Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing
MIDDLE EAST NEWS JANUARY 14, 2011 By JAY SOLOMON DOHA, Qatar—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, adopting a tone reminiscent of the Bush administration, blasted Arab governments for stalled political change, warning that extremists were exploiting a lack of democracy to promote radical agendas across the Middle East. Mrs. Clinton, addressing a conference on democracy as she
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The cross is near extinction in the ancient lands of its origin By Jeffrey T. Kuhner The Washington Times December 23, 2010 An Iraqi policeman stands guard at the scene of a car bomb attack in front of a Syrian Catholic Church, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Nov. 1, 2010. Islamic militants held around 120 Iraqi
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This was published in 2006 by Gabrielle Giffords in the Arizona Jewish Post 10.27.06 The title of the article is: “Israel needs U.S. to push the peace process”. > My grandfather, Akiba Hornstein, was the son of a Lithuanian rabbi. My grandfather changed his name to Giff Giffords for reasons of anti-Semitism and moved to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Where suicide bombers go for higher education. Robin Simcox December 27, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 15 London If you wanted an example of a well-integrated European Muslim, you couldn’t have done better than the pre-2001 version of Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly. In Sweden in those years the Iraqi-born Abdaly played
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Leading likely to violence. Lee Smith January 12, 2011 6:08 PM As Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri was in Washington to meet with President Obama this morning, Hezbollah and its allies withdrew from the Lebanese cabinet, setting the table for what many fear is an inevitable escalation of violence
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ASIA NEWS JANUARY 10, 2011 By ZAHID HUSSAIN Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesFazalur Rehman, leader of radical group Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam, addresses a rally in favor of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in Karachi on Sunday. ISLAMABAD—Tens of thousands of Islamists rallied Sunday in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi in support of the nation’s controversial blasphemy laws, and clerics threatened
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JANUARY 6, 2011 In an interview last month, the late Salman Taseer expressed concern about the radicalization of his country. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told me not to worry. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Lahore, Pakistan On central Mall road, Governor’s House sits back across a wide lawn. The white, colonnaded mansion, built for British rulers
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Bean bags vs. AK-47s Posted: December 18, 2010 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 Another Border Patrol agent on the Arizona border was shot and killed by Mexican drug smugglers last Tuesday. Of the eight attackers, four are in custody and a fifth is under surveillance by Border Patrol Blackhawk helicopters as he tries to make his
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