As part of her national tour, on October 5, 2011, author, speaker, human rights activist, and blogger Nonie Darwish spoke at the George Mason University (GMU) Law School concerning human rights in the Muslim world and the problems stemming from the Muslim world’s use of Islamic law, often called “Sharia.” Ms. Darwish is descended...
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Archive for October, 2011
Seeing Sharia From the Inside: Nonie Darwish at George Mason University
The Ecstasy And The Agony
How does one measure a heavy heart? Is there an instrument that can calibrate the considerable weight of the ambivalence that I am feeling today? I am spending the holiday of Sukkoth here in Israel, with my beautiful children, Rachel and Jeremy, who have just married, and who have recently made aliyah. My son-in-law,...
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Money Well Spent?
Last Sunday, as Coptic Christians assembled peacefully in Maspero, Egypt to protest the burning of a Coptic church. The army responded by opening fire on protesters and deliberately driving armored vehicles into the crowd. Video (Warning: graphic), shows military vehicles plowing into the crowds, actively attempting to run down protestors at high speeds. According...
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Is This a Two State Solution — or a “Final Solution?”
By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler The Palestinian UN statehood bid — statehood without negotiations — which is now before the Security Council, is just the latest step in a never-ceasing effort by the Palestinian leadership to erase the State of Israel. This is the Two State Solution on the way to Hitler’s “Final...
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