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January 21, 2009Wilders, Redux Geert Wilders, MP in the Netherlands, has been charged with hate speech in his short film Fitna by the Dutch Court. Fitna is a compilation of quotes from the Koran with accompanying visuals. The film can be seen on Robert Spencer's JihadWatch web site. This is an egregious attack on the rights of a citizen to freedom of speech by a "free"...

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January 14, 2009We Don't Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning I went to an "Israel Solidarity Gathering for Peace" at a local synagogue. The title says it all. This was not a rally, but a gathering. (No, we do not want to get anybody fired up or pumped up.) This was to be a quiet gathering of intelligent, prosperous, and respectful people. From the look in the room there...

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January 9, 2009Is It an Oreo Without the White Filling?A reader asked this question:A rabbi who was in a forum in Indonesia with an imam was impressed by some fascinating articles on the "LibForAll Foundation" website. It preaches a very tolerant and humanistic form of Islam. Do you think that a Hindu-influenced "indigenous" Islam of Indonesia is a kinder, gentler Islam than the...