She is doing Western-speak and particularly American-speak. This includes the concept of building agreement and defusing conflict by persuading your interlocutor that you have a lot in common. You've got terrorism! That sounds very effective...to somebody who doesn't know anything. They might expect those Arab students to rise from their seats and say, ‘Hey, those Americans aren't bad at all!’ In fact, if they don't get The tables show for the first time the proportion of pupils who obtained the so-called new ‘English Baccalaureate’ at age 16. This is not a new examination but a handy way of grouping together the core subjects, without the mastery of which no child can be said to have the rudiments of education at age 16. These subjects are –as you might expect – English, Maths, a science, a foreign language and a humanity, at grade C or above. Dismally, fewer than one in six pupils managed to achieve this basic level. Cue a chorus of whingeing excuses... Aspiring jihadis need to improve their media skills, such as operating websites and developing their own video sites that resemble YouTube, to be more effective in their fight against the West, according to a new article circulating on a variety of Islamist Internet forums. Improved media, author Abu Sa’d al-‘Amili It remained unclear whether the man, who used a handgun, had singled out Christians... while the BBC similarly reported ...it is unclear whether the attack was sectarian. In fact, it was entirely clear. For the NYT and BBC left out one chilling detail reported here in the Egyptian paper Al Masry Alyoum: Security sources said the assailant had checked passengers for the green cross traditionally tattooed In Denmark, however, a campaigner for freedom of speech is actually to go on trial later this month for daring to bring this kind of thing to light. Lars Hedegaard is President of the... In a television broadcast filmed before students in Abu Dhabi, Mrs Clinton was asked why the 9/11 terror attacks, the work of a handful of men, had been allowed to colour American views of a whole people. ‘We have extremists in our country,’ she said. ‘A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country. We have the same kinds of problems, so rather than standing offThursday, 13th January 2011
Cultural and moral illiteracy
6:47pm
Here are two must-reads by Barry Rubin, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. The first is about the misuse of the alleged misuse of the term ‘blood libel’, and the second is about Hillary Clinton’s morally illiterate comparison between the deranged Arizona gunman and the jihadists who committed the 9/11 atrocities. Here’s a sample of the latter:
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We've got terrorism!
Let's get together and fight terrorism!Wednesday, 12th January 2011
Back to basics
10:11pm
The preposterous reaction of Britain’s education establishment to the annual school examination league tables published today shows – depressingly but all too predictably – where the core of the problem with the country’s failing education system is centred. In the educators.Psy-war against the west
5:42pm
One of the most effective weapons in the armoury of psychological warfare is that, by definition, the targeted victims don’t have a clue that they are being played for suckers. This article on Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism site is therefore valuable in shedding some light on the way in which the Islamists are using psychological warfare against the west – indeed, in my view it is a key strategy, and the one that has tied the west up in so many lethal knots. The article states:
...The jihad against Egypt's Copts
5:30pm
Throughout the Third World, the jihad against Christians is gaining ground in its attempt to drive them out. Nearly two weeks ago a Coptic church in Cairo was firebombed, leaving some 21 people dead. Yesterday, an Egyptian police officer opened fire on a train heading towards Cairo, killing one Christian and injuring five others. True to form in sanitising jihadi violence, the New York Times reported:
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The Danish witch-hunt against the truth-tellers
10:00am
Over the past week or so, Britain’s media have finally been forced to confront the fact that Muslim pimping gangs in the UK have been abducting, drugging, raping and abusing mainly white girls, along with Hindus and Sikhs, and further ‘grooming’ them for sex in a clear display of hostility towards ‘unbelievers’. Hitherto this phenomenon was not only kept from the public by a paralysed media class which refuses to confront Islamic outrages, but it appears that the police have often dragged their feet in pursuing such gangs as a result of the same politically correct paralysis. I wrote about this in the Mail yesterday.Monday, 10th January 2011
Motes and beams again: the mean-spirited vitriol of the left
11:24pm
I am rubbing my eyes in disbelief at the attempt to blame the Tea-Partiers and ‘the right’ for the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six others in Arizona by a mentally disturbed individual, Jared Lee Loughner. Even more outrageously, America’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has effectively equated this mentally deranged loner with the Islamists who committed the 9/11 atrocities:
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Thursday, 13 January 2011
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