There are moral absolutes | The Spectator

David Blackburn

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:45 GM

Like Porkbelly I was dumbfounded with the theory " sharia is an attack on . Islam. , Moslems...". Such an argument is worthy of Tony Blair at his most anodyne. We are used to being deceived and patronised by our . political. leaders concerning . ... Like others, I'm baffled by the comment: 'Sharia is an attack on . Islam. , Muslims and enlightened society.' Sharia is an important . aspect of Islam. . It's not one we like and many enlightened Muslims reject it. But it is an . aspect. of it ...

Doc's Talk: Barack Obama, Arab political power and a mind-boggling ...

GS Don Morris, Ph.D.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:32:01 GM

The basic law of the Palestinian Authority expressly states that ". Islam. is the official religion of Palestine" and that "the principles of Islamic law are the primary source of lawmaking. ... The Operation in Gaza: Factual and Legal . Aspects. . 1. Israel deeply regrets the civilian losses that occurred during the Gaza Operation. Yet, Israel has both the responsibility and the right to defend its population from attack and discharged that responsibility in keeping with ...

Harry's Place No Sharia law Support Muslims fighting religious ...

Your View

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:01 GM

They confuse protests against fundamentalist,​ . political Islam. , which seeks to establish a religious dictatorship, with an attack on Muslim people and the Muslim faith. These are two very different things. Saturday's protest is in defence of . ... As a non-Muslim opponent of Sharia law and Islamic jihad among only some . aspects of Islam. , any similar-minded Muslims are welcome to join me. I'm also opposed to Labour's double-whammy of mass immigration, and its failure to ...

The American Conservative The Roots of Political Correctness

William S. Lind

hu, 19 Nov 2009 20:30:03 GM

If the average American knew that, I suspect . Political. Correctness would be in serious trouble. The Ft. Hood killings raise an interesting question: why would Marxists of any variety come to the support of . Islam. ? After all, if the Islamics took over, . ... On the other hand I suspect that some . aspects. of PC have been very very deleterious, with the major one to my mind (and in my experience) being the damage it has done to our educational system. Now there's an example, ...

Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Volume 9, 2006 - Table of Contents

unknown

ue, 12 Dec 2006 10:34:47 GM

Rhetoric -- . Political aspects. -- United States. Conservatism -- United States. Abstract: While other scholars have observed the influence of Calvin Coolidge on Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, the connection between them has not been comprehensively​ explored. . ... Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green. Black power: radical politics and African American identity. Nation of . Islam. (Chicago, Ill.) -- History. Novkov, Julie, 1966-; Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (review) ...

Ft. Hood: When PC Kills Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian

budsimmons

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:41 GM

This becomes a conflict between the experienced reality of the barefooted and the favored PC-hatched theory of the privileged . political. class with opinion-making influence and media access. A campaign is rolling over the ... What is being said is that the aggressive and dominant . aspects Islam. can show are not to be feared. That is supposedly so because the nominal practitioners of the faith do not take their religion seriously. The question that arises is: and what if ...

Fort Hood: It's Not Muslims It's Religious Nuts ++ Tom Friedman ...

MJ Rosenberg

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:25:33 GM

Political Islam. . Delineation of . political. , cultural and faith-centric . aspects. of each religion is called for. No one faith, by itself, i.e. a believer holding and expressing faith in some supernatural power, is superior or inferior to ...

Liberal England: Irfan Ahmed implodes

Jonathan

hu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:01 GM

There are some . aspects. of my religion I appreciate more now than I did when I was a younger and more conventional "liberal Catholic", in particular seeing how evangelical Protestantism is so mis-used by the . political. right gives me some appreciation of the Catholic notion of authority. ... There is a desperate need for . Islam. to be pulled out of the rut into which it has slipped, which at present seem to be emphasising all its bad . aspects. and losing any that are good. ...

Qatar centre set to spread moderate Isla Talk Islam

johnpi

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:28:33 GM

We have to empower the role of the Muslim woman, to give her full . political. and democratic rights, he said. The centre's publications shed light on . aspects of Islam. tarnished by attacks on Western targets by groups like al Qaeda which ...

USA: When Political Correctness Kills Centurean2's Weblog

centurean2

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:54:39 GM

What is being said is that the aggressive and dominant . aspects Islam. can show are not to be feared. That is supposedly so because the nominal practitioners of the faith do not take their religion seriously. The question that arises is: ...

Islam : What the West Needs to Know soon to be available ...

Robert

hu, 05 Oct 2006 16:07:27 GM

Also,,on LGF today a new interview with Wafa Sultan. Her main issue, in a nutshell, is the . political aspects of islam. . Always On Watch | October 6, 2006 9:48 AM. I got my copy of . Islam. : What the West Needs to Know a few weeks back, ...

The Abominable Cairo Declaration of Human Rights Under Islam ...

sheikyermami

hu, 19 Nov 2009 22:04:13 GM

Turkey's current Prime Minister Erdogan, commenting in August 2007 on the term moderate . Islam. (frequently used in the West to describe his ruling . political. party, the AKP) stated, These descriptions are very ugly. ... Although Hasan merely reiterates salient . aspects. of classical jihad theory (see slides 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 49), this reality is understandably shocking to our willfully uninformed elites in the media, military, and government. ...

Spencer interview at Berlin human rights rally, October 2009 ...

Robert

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:27:57 GM

Lie in wait and ambush them, seize and capture them using every stratagem of war (for example, . political. , economic, propaganda, population explosion). If they convert to . Islam. and pray and contribute to the cause of . Islam. (Jihad), let them go." (Koran 9:5) ... Absolutely brilliant, except one thing - I am quite sure that the solution Robert proposed "instituting programs in mosques and schools ... that teach against these . aspects of Islam. " would not work. ...

Thinking Out Aloud: History of Islamic Societies (2)

Lorenzo

hu, 12 Nov 2009 11:06:01 GM

One gets a picture of North African and Middle Eastern . Islam. as a region where the Volkerwanderung​ which never ended. Ibn Khaldun's basic model of alternating between . political. unity that, after a period of cultural effervesce, decays into stagnant ... In the 1930s and 1940s, opposition to the British meant anti-imperialis​t . aspects of Islam. were stressed; in 1950s and 1960s solidarity and justice were stressed in opposition to the corruption of the military regime; ...

Who Is Hassan Daioleslam? | Diplomacy

Daniel Luban

ue, 17 Nov 2009 23:54:43 GM

Founded as a militant group with an ideology combining . aspects of Islam. and Marxism, the group is frequently described today as cult-like, built around a personality cult centered on leader Maryam Rajavi. ... He is a graduate student in . political. science at the University of Chicago, and also serves as a correspondent for the global news agency Inter Press Service, where his reporting focuses primarily on U.S. foreign policy and has been published b . ...

Solsticewitch13's BOS: An Oath Violated?

solsticewitch13

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:04:01 GM

Like all . aspects of Islam. , its ethics are found in the Koran, the Sira (Mohammed's biography) and the Hadith (his traditions). The Golden Rule is not in these texts. Instead, . Islam. has dualistic ethics, one set of rules for Muslims and one set for ... knows the doctrine and history of . political Islam. that has shown any knowledge to the public. Our leaders are willfully ignorant about . Islam. . The question is: what is the worth of an oath of office from anyone who practices ...

Dawateislam: Pakistan: Islamic parties after the elections

Waqas Attari

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:16:01 GM

the Quran and Sunnah," as . political. analyst Hassan Askari Rizvi puts it. "There is no law that is in conflict with the basic principles of . Islam. . And if some . aspects. of Sharia are turned into law, then that becomes applicable." ... "The armed forces and institutions are conservative and draw their strength from . Islam. ," he says. "Its members may belong to one . political. party or they may not belong to the . political. party, but . Islam. runs in the blood of every Muslim." ...

Harry's Place Jewish Pride

Your View

ue, 17 Nov 2009 22:36:13 GM

In which case, is this a religious question or a . political. one? So many rabbis before Israel didn't believe there could be a Jewish state until Moshiach. Now there is a Jewish state, some rabbis stick to the same convictions. . ... First, not everyone agrees the (multicultural)​ UK way of life should include submission to the more triumphalist or imperialist . aspects of Islam. . Second, the truth is an absolute defense, and Muhamad was indeed a murderer and pedophile. ...

DISTORTION OF INDIAN HISTORY FOR MUSLIM APPEASEMENT, Part 4 ...

Dr Radhasyam Brahmachari

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:45:15 GM

To any unbiased reader, it would appear utterly impossible for Sher Shah to build such long roads, even if he would have devoted his 5 or 4 years of rein entirely for road building setting his military and . political aspects. aside. . ... It is needless to say that these teachings of . Islam. have made its followers, though poor in creative intelligentsia,​ expert in criminal activities. As a Muslim, Farid Khan also utilized that celebrated criminal path to accumulate wealth ...

Islam means Terror Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami

sheikyermami

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:08:27 GM

In these . political. disputes always one group was calling other group kaffirs or enemy of Allah. They tried to justify killing their rivals by Islamic dictums. Even today, the same patterns of religious sectarian killings are going on in Iraq, Pakistan, . ... And the verse (5:32) is purely a deceptive verse used by most hypocrites of . Islam. to fool the Westerners. This verse was meant to describe historical . aspects. of Israelites and is nothing to do with the Muslims. ...