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Q: What does Islam do to the liberal psyche? A: Confuses it. The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals. They’ve convinced themselves that the best way to do that in general is to defend the cultures that are non-white. But what they forget, and what they’re being confronted with, is that non-white cultures contain misogynistic, collectivist, tribal, gay-unfriendly and female-hostile traditions. And so they’re confused: on the one...

Back in February when the Taliban was allowed to govern Swat Pakistan by Sharia law they were approximately 100 miles away from Islamabad the capital of Pakistan. Since then they have been emboldened by this act of appeasement and they have been heading straight to the heart of Pakistan.

4 December 2006 | Source:B92, Beta ATHENS -- Greece and Italy will in the next European Council meeting jointly support Serbia in order to avoid the country’s isolation. This was announced after the meeting between the prime ministers of Greece and Italy Kostas Karamanlis and Romano Prodi in Athens today. ”We share a common concern for the current Kosovo situation, that could cause tensions in the relations with Serbia”, Prodi said after the meeting. Prodi announced that he had written a letter to his European partners to strengthen their political and economic relations with Serbia because “it is part of...

Those of us who enjoy political freedom often take it for granted, considering it a sort of natural resource that can be simply handed over to those peoples who lack it. But such freedom had to be invented in a particular time and place, and then tended, nurtured, and argued, fought and died for. In order to flourish, political freedom demands certain kinds of values, certain ways of looking at the world and regarding human beings, that have not existed in all times at all places, and so must be borrowed, learned, practiced, and reinforced. For though the desire for...

Saudi-funded school in Germany 'linked to terrorist attacks' By Kate Connolly in Bonn (Filed: 24/10/2003) Explosives and a testament like those written by suicide bombers have been found at the home of a man linked to a Saudi-funded school, German secret service sources said yesterday, intensifying pressure for the institution to be closed. The King Fahd Academy in Bonn was set up eight years ago with £10 million from the Saudi royal family, and was hailed as a "cultural bridge between Germany and the Arab world". Now it is alleged to be a magnet for Islamic fundamentalists. A spokesman for...