Christopher Hitchens talking in Australia

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Here's a great video of Christopher Hitchens, talking at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Australia:



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FBI's political correctness with regard to jihadist attack at Fort Hood

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Two days ago, The Wallstreet Journal published an article about the FBI's political correctness with regard to army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, the radical Muslim who murdered and wounded fellow-soldiers at Fort Hood. Here's a quote:

For the FBI, religion remains a much too sensitive subject, much more so than the threatening ideologies of yesteryear. Imagine if Maj. Hasan had been an officer during the Cold War, regularly expressing his sympathy for the Soviet Union and American criminality against the working man. Imagine him writing to a KGB front organization espousing socialist solidarity. The major would have been surrounded by counterintelligence officers.

Christopher Hitchens' latest column at Slate is also worth reading.

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Christopher Hitchens talking about the United Nations and blasphemy laws

The following video is from February this year, and therefore "old news". However, it is a very important video, about Muslim countries using the United Nations to ban any criticism of Islam. After an introduction on the topic, CNN's Lou Dobbs interviews Christopher Hitchens.



Further reading:
UN anti-blasphemy measures have sinister goals, observers say
Just say no to blasphemy laws

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'Former Muslims United' gives ex-Muslims a voice in the United States

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Recently, The Washington Times published an interesting article about Former Muslims United, a new organization of ex-Muslims in the United States. Ibn Warraq is one of the founders of the organization:

"There is a tendency to downplay the dangers of Shariah law and thecreeping Islamization of the West," said the Pakistani-born author Ibn Warraq,author of the 2003 book "Leaving Islam.""The left tends to be very critical of Christianity but not of Islam," headded. "Islam gets away with it."

Nonie Darwish, another founder of Former Muslims United, is quoted as follows:

No other religion on earth demands the death of those who leave it - except the mafia. And at least you choose to enter the mafia. But you are born into Islam.

I recommend to read the whole article, and visit de website of Former Muslims United.

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