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Inventing Moderate Islam
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Inventing Moderate Islam
It cant be done without confronting mainstream Islam and its sharia agenda.
Secularism can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society. The writer was not one of those sulfurous Islamophobes decried by CAIR and the professional Left. Quite the opposite: It was Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhoods spiritual guide and a favorite of the Saudi royal family. He made this assertion in his book, How the Imported Solutions Disastrously Affected Our Ummah, an excerpt of which was published by the Saudi Gazette just a couple of months ago.
This was Qaradawi the progressive Muslim intellectual, much loved by Georgetown Universitys burgeoning Islamic-studies programs. Like Harvard, Georgetown has been purchased into submission by tens of millions of Saudi petrodollars. In its resulting ardor to put Americans at ease about Islam, the university somehow manages to look beyond Qaradawis fatwas calling for the killing of American troops in Iraq and for suicide bombings in Israel. Qaradawi, they tell us, is a moderate. In fact, as Robert Spencer quips, if you were to say Islam and secularism cannot co-exist, John Esposito, Georgetowns apologist-in-chief, would call you an Islamophobe; but when Qaradawi says it, no problem according to Esposito, hes a reformist.
And hes not just any reformist. Another Qaradawi fan, Feisal Rauf, the similarly moderate imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, tells us Qaradawi is also the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
Rauf is undoubtedly right about that. So it is worth letting it sink in that this most influential of Islams voices, this promoter of the Islamic enclaves the Brotherhood is forging throughout the West, is convinced that Islamic societies can never accept secularism. After all, secularism is nothing less than the framework by which the West defends religious freedom but denies legal and political authority to religious creeds.
It is also worth understanding why Qaradawi says Islam and secularism cannot co-exist. The excerpt from his book continues:
As Islam is a comprehensive system of worship (Ibadah) and legislation (Shariah), the acceptance of secularism means abandonment of Shariah, a denial of the divine guidance and a rejection of Allahs injunctions. It is indeed a false claim that Shariah is not proper to the requirements of the present age. The acceptance of a legislation formulated by humans means a preference of the humans limited knowledge and experiences to the divine guidance: Say! Do you know better than Allah? (Quran, 2:140) For this reason, the call for secularism among Muslims is atheism and a rejection of Islam. Its acceptance as a basis for rule in place of Shariah is downright apostasy.
Apostasy is an explosive accusation. On another occasion, Sheikh Qaradawi explained that Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished. He further acknowledged that the consensus view of these jurists, including the principal schools of both Sunni and Shiite jurisprudence, is that apostates must be executed.
Qaradawis own view is more nuanced, as he explained to the Egyptian press in 2005. This, I suppose, is where his vaunted reformist streak comes in. For private apostasy, in which a Muslim makes a secret, personal decision to renounce tenets of Islam and quietly goes his separate way without causing a stir, the sheikh believes ostracism by the Islamic community is a sufficient penalty, with the understanding that Allah will condemn the apostate to eternal damnation at the time of his choosing. For public apostasy, however, Qaradawi stands with the overwhelming weight of Islamic authority: The punishment . . . is execution.
The sad fact, the fact no one wants to deal with but which the Ground Zero mosque debate has forced to the fore, is that Qaradawi is a moderate. So is Feisal Rauf, who endorses the Qaradawi position the mainstream Islamic position that sharia is a nonnegotiable requirement. Rauf wins the coveted moderate designation because he strains, at least when speaking for Western consumption, to paper over the incompatibility between sharia societies and Western societies.
Qaradawi and Rauf are moderates because weve abandoned reason. Our opinion elites are happy to paper over the gulf between reformist Islam and the reformist approval of mass-murder attacks. Thats why it matters not a whit to them that Imam Rauf refuses to renounce Hamas: If youre going to give a pass to Qaradawi, the guy who actively promotes Hamas terrorists, how can you complain about a guy who merely refuses to condemn the terrorists?
When we are rational, we have confidence in our own frame of reference. We judge what is moderate based on a detached, commonsense understanding of what moderate means. Were not rigging the outcome; we just want to know where we stand.
If we were in that objective frame of mind, we would easily see that a freedom culture requires separation of the spiritual from the secular. We would also see that sharia with dictates that contradict liberty and equality while sanctioning cruel punishments and holy war is not moderate. Consequently, no one who advocates sharia can be a moderate, no matter how well-meaning he may be, no matter how heartfelt may be his conviction that this is Gods will, and no matter how much higher on the food chain he may be than Osama bin Laden.
Instead, abandoning reason, we have deep-sixed our own frame of reference and substituted mainstream Islams. If that backward compass is to be our guide, then sure, Qaradawi and Rauf are moderates. But know this: When you capitulate to the authority and influence of Qaradawi and Rauf, you kill meaningful Islamic reform.
There is no moderate Islam in the mainstream of Muslim life, not in the doctrinal sense. There are millions of moderate Muslims who crave reform. Yet the fact that they seek real reform, rather than what Georgetown is content to call reform, means they are trying to invent something that does not currently exist.
Real reform can also be found in some Muslim sects. The Ahmadi, for example, hold some unorthodox views and reject violent jihad. Witness what happens: They are brutally persecuted by Muslims in Pakistan, as well as in Indonesia and other purported hubs of moderation.
Meanwhile, individual Muslim reformers are branded apostates, meaning not only that they are discredited, but that their lives are threatened as well. The signal to other Muslims is clear: Follow the reformers and experience the same fury. As Qaradawi put it in the 2005 interview, public apostates are the gravest danger to Islamic society; therefore, Muslims must snuff them out, lest their reforms spread like wildfire in a field of thorns.
Today, moderate Islam is an illusion. There is hardly a spark, much less a wildfire. Making moderation real will take more than wishing upon a star. It calls for a gut check, a willingness to face down not just al-Qaeda but the Qaradawis and their sharia campaign. It means saying: Not here.
Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.
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Re: Articulating our cause/strategy against Islamic Fascism
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Moderate muslim= One that hasn't finished taking his flying lessons/building the device.
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Stratfor: 911 and the 9 year war
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9/11 and the 9-Year War
September 8, 2010
By George Friedman
It has now been nine years since al Qaeda attacked the United States. It has been nine years in which the primary focus of the United States has been on the Islamic world. In addition to a massive investment in homeland security, the United States has engaged in two multi-year, multi-divisional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, inserted forces in other countries in smaller operations and conducted a global covert campaign against al Qaeda and other radical jihadist groups.
In order to understand the last nine years you must understand the first 24 hours of the war and recall your own feelings in those 24 hours. First, the attack was a shock, its audaciousness frightening. Second, we did not know what was coming next. The attack had destroyed the right to complacent assumptions. Were there other cells standing by in the United States? Did they have capabilities even more substantial than what they showed on Sept. 11? Could they be detected and stopped? Any American not frightened on Sept. 12 was not in touch with reality. Many who are now claiming that the United States overreacted are forgetting their own sense of panic. We are all calm and collected nine years after.
At the root of all of this was a profound lack of understanding of al Qaeda, particularly its capabilities and intentions. Since we did not know what was possible, our only prudent course was to prepare for the worst. That is what the Bush administration did. Nothing symbolized this more than the fear that al Qaeda had acquired nuclear weapons and that they would use them against the United States. The evidence was minimal, but the consequences would be overwhelming. Bush crafted a strategy based on the worst-case scenario.
Bush was the victim of a decade of failure in the intelligence community to understand what al Qaeda was and wasnt. I am not merely talking about the failure to predict the 9/11 attack. Regardless of assertions afterwards, the intelligence community provided only vague warnings that lacked the kind of specificity that makes for actionable intelligence. To a certain degree, this is understandable. Al Qaeda learned from Soviet, Saudi, Pakistani and American intelligence during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and knew how to launch attacks without tipping off the target. The greatest failure of American intelligence was not the lack of a clear warning about 9/11 but the lack, on Sept. 12, of a clear picture of al Qaedas global structure, capabilities, weaknesses and intentions. Without such information, implementing U.S. policy was like piloting an airplane with faulty instruments in a snowstorm at night.
The president had to do three things: First, he had to assure the public that he knew what he was doing. Second, he had to do something that appeared decisive. Third, he had to gear up an intelligence and security apparatus to tell him what the threats actually were and what he ought to do. American policy became ready, fire, aim.
In looking back at the past nine years, two conclusions can be drawn: There were no more large-scale attacks on the United States by militant Islamists, and the United States was left with the legacy of responses that took place in the first two years after 9/11. This legacy is no longer useful, if it ever was, to the primary mission of defeating al Qaeda, and it represents an effort that is retrospectively out of proportion to the threat.
If I had been told on Sept.12, 2001, that the attack the day before would be the last major attack for at least nine years, I would not have believed it. In looking at the complexity of the security and execution of the 9/11 attack, I would have assumed that an organization capable of acting once in such a way could act again even more effectively. My assumption was wrong. Al Qaeda did not have the resources to mount other operations, and the U.S. response, in many ways clumsy and misguided and in other ways clever and targeted, disrupted any preparations in which al Qaeda might have been engaged to conduct follow-on attacks.
Knowing that about al Qaeda in 2001 was impossible. Knowing which operations were helpful in the effort to block them was impossible, in the context of what Americans knew in the first years after the war began. Therefore, Washington wound up in the contradictory situation in which American military and covert operations surged while new attacks failed to materialize. This created a massive political problem. Rather than appearing to be the cause for the lack of attacks, U.S. military operations were perceived by many as being unnecessary or actually increasing the threat of attack. Even in hindsight, aligning U.S. actions with the apparent outcome is difficult and controversial. But still we know two things: It has been nine years since Sept. 11, 2001, and the war goes on.
What happened was that an act of terrorism was allowed to redefine U.S. grand strategy. The United States operates with a grand strategy derived from the British strategy in Europe maintaining the balance of power. For the United Kingdom, maintaining the balance of power in Europe protected any one power from emerging that could unite Europe and build a fleet to invade the United Kingdom or block its access to its empire. British strategy was to help create coalitions to block emerging hegemons such as Spain, France or Germany. Using overt and covert means, the United Kingdom aimed to ensure that no hegemonic power could emerge.
The Americans inherited that grand strategy from the British but elevated it to a global rather than regional level. Having blocked the Soviet Union from hegemony over Europe and Asia, the United States proceeded with a strategy whose goal, like that of the United Kingdom, was to nip potential regional hegemons in the bud. The U.S. war with Iraq in 1990-91 and the war with Serbia/Yugoslavia in 1999 were examples of this strategy. It involved coalition warfare, shifting Americas weight from side to side and using minimal force to disrupt the plans of regional aspirants to gain power. This U.S. strategy also was cloaked in the ideology of global liberalism and human rights.
The key to this strategy was its global nature. The emergence of a hegemonic contender that could challenge the United States globally, as the Soviet Union had done, was the worst-case scenario. Therefore, the containment of emerging powers wherever they might emerge was the centerpiece of American balance-of-power strategy.
The most significant effect of 9/11 was that it knocked the United States off its strategy. Rather than adapting its standing global strategy to better address the counterterrorism issue, the United States became obsessed with a single region, the area between the Mediterranean and the Hindu Kush. Within that region, the United States operated with a balance-of-power strategy. It played off all of the nations in the region against each other. It did the same with ethnic and religious groups throughout the region and particularly within Iraq and Afghanistan, the main theaters of the war. In both cases, the United States sought to take advantage of internal divisions, shifting its support in various directions to create a balance of power. That, in the end, was what the surge strategy was all about.
The American obsession with this region in the wake of 9/11 is understandable. Nine years later, with no clear end in sight, the question is whether this continued focus is strategically rational for the United States. Given the uncertainties of the first few years, obsession and uncertainty are understandable, but as a long-term U.S. strategy the long war that the U.S. Department of Defense is preparing for it leaves the rest of the world uncovered.
Consider that the Russians have used the American absorption in this region as a window of opportunity to work to reconstruct their geopolitical position. When Russia went to war with Georgia in 2008, an American ally, the United States did not have the forces with which to make a prudent intervention. Similarly, the Chinese have had a degree of freedom of action they could not have expected to enjoy prior to 9/11. The single most important result of 9/11 was that it shifted the United States from a global stance to a regional one, allowing other powers to take advantage of this focus to create significant potential challenges to the United States.
One can make the case, as I have, that whatever the origin of the Iraq war, remaining in Iraq to contain Iran is necessary. It is difficult to make a similar case for Afghanistan. Its strategic interest to the United States is minimal. The only justification for the war is that al Qaeda launched its attacks on the United States from Afghanistan. But that justification is no longer valid. Al Qaeda can launch attacks from Yemen or other countries. The fact that Afghanistan was the base from which the attacks were launched does not mean that al Qaeda depends on Afghanistan to launch attacks. And given that the apex leadership of al Qaeda has not launched attacks in a while, the question is whether al Qaeda is capable of launching such attacks any longer. In any case, managing al Qaeda today does not require nation building in Afghanistan.
But let me state a more radical thesis: The threat of terrorism cannot become the singular focus of the United States. Let me push it further: The United States cannot subordinate its grand strategy to simply fighting terrorism even if there will be occasional terrorist attacks on the United States. Three thousand people died in the 9/11 attack. That is a tragedy, but in a nation of over 300 million, 3,000 deaths cannot be permitted to define the totality of national strategy. Certainly, resources must be devoted to combating the threat and, to the extent possible, disrupting it. But it must also be recognized that terrorism cannot always be blocked, that terrorist attacks will occur and that the worlds only global power cannot be captive to this single threat.
The initial response was understandable and necessary. The United States must continue its intelligence gathering and covert operations against militant Islamists throughout the world. The intelligence failures of the 1990s must not be repeated. But waging a multi-divisional war in Afghanistan makes no strategic sense. The balance-of-power strategy must be used. Pakistan will intervene and discover the Russians and Iranians. The great game will continue. As for Iran, regional counters must be supported at limited cost to the United States. The United States should not be patrolling the far reaches of the region. It should be supporting a balance of power among the native powers of the region.
The United States is a global power and, as such, it must have a global view. It has interests and challenges beyond this region and certainly beyond Afghanistan. The issue there is not whether the United States can or cant win, however that is defined. The issue is whether it is worth the effort considering what is going on in the rest of the world. Gen. David Petraeus cast the war in terms of whether the United States can win it. Thats reasonable; hes the commander. But American strategy has to ask another question: What does the United States lose elsewhere while it focuses on the future of Kandahar?
The 9/11 attack shocked the United States and made counterterrorism the centerpiece of American foreign policy. That is too narrow a basis on which to base U.S. foreign policy. It is certainly an important strand of that policy, and it must be addressed, but it should be addressed through the regional balance of power. It is the good fortune of the United States that the Islamic world is torn by internal rivalries.
This is not dismissing the threat of terror. It is recognizing that the United States has done well in suppressing it over the past nine years but at a cost in other regions, a cost that cant be sustained indefinitely and a cost that could well result in challenges more threatening than a rising Islamist militancy. The United States must now settle into a long-term strategy of managing terrorism as best as it can while not neglecting the rest of its interests.
After nine years, the issue is not what to do in Afghanistan but how the global power can return to managing all of its global interests, along with the war on al Qaeda.
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WSJ: Stephens
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This is not an Islamic Revolution."
So opined Olivier Roy, arguably Europe's foremost authority on political Islam, in an essay published days after Hosni Mubarak was forced from power in February. "Look at those involved in the uprisings, and it is clear that we are dealing with a post-Islamist generation," he wrote. "This is not to say that the demonstrators are secular; but they are operating in a secular political space, and they do not see in Islam an ideology capable of creating a better world."
Mr. Roy wasn't alone in the sangfroid department. "I am not in the least bit worried about the Muslim Brotherhoods in Jordan or Egypt hijacking the future," confided New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, with the caveat that their secular opponents would need some time to organize. Added his colleague Nicholas Kristof in a dispatch from Cairo: "I agree that the Muslim Brotherhood would not be a good ruler of Egypt, but that point of view also seems to be shared by most Egyptians."
What reassurance. Nine months on, the Islamist Nahda party has swept to victory in Tunisia, the one Arab state in which secularist values were said to be irreversibly fixed. Libya's new interim leader, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, came to office promising "the Islamic religion as the core of our new government"; as a first order of business, he promises to revoke the Gadhafi regime's ban on polygamy since "the law is contrary to Shariah and must be stopped." Later this month, Islamist candidatessome of them Muslim Brothers, others even more religiously extremewill likely sweep Egypt's parliamentary elections.
It doesn't stop there. Hezbollah has effectively ruled Lebanon since it forced the collapse of a pro-Western government in January. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's Islamist prime minister, cruised to a third term in parliamentary elections in June. Hamas, winner in the last vote held by the Palestinian Authority in 2006, would almost certainly win again if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dared put his government to an electoral test.
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When secular politics fail, Islamism is the last big idea standing.
.Why have Islamists been the main beneficiaries of Muslim democracy? None of the usual explanations really suffices. Islamists are said to be the unintended beneficiaries of the repression they endured under autocratic secular regimes. True up to a point. But why then have their secular opponents in places like Egypt been steadily losing ground since the Mubarak regime fell by the wayside? Alternatively, we are told that secular values never had the chance to sink deep roots in Muslim-majority countries. Also true up to a point. But how then Tunisia or Turkeyto say nothing of the Palestinians, who until the early 1990s were often described as the most secularized Arab society?
Closer to the mark is Mideast scholar Bernard Lewis, who noted in an April interview with the Journal that "freedom" is fairly novel as a political concept in the Arab world. "In the Muslim tradition," Mr. Lewis noted, "justice is the standard" of good governmentand the very thing the ancien regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya so flagrantly traduced. Little wonder, then, that Mr. Erdogan's AK party stands for "Justice and Development," the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's new party is "Freedom and Justice" and, further afield, the leading Islamist party in Indonesia calls itself "Prosperous Justice."
Still, the Islamists' claim to "justice" goes only so far to account for their electoral successes. There is also the comprehensive failure of the Muslim world's secular movements to provide a better form of politics.
The national-socialist brew imported from Europe in the 1940s by Michel Aflaq became the Baathist tyrannies of present-day Syria and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Pan-Arabism's appeal faded well before the death of its principal champion, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Socialism failed Algeria; Gadhafi's "Third Universal Theory" failed Libya. French-style laïcité descended into kleptocracy in Tunisia and quasi-military control in Turkey. Periodic attempts at market liberalization yielded dividends in places like Bahrain and Dubai but were never joined by political liberalization and were often shot through with cronyism.
That sour history leaves Islamism as the last big idea standingand standing at a moment when tens of millions of young Muslims find themselves undereducated, semi- or unemployed, and uniquely receptive to a world view with deep historic roots and heroic ambitions.
What does its future hold?
Optimists say it need not be a reprise of Iran; that it could look more like Turkey; that the term "moderate Islamist" isn't an oxymoron, at least in a relative sense. Then again, Turkey's domestic and foreign policies inspire little confidence that moderate Islamism will be anything other than moderately repressive and moderately radical. As for Iran, signs of its own long-awaited turn toward moderation are as fleeting as the Yeti's footsteps in drifting snow.
The good news is that after 31 years most Iranians have grown sick of Islam always being the answer, and the collapse of the regime awaits only the next ripe opportunity. The bad news is that a similar time-frame may be in store for the rest of the Muslim world, until it too becomes disenchanted with Islamist promises. Get ready for a long winter.
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Europe's Hezbollah Hesitation
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Europe's Hezbollah Hesitation
Brussels is still reluctant to call the Shiite terror outfit what it is..
Surprising no one, Bulgarian investigators said Tuesday that two of the perpetrators of last year's bombing in a Bulgarian resort city were members of Hezbollah. But don't think the news has changed many minds on the Continent about calling the Shiite terror outfit what it is.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign-policy chief, said she emphasizes "the need for a reflection over the outcome of the investigation." How large-minded. "There is no automatic listing just because you have been behind a terrorist attack," EU counterterrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told the EUObserver online newspaper last week that "It's not only the legal requirement that you have to take into consideration, it's also a political assessment of the context and the timing."
There's also Sylke Tempel, editor of the German magazine Internationale Politik, who told the New York Times: "There's the overall fear if we're too noisy about this, Hezbollah might strike again, and it might not be Israeli tourists this time." So the EU can't designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization because Hezbollah might respond by committing terrorism. The July bombing killed a Bulgarian bus driver in addition to five Israeli tourists.
Brussels has resisted blacklisting Hezbollah on the excuse that the group has military and civilian wings, and that clamping down on the former would cripple the latter and thus destabilize the Hezbollah-dominated government of Lebanon. Yet Hamas also has terrorist and civilian wings and runs part of a government, and the EU has designated it as a terrorist group for a decade.
A spokeswoman for Ms. Ashton told reporters on Wednesday that adding Hezbollah to the terror list is one of "several options" the EU is considering. We'll believe it when we see it. Meantime, Europe's failure to designate Hezbollah means the group continues to operate on the Continent, using it as a base for money-laundering and fundraising. Some of it is even tax-deductible.
At least Israel is still taking the fight against Hezbollah seriously. Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak acknowledged this week that Jerusalem was responsible for a recent jet attack in Syria that destroyed a weapons convoy en route to Lebanon. Israeli officials have long warned that they will act militarily to stop Syria's armory from falling into Hezbollah's hands after the Assad regime falls.
The mark of a serious foreign policy is the ability to acknowledge reality, even when it's politically inconvenient. The EU's Hezbollah hesitation does not suggest a serious policy.
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Re: Europe's Hezbollah Hesitation
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Wow, who could have foreseen dhimmi europeans groveling before their jihadist masters?
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Europe's Hezbollah Hesitation
Brussels is still reluctant to call the Shiite terror outfit what it is..
Surprising no one, Bulgarian investigators said Tuesday that two of the perpetrators of last year's bombing in a Bulgarian resort city were members of Hezbollah. But don't think the news has changed many minds on the Continent about calling the Shiite terror outfit what it is.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign-policy chief, said she emphasizes "the need for a reflection over the outcome of the investigation." How large-minded. "There is no automatic listing just because you have been behind a terrorist attack," EU counterterrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told the EUObserver online newspaper last week that "It's not only the legal requirement that you have to take into consideration, it's also a political assessment of the context and the timing."
There's also Sylke Tempel, editor of the German magazine Internationale Politik, who told the New York Times: "There's the overall fear if we're too noisy about this, Hezbollah might strike again, and it might not be Israeli tourists this time." So the EU can't designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization because Hezbollah might respond by committing terrorism. The July bombing killed a Bulgarian bus driver in addition to five Israeli tourists.
Brussels has resisted blacklisting Hezbollah on the excuse that the group has military and civilian wings, and that clamping down on the former would cripple the latter and thus destabilize the Hezbollah-dominated government of Lebanon. Yet Hamas also has terrorist and civilian wings and runs part of a government, and the EU has designated it as a terrorist group for a decade.
A spokeswoman for Ms. Ashton told reporters on Wednesday that adding Hezbollah to the terror list is one of "several options" the EU is considering. We'll believe it when we see it. Meantime, Europe's failure to designate Hezbollah means the group continues to operate on the Continent, using it as a base for money-laundering and fundraising. Some of it is even tax-deductible.
At least Israel is still taking the fight against Hezbollah seriously. Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak acknowledged this week that Jerusalem was responsible for a recent jet attack in Syria that destroyed a weapons convoy en route to Lebanon. Israeli officials have long warned that they will act militarily to stop Syria's armory from falling into Hezbollah's hands after the Assad regime falls.
The mark of a serious foreign policy is the ability to acknowledge reality, even when it's politically inconvenient. The EU's Hezbollah hesitation does not suggest a serious policy.
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Re: Articulating our cause/strategy against Islamic Fascism
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The Europeans are masters of appeasement. Remember Munich?
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Six of the ten current headlines (Huffington Post May 25 2013) relate one way or another to terrorism or the problem of Islamic jihad. One of them sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. - Steven Hayward, Powerline
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Hello Products' 99% natural, 100% nice™ products reinvent the category, feature gorgeous solutions designed by BMW Group DesignworksUSA
MONTCLAIR, N.J., March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hello Products greets the world with the launch of the first-ever seriously friendly oral care line, simply called hello™. With a lineup of 99% natural, 100% nice toothpaste, mouthwash and breath sprays, hello promises a friendly mouth: healthy, white teeth, fresh breath, and a clean, moisturized mouth – with no harsh chemicals, artificial colors, alcohol or pain.
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hello debuts in distinctive, gorgeous designs created by BMW Group DesignworksUSA, a subsidiary of BMW Group, and offers a refreshing departure from the unfriendly-looking bottles and goopy tubes that consumers have put up with for too long. In an unprecedented relationship between a consumer packaged goods (CPG) company and the world-renowned design arm of the performance automotive leader, hello and BMW Group DesignworksUSA partnered to create breakthrough solutions that bring the brand's seriously friendly spirit to life.
All hello products are available in four delicious flavors, including Supermint, Pink Grapefruit Mint, Mojito Mint and Sweet Cinnamint. Beginning this week, hello is available nationwide in Walgreens and Duane Reade stores, with additional retailers to follow worldwide.
"With so many brands talking about killing and fighting, we thought it was time to unleash products that explored the friendly side of oral care," said Craig Dubitsky, Founder and CEO of hello. "Our 99% natural products bring all of the performance and none of the pain, and they taste – and look – incredible."
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The hello formulations are 99% natural and 100% nice, and feature proven ingredients that don't rely on stinging alcohol, artificial colors and sweeteners, or harsh chemicals. The alcohol-free mouthwashes taste amazing and are refreshingly clear, with no dyes. The cheerful little breath sprays are also alcohol-free, highly portable, and cute enough to display and share. The toothpastes feature delicious flavors that freshen breath and help keep teeth clean and healthy, and a unique dispensing cap that even makes loading your toothbrush a fun experience.
hello products, made with proven ingredients, offer the following benefits:
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In creating the design, hello and BMW Group DesignworksUSA sought the perfect balance of form and function, incorporating a soft, curved aesthetic and thoughtful, user-centric precision. All packaging on the mouthwashes, sprays and toothpastes are 100% custom, proprietary designs – from the pour-and-swig rings on the mouthwashes, to the sleek click-and-go sprays, to the "pastry bag tip" on the toothpaste. Every aspect of the design, and how it relates to the user experience, was examined and optimized for friendliness.
To design hello, the team set out to achieve beautiful, minimalist packaging that would be pretty enough to leave on display, including:
"When Craig first came to us with the concept for hello, everybody – from the President of DesignworksUSA all the way up to the Global Head of Design for BMW – got extremely excited by his idea to bring beauty and design to a category that's lacking in both, yet is ubiquitous in our lives," said Peter Falt, Director, BMW Group DesignworksUSA. "We collaborated every step of the way to bring Craig's vision of 'seriously friendly' to life through design. In the end, we created solutions that are unique to hello's brand attributes, balancing premium and playfulness to bring beautiful, never-before-seen designs and fun-to-use form factors to an experience we all repeat every day."
Hello Products' Dubitsky added, "Looking across the oral care aisle, we realized that the charge for establishing the design DNA of hello products was form and function, but also the formation of a philosophy around the notion of 'friendly'. So we approached the design process by exploring how these products can live in your life in a more pleasing way. We feel like hello can make personal care feel personal again."
hello products will be available nationwide in Walgreens, Duane Reade and select Target stores, as well as online at drugstore.com, beginning in mid-March 2013. hello products are wallet-friendly too, with retail prices that fall in line with many incumbent offerings in the category. Learn more about Hello Products, experience the brand, and actually Skype with the team at www.hello-products.com, or visit www.facebook.com/pages/Hello-Products/147124965354625 and pinterest.com/helloproducts.
About Hello Products LLC
Hello Products LLC, is the first-ever seriously friendly™ oral care brand for consumers. The team believed it was time personal care became, well, personal again. And beautiful. So, they created 99% natural, delicious, pain-free and gorgeous products that include toothpaste, mouthwash, breath sprays and toothbrushes. For more information – or to pop by, say hello and make new friends – visit www.hello-products.com.
About BMW Group DesignworksUSA
BMW Group DesignworksUSA is a creative consultancy that's been driving innovation for forty years. Acquired by BMW Group in 1995, DesignworksUSA enables its parent company as well as internationally-renowned clients outside the automotive industry to grow their businesses through a portfolio of creative consulting services. With clients including Coca Cola, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, John Deere, HEAD, HP, Microsoft, Siemens, Intermarine, and Varian Medical Systems, DesignworksUSA is deeply immersed in a broad cross-section of industries. Combining cross-fertilized knowledge with strategic long-term perspectives and global context provided by studios in Los Angeles, Munich and Shanghai, DesignworksUSA draws upon its unique and vibrant resources to create the future. www.designworksusa.com.
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Kids love the excitement of flying through the air while they hang onto the Fun Ride's sturdy handles. Attach the ride's cable to two trees or other strong supports; kids grab the handles and take off, gliding and soaring through space. Made in USA. Safe, durable and easy to assemble.Hours of fun for children ages 5 to 12. Fun Ride Comes with a strong steel cable (35 feet long), hardware and illustrated instructions. Fun Ride Deluxe Comes with hardware and illustrated instructions and a 70-foot-long cable. Weight limit for Fun Ride Deluxe is 225 pounds. Fun Ride Super Z The longest, fastest, safest zip line around. Comes with hardware and illustrated instructions and a 90 foot-long cable. Weight limit for Fun Ride Super Z is 250 pounds.
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Neighborhood hit
Well, we are the hit on the block. The zip-line went up quickly and everything was there. We bought the longer line and are very glad we did. We've had adults and children ...Read complete review
Well, we are the hit on the block. The zip-line went up quickly and everything was there. We bought the longer line and are very glad we did. We've had adults and children all enjoy their ride through the pine trees. The kit was an easy way to get the zip-line up and running. We tried to buy all the parts seperately and decided we were not meant to try it on our own. The only thing I saw I might suggest come in the kit is a line cover for the line encircling the trees to keep the line from digging into the bark. We will be using old hose for that purpose, as soon as we can find it free of kids, and adults.
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Nice! Lots of fun.
This was a big hit. I bought this for my son who is 9. I would recommend the next size up though because he will outgrow this sooner than I expected.
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(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
So Fun!
By Zipline Mom
from Midwest
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children, Stay At Home Parent
Comments about HearthSong Fun Ride:
We bought this for our son's 10th birthday. He is tall for his age, and we bought the Deluxe model. It was perfect. My 2 year old and 5 year old also LOVED it. They all loved it so much that when we had an unplanned move a few months later (and left the zipline behind) we had to promise to get another one at the new house. The new one was just installed!A few things to note: Having two trees a good distance apart (40 feet or more) with a clear space in between is really helpful. This time we have the trees. Last time we had a wonderful friend build us a tower (cemented into the ground) for one end of it. Obviously the trees made it quicker and easier to install! Also, you need some way for the kids to get up to the height they need to reach the trolley (tree ladder, step ladder, some other stable item). We also had to tie a (short, so there were no tangling worries) rope to the trolley so the kids could reach it to bring the trolley back to the beginning.All in all this is HOURS of fun, and well worth the price.
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
Makes a fun gift!
By Claire
from Maryland
About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
I purchased this as a gift for my 10-year old daughter who requested it. Luckily, my husband was handy enough to be able to read and follow the assembly instructions, or I would have had to hire someone. We purchased the 70' zipline knowing the distance between the trees we were planning on attaching it to. It's plenty long, but if you have enough distance for the 90', go for it! The longer, the more fun! My daughter has been enjoying it; my 13 year old son thought it was kind of boring. You do need to make it VERY high at the starting point (we had to stand on a ladder and the kids had to climb up the ladder to reach it). We will need to install a tree ladder or hammer some wood pieces into the tree so the kids can climb up to reach it. When we had it lower, they were dragging their feet on the ground halfway through. My daughter had the idea to tie an outdoor cushion to the ending tree to create a soft landing. She also puts her feet out to stop. I don't believe it's as dangerous as the instructions make it out to be. Even though the starting point is high, you get low pretty quickly and are not far from the ground if you happen to fall off.
(2 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Our kids loved it NOW the grandkids do !
By Timeless
from Plainfield, CT
About Me Grandparent
All the students I work with want one after seeing my grandson on his. Perfect out door fun.
(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
By The Irish Lady
from Obergaard, AZ
About Me Education Oriented, Grandparent
Our 10 year old daughter loves it!!
By Family with the fun backyard
from Northwest, Ct.
We bought this as a gift a week ago for our 10yr. old daughter who loves to ride it. She even designed a stick and loop creation to get it back to the start. We may have to buy a shorter length one for our younger daughter who just can't do this high one yet. She runs behind her sister with the loop/stick to be a part of the fun. We love the strength of it and it seems like it will last for many years to come.
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
Loads of fun
By Noni
from Cheyenne, WY
This was a birthday gift for my six year old grandson. He loves it! It is very important that you do the measuring etc to set this up correctly. A lot of fun for a kid who loves adventure!
(6 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
Great Fun!
By Mom of 3 crazies!!
from Carmel, NY
The kids have played hours on this and can't wait to invite all their friends over to try it out. You can set it for your own comfort level as far as difficultly, which makes it versitile as well. My kids are 4, 6 and 7 and I think I've already gotten my money's worth out of the Funride!!
(4 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
this is amazing!
By me
from ny
About Me Collector, Education Oriented, Educator, Parent, Thrifty
this was great!
(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
By JIMMY
from FT WORTH TX
About Me Parent
He loves it!!
By Gramanita
from Stratford, CT
About Me Grandparent, Parent
Birthday present for my six year old grandson. It was a real hit at his birthday party, all of the other children loved it too. Our own (grown up now) children wish they had one "back in the day"
(7 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
from New Hampshire
(3 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
Fun Ride
By Karen
from Lafayette, Colorado
The kids love the thrill of the ride!
(6 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
Can we put up another?
By The Cabin
from Balsam Lake, Wisconsin
The zip line is so much fun the kids asked if we could install another line! The parts and line appear to be well made and are very sturdy.
My kids love this toy!!
By mom of 2 princess's
from New York
My kids and all of the neighborhood kids love love love this toy! Nobody can get enough. I have 1 girl who is 6yrs. old and 1 girl who is 3yrs. old and both are able to fly through the air holding the handles with no problem. Terrific toy, hours of fun, worth every penny.
Tons of fun
By Mommy Missy
from Culleoka, TN
About Me Educator, Parent
We put this zipline in the woods for our 6 and 2 year old. They love it! We have plans to build a treehouse and connect it together soon.
fun ride
By nana jan
from maryland
in back yard from tree house to ground
(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
Having Fun With Fun Ride
By Jackie
from Clifton Park, NY
The Fun Ride is exactly that...a "fun ride." We have it attached between two trees in our backyard and the children love it! They go on it everyday. The only problem is that the children won't share with us parents. And It would be nice if the handles were bigger for us adults.
(8 of 8 customers found this review helpful)
I would buy this again and again.
By Mimi
from Galveston, Texas
We bought this for our 15 yr old grandson. The whole family loves it and plays with it. It was a big hit. I can't imagine topping it for next Christmas.
grandchild calls it the "jet zip"
By cheval
from Lexington, Kentucky
About Me Education Oriented
This is a delightful toy that builds muscle, daring and imagination. Such a fun toy, my grandchildren say they dream about going on the "zip"
(7 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
Needs tightening after use
By Sunny
from New Jersey
Needs to be tightened after every use... harder to assemble than we thought it would be. Doesn't go fast like we thought. My six year old stops in the middle of the rope. Not worth the money I paid
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A great project from Josh Milan of the legendary combo Blaze – a group that so perfectly brought a genuine depth of soulful songwriting integrity to the dancefloor scene from the mid 80s house era onward – and Milan carries on that tradition with the debut of his Honeycomb Music project! Josh wrote and produced each track on the 2CD package – with some great voices from the contemporary scene and names we're seeing for the first time! Live instrumentation and strong songs stand out here, just as they did for Blaze – with a nicely elongated dancefloor groove – most running between 5 & 7 minutes. Each of the 2CDs run north of 45 minutes, with tracks by Angela Johnson, Crystal Johnson, T'Zelle, Lamone, Honey Sweet feat Cassio Ware, Chinahblac, Lamone, Sandra St. Victor and others. Includes "Kipepeo" by T'Zelle, "Raul Rosario, We Miss You" by Honey Sweet, "Forever I Do" by Angela Johnson, "GOD" by Dawn Tallman, "Under The Moonlight" by Cinnamon Brown, "Who Am I" by Crystal Johnson, "Your Eyes" by Lamone, "Till You Go Home" by Chinahblac and more. © 1996-2013, Dusty Groove, Inc. |
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The department of art and design is located in the Wilson Art Center, a stimulating environment that offers well-equipped and updated studios, classrooms and computer labs. Located near the art center are the Elzay and Stambaugh Galleries, educational and cultural resources for the Ohio Northern community and the Northwest Ohio region. Throughout the year, the galleries feature outstanding exhibits from international and regional artists as well as ONU faculty and students. The modern three-story Heterick Memorial Library houses the fine art, design and photography book and periodical collections.
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Ensemble Tourbillon's repertoire spans a period from the seventeenth century up to C.Ph.E. Bach, Josef Mysliveček, Jan Křtitel Vaňhal, with works by virtually unknown composers to familiar masterpieces of the baroque and classical periods. Its formation ranges from four musicians (two violins, viola da gamba, theorbo or harpsichord) to large instrumental and vocal forces that enable the ensemble to perform larger secular and sacred vocal repertoire.
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Multiple offer tips for sellers
You've probably heard that it's a seller's market. What does that mean exactly? In a seller's market, the number of homes for sale in the market is low and buyers demand is high. This means you may have a greater chance of receiving multiple offers.
For a seller, multiple offers are a good thing. A multiple offer puts you in the driver's seat and increases the odds that you'll sell your home for the price you want.
Let's take a look at a few key things you can do to make sure you're prepared for a multiple offer situation.
Lower your summer energy bills
Heating and cooling can be the most expensive factor of your monthly utility bills, especially in the summer. Here are some tips that will help cut your summer energy costs while still keeping your home cool.
First, plug up holes and seal cracks using foam, caulking and extra insulation. Leaks and holes allow cool air to escape, so you'll have to run your system longer to make your home comfortable.
Natural light is wonderful, but the heat from the sun will also keep your home from cooling down. Keep your shades closed when you're not using the room to prevent the sun from neutralizing the air conditioner's efforts.
Next, clean your air filters around once a month or replace them as needed for optimal savings on your energy bill. To clean them, simply run them under water and air dry before placing them back inside the unit.
Consider purchasing a programmable thermostat, which is a relatively inexpensive investment. This device works on a schedule, adjusting the temperature according to your preferences, the time of day and the day of the week. By allowing the temperature to increase when you're away, you can expect to save up to 30 percent on your energy bills annually.
Adding energy efficiency to your home can go a long way when it comes time to sell. Learn about other home improvements that help sell a home.
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There's more good news in the Twin Cities metro real estate market! Homes continue to sell for more money in less time, according to data from the Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS® (MAAR).
The median sales price in April is at its highest level since September 2008 at $182,312, and homes are now selling in an average of 98 days, down 27.4 percent from last April. According to available data, homes have not sold this quickly in more than seven years!
Fueling the quicker sales and rising prices is the lack of inventory of homes for sale. Overall inventory levels were down 29.3 percent from last year and were nearly level with the previous three months, which are usually experiencing greater "spring market" increases.
With so few homes to choose from, buyers are competing over properties, and many homes are ending up with multiple offers, some within days of going on the market. See the video above for ways to handle multiple offer situations as a seller. If you're buying, learn how to stand out in a buyer's competition.
If you have been thinking about selling, but have been relying on your tax assessed value to determine feasibility, you should know that tax assessments do not take into account rapid shifts in the market, and in many current cases, they are lower than the real value of a property. Contact your REALTOR® for a no-obligation market analysis to find out how much your home could be worth in today's market.
If you are thinking about buying, the outlook is still bright. Mortgage rates remain near record lows and prices are still well below their peak. All in all, it's a great time in real estate.
A new study shows what buyers are really looking for
It's a question asked frequently by sellers. What do buyers really want? Fresh paint – or the smell of freshly baked cookies? Granite countertops? A three-car garage?
Well yes, they probably want all that. But new research shows that when it comes to drawing in a buyer, it's still all about curb appeal. Online curb appeal, that is.
A recent study reported that when the eye movements of online home searchers were tracked, more than 95 percent of buyers looked at the first photo (usually the exterior shot of the home) for over 20 seconds. After that, a researcher from the Institute for Behavioral and Experimental Real Estate reported, "their eyes tended to flit all over the screen. Without an eye-catching photo, the battle is over before it begins."
So, what would potential buyers see in your exterior photo? An updated home with new windows, a well-cared-for lawn, all in a shot framed by mature trees? Fabulous – your home will be the envy of hungry buyers.
However, if your photos would show chipped paint or paneling, a cracked driveway and a yard still recovering from a long winter, it may be time to consider some budget-friendly curb appeal updates.
The ultimate selling don't? Don't doctor your real estate photos to promote your listing in a disingenuous way. Editing out a gray sky is one thing, but adding trees or an elaborate vegetable garden to your photos is not advised. Remember, there is no long-term advantage of luring buyers to a home that they don't recognize – or like – in person.
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Stimulate growth by raking the lawn lightly. This will remove excess debris and aerate the soil. Target areas that were damaged over the winter by salt spray and critter activity. Also pay special attention to the borders of your lawn that line the street.
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Layer your new growth like a sandwich. Spread lawn seed in needed areas. Follow that with a light raking to make contact between seed and soil. Be careful about over-watering, you simply want to dampen the topsoil. A thin layer of straw on top will seal in the moisture needed for the seeds to mature.
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Michael Lowenthal Professional Title: Creative Writing Faculty Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise: Creative Writing: Fiction Representative List of Recent Courses Taught: Distance-Learning Courses:• Creative Writing I-IV • Craft and Reflection I-III• Graduating Seminar Preparation• Creative ThesisResidency Seminars:• Clockwatchers: Time Management in Fiction Education: B.A. from Dartmouth College with a double major in English and ReligionSenior Fellowship, year-long independent novel-writing project supervised by Ernest Hebert Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions: Novels:The Paternity Test (2012)Charity Girl (2007)Avoidance (2002)The Same Embrace (1998) Work published in: Tin House, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Witness, New York Times Magazine, Out MagazineContributed to following anthologies: Best New American Voices 2005, Cooking and Stealing: A Tin House Nonfiction Reader, Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge, Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, Best American Gay Fiction.
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