by Phyllis Chesler

By now, we have all heard about Nujood Ali, the incredibly heroic ten year girl in Yemen who fled her abusive husband and demanded a divorce. This act was the first of its kind in a country where girls as young as eight are given away in marriage.

We want her as an ally. We want her counterparts in the Muslim world as allies. We want Mukhtaran Bibi on our side. She is the young Pakistani woman who was gang-raped by her alleged social superiors in order to cover up their other crimes. She escaped. She was not silenced by shame. She did not kill herself. Unlike Phoolan Devi, India’s Bandit Queen (a girl after my own heart), Bibi did not join a gang of outlaws and then exact personal revenge. Despite numerous death threats, Mukhtaran Bibi legally pursued the criminals — and won. Continue reading…

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By Fern Sidman

Despite the pouring rain, over 300 concerned citizens representing a diverse group of political, religious, ethnic and racial groups convened in New York City’s Times Square on Sunday, May 3rd, to attend a rally sponsored by the Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam. The HRCARI is a grassroots global action movement that is dedicated to educating and mobilizing people of all backgrounds and persuasions to the inherent dangers of the burgeoning radical Islamic movement and to supporting freedom, democracy and tolerance.

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by Daniel Pipes*

A study undertaken on behalf of Israel’s foreign ministry by an international market research company found that India is the most pro-Israel country in the world, beating out the United States by two percentage points.

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By Fern Sidman

As the mercury precipitously dropped, demonstrators from the Coalition For Peace organization braved the biting cold and sub freezing temperatures in the nation’s capitol on January 20th in order to send a clear message to President Barack Hussein Obama on his inauguration day. With calls to “protect the free world from radical Islam”, the 30 demonstrators staged a peaceful protest in Lafayette Park, directly across the street from the White House. The Coalition For Peace is a nascent movement comprised of Hindu, Jewish and Christian organizations who are sounding a clarion call to the western world of the imminent dangers that jihadists represent.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Citing the fact that over the last 10 years, “Israel was hit with more than 10,000 rockets [by Palestinian terrorists],” and that, “India faced brutal terrorism in the form of 60,000 terror incidents that killed about 18,000 people, mostly due to radical Islam,” a group billing itself as the “Coalition for Peace” has organized an “Awareness Campaign Against Terrorism” during President Obama’s inaugural parade on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

The “US, Israel and India should work together to defeat the axis of radical Islam,” says a Coalition press release because, “Radical Islam has assumed an alarmingly dangerous worldwide proportion, [and] it is absolutely essential that [the] U.S.A, the only [s]uper [p]ower of the world, under the Presiden[cy] of Barack Obama take firm action [against] those who support terrorism in the name of the extreme ideologies.”

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By Phyllis Chesler

The Hindu-Jewish-Christian-Buddhist Coalition against Islamic Terrorism is having a telephone conference call this evening to finalize details of their Obama Parade Rally. I urge everyone to attend or to assist in other ways e.g. write articles, take videos and photos, publicize it via the internet and in all your local media. … (Continue reading…)

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By Phyllis Chesler

Millions of people just marched in favor of Hamas terrorism; they roared and shouted out their hot hatred of Jews, Israel, and America. Their chants are beyond Nazi-like. They are far worse. Pro-Israel marchers were out in force too, fewer in number, but standing in non-violent dignity, without resorting to hate speech or thuggery.

The Hindu-Jewish-Buddhist-Christian coalition is planning a Conference call for their rally against terrorism to take place on Inauguration Day.

Here are some of their excellent banners and slogans. … (Continue reading…)

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By Phyllis Chesler

Rally Planned in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. … Hindus (yes, those who live in Bombay/Mumbai as well as all over the world), Jews, (yes, those who live in Israel and elsewhere around the world), Christians, and Buddhists are organizing a rally right opposite the White House on January 20th, the day of President-elect Obama’s Inauguration. This “Coalition for Peace” is urging Obama to “declare Pakistan a terrorist state; stop Iran from producing an atomic bomb; stop Saudi Arabia from funding terrorism; stop Pakistan’s double game with the USA; stop Hamas and Hezbollah’s rocket attacks into Israel; seize Saudi Arabian assets for crimes against humanity.” … (Continue reading…)

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by Cinnamon Stillwell*

It was often said after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that everything had changed. And for a few years afterwards, indeed it had. After decades of denial, America and its allies went on the offensive against Islamic terrorism, both militarily and morally. Most importantly, there was no hesitancy to name the enemy or to condemn his inhumanity.

But if the lack of outrage over the Islamic terrorist assault on Mumbai, India last month was any indication, everything has changed back.

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By Andrew Whitehead

Following the recent Islamic terrorist attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for an “interfaith exchange” between Indian Hindus and Muslims.

As usual, CAIR exploits another sensational terrorist event while they ignore daily acts of Islamic terrorism — over 100 Muslim terror attacks took place in November prior to the Mumbai rampage.

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by Daniel Pipes*

Victims caught in terrorist atrocities perpetrated for Islam typically experience fear, torture, horror, and murder, with sirens screaming, snipers positioning, and carnage in the streets. That was the case recently in Bombay (now called Mumbai), where some 195 people were murdered and 300 injured. But for the real target of Islamist terror, the world at large, the experience has become numbed, with apologetics and justification muting repulsion and shock.

If terrorism ranks among the cruelest and most inhumane forms of warfare, excruciating in its small-bore viciousness and intentional pain, Islamist terrorism has also become well-rehearsed political theater. Actors fulfill their scripted roles, then shuffle, soon forgotten, off the stage.

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By Barry Rubin

For years, India has been subjected to periodic terrorist attacks throughout the country. But what happened in Mumbai is something new and different: a full-scale terrorist war.

This is the kind of threat and problem Israel has been facing for decades. What are the lessons for India from Israel’s experience, points also reflected by India’s own recent history?

First, India needs and has the right to expect international sympathy and help. It will get sympathy but will it get help? Once it is clear that other countries must actually do something, incur some costs, possibly take some risks, everything changes.

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By Barry Rubin

India’s government faces difficult choices and no one should interfere in that hard process. Still, it is worth describing the alternatives New Delhi must ponder and what it might ask the rest of the world to do.

First, of course, no one should criticize India or draw conclusions too quickly. The Indian government will investigate and confer with friendly states. An official conclusion will be reached. Rumors and newspaper articles are not sufficient: the security and intelligence forces must examine the evidence; government must speak.

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By Stan Cohen

It has only been days since the mindless slaughter of Mumbai, and our memory has started to fade. Yesterday’s headlines have diminished. The memory of the Twin Tower massacre has faded. The memory of the all-too-many-to-name bombings and killings in almost all parts of the civilized world have grown dimmer in our thoughts.

Because of our short memory, the next slaughter, the next massacre, is treated as a separate event, as a surprise, somehow disconnected from history. It is this disconnect from history that will lead to our doom.

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A nice, inspirational short movie by Aish.com, reflecting on how a few evil terrorists can inflict so much damage, but how thousands of decent people could respond positively through love, lending a helping hand, and being charitable — as the Torah teaches us:

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