What the Media Does Not Want You To Know Published in Hudson New York Translations of this item: French Spanish Western media coverage of the recent massacre of Coptic Christians in Cairo, Egypt—in which the military killed dozens of Christians and injured some 300—was, as discussed earlier, deplorable. It merely repeated the false propaganda of the complicit … [Read more...]
Top Muslim Declares All Christians ‘Infidels’
Published in Pajamas Media Translations of this item: Italian To what extent was Egypt's Maspero massacre, wherein the military literally mowed down Christian Copts protesting the ongoing destruction of their churches, a product of anti-Christian sentiment? A video of Egypt's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa (or Gom'a), which began circulating weeks before the … [Read more...]
Tunisian Elections and the Road to Caliphate
Published in Jihad Watch Tunisia, where the 2011 Arab uprisings began, remains an ominous model for where these uprisings will end. The nation's first round of elections are in, and, as expected, the Islamist party, al-Nahda, won by a landslide, gaining over 40% of the seats in the national constituent assembly. As usual, the mainstream media, interpreting events … [Read more...]
Obama, Gaddafi, and the World Ahead
by Roger Kimball PJ Media One of the most impressive questions to be posed by the death of Colonel Gaddafi was formulated by Raymond Ibrahim in a column for PJ Media: "Gaddafi Dead — So What?" Mr. Ibrahim goes on to anatomize what he describes (rightly, in my view) the "myopic view" of the so-called Arab Spring purveyed by the Western media. Naïveté, your moment has come. A … [Read more...]
Gaddafi Dead — So What?
Western Myopia and the 'Arab Spring' Published in Pajamas Media What a myopic view the Western media and its array of "experts" have concerning the so-called "Arab Spring" — a myopia that naturally metastasizes among the general public. Consider the Libyan crisis. As usual, the focus is entirely on the individual, on the tangible — the now dead Gaddafi — whom all the blame … [Read more...]