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Not too many years ago, Americans had never heard of sensitivity training, and if a facilitator of it tried to convince them that they needed to be conditioned with it, he would have been told, very quickly and in no uncertain terms, to take a hike. Yet step by careful step, sensitivity training began to be stealthily inserted into our society. Today, Americans simply submit to it without much thought, let alone any protest. In a recent column entitled, “Pavlov’s Dogs versus the Spirit of Truth and Freedom,” I detailed how progressive (communist) homosexual operatives had successfully brainwashed a large...

AMSTERDAM, July 8 (Reuters) - Nearly half the citizens in the Netherlands expect the country to fall victim to an attack like Thursday's bombings in London, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by TNS NIPO for RTL television, found 97 percent of the population thought more terror attacks were likely somewhere and half said the Netherlands would be the next target in Europe. Nearly 90 percent believed an attack could not be prevented. Anxiety in the Netherlands -- which last month ordered three radical imams to leave the country after its intelligence service said they represented a security...

Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been threatened with death for writing the film "Submission" -- which is heavily critical of Islam and for which filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in November. She spoke with SPIEGEL about her life as a fugitive, how to fight radical Islam, and the need for legitimate intolerance. REUTERS Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "My life was turned upside down." SPIEGEL: Ms. Hirsi Ali, the trial of Theo van Gogh's murderers is about to begin. A Muslim fanatic stabbed the filmmaker to death in broad daylight last November, because, with your collaboration,...

TWO MEN are being put on trial by the military this week because they answered their consciences. Pablo Paredes and Kevin Benderman refused to accept the lies they were told about the U.S. war on Iraq. Refused to accept the racist dehumanization of the Iraqi people. Refused to participate in the violence of the most lethal military machine in the history of the world. Refused to go to war for oil and empire in Iraq. Paredes, a third class petty officer, refused to board his Navy ship bound for the Persian Gulf, bringing 3,000 Marines to the battlefield--to kill and...

Italy's Rai state TV is to become the latest broadcaster to show excerpts from murdered director Theo van Gogh's controversial film Submission. The Raidue channel will screen four to five minutes of the 11-minute film in its Thursday night news magazine. The film is critical of the treatment of women under Islam. Its screening on Dutch TV last year is thought to have led to Van Gogh's murder in November. Clips have since been shown by two Danish stations, sparking Muslim anger. Earlier this year, Submission was withdrawn from the Rotterdam Film Festival because of security fears. Last week, politicians...

Invitation to conservatives poets/writers:  I have a new section on my website called "Today's Feature," where I will be posting poetry (for starters), a new piece every day.  Some of my own work will appear there, but I also would like to highlight the work of other contributers.  Please check out my blog page to read up on how to submit. As I state there, my mission in this is to help conservatives take back the arts, so please feel free to send me anything that you think others might enjoy.  I will be fair in selecting the best and will respond to all...

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS -- Citing security concerns, organizers of the Rotterdam Film Festival called off Sunday's screening of a film by slain Dutch moviemaker Theo van Gogh that has outraged some Muslims.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands -- The 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam opens here tomorrow with 14 films vying for the top Tiger Awards and special attention given to new talent. Featured during the 10-day festival focusing on independent, creative and experimental filmmaking will be three films by Theo van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker murdered by a suspected Muslim extremist in November. Tight security is planned when his film Submission, which deals with Islam and the abuse of women, is aired. The film caused an uproar in the Muslim community when it was shown on Dutch TV in August. Not long afterward,...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch politician who went underground after the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh last year, returned to her office in parliament Tuesday amid tight security after 10 weeks on a U.S. Marine base in Maine. Hirsi Ali wrote the script for Van Gogh's short television film "Submission" the last of his work to be aired before Van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death on Nov. 2 which sharply criticized the treatment of women under Islam. Van Gogh was murdered on an Amsterdam street while cycling to work. An "Open Letter to...

Once again, Osama Bin Laden, hero to many in the Islamic world, has spoken. What did he say? Basically he said, "Do as I say or die." If Iraqis dare to vote for their own future, they will be considered "infidels" which in Muslim-speak means that they will become fair and legal targets. Not only will those voting be fair game but so will their children, wives, parents, and probably the family dog as well. This is the loving and kind nature of Islam. Do as you are told or die. Think of the numbers. If even 50 percent of...

small group of Muslims in the Netherlands is preparing a lawsuit to block a sequel to Submission, the movie scripted by a right-wing lawmaker and directed by a slain Dutch filmmaker, the group's lawyer said Thursday. Member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been in hiding since filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered on November 2 by an Islamic radical. A letter pinned to his chest with a knife threatened Hirsi Ali and vowed jihad against the "infidel enemies of Islam." Hirsi Ali, a member of the Liberal party known by its Dutch acronym VVD, announced plans for a follow-up...

Out of curiousity, as to what all the fuss about, I decided to follow the link in Ifilm to watch the film clip which got Vincent Van Gogh's great-grand-nephew Theo brutally murdered by a Dutch immigrant Moslem. I had heard Van Gogh's "Sumission" variously described in the News as provocative, inciting, and even pornographic--after all it got whole communities of "moderate" Moslems saying the film-maker "deserved it" after he was shot, stabbed and had his throat cut--with a note stabbed into his body. However in spite of such reactions, at risk to my eyes, I decided to see the film...

Printer-friendly format Dec. 4, 2004, 10:20PM Van Gogh slaying puts her in hiding Lawmaker who wrote the film's story vows to push for changeBy TOBY STERLINGAssociated Press AP Member of Dutch parliament for the Liberal Party, Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks during a session in parliament in The Hague, The Netherlands, in this April 6, 2004 file photo. Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali plans a new film criticizing Islamic culture, despite the murder of her collaborator, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and despite receiving death threats herself, a Dutch newspaper said. AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - She inspires both admiration and rage, and...

Dutch Muslims want to block critical film December 3, 2004 The Hague - A small group of Muslims in the Netherlands are preparing a lawsuit to block a sequel to Submission, the movie scripted by a right-wing lawmaker and directed by a slain Dutch filmmaker. Member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been in hiding since filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered on November 2 by an Islamic radical. A letter pinned to his chest with a knife threatened Hirsi Ali and vowed jihad, or holy war, against the "infidel enemies of Islam". Hirsi Ali, a member of the Liberal...

Muslims seek ban on 'Submission II' 2 December 2004 AMSTERDAM — Several Muslims in the Netherlands are seeking a court injunction to prevent MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali making a sequel to the short film "Submission". Lawyer Robert Moszkowicz said Tuesday that the group he represents also want Hirsi Ali banned from making hurtful remarks about Muslims and Islam. Moszkowicz noted Hirsi Ali recently described Islam as "deadly dangerous" without making a distinction between fundamentalist Islam and Islam in general. It is expected the case will be heard by a court in The Hague, but it is unclear when this will...

LONDON (IRNA) -- Former National Security Adviser to the Carter Administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski, suggested Saturday that the U.S. should finally come to terms with the takeover of the American Embassy in Iran after 25 years. It is time to start closing that chapter of "humiliation" that Americans felt so strongly about instead of remaining haunted by the memories, Brzezinski said. In an interview with the Financial Times, he believed that there must eventually be "some accommodation" and that the west may even have to learn to live with Iran as a nuclear power as it did with China and later...

I won't be intimidated for expressing my viewsPeople who object to her criticism of Islam should take her to court rather than take the law into their own hands, Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells Abi Daruvalla. Hirsi Ali has been moved to a safe house following new death threats and the publication of her private address on an Islamic website just four days after her controversial film 'Submission' was screened on Dutch TV. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was always irritated at the lack of freedom under Islam Somali-born Hirsi Ali, 34, is herself a former Muslim and an outspoken...

LOS ANGELES, April 2, 2004—Jody Eldred Productions today announced it has just completed filming and is in the final stages of production on an inspirational documentary called, “Changed Lives: Miracles of The Passion,” which will air nationwide Easter weekend. With rave reviews from Diane Sawyer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” this one-hour T.V. special was shot in High Definition and documents the true stories of people whose lives have been forever changed by Mel Gibson’s incredible motion picture “The Passion of The Christ.” “I knew instantly that people’s lives were going to be...

MARINA DEL REY, CA (PREWEB) March 18, 2004 -- Jody Eldred Productions, a television and film production company in Marina Del Rey, CA is in the final stages of preparing a nationwide television special to air this Easter called, "CHANGED LIVES: MIRACLES OF THE PASSION." The documentary is telling the stories of people forever changed as a result of seeing the film. These visual testimonies will give powerful witness to the life-altering power of Jesus Christ as presented through this incredible motion picture. SEEKING VIDEOTAPED STORY SUBMISSIONS As part of this documentary, the Jody Eldred Productions is asking people to...

QUITE A FEW people would probably rail against Laura Schlessinger, the radio pop psychologist known for her diatribes against abortion, working mothers, and gay rights, even if she said that you should be kind to animals and brush your teeth regularly. When "Dr. Laura" writes a book which pins most of the blame for modern marital problems on selfish, overly demanding women, that's bound to ruffle feathers.