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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on Islam and the West&#8217;s Paralysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow discusses Islamic aggression and what the West must do about it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247983" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6-450x334.jpg" alt="140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6" width="350" height="260" /></a>Last week, Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim was interviewed on “Steel on Steel” by John Loeffler.  Topics include Russian moves to combat Islamism, Western projections on Islam, and the ongoing Christian genocide.  </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jcis.net/~bgwireless/SOSPreview/so2014-1220.mp3" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.jcis.net/~bgwireless/SOSPreview/so2014-1220.mp3" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link">Click here to listen to the 20-minute interview</span></a><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
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		<title>The Jihadi Who Felt Persecuted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His violence is self-defense.]]></description>
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<p>The other day, a pediatric nurse in New York City refused to dance with  Mbarek Lafrem, a Moroccan man, in a New York City bar. What did Lafrem do? He  followed her into the women’s bathroom where he attempted to rape and savagely  beat her. The woman was found unconscious and is now hospitalized. She required  50 stitches to close just one of her lacerations; she also suffered a broken eye  socket, a broken nose, skull fractures, and a busted jaw.</p>
<p>The media pointedly refrain from telling us that he is a Muslim, but with a  name like “Mbarek” or ‘Mubarak,” what religion are we talking about? Lafrem <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bar_beat_thug_blames_victim_zHSlyLbxCfMBk51WqqDtMP">now  claims</a> that <em>she</em> started it, that the nurse “berated him when he  barged into the women’s restroom shortly after she’d rebuffed him on the dance  floor.”</p>
<p>To a certain kind of man, from a certain kind of culture, women are always  supposed to say yes, and when they say no they are provokers and deserve a  beating. More: If the woman is a naked-faced infidel and dances with strange men  in a public setting—she is, by definition, a prostitute and is not entitled to  say no. Saying no is a “provocation” and deserves a beating. Or worse.</p>
<p>Now, let’s shuffle off to Buffalo, where Muzzammil ”Mo” Hassan—remember  him?–is about to stand trial for beheading his wife, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/02/14/be-headed-in-buffalo-the-honor-killing-of-asiya-z-hassan/">Aasiya  Zubair Hassan</a>. Guess what this monster’s claiming? That <em>he’s</em> the  victim, that he was a “battered husband.” Guess what this crafty self-promoter  has been doing from his jail cell? Writing letters to the media in his  <em>mother’s</em> name in which he paints himself as the “abused” spouse. Mo’s  letters also refer to an “epidemic” of battered men.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Goes Weak-Kneed on Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impotence of sanctions not going for the jugular is obvious.]]></description>
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<p>A squishy, misguided, weak-kneed liberalism has emerged in Hillary Clinton&#8217;s comments about the kind of sanctions that would work best in halting Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. Rather than take the one step that would really be effective — cutting off the flow of refined gasoline to Iran — she instead insists that we need to target the Iranian leadership with sanctions.</p>
<p>Her husband wisely rejected the same kind of advice in deciding on the sanctions to impose on Serbia during the Bosnia war, opting for broad-based economic sanctions to deter aggression. The sanctions were incredibly effective, and the mere threat of their re-imposition in 1996 was enough to bring Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic to his knees.</p>
<p>But now Hillary says sanctions must target Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard &#8220;without contributing to the suffering of the ordinary (Iranians), who deserve better than what they currently are receiving.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the impotence of sanctions that do not go for the jugular is obvious, and the abysmal record of targeted sanctions aimed at Iranian leaders is enough to discredit the entire process. However, sanctions can be effective — immediately — if they strike at a nation&#8217;s most vulnerable point.</p>
<p>The House of Representatives approved a resolution at the end of December that imposed sanctions against Iran, banning any company from doing business in the United States if it supplied oil products to Iran. Co-sponsored and pushed by Illinois Republican Rep. Mark Kirk (who deserves support in his bid for a Senate seat), the measure has real teeth and is now pending before the Senate.</p>
<p>Hillary&#8217;s comment about avoiding sanctions that &#8220;contribute to the suffering&#8221; of the people of Iran can only be interpreted as a push-back against the sanctions that have passed the House.</p>
<p>This kind of weakness, on which criminal regimes like Iran&#8217;s thrive, is just the kind of impotence that liberal governments display.</p>
<p>From Munich to today, leaders have found it difficult to wage war against those who threaten world peace or even to impose serious sanctions against them. The argument is always the same: It will hurt ordinary people.</p>
<p>Well, so will atomic bombs.</p>
<p>Unless we inflict enough damage on Iran to force it to stop its weapons program, we are leaving Israel exposed and vulnerable to almost certain destruction.</p>
<p>Iran, despite having the second-largest deposits of oil in the world, lacks refining capacity and must import 40 percent of its gasoline. The threat of a cutoff is the ultimate weapon, short of force, to be used in compelling Iran to abide by the resolutions of the international community and refrain from producing nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Hillary&#8217;s comment can only have brought a sigh of relief to the lips of the Iranian mullahs. It sends the clear signal that the Obama administration lacks the toughness to impose real sanctions and its disapproval can be safely disregarded in Tehran.</p>
<p>If gasoline imports were curtailed, the &#8220;ordinary&#8221; Iranians would blame their own government. They know that Iran has been isolated from the world by its own government, and surveys show this cutoff rankles the population mightily. They are very worried about getting the cold shoulder from the rest of the world and worry about the consequences for their already blighted and fragile economy.</p>
<p>A gasoline shortage can only stoke the fires of rebellion so brilliantly flaring forth on Iranian streets and can only bolster the courage of those who brave gunfire and police clubs to express their demands for liberty.</p>
<p>Hillary: Don&#8217;t go squishy on us now!</p>
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		<title>Jimmy Carter and the Politics of Apology – by Jacob Laksin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ex-president never meant to stigmatize Israel – except when he did. 
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<p>When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1655">Jimmy Carter</a> is no stranger to apologies. The former president has spent years making excuses for Hamas, championing the Palestinian jihadists as the embattled victims of Israeli aggression – the group’s exterminationist founding charter and record of terrorism notwithstanding. Now it’s Israel’s turn to profit from Carter’s dubious public relations tactics.</p>
<p>After years of demonizing the Jewish state on the world stage, Carter at last has seen the error of his ways. Or so he says: Last week, Carter issued a statement to the Jewish community in which he <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/23/carter-says-sorry-jews-apology-linked-grandsons-political-ambitions/?test=latestnews">apologized</a> for his role in tarnishing Israel’s image and, invoking a traditional Jewish prayer, asked for forgiveness.</p>
<p>“I never intended or wanted to stigmatize the nation of Israel, even though I have disagreed with the settlement policy all the way back to the White House,” Carter reportedly said. He also urged that “[w]e must recognize Israel&#8217;s achievements under difficult circumstances,” and that “we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.”</p>
<p>In completely unrelated news, Carter’s grandson, 34-year old Atlanta attorney Jason Carter, is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/23/carter-says-sorry-jews-apology-linked-grandsons-political-ambitions/?test=latestnews">running for a state senate seat</a> in a suburban Georgia community that just happens to be home to a proportionally small but politically significant Jewish population.</p>
<p>If Carter’s conversion to nuance on the issue he has long viewed through a thoroughly anti-Israel lens seems more than a trifle expedient, it is. This after all is the man whose 2007 book, <em><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=25478">Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid</a></em>, notoriously equated democratic Israel with South Africa’s regime of racist discrimination. The author now suggests that he overstated his case, and that he regrets the book’s inflammatory title. Carter remains critical of Israeli settlements, but he now allows that Palestinians aren’t actually suffering under the yoke of racist apartheid. His mistake</p>
<p>For Israel’s supporters, that concession, however self-evident, could still be welcome. Yet it’s difficult to see Carter’s mea culpa as a genuinely good-faith effort to undo the damage his campaigning has done to Israel’s reputation. Most conspicuously, there is the convenient timing of his contrition, which comes as his grandson aims to fill a post vacated by Jewish politician – David Adelman, now the Obama administration’s nominee for ambassador to Singapore – in a <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Carter_grandson_courting_Jewish_voters.html?showall">district with an influential Jewish community</a>. In such circumstances, having one of the world’s preeminent detractors of the Jewish state as a direct relative is not exactly a selling point.</p>
<p>Even if opportunism doesn’t fully explain Carter’s apology, his second thoughts remain deeply suspect. Just days before airing his regrets, Carter published an <a href="http://cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/gaza-121909.html">op-ed</a> in London’s <em>Guardian </em>that rehearsed many of the anti-Israel tropes for which he now purports to be sorry.</p>
<p>In making a case for a renewed Middle Eastern peace process, Carter excused Arab intransigence (“no Arab or Islamic nation will accept any comprehensive agreement while Israel retains control of East Jerusalem”); whitewashed Palestinian terrorism (Carter made only an oblique reference “Palestinian recalcitrance”); and blamed Israel and Israeli leaders for the failure of past negotiations even as he exempted Palestinians from comparable scrutiny.</p>
<p>Equally deplorable, if typical, was Carter’s one-sided and selective account of the background of the conflict. Though lamenting the “intense personal suffering” of Palestinians living “under siege in Gaza” in the aftermath of last year’s war, Carter never mentioned the relentless eight-year rocket bombardment of Israeli cities and villages that forced the Israeli offensive. Similarly, Carter denounced Israel’s reluctance to allow the shipment of construction materials like cement into Gaza, but failed to note both that Israel has indeed <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1103770.html">allowed some limited shipment of materials</a> and the reason why it has to screen such shipments in the first place: Construction materials are routinely used by Palestinian terrorists to build rockets and fortifications. In yet another revisionist flourish, Carter accused Israel of destroying Palestinian <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&amp;nid=17984">schools</a> and <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054569.html">hospitals</a> with “precision bombs missiles” during the Gaza war, while omitting the critical fact that they often served as <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&amp;nid=15634">havens for Hamas gunmen</a> who tried to exploit the Israeli military’s restraint and its reluctance to strike civilian targets.</p>
<p>But nothing betrayed Carter’s biases as plainly as the one concrete proposal he offered to begin the peace process: urging the United Nations Security Council to pass <em>even more</em> resolutions condemning Israel. It was precisely the kind of stigmatization of Israel for which Carter would reject within days. Apologizing for such attacks apparently did not mean abandoning them.</p>
<p>Unfairly singling out Israel for criticism is not the worst of Carter’s sins. After all, the United Nations, whose <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574480932924540724.html">Goldstone report</a> is only the most recent example of the agency’s anti-Israel animus, has long made a habit of doing just that. Far more harmful to the interests of enduring peace in the Middle East is the ex-president’s longtime courtship of Hamas terrorists.</p>
<p>Carter has made no secret of that sinister partnership. On his travels to the Palestinian territories, Carter routinely sings the terrorist group’s praises, assuring all who will listen that, were it not for Israel’s belligerence, Hamas long ago would have accepted a ceasefire and laid down its arms. At times, Carter’s apologetics have gone from the merely credulous to the pernicious, as when he claimed that the tunnel networks that Hamas used to attack and kidnap Israeli soldiers were really “defensive” structures.</p>
<p>That the United States and Europe consider Hamas a terrorist group has not dampened Carter’s enthusiasm for the jihadists. In January 2006, he called on the international community to defy laws on terrorism financing and launder money to Hamas in the form of relief aid. Not even Hamas leaders themselves can convince Carter that peace is the furthest thing from their intentions. Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshal has never hidden his support for suicide terrorism and has called destroying Israel the “destiny” of the Palestinian people. That didn’t keep Carter from <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30596">seeking out Meshal</a> for a friendly chat about peace negotiations in the spring of 2008.</p>
<p>If Carter truly feels that an apology is in order, he might consider atoning for his role in promoting a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of Israelis, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33619">brutalized its fellow Palestinians</a>, poisoned the political climate in the region, and destroyed any hope for a present-day peace settlement. But that sorry contribution to the peacemaking that Carter still claims as his life’s work would require something more substantial than a bankrupt and cynically proffered apology.</p>
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