Fascinating debate about the MSM's power or lack thereof over the outcome of the revolution on the streets of Cairo....

"Since the brutal repression of nationwide dissent following the 2009 elections, authorities are now increasing their crackdown on Kurds.

"Can Richard Goldstone's tarnished reputation be rehabilitated without him acknowledging that the evidence, including new information, proves he was wrong? There is a politically motivated effort underway to rehabilitate the tarnished reputation of Richard Goldstone.

'Christians have been living in the Middle East seven decades prior to the arrival of Islam, and for 14 other decades as part of, or under, the law of Islam. Never has the situation of Christians reached such a difficult, unstable situation as it has in the last two years.

"More than 100 people have died and hundreds have been wounded since Tuesday in bomb attacks that bear the hallmarks of Sunni Arab insurgents

"Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked four non-Muslim villages in central Nigeria on January 10 and 11, killing 18 and burning down a church and over a dozen houses. Soldiers reportedly collaborated in the attack.

"Just moments after the new year began, a bomb outside a church in Alexandria killed 21 Coptic Christians. A week later, a Pakistani governor was murdered for standing by a Christian convict. The two cases dramatically illustrate the worsening plight of Christians in the Orient.

"The massacre of 21 Copts at a New Year's Eve mass has been called 'a watershed moment'.

Friends of Israel have long fumed over what they felt was the human rights community's disproportionate and unfair criticism of the Jewish state: Major rights organizations typically portray Israel as among the cruelest of nations, while this planet's actual dictatorships and …

"Nine alleged terrorists plotted a Christmas bombing campaign targeting sites that included the London Stock Exchange and Big Ben, a court heard.

Italy's La Repubblica has a report on the phenomenon of widespread slavery in Mauritania.

"Around a third of young British Muslims favour killing in the name of Islam, according to a survey revealed by the WikiLeaks' publication of U.S. diplomatic cables.

"Iran has cut the annual budget it provides Hizbullah by over 40 percent, stirring an unprecedented crisis within the Lebanese Shi'ite guerrilla organization.

"A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them ."

"While American officials have publicly been relatively upbeat about their progress in disrupting terrorist financing, the internal State Department cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations, offer a more pessimistic account, with blunt assess …

"Intelligence officials say foreign fighters have been slipping back into Iraq in larger numbers recently and may have been behind some of the most devastating attacks this year, reviving a threat the U.S. military believed had been almost entirely eradicated.

"Britain's Islam Channel broke broadcasting regulations by condoning marital rape, encouraging violence against women, and promoting an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas line, the country's broadcast regulator Ofcom ruled Monday.

"The number of people killed in a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in north-west Pakistan has risen to 72, local officials say.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 13 (CDN) — Islamic organizations have mounted a campaign against the planned construction of Mother Teresa Catholic Church in West Java Province, where Christian leaders report 20 other churches have faced Muslim hostility since 2009.

"The Obama administration sought Friday to block a lawsuit over the scope of its targeted killing program for suspected terrorists, in a case that challenges the government to define the limits of its global battlefield against extremists.

President Obama will use next week's annual gather ing of world leaders at the United Nations to highlight a looming catastrophe in Sudan -- but not to actually prevent it. At least, not the way he's going.

(Seattle Weekly) — You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly.

Shhhhhhh, we're told. Don't protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don't burn a Koran. It'll imperil the troops. It'll inflame tensions. The "Muslim world" will "explode" if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

" Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement.

"Palestinian Authority security forces have vowed to arrest Hamas members and bring order to the West Bank, according to a Thursday report by London daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

It came as no surprise when I learned this morning that the mosque protests in New York City have assisted terrorists in their recruiting efforts.

On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated "Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations" (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S.

Excellent analysis, plus some very enlightening links.

"France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

"Senior Israeli Defense Forces officials have provided the following video about the "Flotilla Incident" that took place on May 31, 2010. It reveals the truth behind the event, which has been ignored by the international community and buried by the mainstream media.

"Psychological analysis of Palestinian suicide bombers who failed to blow themselves up indicate they have certain personality characteristics that make them more likely to be recruited to or to volunteer for suicide-bombing missions.

"The Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah said it was behind the attacks, telling Al Arabiyeh television in an email that it had carried them out in retaliation for Iran's execution in June of the group's leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.

"The Turkish charity that led the flotilla involved in a deadly Israeli raid has extensive connections with Turkey's political elite, and the group's efforts to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza received support at the top levels of the governing party, Turkish diplomats …

(Opinion):

""Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" cartoonist Molly Norris was placed on an execution hit list by Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki,

"He said the attack signified "increasing desperation" on the part of the Taliban, whose "space is being restricted by security forces". "Witnesses said the dead and injured included women and children.

In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we have assembled a distinguished panel to discuss the question: What psychological impulses and neuroses prevent people from objectively considering whether or not Islam is a religion of peace? In other words: Why the rigid disincl …

"It's getting worse and worse," Hood said. "All we get from the Police Department is, 'Stay in your house.' We will stay in our house, but we should haven't to."

The global jihad rages on.

She decided to attend some of the MSU's events that week and was exposed to their violent intimidation tactics at the conclusion of another Malik-Ali speech.

"One of the Jersey Jihadists was radicalized in his early teens and boasted about wanting to mutilate gays and blow up his school.

In a June 3, 2010 article in the daily Al-Watan, Kuwaiti journalist 'Abdallah Al-Hadlaq supported Israel's decision to stop the Gaza flotilla, saying that the outcome of the Israeli navy's operation was "in direct proportion to the violence" of the flotilla activists, and that th …

Suspected Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand after accusing him of spying for the government, a provincial official said Wednesday. Taliban militants have killed dozens of people accused of spying.

British troops risk being infected with HIV as Taliban fighters are hiding contaminated needles with their bombs. Heroin syringes as well as razor blades are being buried in the ground by insurgents in Afghanistan so that they prick bomb squad experts.

Pro-Israel highlights from Barack Obama's June 4th, 2008 speech to the AIPAC policy conference.

"Head of the Class At the Care Rehabilitation Center, jihadis are put through a 12-step program that includes psychological counseling, art therapy, sports and lessons in Islam.

"Militants staged coordinated attacks in this eastern city Friday on two mosques of a minority Muslim sect, taking hostages and killing at least 80 people.

Last night NewsReal Blog's Editor-in-Chief David Horowitz gave a talk at UC San Diego to counter the Muslim Students Association's Israeli Apartheid Week.

Excellent Resource. Lots of information about how many, many warning signs about the dangers of terrorism by Islamic extremists were ignored before the 911 attack. And, in light of the continuing efforts by Islamic extremists to commit acts of terrorism-- just as relevant today.

"NBC News has obtained a scathing report from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who says that most of the Defense Department's safeguards were "unclear" or "inadequate" to identify the threat and prevent the mass shooting that killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in December.

April is the cruelest month for the people of Armenia, who every year at this season have to suffer a continuing tragedy and a humiliation.

Suicide bombing has replaced the art of mediation and nonviolent dissent; it has taken firm root within intra-Muslim rivalries where suicide bombing has now graduated to a level where brother eliminates another brother in the name of Islam.

"The Argentinean prosecutor who ferreted out Iranian links to Argentina's largest terror attack warned Wednesday of Teheran's growing terror network in Latin America.

An organisation for young Muslims in Sweden has outraged the country's largest gay rights group by inviting an imam in favour of executing homosexuals to speak at its April conference

NYALA, Darfur — When Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in March, he responded by expelling 13 international aid agencies from Darfur and disbanding three other domestic relief groups.

"Freedom of speech is under physical and legal threat not only from terrorists but also at the UN.

"He said no when fighters from Somalia's notorious al Shabab militia came to recruit him. A month later, he was tied down in a stadium while his hand and foot were hacked off. The Star 's Michelle Shephard talks to the victims and butchers in the world's most failed state