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  Steynianism 135.5

  http://steynian.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/steynianism-1355/
  2 days ago in Free Mark Steyn! · Authority: 121

  ~ BURMA IN CRISIS– Burma needs help NOW: “Sources said 200,000 people were already dead or dying… But the figure could rise to HALF A MILLION through disease and hunger.” SATELLITE IMAGES of devastation in Burma. Here’s a link via which to give in Canada … (jaycurrie, instapundit) Steyn Links ~ A DEBATE– Torontoist vs. Torontoist in… Steyn, Maclean’s, and the OHRC …. (torontoist.com) ~ MARK STEYN on the Michael Coren Show and other Canadian programs this week …. (fivefeetoffury) ~ PAGE UPDATE with Part 4 of the recent TVO …. (steynian) Ezra Linkery ~ FRESH EZRA: “How will we know when we’ve won?” .... (EzRants) ~ BREAKING: Ezra Levant to Debate Ian (Everything with the CHRC is) Fine of the CHRC?? …. (blazingcatfur.blog) FreeSpeechery ~ KULASZKA hammers the CHRC on Secrecy Obsession, Untimely disclosure and Hiding of Documents …. (socon.ca) ~ NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG! “A massive anti-abortion protest clogged Ottawa streets yesterday afternoon in one of the largest, most visible signs of public discontent with Canada’s abortion lawlessness seen in years”; Digging the dirt? “1973 Private Letter to Trudeau Suggests Abortion Crusader Morgentaler Used Blackmail” …. (shotgun, lifesitenews) ~ BREAKENRIDGE LINKS: Halifax Cartoon Crisis; Stuff Muslims Don’t Like: #3 Cartoons …. (am770chqr, malkin) ~ MACLEAN’S– “when hate goes around, it comes around. Thirteen years ago” …. (MaD) Jihadianity Age Of Terror 1998 - U.S. Embassy bombings Al Qaeda ~ BEIRUT HAS FALLEN TO ISLAMIC JIHAD– Hezbollah Is Committing War Crimes in Beirut! Puppetmaster Iran Blames Israel For Hezbollah Rampage …. (atlasshrugs2000, gatewaypundit.blog) ~ ISRAEL = EVIL– “ZIONIST ISRAEL AT 60 - JOEL KOVEL’S “BURIED” BOOK– by Dr. Mohamed Elmasry - Special to the CIC Friday Magazine”. For more Elmasry goodness, fill your boots, including such propagandistic gold like ‘SECULAR PHILOSOPHY WAS BRAINCHILD OF MUSLIM SCHOLARS‘. Where to begin? Minus a brief hiccup in the 11th and 12th century, there’s no evidence for this claim– aside from which, the Aristotelian model was thought by Muslim religious authorities to directly undercut the authority of the Koran and Muhammed. In any case, even granting that Averroes was amazing, how does Dr. Elmasry explain the anti-intellectualism of modern Islam (the 12th century is 800 years ago), and virtually no world-renowned departments of Aristotelian or secular philosophy to be found at universities in officially Muslim countries? Indeed, “It speaks volumes that a millennium later, such intellectual curiosity about the “Other” and his ways is hard to find in the Muslim Middle East— whose inhabitants, the United Nations reports, have translated fewer books over the last 1,000 years than Spain translates in one year.” [ "The figures for translated books are also discouraging. The Arab world translates about 330 books annually, one fifth of the number that Greece translates. The cumulative total of translated books since the Caliph Maa'moun's time (the ninth century) is about 100,000, almost the average that Spain translates in one year (Galal, S., 1999)." - Arab Human Development Report 2002, p. 78.. direct link] …. (canadianislamiccongress.com) ~ CONN CARROLL: Why are liberals actively helping terrorists? …. (instapundit) ~ MICHELLE MALKIN– Stuff Muslims Don’t Like: #2 Due process for wives …. (michellemalkin) ~ HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS: “A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert Thursday to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities’ worries about their legal rights” …. (instapundit) ~ ISRAEL @ 60: To Stay Independent and Free, Understand and Fight The Jihad …. (andrewbostom.org) ~ THE PEACE-LOVING former Jordanian “minister of religious endowment” Sheik Ali Al-Faqir appearing on Al Aqsa TV May 2, 2008, with an Islamic supremacist rant about taking over the world …. (lgf) ~ JUST SO SICKENING: “Rotberg is a Canadian author who has faced the manufactured wrath of Islamists after they made up allegations against him” …. (blazingcatfur.blog) ~ FUN IN PAKISTAN: Religion of Peace Burns Down Another Girl’s School …. (Wz) ~ EVERY MUSLIM SHOULD should be a terrorist. Pakistani Mufti: Every Muslim Must be Ready for Martyrdom to Protect Prophet Mohammed …. (dustmybroom, Wz) ~ CHILL-PILL: WaPo Cancels Article for Being ‘Too Critical’ of Islam …. (weaselzippers.net) ~ AL-QAEDA DECLARES WAR on Hezbollah, Calls on Operatives to Defend Lebanon …. (weaselzippers.net)
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  WaPo refuses to run article “too critical of Islam”

  http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/05/09/wapo-refuses-to-run-ar...
  2 days ago in Infidels Are Cool | Terrorism News | Conservative Politics | Anti-Jihad · Authority: 214

  Political correctness and dhimmitude combined into one. NewsBusters Left-leaning journalists don’t just pull their punches when it comes to criticizing liberal politicians, they also seem paradoxically inclined to do so when it comes to discussing radical Islam. This curious phenomenon (curious in that modern liberalism is highly secular and radical Islam decidedly is not) has repeated itself many times over the years and is really one of the most bizarre behaviors I’ve seen in politics. As strange and morally obtuse that we on the center-right believe the western liberal press to be on this issue, surely the more frustrated people have got to be clear-thinking liberals like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens who face the task of trying to get their ideological compatriots to stand up for rationality and civil society. It’s a difficult task made even more frustrating by the high degree of self-censorship among liberal media elites. Writing earlier this week at the Huffington Post, Harris (an equal opportunity critic of all religion) recounts how the Washington Post refused to run an article he wrote on the “Fitna” movie that the paper deemed “too critical” of Islam. Such behavior originates in not just the usual double-standard westernized religion faces but in a very real fear among left elites that criticizing Islam is a physically dangerous endeavor. Unfortunately, as Harris writes, this behavior just exacerbates the problem: …..In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of the very essay you are now reading was originally commissioned by the opinion page of Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam. Please note, this essay was destined for the opinion page of the paper, which had solicited my response to the controversy over [Geert] Wilders’s film. The irony of its rejection seemed entirely lost on the Post, which responded to my subsequent expression of amazement by offering to pay me a “kill fee.” I declined. via: ZIP --- Related Articles at Infidels Are Cool:Critical of Islam vs. Critical of MormonsGood news in Iraq “should not be reported”The Bangladeshi Apostate That Islamists Cannot SilenceHonor Killing: Teen strangled by father for refusing hijab *update* teen dies from injuries

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