(Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the Weekly Standard: In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration is grappling with how to handle Islamists, radical adherents to Islam. Particularly, the issue has come to the fore in regards to Egypt, which, as Reuel Marc Gerecht notes, "is now certain" to elect "an Islamist" as [...]

             (Image via Wikipedia) The U.S. government shut down the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on November 18 due to lack of funding. The USCIRF was the government agency that monitored religious freedom in countries around the world. According to reports, the allocation of funding for the commission could not get out of [...]

The Jewish Talmud is a best seller in South Korea. Not only that, it is also required reading in Korean public schools and most Koreans have The Talmud prominently displayed in their homes. At the same time there are no Synagogues and it is extremely difficult to practice Judaism in S. Korea which has a [...]

                                            (Image via Wikipedia) The Obama administration has been talking about civil rights and democracy when it comes to the revolts going on in the Middle East and North Africa along with the Western media. Here in a Washington Post article sources within the Obama administration are now admitting that the new regimes could end [...]

                                    (Jerusalem via Wikipedia) The Wikileaks debacle has masked the news coming out of Israel. The Israel-Palestinian negotiations are dead on arrival and you can stick a fork in it mostly due to major policy failures of the Obama administration. Personally right now President Obama has a popularity rating around 5% in Israel which is [...]

                                                 (IRS Seal-Wikipedia) A Pennsylvania Jewish group, Z Street, has claimed today in federal Court that the Internal Revenue Service is targeting pro-Israel Jewish groups when it comes to applications for tax exempt status. The organization introduced a letter from an IRS agent to another which outlined a couple of questions demanded of a Jewish [...]

(Mosque in Fallujah via Wikipedia) Apparently the US government has been involved in spending hard earned taxpayer dollars on preserving and rebuilding historical mosques around the world.  This from a Washington Times editorial: Americans also may be surprised to learn that the United States has been an active participant in mosque construction projects overseas. In [...]