partly because of a large, activist middle class that has long looked toward France, the former colonial power, for much of its inspiration.
Merry Christmas, Texas
Texas gov. signs ‘Merry Christmas’ bill into law
“I realize it’s only June. But it’s a good June and the holidays are coming early this year,” Perry said. “It’s a shame that a bill like this one I’m signing today is even required, but I’m glad that we’re standing up for religious freedom in this state. Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.”
The West’s Abusive Relationship Love Affair with Islam
Author Douglas Murray has just published a new book called “Islamophilia” and discusses it with James Delingpole here, followed by a longer discussion of current events.
Bin Laden Is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
The 26-page document in Arabic, recovered by The Associated Press in a building that had been occupied by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in Timbuktu, strongly suggests the group now possesses the SA-7 surface-to-air missile, known to the Pentagon as the Grail, according to terrorism specialists. And it confirms that the al-Qaida cell is actively training its fighters to use these weapons, also called man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADS, which likely came from the arms depots of ex-Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
So good that someone finally got rid of Gadhafi. Sure taught Assad a thing or two.
“I Don’t Care, I’ve Got Nothing to Hide”
Claire Berlinski in Turkey
American author Claire Berlinski is tweeting like mad these days about everything going on in Turkey. Like this. Fascinating to follow her Twitter feed.
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
Qassim al-Rimi, the military chief of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said making bombs such as the ones used in the twin blasts in Boston in April, is within “everyone’s reach”.
“The Boston events… and the poisoned letters (sent to the White House), regardless of who is behind them, show that your security is no longer under control, and that attacks on you have taken off and cannot be stopped,” he said, in the message entitled: “A letter to the American people.”
Related: Release the Bin Laden Documents
Now is the Time At SDA When We Islamapose!
Sun News, May 30th – Omar Khadr transferred to Edmonton prison as parole looms
Telegraph, May 30th – Woolwich beheader arrested by Kenyan police in 2010; UK authorities intervened to free, bring him back to London
“Now that [Assad] has already crossed all of these red lines…”
Since the civil war began two years ago, Assad’s complete dependence on Iran and Hezbollah – as well as on Russia – has been exposed for all to see. There is little doubt that whatever checks the US was able to exert against him before the civil war began no longer exist. And if he survives in power, he will be completely indifferent to US pressure and so will behave far more violently than he did before the war began.
And yet for all Assad’s horrific behavior and the reasonable presumption that his actions will only become more violent and dangerous with each additional day he remains in power, the most telling aspect of the Syrian civil war is that Israel, the US and Europe are incapable of deciding whether he is better or worse than the alternatives.
And much, much more. Read the whole thing.
h/t Adrian
Sweden: Citizens Doing the Job the Police & Politicians Have Abandoned
There’s a fascinating English-language article on a Swedish website which describes what’s really happening in Sweden these days.
Woolwich: Lone Wolf Update
Police on Monday arrested a 10th suspect in connection with the vicious killing of an off-duty British soldier on a London street in an apparent terrorist attack by Islamic extremists.
Related – British War Memorials vandalized.
Marianne Meed-Ward: Postergirl for Canada’s Left
I’m constantly dumbfounded watching Toronto’s Leftist Brain Trust on Michael Coren’s show. Part 1 discusses Rob Ford. Part 2, beginning at 8:15, discusses Radical Islam.
“The Progressive Left is the handmaiden of Radical Islam.” — David Menzies
Those Moderate Muslims!
Ooops… Germany’s Star Moderate Muslim Finds that Five of Her Former Pupils Went Off to Fight Jihad in Syria