8 February 2012, 5:17 am
-2/7/12 AP: Frances Interior minister Gueant has walked into a firestorm of controversy with his weekend comments that some civilizations — notably his own — are worth more than others. The campaign chief for Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande — the front-runner in polls ahead of presidential elections in April and May — called Gueant's comments "a premeditated, willful, conscious gesture" to build "bridges between the right and the extreme-right. He's "targeting Muslims, he's targeting Islam," Pierre Moscovici said on LCI television. -3/13/08 ABC News: “Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, The Audacity of Hope"; “Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing ‘God Bless America’ but ‘God damn America’"; Reverend Wright preached that Whites invented HIV to kill Blacks, that America deserved 9/11 and America is a terrorist nation. And it’s all on video. The democrat controlled media didn’t show those videos, but who relies on them for honest reporting anymore? As though Islam culture isn’t what it is? -The United Nation’s Human Development Index ranks nations by life expectancy, literacy, education and GDP per capita. The top 50 encompass 700 million in Judao-Christian nations; Muslim nations encompass 5 million people (out of 1.5 billion people). -The UN’s Gender Empowerment Measure ranks nations by women’s equality: Muslim nations rank at the bottom. -The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates that the annual worldwide number of so-called “honour killing” victims may 5,000. -Nobel SCIENCE prizes awarded to America in last 50 years? 171. ALL Muslim nations? 3. -Number of universities in US and UK? 3,600. ALL Muslim nations? 600 (for 1.5 billion people). -The UN's Arab Development Report on books translated per million people: Hungary 519; Spain 920; Israel 380; Arabia 4. -Tunis based Arab League: 76% of Arabs, ages 15 to 45, are illiterate. -Patents are evidence of a nation’s creative activities: new drugs, electronics, satellites, the internet, food processing, cars, planes -- everything we need to live better lives: Total patents held, worldwide, 3.8 million; US holds 2.1 million; ALL Muslim nations hold only 1,000. -Freedom House (freedomhouse.org) Each year it rates the degree of freedom in all regions of the world. The 2011 report rates the Middle East and North Africa as the least free of all regions: 78% rated “not free.”... Read More »