While many in the West bemoaned the trade of Gilad Shalit for 1000 Palestinian prisoners, part of the deal apparently involved a future player to be named later. That player was the mastermind behind Shalit’s capture – Zuhair al-Qaissi. Via the Telegraph: Zuhair al-Qaissi, the commander of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees […]
Archive | March 12, 2012
NYPD’s Muslim Surveillance shining spotlight on New Jersey Governor
When it came to light recently that the NYPD had been conducting surveillance on Muslim groups, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was one of the program’s most vocal critics. In light of some questionable moves by Christie in the past, perhaps he would have been better served to have taken a pass on this controversy. […]
Stockholm Syndrome, Masochism, or Muslim Sisterhood in Tunisia?
Try as I might, I can only come up with three possible for scenarios for why the women in Tunisia are clamoring to be put into the subservient chains of Sharia law. First, this completely illogical development, via the AFP: Hundreds of Muslim women gathered near Tunis Saturday to call for the return of the […]
Video: University of Washington professor of African Studies on Kony 2012
Yesterday, we posted Sam Childers’ video response to the viral video, Kony 2012. He said that while getting Kony is a good thing, Omar al-Bashir in Northern Sudan is the much bigger problem. Childers has credibility because his boots have been on the ground over there, on and off, for fourteen years. Now enter University […]
Egypt Threatening to Reject U.S. Aid
Already reeling from the after effects of Mubarak’s removal, Egypt’s parliament appears ready to cut off its nose to spite its face. To say the Egyptian economy is in a shambles would be an understatement. Nonetheless, their apparently threatening to end more than $1 Billion in aid from the United States. Via the AP: Egypt’s […]