The West Is Choked by Fear of Radical Islam
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The West Is Choked by Fear of Radical Islam
Henryk Broder, Der Spiegel
Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic.An Editorial by Henryk M. BroderA Somalian man broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard on Friday armed with an ax and a knife. He is accused of the attempted murder of the Danish cartoonist.The attack on illustrator Kurt Westergaard wasn't the first attempt to carry out a deadly fatwa. When Muslims tried to murder Salman Rushdie 20 years ago, the protests among intellectuals were loud. Today, though, Western writers and thinkers would rather take cover than defend basic rights.In 1988, Salman Rushdie's novel…
Iran’s Regime & Opposition Brace for Another Round
Robin Wright, Time
Mir-Hossein Mousavi speaks to supporters at a campaign event in southern Tehran, May 30, 2009Faced with escalating turmoil, Iran's newly militarized regime now appears to be turning to the Tiananmen model to ensure its survival. The theocracy has signaled over the past week that it will exercise extraordinary military and judicial powers against opposition leaders, dissidents, street protesters and even sympathizers to end the growing turmoil. The regime's most urgent goal is to prevent opposition activists from turning next month's 11-day celebration marking the Shah's…
Decline is Relative
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Here in the United States, we spent New Year's weekend bidding good riddance to the awful, awful aughties "” a miserable decade of bubbles and busts, rising health care bills and soaring deficits, domestic terror attacks and overseas quagmires. The columnist's blog on politics and culture. Elsewhere, though, the decade's turn was probably flavored by nostalgia. For much of the world, the last 10 years was a period to savor "” an era of impressive economic growth, ever-higher life expectancy, relative peace and steady progress against…
Prolonging the Recession
Becker, Davis, & Murphy, Wall Street Journal
In terms of U.S. output contractions, the so-called Great Recession was not much more severe than the recessions in 1973-75 and 1981-82. Yet recovery from the latest recession has started out much more slowly. For example, real GDP expanded by 7.7% in 1983 after unemployment peaked at 10.8% in December 1982, whereas GDP grew at an unimpressive annual rate of 2.2% in the third quarter of 2009. Although the fourth quarter is likely to show better numbers"”probably much better"”there are no signs of an explosive take off from the recession. We believe two…
Obama’s Can’t-Do Style
Robert Lieber, Los Angeles Times
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