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You really should read this entire commentary by Charles Krauthammer reprimanding Barack Obama for a display of moral equivilance that is truly infantile. That’s not hyperbole either. For an American president to got to the heart of the Islamic world and say these things not only is silly but actually undermines the persecuted pro-democracy minority. [...]

Saudi Arabia, modern-day: A man finds his daughter exchanging messages with a male friend on Facebook and murders her. A young woman caught sitting in a car with a man who is not her relative gets gang-raped, is then sentenced to 90 lashes (or 200, depending on which news report you read) for having appeared [...]

Perhaps Chas Freeman should subscribe to MEMRI.org? A textbook for 8th grade students explains why Jews and Christians were cursed by Allah and turned into apes and pigs.Quoting Surat Al-Maida, Verse 60, the lesson explains that Jews and Christians have sinned by accepting polytheism and therefore incurred Allah’s wrath.To punish them, Allah has turned them [...]

Another brilliant Charles Krauthammer essay. Read the whole thing. Is it “new” to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn’t just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya interview, insisting on the need to “restore” the “same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim [...]

Charles Krauthammer: Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons. – Associated Press, Dec. 27 Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. Israel is so [...]