"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..."

United States of America Declaration of Independence

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time - the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

  Books

Radical Islam's Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari'a Law. By Paul Marshall

A major feature of the rise of Islamism in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and parts of the West is the current rapid growth of a starkly repressive version of shari'a, Islamic law. In this book, noted human rights activists and scholars trace the growth of such law in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia; document its threat to the status of women, religious freedom, and democracy itself; and suggest how the rest of the world should respond. Published in cooperation with Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom.

Islamic Imperialism: A History. By Efraim Karsh

Middle East scholar Karsh surveys for a general audience the region's Islamic political past. Parallel to his narrative, Karsh frequently contrasts the universalistic proclamations of Islam with cycles of imperial consolidation and fragmentation. After recounting the Prophet Muhammad's religio-political establishment of Islam, and the discord about his legacy that continues today, Karsh narrates the battles over Muhammad's caliphate that eventuated in the Umayyad and Abbasid Empires. Karsh's commentary often looks forward to contemporary ideologues of Islam who ransack history to justify grievances. In Karsh's coverage, the irruption of the Crusaders into the Levant hardly provoked a jihad to eject them; that occurred, in his account, through politically ordinary processes of empire building, eventually by the celebrated Saladin. Islamic unity and zeal, however, had always to be affirmed by reestablishers of the caliphate, a theme Karsh incorporates into his chronicling of the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, the distribution of its territories after World War I, and varieties of pan-Arabism prevalent after World War II. An informative foundation for further exploration of Islamic history.

Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East. By Jared Cohen

Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global affairs by witnessing them firsthand. While studying on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, he took a crash course in Arabic, read voraciously on the history and culture of the Middle East, and in 2004 he embarked on the first of a series of incredible journeys to the Middle East. In an effort to try to understand the spread of radical Islamist violence, he focused his research on Muslim youth. The result is Children of Jihad, a portrait of paradox that probes much deeper than any journalist or pundit ever could.

Written with candor and featuring dozens of eye-opening anecdotes, Cohen's account begins in Lebanon, where he interviews Hezbollah members at, of all places, a McDonald's. In Iran, he defies government threats and sneaks into underground parties, where bootleg liquor, Western music, and the Internet are all easy to access. His risky itinerary also takes him to a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, borderlands in Syria, the insurgency hotbed of Mosul, and other frontline locales. At each turn, he observes a culture at an uncanny crossroads: Bedouin shepherds with satellite dishes to provide Western TV shows, young women wearing garish makeup despite religious mandates, teenagers sending secret text messages and arranging illicit trysts. Gripping and daring, Children of Jihad shows us the future through the eyes of those who are shaping it.

  Free Nations Reconcile

For the first time after the Second World War and the Holocaust, where about 6 million Jews were murdered, the Eurovision (European Song Contest) was held in Germany in 1983. The following is Israel's song in the contest:

Listen, my brothers, I'm still alive

And my two eyes are still raised to the light

Many are my thorns, but also my flowers

And ahead of me are years too numerous to count

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

A psalm passes from generation to generation

Like a spring from long ago, and on to eternity

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

Chorus:

Alive, alive, alive - Yes, I'm still alive!

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]

I'm still alive, alive, alive

The people of Israel live

This is the song which grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today I [sing]!

My days and nights are full of life,

And in my sky the pillar of fire still rises

I will sing endlessly

I'll spread out my hands

To my friends across the sea.

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

(Chorus)

Listen my brothers, I'm still alive

And my two eyes are still raised to the light

So here's to life! To all my guests,

And to my children who seek to return

I ask and I pray

It's good that hope was not yet lost

Chorus....

Alive alive alive (2x)

Alive, I'm still alive alive alive!

Barack Obama's Inuaguration Speech:

"...And because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace."

"...This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed, why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall. And why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath."

Focus: Islamic Imperialism

  Videos

Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech

The "Iron Curtain" of the Russian Empire in 1946 is no different from the "Green Curtain" of the Islamic Empire today.

Freedom 101

From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan

We rise or fall as one people

Barack Obama's victory speech in Chicago: "...To those who would tear this world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security, we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America`s beacon still burns as bright, tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope."

Salman Rushdie on Multiculturalism

Drawinging the parallel between our treatment of dissident voices in the Soviet Empire to those in the Islamic Empire

Salman Rushdie on Islamic Genocides

Comparing the coercive form of Socialism under the Russian Empire and the coercive form of Islam under the Islamic Empire

The Forgotten Refugees

In 1945 there were up to one million Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa outside the Palestine Mandate - many living in communities dating back more than three millennia. Today, there are only several thousand remaining.

Who are these Jews? What precipitated their mass-exodus in the 20th century? Where did they go? And why do we always hear about the Palestinian refugees, but didn't even know these Jewish refugees existed?

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  Articles

Islamic Imperialism advancing in Europe

Islamic Imperialism invading America [PDF]

A Homemade Genocide in the Islamic Empire

The Islamic Empire's attack on universal Freedon of Speech

The Islamic Empire's attack on Universal Human Rights

Report on 119 Egyptian School Textbooks

Islam is the only true religion. Jihad is obligatory. Israel is not treated as a sovereign state. Peace is conditional, war with Israel is not out of the question.

Incitement to Jihad on Saudi Government-Controlled TV

Constant themes within Saudi television shows include: calls for the annihilation of Christians and Jews, rampant anti-Americanism and antisemitism, support for Jihad, incitement against U.S. troops in Iraq, and the coming Islamic conquest of the U.S.

Saudi Arabia's Education System

"Muslims must... educate their children to Jihad. This is the greatest benefit of the situation: educating the children to Jihad and to hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels; educating the children to Jihad and to revival of the embers of Jihad in their souls."

Muslim Brotherhood - The Rise of Modern Islamic Imperialism

"...a Muslim Brother should free his country from every foreign, non-Islamic control. He should not allow any other political, spiritual or economic power to step into authority.

...he should reform his government until it is, in the true sense of the word, converted into an Islamic type of government, able to perform its duty and responsibility as a servant of the entire Muslim community of believers, or Umma.

...the Muslim Brotherhood should collectively work to restore the international position of the Umma. To this end, it will be necessary to liberate occupied Muslim regions. The Brotherhood should restore Muslim honor and superiority..."

Jordan's Ideological Battle with Islamic Imperialism

Jordan remains the one regime in the Middle East with perhaps the greatest cognizance of the ideological threat that radical salafi ideology poses. Unlike most other regimes in the Muslim world, Jordan has rejected the traditional paradigm of tolerance for ideological extremism in return for domestic stability, and in so doing has challenged the radical Muslim movement as a whole.

Arab Antisemitism Documentation Project - Middle East Media Research Institute

Arabic newspaper reports, editorials, and other media sources which are primarily based upon antisemitic themes. During recent years, Arab antisemitism has become a main catalyst of antisemitic incidents throughout the world

Power of the Powerless. Vaclav Havel, 1978

Understanding Russia, and the US-Russian Relationship

Andrei Illarionov's Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

  Bloodless Revolutions

Rose Revolution. Georgia, 2003:

Orange Revolution. Ukraine, 2004:

Cedar Revolution. Lebanon, 2005: