Archive for June 13th, 2011

Anti-Semitic fascism is back - and it has a new flag

A Turkish concert meant to bridge the religious divide between Jews, Christians and Muslims was canceled at the last minute Thursday due to pressure from a Turkish ‘humanitarian’ NGO, according to a Channel 10 report.

Members of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief foundation (IHH) along with other Islamic organisations demanded that organisers cancel the “Three Religions” concert to be held in Istanbul, claiming that Israeli participation in the event was “unacceptable”.

“This [the call for cancellation of the concert] is an act of people and not the government,” Hussein Arutch told Channel 10, identifying himself as an IHH member who was aboard the Mavi Marmara Gaza-bound flotilla last year. Nine activists were killed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers when the ship attempted to breach a naval blockade on Gaza in May of last year. Read the rest of this entry »

Cultural relativism has become so ingrained in the West that few people can bring themselves to compare the relative merits or faults of Islam and other religions. In one of the clearest explanations of why all religions are not created equal, Sam Harris works to dispel the myth that Islam is a religion of peace corrupted by a few bad apples in ‘The Fundamentals of Islam’.