Less than a mile from my house in West London is a prestigious, Saudi-funded Muslim private school, the King Fahd Academy, which has been much in the news recently. Colin Cook, a former teacher there who is suing the school for wrongful dismissal, claims that Arabic textbooks used there contain passages in which Jews are described as “apes” and Christians as “pigs.” Religions other than Islam are described as “repugnant” or “worthless.”
Some of the students at King Fahd are the children of Saudi diplomats, but most are British Muslims, among them the children of the jailed, hook-handed Islamist preacher Abu Hamza. On Tuesday the principal of the school, Dr. Sumaya Alyusuf, confirmed that these books are indeed used. She told the BBC that “these books have good chapters . . . that will serve our objectives.”
This raises two questions: What “objectives” might those be? And did Dr. Alyusuf mean to speak so frankly?
Mitt Romney
Hey, Love him or hate him, Howard Dean took the Dems from a minority to an almost filibuster-proof majority in just two elections. The GOP should go for someone who can pursue a 50-state strategy aggresively and re-take both the houses and not just slumber along in the country club, nothing-will-happen state. Whether there is someone better or not, Mike Duncan should go.
Count us lucky Michael Steele actually wants the job. I find it amusing how the media’s constant refrain is the Republicans are out in the wilderness. I see a cleaning out of mushy conservatives and media fawns like McCain and Co. Now the Dems are such pussies they wouldn’t hold an election for the IL Senate seat for fear of a Republican victory. More of that impressive Obama judgement at work. Keep the popcorn coming.
We need someone with firm conservative credentials, who can articulate our philosophy, not just the platform, talking points and scripts for the latest ads. Someone like a Fred Thompson, though my understanding is that he himself doesn’t want the job. While our DC operation is pretty thin, our bench has some fantastic talent.