K-Swiss, Taliban at Yale, Prager, Ali Sina, and more

TheSolidSurfer.com's Washington correspondent "K-Swiss" checks in with a suggestion to link to a new column written by Israel lobbyist Morris "Morrie" Amitay. In the piece, Mr. Amitay explains that despite threats from Iran, Al-Qaeda, and Hamas, Israel and America have many reasons for optimism in the war on terror. For more information, visit Amitay's website, Washington PAC. Stay tuned also for a new political insider report from K-Swiss in the near future.

On a related note, William Kristol spells out what America must do to defeat the jihadist enemy.

Is Yale University insane? A former government ambassador for the Taliban, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, is a freshman at the school on a U.S. student visa. University officials have expressed their delight at having accepted a foreign student of his caliber. Apparently good grades and strong SAT scores are no longer enough; the true ticket to Yale admission is work experience with an evil regime that oppressed its people and sheltered terrorists. What's next - inviting the Iranian Mullahs as visiting professors?

Muslim apostate Ali Sina has written a highly insightful primer on fundamentalist Islamic society's Achilles' heel: its sense of shame. Sina's feelings toward his former faith are quite harsh and spare no wrath, but despite the unkind terms, his principal argument is both solid and revealingly eye-opening.

Dennis Prager on why the Left never blames Muslims for jihadist violence and instead always targets America and the West as causing the world's problems. A case in point: City Lights Books in San Francisco, which throughout its history has famously sold banned books in the name of free speech, refuses to carry a new work by Orianna Fallaci that criticizes Islam. Why? Because she's a "fascist" for claiming that Western civilization is superior, and City Lights won't carry books by "fascists." Typical of the far-left, they truly care about free speech only when it suits their political views.

Victor Davis Hanson has returned from a trip to Iraq and is wowed by America's stunning successes.

Blog of the Day: Meryl Yourish

Comments

[Verdant]

Hi Surfer,

I find it fascinating that the apologists on the left do not understand that the fascists are truly the Iranian regime and its retinue and many Sunni power brokers and religious leaders. These are the individuals who are at the head of the snake(s) that wish(es) to assimilate our way of life like the Star Trek Borg queen antagonist. I don't think those on the left have given much thought to what life would be like for American women, homosexuals, news reporters, and non-Shiite Muslims or even non-religious Shiites under a Iranian Islam oriented government. The bookseller you mentioned would be, for example, out of business or dead. I don't think the owner of City Lights would be out of business or dead if Fallaci was mayor of San Francisco...I imagine City Lights would be selling more books than ever in that scenario.

Dennis Prager's missive is on point. The left merely ascribes value to the weaker party in any conflict - right or wrong. Only aggression by the weak is condoned - the strong cannot go on the offensive without committing atrocities or human rights violations, etc. The stronger force is, under this structure, committed to fighting with one hand behind its back while being impaled and slashed repeatedly by the weak opponent in any concievable manner. This view is only strengthened when the stronger party is the United States or Israel, as the left is inherently self-loathing, so the view actually relieves the left's self guilt as a byproduct.

[Solid Surfer]

Totally agree. This actually prompted me to write a follow-up piece on the same subject, which I just posted.

[Richard]

Yale's accepting of a Taliban student is ridiculous. Left-wingers will be left-wingers.... not taking Oriana Fallaci's book shows that theyre more about ideology than free speech

[Verdant]

Hi Richard,

I agree. The odious smell of hypocracy emanates from the front pages of all the dailies and weeklies that refuse to publish the Danish cartoons. Thank goodness for the blogs and non-mainstream media like The Solid Surfer!