From Newsday, whose headline temporizes a bit. The school does not merely offer Arabic, it is the Khalil Gibran International Academy, and will be built around Arabic language and culture lessons. Debbie Almontaser, who, according to Newsday, is “fluent in Arabic,” is the school’s designated principal. She says “I see students who are excited about […]

An update on this from Canada’s CBC: The town council in Hérouxville amended its provocative immigrant code of conduct Monday night to remove certain rules. Council adopted the changes, which include removing references to “no stoning of women in public” and “no female circumcision.” Councillors said the rules were open to misinterpretation by journalists who […]

Nutters with nukes unveil tomorrow’s news today: From A.P. U.N. says Iran plans nuclear development Iran expects to start installing thousands of centrifuges in an underground facility next month, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Friday. The installation would pave the way to large-scale uranium enrichment, a potential way of making nuclear […]

A 1938 alert from Der Spiegel: This essay is an excerpt of Henryk M. Broder’s book “Hurra, Wir Kapitulieren,” (“Hurray! We’re Capitulating”) published by Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag in 2006. The book spent a number of weeks atop the DER SPIEGEL bestseller list. The controversy over the 12 Muhammad cartoons that were published in the […]

Spreading democracy isn’t working out. From UPI The first problem was that the national elections, expected to unify the country behind a legitimate Iraqi government, did the opposite. Palestinians vote for Hamas, Afghans vote for sharia. Maybe someone should let our leaders in on a little secret: voting is only part of the equation.

More Mush from the Wimp. But as Kenneth W. Stein writes in the Middle East Quarterly, Carter was president. His critics were not. To support Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid‘s central theme that Israel is intransigent, Carter recasts Hamas as a moderate partner ready to negotiate with Israel. He launders its reputation both with careful word […]

If China capitulates first, there won’t be any bombs at the Olympics…perhaps. From the Sidney Morning Herald (whose headline gets the nod, but thanks to all who sent this in from various sources): China’s ruling Communist Party has banned images and mention of pigs in TV advertisements airing over the lunar new year to avoid […]

Dinesh D’Souza will have to get to work on a second edition of his book, perhaps titling it Fred Astaire, Doris Day and Bing Crosby’s Responsibility for 9/11. Some of the hit songs of 1948, the year Sayyid Qutb discovered American depravity: “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover” by Art Mooney “Buttons and Bows” […]

Wes Pruden on flying while Muslim. Our own holy men could respect their Muslim brothers, as well as their own countries, by showing tough love instead of platitudes of one part goo and one part mush. They could explain to their Muslim brothers why they can’t always practice their rituals as Islam is practiced in […]

Yes, I know. You have all seen this on Drudge. So did I. So did everyone who has internet access. But it is relevant and worth discussing. So from AFP, via Mr. Internet himself: Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to engage in “firm and humble” dialogue with Muslims, in an address to bishops from Germany, […]