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Archive for November, 2006
The Sanity Squad: A Muslim Europe and a Surrendered Iraq
Between Iraq and the hard place of a Europe with a burgeoning Muslim population, The Sanity Squad considers the future of a continent and the future of a Muslim Democracy.
MINITER MAXIMUS – Now Blogging at PajamasXpress
Richard Miniter – Pajamas Medias’ Washington DC Editor and author of Shadow War (among other bestsellers) – is now doing the PajamasXpress blog thing. Richard’s latest post: Flying Imams Part One. With a title like that we’re sure you’ll want to check in on (and bookmark) RichardMiniter.com for the latest in Inside the Beltway dope.
Richard joins our quartet of Bill Bradley, Victor Davis Hanson, Claudia Rosett and Ron Rosenbaum – with more surprises to come.
EN GARDE! Belien vs. Peters on the Fate of Europe’s Muslims, Round 2
Paul Belien, editor of The Brussels Journal, sharply criticized a column by Ralph Peters published in the New York Post last week. Mr. Peters responded to Belien’s article with an extended comment here on Pajamas Media. Here Mr. Belien replies to Mr. Peters’ objections.
Tain’t Funny, Mein F√ºhrer:
PajamasXpress Blogger Ron Rosenbaum casts a very cold eye on the new “Hitler Comedy” being screened just for laughs in Germany. (Read it all HERE)
Kramerology 101: Of the N-Word and Smarm:
By PJM’s Media Correspondent Catherine Seipp
My sympathy for Michael Richards (a.k.a. Seinfeld’s “Kramer” who erupted in a racist tirade at two black hecklers last week at a LA comedy club), was quite limited to begin with. It shrank even further when Richards appeared on David Letterman …. (Read the rest HERE)
The Glenn and Helen Show: Orson Scott Card on Empire and Division in American Politics
Most people agree that political divisions have gotten worse in recent years. Orson Scott Card's new novel %%AMAZON=0765316110 Empire%% looks at whether and how those divisions might lead to an American civil war in the near future. It's a thriller novel, a la Tom Clancy, but it's also a cautionary tale. Glenn Reynolds and Helen Smith talk with Card about the novel, the political scene, and what Americans should be doing. Brought to you by Volvo Cars USA.
STAY OF DEPORTATION — EU COURT ORDERS RUSSIA TO HALT KAMALFAR ‘EXTRADITION:’
(Exclusive Pajamas Media Video:Translation by Iranian-American filmmaker Ardeshir Arian)
UPDATE: The Kamalfar Saga (finally) hits MSM with this lengthy segment run on CNN International, including interviews with the Kamalfar family and their attorney Olga Anisimova. -- LATER: The segment is now available at CNN.com: "Family lives in airport terminal" (free video) (Pajamas Media exclusive video of several days ago here. Letter from the European Court of Human Rights concerning Kamalfar's case here. The actions of this court were not mentioned in the CNN report.)
FLASH: In the dramatic case of an Iranian dissident woman and her family fighting extradition to the Islamic Republic of Iran ... Pajamas Media, as of 9:10 PST Wednesday, has been informed that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has just issued an order barring the deportation of Zahra Kamalfar and her children from Moscow for two weeks.
Stop Him Before He Reviews Again! – Roger L Simon begins his Oscar season with “The Queen”
Well, not completely, because he did stir up a little trouble a couple of weeks ago with his perhaps excessive praise of "Borat." But blogger/Academy member Simon is back with another year of "out of school" reviews of Oscar candidates, which he began at National Review Online and continued last year on Pajamas Media. THE QUEEN There are three winners in Stephen Frears and Peter Morgan's witty and affecting "The Queen." (What? He credits the screenwriter up with the director? Damn right, I do. Get used to it). They are Tony Blair, Queen Elizabeth and Scotland's Balmoral Castle. Those who have read the reviews will know what I mean about the first two, but those who have actually seen the film will understand what I mean about the third.
EASY PREY IN PARIS — “A jackpot, a Black and a Jew.”
In which a French policeman protects a Jewish fan of Israeli soccer team assaulted by Paris St. Germain hooligans. Score: 1 dead, 1 critically injured. National state of anti-Semitic denial continues in France unabated. PJM's Paris editor Nidra Poller's continuing coverage of events in France. 24 November 2006 The news broke with typical French fuzziness: a plainclothes policeman, who came to the rescue of an Israeli pursued by 150 enraged Paris St. Germain fans, fired into the crowd killing one assailant and critically wounding another. The incident occurred after the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team beat Paris St. Germain 4 to 2 at the Parc des Princes stadium near the bois de Boulogne. The first image that came to mind was punk jihadis--the kind who burn buses and smash policemen's heads, and may also be PSG fans--hot on the heels of an Israeli, breathing smoke and lusting for blood. And finally a policeman does the sensible thing, and shoots before getting his head bashed in. But now what? Won't the banlieue explode before midnight? This is the incident they all dreaded. Then the first details squeezed through the tight net that separates a radio broadcast from The Facts: in fact, the bad guys are
