Sudan Women Lashed For Wearing Trousers

Jul 13, 2009 - Several Sudanese women have been flogged as a punishment for dressing "indecently", according to a local journalist who was arrested with them. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who says she is facing 40 lashes, said she and 12 other women wearing trousers were arrested in a restaurant in the capital, Khartoum. She told the BBC several of the women had pleaded guilty to the charges and had 10 lashes immediately. - 8 Comments

Why Islamic Law Is The Antithesis of Equal Justice

Nov 14, 2009 - If there is one thing that is innate to the functioning of a democratic society, it is that every person is legally equal under the law. It is also why Islamic Law or Sharia, is incompatible with a democratic society, because Islamic law presumes the inequality of everyone who is not a Muslim male as a given. There can be no middle ground of compromise between Islamic law and civil law, because Sharia is not legal, it is religious. - 8 Comments

Can't Teach the 10 Commandments in School - But OK to Teach 5 Pillars of Islam?

Nov 14, 2009 - Written by JihadWatch.org SATURDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2009 An Ongoing problem - Do you know what they are teaching YOUR children? "California schools are pushing an unbalanced religious agenda that favors Islam and minimizes Christianity and Judaism," Accuracy in Academia warns in its latest Campus Report. Christianity isn't given equal time, either. - 9 Comments

A Sudden Exit Driven By An 'Irrational' War

Oct 30, 2009 - A former Marine captain who became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan says staying in the country is not in America's interest. "The losses of our soldiers do not merit anything that comes in line with our strategic interests or values," Matthew Hoh, who signed on as a foreign service official in Afghanistan after fighting in Iraq, tells NPR's Melissa Block. Hoh resigned last month after spending five working months in Afghanistan. - 1 Comment

Obama’s Moral-Leadership Balloon Crashes

Oct 20, 2009 - Obama’s Moral-Leadership Balloon Crashes Realpolitik and misplaced faith in diplomacy keeps trumping human rights. By Mona Charen The world thinks better of the United States, we are told, because Barack Obama is in the White House. Maybe the world is wrong. - 0 Comments

From The UK - The demise of the dollar

Oct 06, 2009 - The demise of the dollar In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading By Robert Fisk In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar. Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars. The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years. - 7 Comments

White House Responds to all the Whining About Czars

Sep 16, 2009 - Last week, when the President addressed the Joint Session of Congress in a speech on health reform, he referred to some of the untruths – okay, lies – that have been spread about the plan and sent a clear message to those who seek to undermine his agenda and his presidency with these tactics: "We will call you out." So consider this one of those calls. Over the past several weeks, we've seen with increasing frequency and volume issues raised around the use of "czars" by this Administration. - 12 Comments

Ignoring a Law on Foreign Relations

Sep 16, 2009 - By CHARLIE SAVAGE (NYT) Published: September 15, 2009 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has declared that President Obama can disregard a law forbidding State Department officials from attending United Nations meetings led by representatives of nations considered to be sponsors of terrorism. Based on that decision, which echoes Bush administration policy, the Obama administration sent State Department officials to the board meetings of the United Nations’ Development Program and Population Fund in late spring and this month, a department spokesman said. The bodies are presided over by Iran, which is on the department’s terror list, along with Cuba, Sudan and Syria. - 4 Comments

Obama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls

Sep 05, 2009 - Obama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the PollsHe’ll chair a Security Council meeting — and pander to rogue states.By Anne Bayefsky Looking for a quick and easy boost in the polls, President Obama has decided to go to the one place where merit bears no relationship to adulation: the United Nations. On September 24, the president will take the unprecedented step of presiding over a meeting of the UN Security Council.No American president has ever attempted to acquire the image of King of the Universe by officiating at a meeting of the UN’s highest body. But Obama apparently believes that being flanked by council-member heads of state like Col. - 1 Comment