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In the wake of the horrific attack at the Fort Hood military base in Texas earlier this month, and the mounting evidence that the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was motivated by Islamist beliefs, the media has turned to Middle East studies "experts" for enlightenment. Instead, what the media, and, by extension, the American public, has received is the moral relativism and obfuscation that too often meets any effort to address Islamism or jihadism in an intellectually honest manner.
Cinnamon Stillwell, “Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists,” Campus Watch, November 15, 2009
Twenty years ago on “Saturday Night Live,” a sketch set in 1947 Hollywood was aired featuring Jon Lovitz as a hardboiled movie-studio chief and the late Phil Hartman as a vain actor. It went something like this:
LOVITZ: I’m lettin ya go, Johnny.
HARTMAN: Tell it to me straight, Harry.
LOVITZ: You’re washed up, I tell ya, you’re through.
HARTMAN: I can take it, Harry, you just lay it on me.
LOVITZ: You stink, Johnny, you’re the worst actor on the lot, you’ll never work in this town again!
HARTMAN: Don’t leave me hangin’ by a thread, I gotta know where I stand!
Today, for about the 300th time in the past three weeks, Iran has let the world know in no uncertain terms that it is not going to assent to the cockamamie scheme dreamed up by some UN dupe to ship its weapons-grade uranium out of the country in exchange for uranium that can be used for peaceful purposes — a plan then sold to the Obama administration, which scarfed it up like the band instruments peddled to the good people of River City by the conman Harold Hill in The Music Man. And for about the 300th time, the media are reporting the fact breathlessly, as though the 299 other times the Iranians have made it clear they are keeping their uranium for their would-be bomb never happened. . . .
By the time, this farce is over, there is sure to be a conversation that goes something like this:
AHMADINEJAD: I tell ya, Barack, there’s no deal.
OBAMA: Give it to me straight, Mahmoud.
AHMADINEJAD: It’s finished, ya get me? It’s through.
OBAMA: Don’t beat around the bush, Mr. President.
AHMADINEJAD: We’re building a bomb, Obama! We’re building a bomb and if you don’t strike our facilities and destroy them we are going to nuclearize the Middle East!
OBAMA: I can take it, Mahmoud! Say what you gotta say!
John Podhoretz, “The Saturday Night Live Iran Sketch,” Commentary Contentions, November 18, 2009
Sometimes it seems as if there's an evil mastermind out there determined to make Jewish tradition, observance and ritual seem repellent, retrograde, even ridiculous to as many unaffiliated and secular Jews as possible while making even the traditionally observant cringe with embarrassment.
What better way to heighten alienation from all things Jewish than to rebrand Judaism as the sole province of a scowling ultra-Orthodox minority - and to do so in Jerusalem before the entire world. Last Shabbat, hundreds of "fervently Orthodox Jews" spent the afternoon rioting outside the Intel computer chip fabrication plant in Jerusalem, "desecrating the Sabbath in order to save it."
Habib of Sharjah is barely seven months old and wears a Swarovski crystal-encrusted babygro with the logo “VIB — Very Important Baby.” His pacifier has his name inscribed on it and so has his bib. His cousin, Sara, who turns one on December 1, wears gold and diamond trinkets, a pink tutu made from yards of frothy tulle, and gem-studded hairclips. Her lavish outfit comes with an equally extravagant price tag.
Designer dresses, hip hats and fabulous footwear, you could be mistaken for thinking you were on the front row at a fashion show. But not quite. This is the world of today’s über cool toddlers, where the onesie is designer-made and posh tots and their haute mamas fuss about everything that’s chic and oh-so-hip, darling.
Raziqueh Hussain, “Bling time for babies!” Khaleej Times, November 20, 2009
Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned Thursday ahead of next month’s Copenhagen environment summit.
Some of the most feared effects include depletion of agricultural land, spread of disease and endangerment of many plant and animal species, the 2009 Report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development said.
Bassem Mroue, “Global warming to have heavy impact on Arab states,” The Jordan Times, November 20, 2009
Representatives of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany met today to discuss the fact that Iran is making fools out of them. But the results of this meeting will give no comfort to a world worried about Tehran’s march toward nuclear capability. According to the Associated Press, the West is “disappointed” about Iran’s decision to renege on a UN-brokered deal that could have defused the crisis. But despite the clear signals from the rogue Islamist regime that it has absolutely no interest in re-negotiating the pact even under more terms still more favorable to them, “no new sanctions were discussed during the meeting, according to an EU source.”
Jonathan Tobin, “Big Six Meeting on Iran Produces Less than Nothing,” Commentary Contentions, November 20, 2009
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