Convert Islam - How the West Could Lose
How the West Could Lose
After defeating fascists and communists, can the West now defeat the Islamists? On the face of it, its military preponderance makes victory seem inevitable. Even if Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon, Islamists have nothing like the military machine the Axis deployed in World War II, nor the Soviet Union during the cold war. What do the Islamists have to compare with the Wehrmacht or the Red Army? The SS or Spetznaz? The Gestapo or the KGB? Or, for that matter, to Auschwitz or the gulag?
James Baker’s Terrible Iraq Report
[NY Sun title: “Baker Report Would Turn Failed Ideas Into Policy”] The Iraq Study Group Report, cobbled together by ten individuals lacking specialized knowledge of Iraq, dredges up past failed U.S. policies in the Middle East and would enshrine them as current policy. Most profoundly, regarding the American role in Iraq, the report moronically splits the difference of troops staying or leaving, without ever examining the basic premise of the U.S.
Meaning of maa’ilaat mumeelaat
Redeeming the Wayward University
[NY Sun title: “Redeeming the Wayward University System”] Should outsiders try to influence the hiring or tenuring of university faculty? The question arises because, with the radicalization of the American universities, moderate voices have jumped into academic personnel issues. For example, note some controversies just in Middle East studies in 2006: Joseph Massad at Columbia:
Europe’s Stark Options
[Title and text differ from that published, “Eurabian Nights” can be read at www.nationalinterest.org/PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=13710] Europe’s long-term relations with its burgeoning Muslim minority, the continent’s most critical issue, will follow one of three paths: harmonious integration, the expulsion of Muslims, or an Islamic takeover. Which of these scenarios will most likely play out? Europe’s future has vast importance not just for its residents. During a half-millennium, 1450-
Crescent Moon - A Symbol of Islam?
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Islamic Clip Art Programs
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Allah’s Names & Attributes
Allah is the proper name for Almighty God, and is often translated merely as “God.” Allah has other names that are used to describe His characteristics: the Creator, the Sustainer,…
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