Archive for May, 2009

Good news from the folks at SANE, who report that the Establishment Clause Lawsuit of Mr. Kevin Murray survived a dismissal challenge by US government lawyers recently. The lawsuit filed on Mr. Murray's behalf by David Yerushalmi and the Thomas More Law Center argues that AIG's Sharia Compliant financing is a violation of the 1st amendment's establishment clause, because AIG... »

An interesting article (h/t Jihad Watch) from the Wall Street Journal, which discusses how it's more than Opium money which keeps the Taliban financially solvent: U.S. officials recently concluded that the Afghan Taliban may receive as much money from foreign donors as it does from opium sales, potentially hindering the Obama administration's strategy to rehabilitate Afghanistan by stopping the country's drug... »

From the New York Times (h/t Carl in Jerusalem) comes this unfortunately unsurprising story of Hezbollah making preparations to insure that it can enjoy the fruits of any election victory in Lebanon, and that the EU and IMF will continue to send money once Lebanon becomes a de facto state sponsor of terrorism: The talks this month reflected concerns here about... »

From Jpost, (h/t Carl in Jerusalem): "I do not see any chance of establishing a viable Palestinian entity in Judea and Samaria and/or the Gaza Strip that could sustain itself economically," Ya'alon said. "The gap between Israel as a First-World country and a Palestinian Third-World country is a recipe for instability. I also don't see a chance to form a viable... »

"Abandoning existing assumptions is no easy matter. Students of world politics, like politicians, are prisoners of their paradigms, unwilling or unable to escape the state premise of state predominance and constantly tempted to cling to familiar assumptions about hierarchy, authority and sovereignty." ---James N. Rosenau, The Two Worlds of World Politics Like an abusive marriage which should have ended in divorce years... »

Four African-American Muslim converts were arrested by the FBI in a foiled plot to plant explosives at a synagogue and Jewish Community Center, and to bring down an airplane with a stinger missile (h/t Atlas Shrugs and Israpundit): James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within... »

Terrorism Expert, Walid Phares goes inside the mind of the Jihadis to lay out how Jihadist strategies have evolved Post-9/11 to today. It's hard to pick an excerpt, because Walid tends to pack alot of information into every sentence, but I've settled on this section, where he discusses a Taliban response to... »

"War is a continuation of politics by other means," - Carl von Clausewitz "...All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest," -Simon and Garfunkel, "The Boxer" In March of this year, the United Kingdom announced that it would reestablish ties with Hezbollah's "political wing," which it had only cut the year before. That... »

Legal Project Brooke Goldestein on the Litigation Jihad: The United Nations recently passed resolutions that would make "defaming" Islam a globally criminal act. The United Kingdom first refused entry to Geert Wilders, a sitting European Parliament member and Islamist critic, and now has issued a list banning 16 other individuals, which includes some banned solely for their exercise of free speech. "Faith... »

What can we learn about Iran's nuclear program from the items its trying to illegal acquire? That's the subject of a Wall Street Journal piece today discussing District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's prosecutions against Iranian Arms procurers. (h/t In From the Cold): Mr. Morgenthau's information is corroborated by a staff report for the Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Democrat John Kerry, which... »