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The Challenge of Muslim Integration in Europe

Recent developments in Germany and Sweden are the latest catalysts for international focus on Muslim immigration to Europe. The socio-political storm currently preoccupying Germany‘s public consciousness following the publication of Germany Does Away with Itself, which posits several highly controversial theories regarding the plight of Muslim immigrants, joins the success of the radical right wing […]

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France Bans the Burqa

’The burqa is not welcome in France.”–  Nicolas Sarkozy French President Nicolas Sarkozy intention to rid France of facial coverings worn by Muslim women was realized on Tuesday when the French Senate voted to outlaw all such veils in public spaces. The vote is regarded as eliminating a threat to France’s secular values and another […]

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UN Resolution 194 & the Refugee Problem

Arab Leaders Falsely Point to UN Resolution 194 as Proof that Arab Refugees Have a “Right to Return” Resolution 194, adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1948, addressed a host of issues, but only one paragraph out of 15 dealt with refugees created by the conflict. Resolution 194 attempted to create the […]

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Geert Wilders Party Wins Advances in Dutch Election

June 9, 2009 Contributing Source: BrusselsJournal.com Article: Wilders Appeals to Indigenous Vote of Right and Left Alike RightSideNews.com following the elections in Europe reports: Dutch member of Parliament, Geert Wilders, who travels the world to champion free speech because Islamists threats attempt to deny him his right to free speech, saw his newly formed political party […]

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Geert Wilders: “Elites . . . Turn a Blind Eye To The Truth”

June 1, 2009 By: Robert Spencer JihadWatch.org Wilders: “Our elites…are so blinded by their own ideology that they turn a blind eye to the truth” Geert Wilders causes outrage in the Dutch Parliament by telling the truth about Western elites. “Wilders Causes Another Row. Pre-Captivity Stockholm Syndrome,” by Thomas Landen in the Brussels Journal, June […]

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Clinton Says Ideology ‘So Yesterday’ — Marxists Disagree

May 6, 2009 International News Analysis Today By Toby Westerman U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently declared that “…ideology…is so yesterday.” Several days after Clinton made her statement, the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, publically described himself as a “Marxist-Leninist” – a distinctly ideological stance. Morales is a close ally of President Hugo Chavez […]

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Somali Government Condemns Insurgent Moves to Annex Parts of Kenya

April 28, 2009 By Peter Clottey Washington, D.C Voice of America The new Somali government has sharply condemned threats of fresh attacks on neighboring Kenya by hard-line Islamic insurgent group al-Shabab. The group, which has refused to recognize President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s government threatened Monday to annex parts of northern Kenya and implement Islamic […]

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Geert Wilders’ Speech to Parliament

Geert Wilders                                Friday, September 19, 2008 Text of Geert Wilders’ Speech to Parliament by Baron Bodissey “I prefer to call them ‘colonists’. Muslim colonists. Because they have not come here to integrate, but to take over the lot, to make us submit.” Yesterday I posted about Dutch state television pulling the plug on Geert […]

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Russia Wants to Annex Half of Ukraine

Could Ukraine Become Russia’s Next Target? By Peter Fedynsky Moscow Voice of America 15 August 2008 The former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine are allies engaged in similar attempts to establish democratic rule, to join NATO and realign themselves with the West, much to the displeasure of Russia.

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STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Preemption Strike Plan

July 25, 2008 By Hans M. Kristensen  FAS The U.S. military has canceled a controversial war plan designed to strike adversaries promptly – even preemptively – with conventional and nuclear weapons. The strike plan was known as Concept Plan (CONPLAN) 8022 and first entered into effect in the summer of 2004 to provide the president […]

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The Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser Exchange

July 21, 2008   Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)    Two years after the second Lebanon war the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were exchanged for five Lebanese prisoners, including the terrorist murderer Samir Kuntar, and 199 terrorist remains. Hezbollah exploited the exchange to produce a […]

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The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007-2008

June 18, 2008 INSS Tel Aviv Preface of from the Institute for National Security Studies, 2008 by Heller, Mark A., ed. (Full PDF report linked below) Veteran observers of the Middle East scene are understandably prone to skepticism about the prospects of any fundamental transformation in regional realities. After all, the sense of dynamism and […]