Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Perish the Thought Who killed the spirit of inquiry in Islam? David Aikman April 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 29 The Closing of the Muslim Mind How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly ISI, 244 pp., $26.95 What happened to Islamic culture? Why did a
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By Philip Stephens Financial Times April 14 2011 America’s GIs are waving goodbye. Good Europeans should cheer them on their way. More than two decades have passed since the end of the cold war. You do not have to be French (or Russian) to agree it’s time for the Yanks to
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Andrew C. McCarthy Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America April 16, 2011 The Audience Is Listening Obama gives jihadists the olive branch and Ryan the hickory
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APRIL 9, 2011 The contradictory faces of political Islam in post-Mubarak Egypt. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Cairo Two months after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner By Victor Davis Hanson Posted on April 08, 2011 1:10 PM At some point, the Obama administration is going to recognize a simple paradox that has been apparent to almost everyone but them: In theory, those pro-American autocratic regimes that are tottering or gone (the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt,
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APRIL 8, 2011 France Resurrects Border With Italy By STACY MEICHTRY VENTIMIGLIA, Italy—The migration wave unleashed by North African unrest has prompted France to resurrect its border with Italy—a barrier that was supposedly consigned to history’s dustbin with Europe’s unified economy. France is trying to stem a wave of North African migrants from entering through
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By PETER KING April 7, 2011 On Monday, as Attorney General Eric Holder stood at the podium at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to announce that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists would be tried by military commissions at Guantanamo, he still insisted that he’d much prefer to try them in civilian courts.
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APRIL 5, 2011 Eric Holder adopts the Bush anti-terror architecture. The Obama Administration did a full spinning reversal with a triple twist yesterday on its plans to prosecute terrorists, announcing that it will now try September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay after all. We were going to applaud
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APRIL 5, 2011 Mr. Goldstone Recants Now the U.N. author says he didn’t have the facts when he accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza. Regrets, Richard Goldstone has a few, if you can believe it. The principal author of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s notorious “fact-finding mission” report on the Gaza war of 2008-09
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APRIL 4, 2011 Why lend legitimacy to the Castro brothers? By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros. The image of the 86-year-old American ex-president wearing a wide smile
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