Category Archives: Islam

Free Speech: A Motorway Pile-Up of Moral Confusion

GATESTONE by Douglas Murray October 2, 2014 Who has the “right” to talk about Islam? The question arose thanks to the response of a Muslim student society at an American university. Last week saw the latest in the apparently interminable … Continue reading

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Ehr Daw 2014 – Given on Rosh Hashanah, 5775

CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM BLOG Rabbi Shalom Lewis September 29, 2014 I thought that maybe I’d start with a rendition of Paul McCartney’s plaintive masterpiece “Yesterday”… “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here … Continue reading

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Shifting Alliances in the Middle East

COMMENTARY by Ofir Haivry October 1, 2014 The old Middle-Eastern border has collapsed. Like a glacier that has been undermined gradually by hidden trickles from within and then subjected to a final spring thaw, it has come crashing down. The … Continue reading

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Iran Rising

WASHINGTON TIMES by Clifford D. May October 1, 2014 In his address to the UN General Assembly last week, President Obama called the conflict in the Middle East “a fight no one is winning.” I think the evidence suggests he’s … Continue reading

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Netanyahu’s Truth in a Den of Lies

FRONT PAGE MAG by Joseph Klein September 30, 2014 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a powerful and sobering speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 29th.  He said he came from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of … Continue reading

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If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic

NEW REPUBLIC by Jerry A. Coyne September 13, 2014 As ISIS slaughters its way though Syria and Iraq, it became inevitable that we’d hear from apologists who claim that ISIS is not in fact “true Islam,” and that its depredations are due … Continue reading

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The Islamic State and ‘Religion of Peace’

AMERICAN CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY by Clive Kessler September 26, 2014 ……When apologists, often well-meaning people, retreat into the stock affirmation that Islam is really “a religion of peace”, they are entering a zone of evasion and delusion. Once they offer … Continue reading

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Israel increasingly anxious over world’s flexibility to nuclear Iran

JERUSALEM POST by Yossi Melman September 28, 2014 World believes Israeli military threat against Iran no longer realistic. As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu departed to address the UN General Assembly in New York on Sunday, and to meet with US … Continue reading

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How are America’s actions any different than Israel’s ?

COMMENTARY by Jonathan Tobin September 23, 2014 The unleashing of the campaign of U.S. air strikes on terrorist targets throughout Syria last night may be the beginning of an offensive that will, as President Obama claimed this morning, “take the … Continue reading

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Winning Heads and Minds

STEYN ONLINE by Mark Steyn September 26, 2014 Moore is a municipality that lies between Norman, where a dear friend of mine lives, and Oklahoma City, which I know reasonably well. I can’t claim to know Moore other than to … Continue reading

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