"Lily's Room"

This is an article collection between June 2007 and December 2018. Sometimes I add some recent articles too.

Entries from 2016-01-01 to 1 year

Indonesia and Israel

Times of Israel(http://www.timesofisrael.com/)Indonesia rebuffs Netanyahu call for normalized ties Jakarta says its ‘support and efforts to push for the independence of Palestine will not change’ by Times of Israel staff 1 April 2016 Indon…

Dr. Soheib Bencheikh

Today is not an April fool! (Lily) MEMRI(http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1954.htm)Special Dispatch No.1368 28 November 2006 Former Marseilles Mufti Soheib Bencheikh: ‘Islam Must Be Criticized, Just as Christianity Was [Critici…

So late in self-criticism

MEMRI (http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/9100.htm)29 March 2016 Special Dispatch No.6345 Self-Criticism In The Arab World Following Brussels Attacks: Muslim Justification Of The Attacks Is Unacceptable; We Must Recognize That Most…

Islamic Spain again?

MEMRI Daily Brief (http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/876/9097.htm) Spain In The Crosshairs Of Islamism by Alberto M. Fernandez 28 March 2016 Spain, or at least the Spain of Islamic conquest and primacy, Al-Andalus, looms large in th…

Christian lawyer loses

Regarding this news below, please refer to my previous posting (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20160325). (Lily)Morning Star News(http://morningstarnews.org/)Christian Lawyer in Malaysia Loses Appeal to Practice in Sharia Courts Muslim…

Muslim can leave Islam

The below news from Kuching, Sarawak is a good one, but we have to understand that it is the case of the Bidayuh ethnicity, not of the Malay ethnicity. Also, it was conducted in one of the Borneo states where the majority of the people are…

Repeated lessons from Brussels

Jewish Journal(http://www.jewishjournal.com/) How we must respond to Brussels by Rabbi Abraham Cooper 22 March 2016 I was at European Union headquarters in Brussels last month, before moving on to Paris to discuss anti-Semitic hate crime…

The late Ms. Oriana Fallaci

The message below is from Mr. David Horowitz (info@horowitzfreedomcenter.org)(info@horowitzfreedomcenter.org) which I received as of today. Regarding Mr. David Horowitz, please refer to the list of my previous postings in English (http://d…

Defending Blood Libel

Middle East Forum(http://www.meforum.org/5895/)In New Low, Scholars Defend Medieval Blood Libel Charges Against Israel by Cinnamon Stillwell The Daily Caller 7 March 2016 Leave it to the Middle East studies establishment to defend the vi…

Translations of the Qur’an

Middle East Forum(http://www.meforum.org/717/assessing-english-translations-of-the-quran)Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an by Khaleel Mohammed Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005, pp. 58-71 Multiple English translations of the Q…

Walt & Mearsheimer

Please see my yesterday's posting (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20160220). It was still discussed five years ago on the Huffington Post. (Lily) 1. Jewish Current Issues(http://jpundit.typepad.com/jci/) 6 April 2006 Dershowitz's Respo…

Top Ten Things

As for this author, please refer to my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20140206)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20120807)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20130121)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20130920)(http…

Al-Quds University

MEMRI(http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/9013.htm)15 February 2016 Special Dispatch No.6307 Al-Quds University In Jerusalem Commemorates Terrorist In Guise Of Promoting Culture And EducationOn Saturday, February 13, 2016, Al-Quds U…

“Nothing Abides”

As for this book, please refer to my Japanese translation(http://www.danielpipes.org/16114/). (Lily) (http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/14/perspectives-on-the-middle-east-and-islam-book-review/#)(http://www.danielpipes.org/16512/nothing-ab…

Communist Jew + Muslim Indian

Jewnivers(http://thejewniverse.com/) Communist Jew + Muslim Indian = Affordable Health Care by Abby Sher Q: What do you get when a Muslim Indian and a Communist Jew walk into a bar? A: An extraordinary leader named Dr. Yusuf K Hamied.As …

End of the Multiculturalist

Middle East Forum(http://www.meforum.org/5832/end-of-multicultural-consensus)The End of the Multiculturalist Consensus in Europe by Michel Gurfinkiel The Daily Caller 4 February 2016 Excerpt In 2009, the American journalist Christopher C…

Muslim women in France

As for this reviewer, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20150901)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20151217)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20160103). (Lily)The Sydney Institute(http://review.thesydne…

The late Prof. Barry Rubin

As for the late Professor Barry Rubin, please refer to my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=%22Barry+Rubin%22)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/archive?word=%A5%D0%A5%EA%A1%BC%A1%A6%A5%EB%A5%D3%A5%F3)(http://d.…

Germany’s Jews

Fox News(http://www.foxnews.com/world/) Germany's Jews mark Holocaust as new threat rises by Don Snyder 27 January 2016As Germany's dwindling survivors of Nazi death camps mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday, they and …

The left needs to stop lying

Jewish Press(http://www.jewishpress.com/)Op-Ed: The Left Needs To Stop Lying About Rabin's Legacy 22 January 2016by Morton A. Klein and Daniel MandelWhat would have happened if Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin hadn't been murdered? Wou…

Relativism to multiculturalism

As for this author, please refer to my previous posting (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20160113). (Lily)Middle East Forum (http://www.meforum.org/5802/)Cultural Relativism Undermines Human Rights by Philip Carl Salzman The Daily Caller …

The “Aliran” magazine

The article below was issued about 13 years ago in Malaysia. The "Aliran" magazine was considered as one of the rare reading materials for thinkers in Malaysia when I worked there in the early 1990s. What happened after that? Is there a re…

Marxism conquered academia

As for this author, please refer to my previous Japanese postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20140306)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily/20150530). This topic is deeply relevant to the Japanese academia in the major institutions of Jap…

Suffragette

As for this author, please refer to my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20150901)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20151217).(Lily)The Australian(http://www.theaustralian.com.au) by Dr. Ida Lichter 1 January 2016 …

Happy New Year!

New Year 2016 has already begun in Japan. I wish you readers a very prosperous, fruitful new year!Yours sincerely, Lily