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May: What went wrong in Pakistan
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How the first modern Islamic state became an Islamist dystopia Pakistan was meant to be a model, an example for other nations to emulate. It was founded after World War II, as the sun was setting on the British Empire and India was preparing for independence. India’s Muslims, though glad to see the end of…
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May: Throwing Israel to the UN’s wolves
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Obama encourages Israel’s enemies, caliphate-builders among them Palestinian Islamic Jihad is, as its name suggests, an organization committed to jihad – against Israel most urgently, though not exclusively. So when the U.N. Security Council on Dec. 23 passed a resolution condemning Israel, PIJ spokesman Dawood Shihab was pleased. He called it a “victory.” He wasn’t wrong.…
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May: The war against history
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Islamists destroy the past to shape the future “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell in 1984, his classic novel. Today, various groups of Islamists – which we can define as…
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May: Coming to America
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Who should we take in, how many can we integrate and who decides? Millions of people want to come to America. Actually, it’s tens of millions or perhaps hundreds of millions. Some Americans believe our borders should be open – that everyone has a “right” to live in the United States. That seems to me both…
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May: President Obama’s last to-do list
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Some goals he won’t achieve, other goals it would be better if he doesn’t achieve Barack Obama is now in his final days as president but, as he made clear on his visit to Asia last week, there are goals he still hopes to achieve before leaving office. Closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay…
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May: How the world has changed since 9/11
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The divide between the multiculturalists and the medievalists continues to widen The 15th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 should be a time for mourning, commemoration, reflection – and strategic planning. But many people prefer to avoid thinking too much about how life was interrupted on that sunshiny Tuesday morning: mothers and fathers…
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May: Curb your socialism
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Moderate Democrats should not let Bernie Sanders pull their party to the left Groucho Marx famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. Bernie Sanders last week turned that on its head, saying he wouldn’t remain a member of any party that wouldn’t have him as its leader. Sanders…
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Coloradans deliver icons to families of martyred Christians in Egypt
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A delegation from Colorado traveled more than 14,000 miles earlier this month to meet with families of the Egyptian Coptic Christians beheaded last year by militants aligned with ISIS. They made the trip to honor the families’ loss and in hopes of spreading the word about what one calls the “ongoing holocaust of Christianity in the…
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May: Terrorism and economic warfare
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It’s a one-two punch meant to bring about a Middle East without Jews Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers – pretty much anything you can imagine and quite a bit that you probably cannot.…
