There is no living prominent American feminist who has a similar mix (the late Susan Moller Okin, one influence on MP Hirsi Ali, shared many of her views on multiculturalism and how it can reinforce oppression against women). Other than perhaps Norway’s Hege Storhaug, we can think of no European feminists here. (…) And given […]
Les mer»Time to wrap up: Artikkelen til Neil MacFarquhar gjorde inntrykk. Saudi-Arabia is a bad place. En utklekningsanstalt for terrorister og jihadister. To besøk denne uken gir anledning til å ta tempen på norske medier og opinionsdannere. Rummy Rumsfeld betraktes omtrent som Darth Vader. Med fascinasjon og avsky. Kristin Krohn Devold kunne passe sammen med USAs […]
Les mer»Syrian police killed two Islamists and arrested another in a clash with a cell that had planned terror acts in and around Damascus, the official news agency reported on Friday. The agency said a policeman was killed and another was injured in a shootout with the group near Damascus. It said the group is called […]
Les mer»Journalister tror de er profesjonelle, men i Rahila-saken vises personlige idiosynkrasier frem for all verden. For journalister må det være nesten som å gå naken. Men de er lykkelig uvitende om det. Det samme er redaksjonene. Man ser hvordan fristelsen til å kjøre sympati for ofrene flere ganger slår gjennom, som når den arresterte farens […]
Les mer»A Chinese and a Palestinian worker were killed in an attack by Palestinian militants Tuesday on the Jewish settlement Ganei Tal in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said. Hamas and Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility for the attack which hit the greenhouses of the settlement. Five other people were also wounded in the […]
Les mer»For the record: Gazprom har kjøpt seg opp til kontroll med Izvestija: Commentators immediately interpreted the deal as a further strengthening of government control of the media, which has seen many of its initial post-Soviet freedoms curtailed during President Vladimir Putin’s five years in power. Gazprom, which controls 20 percent of the world’s natural gas […]
Les mer»Over hele den muslimske/arabiske verden ser det ut til å pågå en krig mellom frihetslengtende krefter og undertrykkende. Det går ikke en dag uten at noen må ofre livet. Det spenner fra innflytelsesrike enkeltpersoner, som journalisten Samir Kassir i Libanon, eller Sheikh Mohammad Maashouq al-Khaznawi i Syria, til navnløse kvinner og menn i Sudan. Der […]
Les mer»«But either it (the euro) is reformed, and the central European Bank kick-starts growth by lowering interest rates and pursuing a more American-style monetary policy, or the euro will explode in mid-air.» Nicolas Dupont-Aignant, partifelle av Jacques Chirac
Les mer»Srebrenica; de sier serberne er i sjokk over videoen. De har hittil kunnet fortrenge anklagene som propaganda. Over halvparten mente før videoen at Srebrenica var bare tull. Ikke kom og si at det ikke er noe som heter kollektiv skyld! Videoen åpner typisk nok med at en prest velsigner morderne før de skal ut på […]
Les mer»The Iranian state television network IRIB has prohibited the presence of a reformist spokeswoman in a televised debate on the presidential elections, the news agency ISNA reported Monday. Elaheh Kulaie, the spokeswoman for reformist candidate Mostafa Moein, was not allowed to attend a debate with spokesmen for the other seven candidates. «Just because she is […]
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