Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards declared a few months ago that the War on Terror is nothing more than a bumper sticker slogan.

The Global War on Terror is more than a bumper sticker. It is a war between the West and a growing radical Islam. It is a war which engulfs every major continent and every Western nation. It is a war which is fought by armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, East Timor, Somalia, and Lebanon. It is a war which has taken hostages from Gaza to the Philippines. It is a war which has detonated bombs from streets in Baghdad to buildings in Bali and from a Scottish airport to an embassy in Kenya. It is a war which rages from trains in India to suburbs in France and from caves in Afghanistan to skyscrapers in New York. The Global nature of this war cannot be emphasized enough, and though this seemingly endless proselytizing will be repeated many times, by talk radio and bloggers like me, but to the discouraged home front, it seems as though nobody is listening. (more…)

Another one from my blog.

The Jakarta Post reporting today on a new development in female genital mutilation in a piece entitled Police offer reward to stop female circumcision.

This offer is payed in part by the police, and part by the charitable organization Waris Dirie Foundation.

The Waris Dirie Foundation has thus made headlines twice in the past week, the first time being the presentation of the prestigious French award the Chevalier de la Legion d‘honneur to the group’s founder, Somalian model Waris Dirie, by President Sarkozy in recognition of the group’s efforts against female genital mutilation.

These stories demonstrate a big step for the humanitarian cause seeking to stamp out the religious practice which has its roots in North African tribal tradition. The movement, spearheaded by Islamic feminists such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has found itself stopped by opponents citing the “wall of separation,” between church and state, particularly in a Europe which is continuously being overrun by North African immigrants. Though female genital mutilation (FGM), is illegal in most European Nations as well as the United States, there seems to be a deep unwillingness to prosecute due in part to the already mounting tensions between North African immigrants to Europe, and European society. FGM has been framed as a cultural practice, and a religious practice which cannot feasibly be clamped down upon by the state. (more…)

Here is a piece taken straight from my blog. It seeks to establish a point of comparison between the European Colonists of the nineteenth century and today’s Global Warming activists.
Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” reflected the his time’s sentiments: colonize Africa to civilize the savage. Whether or not the ’savages’ wanted help was of no consequence to the Social Darwinists, eager to establish colonies in Africa for the exploitation of natural resources.

Today, global warming activists, such as Al Gore warn of man’s moral responsibility to protect the Earth. They urge using eco-friendly ethanol to help fight global warming. This would mean large scale purchases of corn, significantly altering the price of corn used for food. (more…)