Harry's Place

Birtherism isn’t the only thing that’s risen from the grave recently.
Steven Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers writes:
The Republican Party is catching flat-tax fever, setting up an election-year fight with Democrats over whether wealthier Americans should pay more taxes or get tax cuts.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney became the latest to punch the tax button Wednesday, telling [...]

The Immigration Tribunal ruling upholding the Home Office’s ban of Raed Salah takes as established fact that the cleric said this in East Jerusalem in 2007:
“We have never allowed ourselves, and listen well, we have never allowed ourselves to knead the bread for the breaking of the fast during the blessed month of Ramadan with [...]

Raed Salah has lost his ill conceived attempt to prevent his deportation from the United Kingdom. Despite being the subject of a banning order, you will remember that the hate preacher was accidentally admitted to the United Kingdom.
He has had his fun. It is now time for him to sling his hook.
This is what the [...]

Another three Grad rockets fired last night from Gaza. They landed in Ashdod.

Channel 4 News’s Ramita Navai and Wael Dabbous went undercover in Syria to report on the anti-Assad uprising. You can watch the report here:

In another Channel 4 report, filmmaker Sean McAllister described the brutality he witnessed while detained by the Syrian regime.

We’ve posted many remarkable videos depicting the regime’s brutality since the Syrian uprising began. [...]

Who had the most egregious response to President Obama’s decision to send 100 US troops to Africa to aid regional forces in the hunt for Joseph Kony, leader of the brutal and murderous Lord’s Resistance Army?
a) Rush Limbaugh, who– in a world-class display of ignorance– said on his October 14 radio show:
…Lord’s Resistance Army are [...]

Friends of Sabeel UK (FOSUK) is the network of Sabeel supporters in the UK.
Sabeel is a Christian theology outfit based in Jerusalem, and its founder Naim Ateek says things like this at Easter:
In this season of Lent, it seems to many of us that Jesus is on the cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around [...]

Here’s something I posted back in 2005, which I think is relevant given recent developments in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.
First I quoted the neoconservative writer Reuel Marc Gerecht (unfortunately his piece is no longer online):
[A]re Muslim democracies that restrict women’s social rights in practice morally superior to Muslim dictatorships that advance them in theory? [...]

Women Living Under Muslim Laws Statement on Libya
WLUML is deeply concerned that the first public act of the Libya’s National Transition Committee has been to proclaim on October 23rd, 2011, that henceforth, a number of laws will be considered annulled and that ’sharia law’ is to replace them. Libya’s National Transition Committee is an interim [...]

Writing about the demonstration against Rachad Ghannouchi in Tunisia this weekend, I mused:
An anti-Islamist protest meets Mr Ghannouchi on his way to vote in Tunisia today. No, it wasn’t the EDL on an awayday.
Well, as far as the far Left Guardian columnist, Jonathan Steele is concerned, it might as well have been:
While several smaller secular [...]