Andrew G. Bostom

Andrew G. Bostom

  • August 12, 2013

    FDR's Traitor?

    A controversy has re-ignited over Franklin Delano Roosevelt "co-President" Harry Hopkins's potential role as an agent promoting Soviet influence operations during World War II. Diana West, in her new book, American Betrayal (and summarized here), mak...

  • July 25, 2013

    Egypt: Where Military Coups Equal 'Freedom and Hope'

    Pundits have lauded Egypt's "Second Revolution," in reality a military coup which ousted the economically and socially failing regime of the country's first freely elected President, Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Muhammad Morsi. One expert has even d...

  • July 21, 2013

    A Note for the WSJ: Sayyid Qutb Is Mainstream

    Eric Trager, in his July 17, 2013 Wall Street Journal book review of Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual, by James Toth, is to be commended for insisting that Qutb's views not be whitewashed. Although I shared Trager'...

  • July 19, 2013

    How Sharia Rapes Justice

    In March of this year, a 24-year-old Norwegian woman, Marte Deborah Dalelv, was raped during a Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) business trip and reported the assault to the local police. Shortly after filing the report, UAE police summarily rejecte...

  • July 11, 2013

    Mama Mia, More Sharia in Egypt

    Egypt's Coptic community is alarmed over the constitutional road map issued on Monday by interim president Adly Mansour.  The Sharia closed circle that has stifled Egypt's efforts since the 1820s to produce a pluralistic society based upon a sec...

  • July 7, 2013

    Morsi's Ouster Won't End the Chronic Rejection of Secularism in Egypt

    The late, brilliant political scientist, P.J. Vatikiotis (d. 1997), educated at the American University in Cairo, Egypt and author of many important analyses of Egyptian socio-political history, opened his seminal 1981 study, "Religion and State," wi...

  • July 1, 2013

    Pathetic Video of Late Andrew Pochter in Immoral Equivalence 'Israel-Palestine Poetry Slam'

    I found this pathognomonic video link (embedded, below) included in Kenyon College’s obituary for Andrew Pochter, brutally stabbed to death this past Friday, June 28th in Alexandria, Egypt. It is difficult to relate the anger and sorrow I fee...

  • June 30, 2013

    A Young Jewish Man's Lethal Arab Spring Delusion

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  • June 22, 2013

    More Hard Data Debunking CO2 Warmism Hysteria

    A paper just published in the prestigious journal Science (June 21, 2013) raises yet more fundamental questions-or at least it should-about the arbitrary designation of atmospheric CO2 as a "pollutant," in conjunction with anthropogenic climate "warm...

  • June 19, 2013

    Sharia Thirsty Iranian 'Greens' Elected Their Sharia Supremacist President, Rowhani

    During the summer of 2009, much ink was spilled over the "secular" revolution allegedly taking place in Iran. Indeed, President Obama has been excoriated ever since by conservatives for his failure to unabashedly support the so-called "Green revoluti...

  • June 16, 2013

    Iranian President-Elect Rohwani on the Sublimity of Khomeini's 'Model'

    Shiite cleric Hasan Rohwani has been elected as Iran's next president from amongst a slate of ruling Ayatollah "guardian council"-approved candidates. Hassan Rowhani has a lengthy history in Iranian politics, served as the Secretary of Iran's Supre...

  • May 24, 2013

    Jihad Butchery in London and the Big Islamic Lie

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in broad daylight, a murderous act of jihad butchery was committed on a busy London street.  The Daily Mail published a pictorial chronology of the gruesome attack, noting, prominently: At 2:20 PM (London ti...

  • May 22, 2013

    Diana West: American Subversion, From Communism to Islam

    My friend and colleague Diana West introduced her magnificent, if dark opus "American Betrayal," during an interview with Sun TV's Michael Coren which provides an excellent synopsis of the book's major themes. A lengthier discussion of "American Be...

  • May 15, 2013

    It depends on what the meaning of 'Islam' is

    Has there been a bizarre "harmonic convergence" on Islam between Daniel Pipes, the historian, and unabashed Zionist, and the late Israel-negating, Palestinian polemicist, Edward Said? Daniel Pipes' 5/13/13 essay in The Washington Times derides "tho...

  • May 11, 2013

    Libya's 'Classical Liberal' Sharia Supremacist Leader

    This past week's Benghazi hearings refocused attention on statements made by Libyan leader Muhammad al-Muqaryaf [Magariaf] in the immediate aftermath of the murderous 9/11/2012 attacks on the vulnerable U.S. Benghazi diplomatic mission compound. ...

  • May 9, 2013

    Park His Carcass in the Caucasus

    A New York Times report on Monday 5/6/13 included discussion of the "logistics" complicating burial of jihad terrorist murderer Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose body, as of this morning, Wednesday 5/8/13, remains in storage, and cannot be interred. Two key ...

  • May 4, 2013

    Sharia Über Alles

    Despite a number of (deliberately?) mitigating biases, both methodological and interpretative, the latest Pew Research Forum report, "The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society," released April 30, 2013, confirms the broad appeal of the tota...

  • May 1, 2013

    The Unbearable Lightness of Alan Dershowitz

    It may well be that Alan Dershowitz suffers from a unique syndrome of Law Professor idiot savantism. Or perhaps he is just another vapid, doctrinaire Leftist who (wrongly) views himself as a "traditional liberal" Zionist -- and of course, "sage....

  • April 28, 2013

    Understanding the Syrian revolution

    Just before Christmas, 2012 (12/24/12) , I wrote an extensive critique of US policy in Syria (with the eponymous title, "Why Is America Midwiving a Muslim Brotherhood-Ruled Syria?").  My analysis highlighted the deep seated, mainstream Islamic, ...

  • April 23, 2013

    Tamerlan Tsarnaev and 'A lesson to the inhabitants of the world'

    What's in a name? In the case of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an understanding of the man after whom he is named is essential to grasp to historic forces on whose behalf he allegedly embraced cruel terror, bringing along his kid brother Dzhokhar. The late B...

  • April 23, 2013

    Bostom Interview With Andrea Tantaros on the Tsarnaev's Jihad

      I was interviewed earlier today (4/23/12) by Andrea Tantaros, a co-host of Fox News's The Five, who has her own radio show We discussed this essay. The interview can be heard at this link: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/04...

  • April 17, 2013

    Al-Qaeda Bomb-Making Suggestion: 'Pressurized cooker is the most effective method.'

    The Boston Herald reported that federal investigators have determined that the Boston Marathon bombing was conducted using "kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel." The inaugural issue of al-Qaeda's online ...

  • April 16, 2013

    Al-Qaeda Theorist on Targeting Americans for 'Mass Slaughter'

    Abu Musab al-Suri, a modern jihad "theorist" for Al Qaeda, who is believed to have been involved with both the Madrid (2004) and London bombings (2006), and perhaps even an attack on the Paris metro in 1995, was reported to have been released from Sy...

  • April 11, 2013

    The Dhimmitude of American Jewry

    October 20, 2002, Bat Ye'or (Gisele Littman), the great historian of  dhimmitude -- the humiliating, liberty-crushing, non-citizen pariah status "afforded" non-Muslims who survived the violent jihad conquests of their indigenous homelands by Mus...

  • April 8, 2013

    Violence and Mainstream Islam

    Against the backdrop of 20,651 jihadist attacks since 9/11/2001, and the hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Dhaka, Bengladesh (hat tip Jihad Watch) on the march this past week, demanding the execution of "atheist bloggers" for "blaspheming" Islam, I...

  • April 3, 2013

    A Decade of Indoctrinating Palestinian Muslim Children in Koranic Jew-Hatred

    The Koranic references are described in detail here (and here), but prominently featured are the apes, apes/pigs Koranic depictions of Jews (i.e., Koran 2:65, 5:60, and 7:166), invoked by Muslims since Muhmmad himself railed against the Medinan Jewis...

  • March 31, 2013

    Iraq: A US-Midwived Iranian Client State

    Back in February, 2004, I described with great uneasiness the refusal of "moderate" Ayatollah Sistani (an Iraqi denizen, but one who never relinquished his Iranian citizenship) to meet with U.S. Civilian Administrator in Iraq, Ambassador L. Paul Brem...

  • March 31, 2013

    Anti-Dhimmitude: Likud MK Feiglin Demands Turkish Apology for 1942 Struma Slaughter

    On the heels on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ill-advised, dhimmi-like apology to Turkey's traditionalist Islamic Jew-hating, Sharia supremacist Prime Minister "Mas-Kom-Ya" Erdogan (under morally repugnant pressure from US President Oba...

  • March 25, 2013

    Magdi Allam Leaves Catholic Church Over Its Dhimmitude

    In a profoundly symbolic gesture (hat tip Tundra Tabloids), which epitomizes the Catholic Church's abject dhimmitude, high-profile Muslim convert to Christianity Magdi Christiano Allam, has renounced his Catholicism because of what he terms the Churc...

  • March 24, 2013

    'Silent Conquest' Unblurred

    Andrew Harrod has revealed the sad reality which marred an otherwise remarkable event at The Heritage Foundation,  "Silent Conquest: The End of Freedom of Expression in the West": the Muhammad images under discussion were blurred out, effectivel...

  • March 22, 2013

    Franklin Roosevelt, Ibn Saud, and American Jews

    This morning at AT, Professor Emeritus Edward Bernard Glick described his frank 1958 discussion with Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision not to bomb the railway tracks connecting to the Nazi extermi...

  • March 19, 2013

    Too Hot for American TV

    American television nertworks, Fox News Channel among them, have decided that the attempted assasination of a leading critic of Islam in an American ally is unworthy of attention, so we must look northward for our information. Danish historian and j...

  • March 19, 2013

    Forum: Sharia's Assault on Free Speech

    **Update: Watch the Video on AT** This panel discussion will include the following participants: Lars Hedegaard, Robert Spencer, Tiffany Gabbay, Andrew Bostom, and moderator Michael Graham. Attend or see the event streamed live on Mar 20, 2013 at...

  • March 17, 2013

    What Went Wrong With Bernard Lewis?

    I spent an hour with my colleague, the prolific author Robert Spencer, discussing Bernard Lewis, nonagenarian doyen of Islamic Studies. The entire interview, conducted as a segment for Robert's outstanding weekly series of Jihad Watch programs on the...

  • March 15, 2013

    Ten Key Points on Islamic Blasphemy Law

    There is an intensifying, global campaign to impose Islamic blasphemy law on non-Muslims, including those living outside Islamdom, in non-Muslim societies. What follows are ten key points on the doctrinal origins and practical implications of this gl...

  • March 11, 2013

    The Filibuster, The Dinner, and The Brennan Vote

    Three of the public intellectuals I admire most, my friend, the gifted prosecutor (Andrew McCarthy), my colleague, the comedic genius (Mark Steyn), and my dear friend, the brilliant writer, and wonderful host (Diana West), have opined thoughtfully on...

  • March 11, 2013

    Young Moroccan 'Apostate' on The Arab Spring and Islam

    The invaluable blog Gates of Vienna, has translated the Die Welt interview of a thoughtful, courageous 22 year-old  Moroccan "apostate" from Islam, Kassim al-Ghasali.  Requisitely threatened with death because of his openly professed reject...

  • March 10, 2013

    How Sharia Kills Free Speech

    Al Qaeda's English language magazine Inspire, in its latest edition, has expressed the jihad terror organization's outrage over the "Innocence of Muslims" video trailer, an amateurish production which merely depicted some of the less salutary aspects...

  • March 1, 2013

    Spot the 'Xenophobic Butcher'

    In my earlier blog about NY Times agitprop journalist Andrew Higgins, who calumniated a real journalist and historian, Lars Hedegaard, I mentioned Higgins' warped hagiography of The Danish Muslim Society, and its two recent leaders, whose role in fom...

  • February 28, 2013

    New York Times Demonizes Hedegaard

    Andrew Higgins' "inspirational" muse must be the ignoble New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, who deliberately concealed Stalin's campaign of mass starvation and murder (or "dekulakization") of 14.5 million in the Ukraine, from 1930-1937 (see Robe...

  • February 26, 2013

    Denmark: A Century and Three Quarters of Telling the Truth about Islam

    Over the past two years, I have chronicled the ongoing travails of my intrepid colleague Lars Hedegaard, the Danish journalist and historian,  most recently, his narrowly surviving an assassination attempt by a likely Muslim assailant. Hedegaard...

  • February 26, 2013

    Mark Steyn's Antidote to Burqa-Mandating Texas Teachers

    Todd Starnes of Fox News radio reports that Texas State Sen. Dan Patrick, chairman of the senate education committee, is launching an investigation, after outraged parents provided photographic evidence that their Lumberton (Texas) High School childr...

  • February 24, 2013

    Lars Hedegaard Speaks to the Danish Free Press Society

    Lars Hedegaard, a portrait of courage, tenacity, and wit, under even the most trying circumstances, delivered a remarkable address to the Danish Free Press Society on Thursday 2/21/13, just over two-weeks after surviving an assassination attempt. The...

  • February 21, 2013

    Lars Hedegaard in the Wall Street Journal

    Kudos to the Wall Street Journal Opinion Page and Editorial Board (especially Dorothy Rabinowitz) for publishing Lars Hedegaard's defiant tocsin of looming free speech calamity, "The Assassin at the Door" After laying out the details of the assassina...

  • February 20, 2013

    Fox News and the Saudi Prince

    Diana West has provided a uniquely incisive critique of Fox News' coverage of Islam -- its ongoing bowdlerization, or "Bin Talalization"-with a fascinating chronology that includes coverage of how the network reacted to billionaire Saudi "Prince" Bin...

  • February 17, 2013

    Lars Hedegaard and the Enemies of Truthfulness

    Last week I noted how Michael Coren of Canada's Sun TV was far bolder than any of his US television network colleagues in dealing with Islam's threat to Western free speech, epitomized by Coren's interview of Danish journalist and historian Lars Hede...

  • February 14, 2013

    CAIR's Hooper: If Brennan's A Muslim, He 'Reverted'

    Former Marine, FBI agent and Islamic terrorism expert John Guandolo has argued very cogently that Obama's nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, was unsuited for the job given his willful blindness to, or frank denial of Islamic jihadism in virtually...

  • February 9, 2013

    Hedegaard TV Interview

    Once again illustrating how Canada's Sun TV is far bolder than any US television network in dealing with Islam's threat to Western free speech, Michael Coren, uniquely, interviewed Lars Hedegaard, who survived an assassination attempt earlier this we...

  • February 8, 2013

    Lars Hedegaard Support Website

    My colleague Diana West, a regular contributor to Lars Hedegaard's Dispatch International, just sent me this e-mail announcement: A new site - www.larshedegaard.com - has been set up to keep track of news on Lars' assassination attempt and...

  • February 7, 2013

    Diana West Interviewed about Failed Hedegaard Assassination Attempt

    Diana West was interviewed by Canadian Sun TV's Michael Coren on the failed assassination attempt against Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard. There has been no similar coverage of this latest Islamic assault on Western free speech by U.S. televisio...

  • February 5, 2013

    Failed Assassination Attempt Against Lars Hedegaard

    The intrepid, erudite journalist/historian Lars Hedegaard, head of the Danish Free Press Society, whose free speech travails I have written about here, miraculously survived an assassination attempt earlier today in a Copenhagen suburb. According to ...

  • January 31, 2013

    Qaradawi's admission

    Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Spiritual Guide to the Muslim Brotherhood and popular Al-Jazeera television personality, whose oeuvre of Sharia supremacism and traditional Islamic Jew-hatred inspired the Orwellian-named Al-Qaradawi Centre for Islamic Moderation a...

  • January 25, 2013

    Le Monde: 'The Muslim religion is the subject of a profound rejection by the French'

    Yesterday (1/24/13), Le Monde (hat tip Religion of Peace) published IPSOS survey results of French public attitudes towards Islam under the self-explanatory headline, "La religion musulmane fait l'objet d'un profond rejet de la part des Français" ["T...

  • January 25, 2013

    Hey Hannity, Koran 5:60 Refers to Jews as 'Apes and Pigs'

    Much to his credit, Sean Hannity, incessantly throughout this week (see here, here, and here), has used his Fox News soap box to pillory the Obama Administration for its sale (i.e., purchased with US aid moneys) of F-16 fighter jets and Abrams tanks ...

  • January 19, 2013

    American Hostages to Jihad in Algeria: 1640 to Present

    Early Wednesday (1/16/13) jihadists seized a gas field in Amenas, eastern Algeria, near the border with Libya, taking hostage just under 200 workers, predominantly Algerians, but also some forty foreigners, among them an undisclosed number of America...

  • January 16, 2013

    Persecuting Partners: Murdoch's Saudis Vs. Gore's Qataris

    Yesterday, highlighting a particularly egregious example of preening by Fox's Bill O'Reilly, I reiterated my contention that Fox's well-paid media personalities behave hypocritically when they ignore the morally cretinous Saudi/Rotana/Al-Risala deali...

  • January 15, 2013

    O'Reilly/Fox Hypocrisy

    Last night (1/14/13) Bill O'Reilly devoted his "Factor Impact Segment of the day," (embedded below) to the limited coverage afforded Al Gore's sale of Current TV to Al-Jazeera. Joined by Bernard Goldberg, both men were in high dudgeon against Gore'...

  • January 12, 2013

    Murdoch's Moral Dilemma: A Simple, Ethical Solution

    As I discussed Thursday (1/10/12), Diana West has alerted us to the galling hypocrisy of Fox news personalities lambasting Al Gore for his sale of Current TV to Al-Jazeera, when News Corp (parent company of Fox News) CEO Rupert Murdoch owns an 18.97%...

  • January 11, 2013

    Egypt's Intractable Dilemma

    Ibrahim Nawar, an outspoken advocate of press freedom in Araby, has just published (Thursday 1/10/13) a wistful lament in Al-Ahram about Egypt's predicament since Mubarak was deposed, two years ago, till now. Although Nawar's observations are overly ...

  • January 10, 2013

    West on Rupert Murdoch's Ikhwannabe TV

    The perspicacious and intellectually courageous journalist and writer Diana West has just published an exposé which unveils the breathtaking hypocrisy of the various News Corp entities that have been lambasting Al Gore's sale of Current TV to Al-Jaze...

  • January 4, 2013

    Bostom Interview on Mainstream Islamic Jihadism, Antisemitism, and Totalitarianism (Sharia)

    Author, Islam, Middle East, and Sharia Law expert Andrew G. Bostom, M.D. joins Host, Lee Lazerson for a very candid discussion on Islam, Sharia Law, Jihad and his conviction that Islamic "Extremism" is more in the mainstream than people want to belie...

  • January 1, 2013

    Sesquicentennial Comparisons: Black Slavery in America and Ottoman Turkey

    January 1, 2013 marks the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which set the United States firmly on the path toward the abolition of slavery. Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography, Life an...

  • December 23, 2012

    Quenching 'Sharia Thirst' on the Nile

    Three days before the first round of voting began for Egypt's constitutional referendum on December 15, 2012, Hesham Darwish, from Cairo's Hadayeq al-Qobba district, summarized the views of those who planned to vote "yes," and affirm the charter: ...

  • December 16, 2012

    'Sharia Thirsty' Take Solid First Round Lead in Egypt's Constitutional Referendum

    Al-Ahram is reporting the ten individual governorate and pooled final results, noting that all these unofficial tallies, are from governorates' presiding judges, except Cairo's, which are from the tallies of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Popula...

  • December 14, 2012

    Hadd Times Ahead for Egypt?

    Today (12/14/12), the senior Egyptian judges of the so-called "Judges Club" reaffirmed their previously announced abstention from overseeing the two-stage (i.e., December 15th and 22nd) referendum on Egypt's draft constitution. A rival judicial club...

  • December 13, 2012

    Egyptian Human Rights Organizations Decry Blasphemy Verdict

    Al-Masry Al-Youm is reporting that nine Egyptian human rights organizations, including the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies, and El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, released a joint statement...

  • December 12, 2012

    Will Egyptian 'Liberals' Condemn Coptic Christian Blogger's Blasphemy Sentence?

    Reuters is reporting (12/12/12) that a court in Cairo has sentenced Coptic Christian blogger Alber Saber to a three-year imprisonment for alleged "blasphemy and contempt of religion." The offense for which Saber was convicted was sharing on Facebook...

  • December 9, 2012

    Morsi Annuls Decree, Advances Constitutional Referendum

    Al-Ahram has just published (Sunday 12/9/12)  in English translation the full text of a new constitutional declaration that revokes the controversial constitutional declaration issued by Egyptian President Morsi on November 22, 2012. The earli...

  • December 8, 2012

    Muslim Brotherhood "Machinations", Or Vox Populi?

    Vote Compass is an interactive electoral literacy application, originally founded by Clifton van der Linden at the University of Toronto and subsequently applied internationally by political scientists, including within Egypt. Dutch Political Scienti...

  • December 7, 2012

    Morsi Now Backed by Egypt's US-Equipped Military?

    The Washington Post has just published (12/7/12) a report highlighting how Egyptian President Morsi has cemented his relationship with Egypt's US-equipped military -- an ominous, if predictable development, given the steady, incremental re-Islamizati...

  • December 5, 2012

    Egypt: Why It's Onward Muslim Brotherhood Soldiers

    Today (Wednesday, 12/5/12), Al-Ahram is reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its Sharia supremacist allies are planning "massive" counter-demonstrations supporting President Morsi in front of the presidential palace in Cairo's Heliopolis di...

  • December 3, 2012

    Egypt's 'Sharia Thirst' Closer to Being Quenched?

    Al Ahram, Al Jazeera (via Egypt News), and Reuters are all reporting that Egypt's Supreme Judiciary Council has announced today (Tuesday, 12/3/12) that it will appoint judges and prosecutors to supervise the constitution referendum, slated for Decemb...

  • December 2, 2012

    Morsi's Totalitarian Mandate Is Sharia

    Theodore Roosevelt penned these remarkably prescient words in a 1911 letter to his longtime correspondent and friend, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, reflecting upon Roosevelt's post-presidency visit to Cairo, Egypt, the previous year. The real strengt...

  • November 29, 2012

    Lethal Shiite Iranian Jew-Hatred, Despite Abject Dhimmitude

    I have written repeatedly and at length (here, here 1,2,3,  and here) about the visceral, najis ("infidel impurity")-inspired, intermittently apocalyptic (and certainly at present) Islamic Jew-hatred that has pervaded Iranian Muslim society sinc...

  • November 28, 2012

    Morsi's Sharia Justice: Death Penalties for Expatriate 'Innocence of Muslims' Producers (Updated)

    On September 23, 2012, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammad Morsi issued presidential order No 1/2012 appointing 3,649 judges to Emergency State Security Courts (ESSC). The ESSC, which operated during Egypt's 31-year state of emergency under...

  • November 28, 2012

    Public Sobriety on "Post-Arab Spring" Egypt

    On the heels of Egyptian President Morsi's recent consolidation of power, polling data from a survey of 1,000 Likely Voters by Rasmussen Reports, conducted November 26-27, 2012, reveal once again that the American public is appropriately sober a...

  • November 27, 2012

    Morsi-Supporting Al-Azhar Students: 'Egypt is an Islamic State'

    In a demonstration supportive of President Morsi's recent power-grabbing executive decree, Al Masry Al Youm is reporting that students at Sunni Islam's millennial old de facto Vatican for Islamic religious education, Al-Azhar University, ...demand...

  • November 24, 2012

    Speaking Truth to Hamas

    The remarkably courageous Ramallah-born Mosab Hassan Yousef, the eldest son of Hamas cofounder Sheikh Hassan Yousef and a former Hamas activist himself, served time on several occasions in Israeli prison. Yousef is also known as "the Green Prince,"...

  • November 23, 2012

    Why Hamas Loves Death (and Cease-Fires)

    No less than 20 rockets were fired into Israel Wednesday (11/21/12) night within the first three hours after the cease-fire understanding between Israel and Hamas ostensibly began at 9 p.m. local time. Despite inauspicious beginnings, following an ov...

  • November 19, 2012

    Hamas Renews Its Annihilationist Jihad

    Tuesday, 11/13/12, after participating in a remarkable conference on the Benghazi debacle in Washington, D.C., I was privileged to brief Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), his staff, and other interested parties, highlighting salient points from...

  • November 15, 2012

    Petraeus and Allen: Non-Combatant, General Disgraces

    Unlike Generals David Petraeus and John Allen, Colonel Douglas Macgregor (US Army retired), is an actual combat veteran, and innovative, iconoclastic PhD military strategist. After one year at the Virginia Military Institute, and four years at West ...

  • November 10, 2012

    How Sharia law Impacts U.S. Policy in the Middle East

    I was interviewed live by Lou Dobbs of Fox Business Channel for a segment entitled, "A Look at Sharia Law," following up on this "book sans author cameo appearance.  (Billed, Sharia Versus Freedom author Andrew Bostom on how Sharia law impacts U...

  • November 1, 2012

    Sixty Percent of US Muslims Reject Freedom of Expression

    After violent Muslim reactions to the amateurish "Innocence of Muslims" video, which simply depicted a few of the less salutary aspects of Muhammad's biography, international and domestic Islamic agendas have openly converged with vehement calls for ...

  • October 25, 2012

    Benghazi: From 'See No Sharia' to Ansar al-Sharia

    The Obama administration's wall of mendacity surrounding the murderous 9/11/12 jihadist attack on our Benghazi, Libya diplomatic compound has collapsed under an avalanche of released State Department internal e-mails. Even the reliable mainstream med...

  • October 22, 2012

    Islam, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Presidential Debate - Public Versus 'Elite' Perceptions

    Tonight (Monday 10/22/12) the final presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, will be devoted exclusively to foreign policy. While Osama bin Laden has been assassinated by brave U.S. Navy SEALs (and acc...

  • October 8, 2012

    Pre-Benghazi Attack Pentagon Report: Al Qaeda Jihadists Significant Threat to Libya

    The Pentagon knew how significant the jihadist threat in Libya was, prior to the terror attack that took four lives. The nonpareil national security investigative reporter Bill Gertz brings to our attention an internal 54 pp. Pentagon report obtained...

  • October 7, 2012

    Obama Quote Displayed in Cairo Airport: 'We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.'

    A colleague sent me the image below from Egypt's Cairo Airport, which had been discussed in an e-mail posted September 22, 2012 at Godfather Politics: My husband and I just came back from the Middle East. As we arrived in Cairo, going down the mecha...

  • October 5, 2012

    Ret. Marine John Bernard on Islam and Counter-insurgency Strategy in Afghanistan

    USMC Ret. John Bernard participated in a press conference September 13, 2012 just outside the Capitol Building, under the aegis of Rep. Louis Gohmert, (R, Texas). Bernard, a remarkable American patriot, eviscerated the delusive  Petraeus/McChry...

  • October 3, 2012

    'Islamophobia' is a Sacralized Islamic Objective

    Forget about "Islamophobia" as a social ill akin to racism. The creation of fear of Islam is a sacred obligation of faithful Muslims. Fjordman reminds us how the great contemporary Dutch scholar of Islam  Hans Jansen, has observed that the Koran...

  • September 28, 2012

    Muhammad's Nuptial Example To Be Law In Egypt?

    One of Ayatollah Khomeini's early actions after toppling Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and seizing power, was lowering the marriage age in Iran as per these canonical hadith: Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88: Narrated 'Ursa: The Prophet wro...

  • September 27, 2012

    'Liberal Muslim' Mona Eltahawy Violently Rejects Free Speech

    Stalwart Pamela Hall was caught on a remarkable video defending the New York City subway ads of the American Freedom Defense Initiative from the unhinged anti-free speech jihad of "liberal Muslim" Mona Eltahawy. Ms. Eltahawy objected to the ad depict...

  • September 27, 2012

    Are Feature Length, Honest Muhammad Movies in the Offing?

    The LA Times reported (Tuesday, 9/25/12) that two remarkably courageous Muslim "apostates"-the Palestinian Muslim convert to Christianity Mosab Hassan Yousef, and the Iranian Muslim freethinker Ali Sina-have unbowdlerized, narrative films on the life...

  • September 26, 2012

    Obama, 'the Prophet of Islam,' and Slander

    During his speech to the UN General Assembly yesterday (Tuesday, 9/25/12) Mr. Obama proclaimed, The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. He rapidly cloaked this bold statement regarding Islam, alone, with a pretense of ...

  • September 14, 2012

    Muslim Brotherhood Lies So Obvious Even the US Cairo Embassy Not Fooled!

    September 12, 2012 Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, or "Ikhwan" published an Arabic statement (translated the next day in English here) expressing its views unabashedly on the so-called "blasphemous" Muhammad film and Cairo embassy attack.  The state...

  • September 12, 2012

    Libyan Jihadists' Free hand

    In the wake of the murderous assault on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night, which killed US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other embassy officials, comes this frank eyewitness account (h...

  • September 11, 2012

    Remember the 9/11 Jihad Terror Attacks,

    The late southern Sudanese leader John Garang, in 1999, posed the following dual-part existential question for our era: Is the call for jihad against a particular people a religious right of those calling for it, or is it a human rights violation ag...

  • September 4, 2012

    Muslim Reformer in Denial

    While no one can doubt that the Muslim world needs reform, those who would lead the charge must have clear eyes. I was recently sent the video link to a conference held 3-months ago at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), entitled, "Rescuin...

  • August 26, 2012

    Army Report Buried Islamic Motivations For Afghan Murders of US Troops

    On May 12, 2011 a US Army "Red Team" issued an unclassified report which purported to explain the burgeoning rash of murderous attacks (which have since escalated even further, still) by Afghan National Army (ANA) members on US and other NATO troops....

  • August 23, 2012

    Cruel 'Islamophobic Crime' in Staten Island, Solved!

    The Staten Island Advance is reporting that a message was left Tuesday (8/22/12) on a reporter's voicemail which (one would hope) solves yet another faux "hate crime" against Muslims, again ginned up by the Hamas front and unindicted co-conspirator i...

  • August 23, 2012

    GOP Platform Addresses Sharia Encroachment

    Reports (at "Live" wire , repeated at Salon) are quoting Kansas Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach to the effect that the GOP platform has adopted an amendment which addresses Sharia encroachment. Kobach stated, We see it from the top where t...

  • August 20, 2012

    Salvation and Koranic Crucifixion of Corrupters

    Rick Moran blogged earlier about a report by Raymond Ibrahim regarding the possible crucifixion of opponents of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) President Mohammed Morsi. According to Ibrahim's translation of the primary Arabic sources, critics of Mor...

  • August 14, 2012

    Morsi Elevates 'Closet Muslim Brotherhood General' With US Encouragement

    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi elevated Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, to defense minister, with the apparent encouragement of (rather witless) counterterrorism czar John Brennan, and other ...

  • August 9, 2012

    Educating Dana Milbank About the Abedin Family Journal

    Yesterday, my colleague Andrew McCarthy gave a riveting presentation at The National Press Club about Muslim Brotherhood influence peddling, and national security. (The full text of Andy's prepared remarks are available here; the video of the entire ...

  • August 8, 2012

    Andrew McCarthy on Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration and the 'Grand Jihad'

    Today, Wednesday, August 8, 2012, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Eastern Time, Andrew McCarthy will make a presentation (to be streamed live on C-SPAN 3) at The National Press Club marshalling the data which underpin the call for this Congressional inquir...

  • July 31, 2012

    Newt Staunchly Defends Bachmann, et al. on Muslim Brotherhood Influence-Peddling

    Two years ago, July 29, 2010, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivered a singularly astute and courageous address.  Reactions to that speech across the political spectrum, whether immediate or delayed, illustrated the contemporary equ...

  • July 26, 2012

    A Morsi-Napolitano Jihadist Pipeline to America?

    Team Obama saw fit to delay construction of the desperately needed Keystone pipeline --jeopardizing U.S. energy security by extending our unnecessary reliance on fossil fuels from Muslim countries which use their profits from this trade to foment and...

  • July 24, 2012

    Why Has A Muslim Man Threatened Huma Abedin?

    Yesterday (7/23/12) the New York Post reported that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had been placed under round the clock security protection by NY police and federal officials, following an "unspecified threat" by a Muslim man from New Jersey. New ...

  • July 23, 2012

    Saleha Abedin and the Muslim Sisterhood

    Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann and four other members of Congress -- Representatives Gohmert, Franks, Westmoreland, and Rooney -- have all expressed legitimate concerns to the State Department inspector general (IG) and IGs of the Departments of Def...

  • July 17, 2012

    Gaza: Fulfilling Caliph Umar's Vision?

    A report today (7/17/12) in Haaretz highlights the ongoing plight of Gaza's tiny, fragile Christian minority. Their miniscule numbers have shrunk from a mere 3,500 to about 1,500 since Hamas seized control in 2006,  dispersed among 1.7 million G...

  • July 13, 2012

    Moderate Indonesia Jails Shiite Cleric for 'Blasphemy'

    An update on this story. Shiite cleric Tajul Muluk was accused of telling his followers that the modern Koran was not the original version, and the "true" Koran remains in the hands of Imam Mahdi. The judge's succinct verdict: The defendant was prov...

  • July 11, 2012

    Two Millennia of Global Cooling?

    Notwithstanding the latest hysterical claims from the sadly politicized climate scientologists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), insisting 2011 was somehow "a year of extreme weather," serious investigators at the Johanne...

  • July 9, 2012

    Muslim Brotherhood Re-affirms Jihad Against Israel, and Morsi Gets Invited to the White House

    Two related stories appeared over the weekend. Al-Wafd reported (yet another; see earlier here) pronouncement by Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Supreme Guide Mohammed Badi calling for the jihad conquest (i.e., genocidal destruction) of Israel. Shortly after...

  • July 8, 2012

    Ancient Koranic Origins and Modern Islamic Intolerance

    Wednesday, July 4, 2012, Americans celebrated the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of  Independence, affirming yet again our unique God-given heritage of freedom. ... that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator wi...

  • June 25, 2012

    Allen West: Morsi Election Proof Arab Spring a 'Radical Islamic Nightmare'

    Stalwart Florida Republican Congressman Allen West has written an entry at his official Facebook page on the election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi as Egypt's first popularly-elected President.  With typical, if exceedingly rare...

  • June 17, 2012

    Dr. Jasser's Panglossian Koranic Gloss

    Dr. Mohammed Zuhdi Jasser has just released his first book, A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith. Dr. Jasser's book is epitomized by his summary comments on the Koran which glibly dismiss multiple verse...

  • May 26, 2012

    Egyptian Elections: Confirming Loring's 1884 Assessment?

    William Wing Loring (1818-1886) was a an American soldier, lawyer, and Florida state representative.  His career as a professional soldier included service in the armies of the United States, the Confederacy, and Egypt. Loring fought in the Mexi...

  • May 25, 2012

    Sharia Supremacists Take First and Third Place in Egypt's Presidential Elections

    Reports from the NY Times and Reuters confirm that the Muslim Brotherhood's late entry  "replacement" candidate, Mohammed Morsi, and a rival Muslim Brotherhood member candidate, Aboul Fotouh, garnered first and third place, 25% and 20% of the vo...

  • May 23, 2012

    The Af-Pak Morass

    Yesterday, Tuesday 5/22/12, one year after his appointment, US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker, announced he was stepping down, ostensibly for "health reasons." The announcement followed Monday's NATO summit in Chicago, where the alliance agre...

  • May 21, 2012

    A Giant Passes

    My friend and generous mentor, the historian and fearless human rights activist, David Gerald Littman, died yesterday, May 20, 2012, succumbing to acute myelogenous leukemia, after a stoic, typically intrepid struggle. In addition to amassing his own...

  • May 18, 2012

    Sheikh Bakri Helps Wafa Sultan Educate All Americans on Islam

    Dr. Wafa Sultan, a remarkably courageous and thoughtful Muslim freethinker, recently debated Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad.  Dr. Sultan watched passively while the good sheikh expressed without equivocation his pious views -- in full accord with cl...

  • May 17, 2012

    Americans Understanding Islamic World Better Than George W. Bush

    Tuesday, former President George W. Bush delivered a speech in Washington, D.C. at an event entitled "Celebration of Human Freedom," sponsored by his presidential foundation, the George W. Bush Institute.  The former president observed astutely ...

  • May 15, 2012

    The Vatican and Islam: Has Dhimmitude Prevailed?

    Professor Sergio Itzhak Minerbi was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University and Professor in the Department of Political Science at Haifa University.  His scholarly research has focused upon the relations be...

  • May 15, 2012

    Two-Thirds of Likely US Voters Are Islamo-Realistic

    A survey of 1,000 Likely Voters nationwide conducted on May 10-11, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports has revealed the following key findings: 63% total-80% of Republicans and 62% of  Independents, but only (or even?) 46% of Democrats-believe ...

  • May 12, 2012

    Reclaiming State Department Clarity on Jihad and Sharia

    Islam's defining doctrine of jihad war against non-Muslims, and resultant 14 centuries of sanguinary imperialism, and accompanying acts of terrorism, through the present, notwithstanding, ad nauseum contemporary State Department pronouncements re-aff...

  • May 11, 2012

    COIN's Ultimate See-No-Jihad Failure in 'Af-Pak'

    A 5/9/12 report by MEMRI highlights the ultimate failure of our "Af-Pak policy." The delusional, See-No-Jihad post-modern COIN "strategy" of Petraeus and McChrystal, has culminated, inexorably, with faux "reconciliation," i.e., capitulation to an una...

  • May 5, 2012

    U.S. State Department Witnessed 1974 Birth of Eurabia

    I came across a State Department memo from the U.S. embassy in Madrid, dated September 19, 1974 (1974 Madrid 05880), declassified June 30, 2005. This document reveals that the U.S. was fully aware of the advent of "Eurabia," precisely as self-charact...

  • May 4, 2012

    Our Vast Energy Reserves, Obama Notwithstanding

    Mr. Obama repeatedly insists that the United States has "2% of the world's oil reserves, but uses 20% of the world's oil supply." This is an ignorant, and/or deliberately mendacious claim.   From a primer (hat tip Janet Levy) by the Institu...

  • May 3, 2012

    Islamintern Denounces Wilders' New Book

    Ur-Totalitarian Islam's Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) -- avatar of a modern Caliphate -- is predictably incensed over Geert Wilders' courageous expose of the OIC's/Islam's religio-political agenda, "Marked for Death." The OIC contends Wil...

  • May 1, 2012

    Wilders: 'Many people unfortunately are blind to the true nature of Islam'

    I was privileged to attend a luncheon Monday, 4/30/12, in Manhattan, marking the release of Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders' "Marked for Death." This courageous, profoundly important book was assessed at length in an excellent formal review by Je...

  • April 29, 2012

    Eurabia Versus Wilders Agonistes

    A review-essay on Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me by Geert Wilders,  Regnery Publishing, May1, 2012, 256 pp. See Part I: Wilders Agonistes *** "Scarce half I seem to live, dead more then half." -Samson Agonistes, Line 79 Du...

  • April 28, 2012

    Wilders Agonistes

    A review-essay on Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me by Geert Wilders,  Regnery Publishing, May 1, 2012, 256 pp. *** PART I The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum's current exhibit "Ottomania" punctuates ongoing commemorations marking four...

  • April 24, 2012

    Jihad Denial and Armenian Genocide Remembrance

    The Center for Security Policy, under security analyst Frank Gaffney's bold and thoughtful leadership, is launching a 10-part, web-based video course (key findings summarized here), today, April 24, 2012,  entitled, "The Muslim Brotherhood in Am...

  • April 21, 2012

    Infidel Hedegaard avoids prosecution for Islamic blasphemy in Denmark. For now.

    Intrepid Danish journalist, historian and President of the Free Press Society Lars Hedegaard, has been acquitted unanimously by a panel of seven Supreme Court justices.  led by Chief Justice Børge Dahl. Hedegaard was accused of intentionally den...

  • April 15, 2012

    Ron Paul's Example to Mitt Romney on Jerusalem

    Defying (perhaps) the conventional understanding of his Middle East views, Business Insider is reporting that Congressman Ron Paul made a clear statement of support for Israel's desire to re-locate the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusale...

  • April 11, 2012

    New Jersey Voters Support NYPD Tactics on Jihadism, Reject Christie's Criticism

    Quinnipiac University polling data released today (4/11/12) indicate that by a wide margin, 71% to 20%, New Jersey voters the affirm that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is "doing what is necessary to combat terrorism" by gathering informa...

  • April 8, 2012

    Free Speech Trumps Dearborn's 'Anti-Blasphemy' Efforts

    Yesterday,Pastor Terry Jones staged a peaceful protest against the global jihadist imperative to impose the totalitarian Sharia in defiance of the Dearborn community's transparent effort to assuage the tender sensibilities of its large Muslim communi...

  • April 7, 2012

    Et Tu Tunisia? 'Blasphemy' Punishment in Liberated Tunisia

    On the heels of the three year prison sentence dispensed by an Egyptian court to a17 year-old Coptic Christian boy for allegedly publishing "blasphemous" cartoons on his Facebook page, comes this story from liberated Tunisia, home of the "Jasmine rev...

  • April 5, 2012

    Egypt: Christian Teenager Imprisoned for 'Blasphemy'

    A 17 year old Coptic Christian boy, Gamal Massoud, was sentenced yesterday (Wednesday, 4/4/12) to a three year prison term for allegedly publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that lampooned the Muslim creed, and its prophet. The Assyrian Internati...

  • April 4, 2012

    MB Presidential Candidate Pledges to Implement Sharia in Egypt

    As reported by The Washington Post today (4/4/12), recently announced Muslim Brotherhood (MB)  candidate for the Egyptian Presidency,  Dr. Khairat Al-Shater, Deputy Chairman of the MB,  has affirmed his commitment to implementing Shari...

  • April 3, 2012

    Copts Out in Egypt

    Al Arabiya has reproduced a self-explanatory statement issued by The Coptic Orthodox Church General Council, with the unanimous approval of all of the council's 20 members, opting ...to withdraw from the constitutional assembly... as it found it ...

  • April 1, 2012

    Egyptian MB Presidential Candidate: 'Indeed Islam is Religion and State'

    As noted yesterday, Dr. Khairat Al-Shater, Deputy Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), will be the popular, mainstream Egyptian Islamic party's candidate for the Presidency, breaking the MB's pledge not to seek this executive office, and assure i...

  • January 1, 2012

    Response to Robert Small

    Robert Small's latest essay didn't address any of the (irrefragable) arguments from my two prior evidence-based rebuttals (here, and here) -- as per relevant Western, not Islamic, Sharia-compliant standards --  about the Nadhlatul Ulema's (NU's...

  • November 27, 2011

    Robert Small's Islam

    Robert Small's new exercise in "Islam policy" conveniently ignores my detailed rebuttal of his initial presentation whose linchpin was that the Indonesian Nadhlatul Ulama (NU) party represented the apotheosis of Islamic "moderation." As I pointed out...

  • November 18, 2011

    Egypt: More Evidence on How Islam Liberates Women

    My colleague Al-Mutarjim has translated comments made this week to the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat (via the Gazan publication Donia al-Watan) by a female candidate for the Egyptian Parliament, Muna Salah. The Islamically-enlightened Ms. Salah main...

  • November 17, 2011

    'Liberated' Tunisia, the New Caliphate, and the Jihad Conquest of Jerusalem

    Last month, following the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Ennahda party's landslide victory in the Tunisian elections, I noted the jihadist vision of  their leader, Rachid Ghannouchi.   Now Ennahda's general secretary, Hamadi Jebali touted a...

  • October 29, 2011

    Liberated Libya: Al Qaeda Flag Aloft Benghazi's Courthouse

    The courthouse in Benghazi, is the iconic seat of the revolt which toppled Qaddafi -- Libya's "(im)moral equivalent" to Egypt's Tahrir Square.  During the tumultuous months of Libya's brutal civil war, it was here that rebel forces established a...

  • October 25, 2011

    The Jihadist Vision of Tunisia's New 'Democratic' Leader

    When the final tally is completed, Tunisia's Sharia-promoting Ennahda party is predicted to garner from 30% , to as much 50% of the popular vote (an unhappy medium of 40% was projected yesterday). Indeed the expatriate Tunisian vote tally for Ennahda...

  • October 24, 2011

    'Liberated' Tunisia: 40% Plurality to Mainstream Sharia-Promoting Ennahda Party

    Voice of America is reporting:  Although official results have yet to be announced, provisional results give the [mainstream Sharia-promoting] Ennahdha party about 40 percent of the vote. President Obama's (sadly predictable) "upbeat" reaction:...

  • October 23, 2011

    Sharia über Alles versus Western Justice

    How is it that intelligent people cannot see the lesson of history when sharia enters a non-Islamic society, step by step?  Yale Assistant Professor of religious studies Eliyahu Stern's 9/2/11 NY Times op-ed ("Don't Fear Islamic Law in America")...

  • October 15, 2011

    Coptic Church Construction and Egyptian Muslim 'Emasculation'

    Traditional Islamic religious authorities regard church construction, or any display of non-Islamic religions as "emasculating" of Muslims. No wonder Egypt's Copts face such travails.  Because it was excerpted in Bat Ye'or's pioneering The Dhimm...

  • October 12, 2011

    Educating Charles Krauthammer on the Copts and Egyptian Islam

    Educating Charles Krauthammer, Part 3 (see parts 1 and 2, here and here) Tuesday evening (10/11/11) on Fox News's Special Report "panel", the resident journalistic eminence grise, Charles Krauthammer, attributed the murderous Muslim depredations aga...

  • October 8, 2011

    See No Jihad and Our Failed Pakistan Policy

    Consistent with the US military's willful blindness to the Islamic enemy doctrine of jihad, as described elegantly by Major Steven Coughlin (in his 333 pp. 2007/2008 thesis, To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad), security ...

  • October 7, 2011

    Making Afghanistan Safe for Sharia - Child Brides Division

    As reported by the London Evening Standard, (hat tip Religion of Peace) to its own self-described "shock" (despite the commonality of the practice -- i.e., notwithstanding the civil law against child brides, more than half of all Afghan girls are mar...

  • October 6, 2011

    Al Azhar's (Endless) Spring Time for Jihad and Jew-Hatred

    Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), reporting (October 2, 2011) about the 5th International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada in Tehran, touted it as "...including participation of parliamentary delegations including several speakers, leading politic...

  • October 5, 2011

    Moroccan Muslim 'Apostate' to Christianity Survives Stabbing and Gets US Asylum

    The noble American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been supporting the defense efforts for Youcef Nadarkhani, has helped a Moroccan "apostate" to Christianity (a young man identified as "Z") obtain asylum in the US. Raised in a "purely t...

  • October 3, 2011

    Hillary should look to Italy's Foreign Minister for some guts

    The fate of Iranian "apostate" pastor Youcef Nadarkani still hangs by a thread.  In contrast to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's rather tepid statement  that the "US stands with the international community" in calling "for a government ...

  • October 2, 2011

    CAIR's silence on pastor's apostasy death sentence is deafening

    Will Mainstream American Islam Condemn Pastor Nadarkhani's "Apostasy" Death Sentence? Where is CAIR? Where is the Islamic Society of North America? Almost 90 years ago, in his 1924 The Law of Apostasy in Islam, Samuel Zwemer made these observations, ...

  • September 27, 2011

    Romney and Perry Lagging Behind on Commitment to Prosecution of US Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups?

    Kudos to the dogged and intrepid J. Mark Campbell of The United West, who has obtained video recorded commitments from Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain to pursue and prosecute the major Muslim Brotherhood front groups currently operating...

  • September 25, 2011

    Indonesian Islam and Nahdlatul Ulama without Camouflage

    Robert Small's AT essay on the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Indonesian Islam reads more like a "Just So Story" than a "True Story." As per article 2 of the founding NU Statutes of 1926, the goal of this association was: To uphold one of the schools ...

  • September 22, 2011

    Poll: Likely American Voters Are Islamo-Realistic

    A national poll of 1,000 likely voters was completed in August by Democratic pollster Pat Caddell, and Republican pollster John McLaughlin for Secure America Now. The published results indicate that unlike our media, academic, and political elites, A...

  • September 19, 2011

    Support Canada's Ethical Oil Program (and Free Speech)!

    Alykhan Velshi is an Ismaili Muslim, in the noble modernist tradition of A.A. Fyzee, who graduated with a law degree from The London School of Economics. In July, 2005 he wrote these frank words published at NRO: The war on terror is not simply agai...

  • September 18, 2011

    The 'Good' Revolt in Syria, or Just More Revolting Jihadists?

    Adnan al Aroor, moderate, peaceful icon of the Syrian rebellion: Syrian Christians will be dog meat. While Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria in the early 1970s, these were the conditions under which Syrian Jews lived:  Jews were required to live in gh...

  • September 14, 2011

    Imam Rauf's World Trade Center Conquest Imagery

    When Ground Zero Mosque promoter Imam Feisal Rauf's book, What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West, was published in Indonesian in 2007, it acquired a modified title - "Seruan Azan Dari Puing WTC: Dakwah Islam di Jantung Amerika...

  • September 11, 2011

    9/11/2011: Will We Finally Heed Ibn Warraq?

    Ten years later, Ibn Warraq's statement from September 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the horrific acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/2001, contains irrefragable truths still tragically ignored by our policymaking elites, both military and diplomati...

  • September 5, 2011

    Rick Perry, the Ismailis, and an Iconic Ismaili Intellectual

    While researching my forthcoming book, "Sharia Versus Freedom -- The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism," I discovered the work of an iconic contemporary Ismaili Muslim intellectual, Asaf A. A. Fyzee. As a law professor consummately trained in Western...

  • September 2, 2011

    Petraeus/McChrystal Afghan rules of engagement called 'beyond the pale, immoral'

    WHJJ's Helen Glover conducted a superb interview of the remarkable American patriot, USMC Ret. John Bernard.  John Bernard eviscerates the Petraeus/McChrystal Rules of Engagement -- a natural product of their delusive counter-insurgency (COIN) d...

  • August 30, 2011

    Our Post-9/11 Strategic Failure Confirmed in Pakistan

    As we rapidly approach the ten year anniversary of the mass murderous jihad terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,  the complete lack of American geostrategic vision becomes more glaringly apparent, on all fronts, domestic and international, military a...

  • August 25, 2011

    Israeli Ambassador Confirms: Erdogan 'Hates Us Religiously'

    The progressive dismantling of Turkey's experiment in Westernization/ secularization -- which began within a decade of Ataturk's death -- came to popular, if ugly, fruition with the election of the Necmettin Erbakan government in the early 1990s....

  • August 24, 2011

    77% of Democrats (and Ron Paul) Voted Against Rules Of Engagement That Protect Our Troops

    Florida Republican Congressman John Mica offered the following morally clear Amendment (5/25/2011-H.AMDT.318 (A018) Amends H.R.1540): Amendment requires that the rules of engagement [ROE] allow any military service personnel assigned to duty in a de...

  • August 22, 2011

    Libya Made Safe for Sharia?

    Albeit without the awful toll of American blood, and far less American treasure, the US under President Obama's feckless, if now "triumphal" leadership, has extended the delusive utopian policy of his Republican predecessor-"Making the World Safe for...

  • August 18, 2011

    The Muslim aversion to dogs

    The heartbreaking story of dog torture in Afghanistan has moved the hearts of many a friend of man's best friend. Update:  Last night (8/17/11) Mark Levin read my essay about the "sacralized" Islamic brutalization of dogs in Afghanistan on ...

  • August 18, 2011

    Mainstream American Muslim Jurisprudence on Dogs

    In follow-up to the wrenching story related yesterday about Wiley, a cruelly brutalized Afghan mutt -- treated in accord with doctrinal and historical Islamic attitudes towards dogs -- I discovered the fatwas (reproduced below) on dogs and dog owners...

  • August 17, 2011

    Canine Cruelty By Our 'Afghan Allies'

    The Australian (hat tip Religion of Peace) has a moving report on the humane efforts of Australian Federal Police officer Narelle Jensz to rescue Afghan dogs -- viewed as "unclean" in Islam, and therefore wantonly brutalized by local Muslims. ...

  • August 16, 2011

    Bat Ye'or: 'The universal caliphate stands before us'

    Bat Ye'or's 2005 Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis portrayed Western Europe's recrudescent dhimmitude, chronicled in real time, by our most informed contemporary scholar of the dhimmi condition. Living as an eyewitness in Geneva -- a major European center...

  • August 15, 2011

    Foxman: Wrong on Sharia, Too

    Abraham Foxman's latest uninformed rant, "Shout down the Sharia myth makers," re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven organizational Jewish "leader." The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)'s Foxman sprays defamatory charges -- roo...

  • August 8, 2011

    The RAF Ayatollah

    An apparently rare breed of British military officer with the appropriate patriotic moral clarity and courage has leaked alarming (if seemingly "hiding in plain sight") information to The Daily Mail about the exploits of a convert to Islam, Dr Joel H...

  • August 5, 2011

    Pinning Anders Breivik on a blogger

    My colleague, the perspicacious Norwegian essayist Fjordman (whose prolific writings can be read here), was compelled to surrender his anonymity after reluctantly granting an interview to Verdans Gang (published in English, here). An hysterical, mora...

  • July 26, 2011

    Bill O'Reilly Debunks the 'Christian Terrorist' Canard

    Brevik, the Norwegian mass murderer of non-Muslims, is an isolated monster with no Christian religious affiliation whatsoever. The jihad, however, is a mass Islamic religious phenomenon of monstrous proportions, with some 17,500 jihadist attacks havi...

  • July 19, 2011

    Death sentence for Christian convert in Iran

    Two Iranian Supreme Court justices have denied an appeal of Youcef Nadarkhani's December 5, 2010 death sentence for the uniquely Islamic "crime" of apostasy. Islam stands alone amongst all modern faiths, adamantly denying its votaries freedom of cons...

  • July 18, 2011

    Wilders: 'Jews shouldn't emigrate, Antisemitic Moroccans should'

    Last week Former European Union Commissioner Frits Bolkenstein, in his just-released book on Dutch Judaism, claimed that "recognizable" Jews (those who wear kippahs or payot) were unsafe in the Netherlands due to Moroccan Muslim immigrant J...

  • July 17, 2011

    Post-Surge Iraq: 2010 'Worst Year' for Christian Minority

    General David Petraeus continues to receive plaudits for the "successful surge" in Iraq -- based upon his credo, "What have you done to win Iraqi hearts and minds today?" -- as he transitions to becoming the new head of the Central Intelligence Agenc...

  • July 16, 2011

    Baer: Israel To Dismember Iranian Nukes in September?

    Veteran CIA officer Robert Baer, who spent more than two decades years in the Middle East, including stints in Lebanon and Syria, predicted on Pacifica Radio's KPFK Los Angeles show Background Briefing Tuesday that Israel would attack Iran's Natanz n...

  • July 15, 2011

    Only 73% of Palestinians Want Jews Annihilated (as Per Islam's Canonical Hadith)

    Data have just been released from a survey completed this week which confirm the implacable, murderous irredentism of Israel's Palestinian Muslim "peace partners." American pollster Stanley Greenberg performed what is described as an "intensive, face...

  • July 6, 2011

    Islamintern Denounces Islamo-realistic Free Speech in Holland (Updated)

    See update at bottom The Islamic world has shown again that it cannot tolerate free speech regarding Islam and its prophet.  Bat Ye'or has appositely characterized Geert Wilder's recent acquittal as a "Copernican revolution," achieved by a solit...

  • July 3, 2011

    The 'Arab Spring' explains itself further

    Tunisia, the epicenter of the 'Arab Spring,' rejects 'any form of normalization with the Zionist state' From ANSA Med: Tunisia's commission of political reform announced that it adopted (by majority) a "republican pact'" that will be the basis of th...

  • June 29, 2011

    Erdogan: Imprisoning Turkish Generals -- and Ending Secularism

    Turkey  continues its regression to full re-Islamization -- a process already begun within a decade of Ataturk's death in 1938 -- and about to be fully realized under the fundamentalist Erdogan regime. Shredding the Turkish Constitution, which i...

  • June 28, 2011

    Our Iraqi, Afghan, and Pakistani 'Allies' Attend and Support Iran's Anti-Western 'Counter-terrorism Conference'

    Our "allies" in attendance at an Orwellian Counter-terrorism Conference in Tehran (June 25-26, 2011)  were Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Pakistani President Zardai. Not only did these "allies" apparently fail...

  • June 20, 2011

    Ramping Up to Another Jihad Genocide in The Sudan?

    There is a refreshingly honest -- and alarming -- piece by Alan Boswell writing for Time on the accumulating evidence that yet another jihad genocide may be under way in The Sudan -- Arab Muslim mass murderers preying upon indigenous non-Arab, primar...

  • June 14, 2011

    Debating Islam Last Night

    Previously, I have compared and contrasted Newt Gingrich's lucid understanding of the threat posed by Sharia supremacism, versus Mitt Romney's muddled apologetic on jihad. Last evening's (6/13/11) New Hampshire Republican primary candidates debate i...

  • June 9, 2011

    Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Democrats to Form 'Perfect Slavery to Allah Party'

     From Ikhwan Web:   Egypt's largest political opposition the Muslim Brotherhood, has confirmed that it is preparing to establish a political party calling it the Freedom and Justice Party, or Horeya and Adala." Horey...

  • June 7, 2011

    US Mosque Data Bill O'Reilly Requested Now Available

    Bill O'Reilly, to his considerable credit, does not shy away from the appropriate use and discussion of the word jihad -- for example, in this posting from July, 2007 entitled, "Avoiding the Jihad". Indeed, this author had a frank if somewhat brief d...

  • June 6, 2011

    Bostom Interviewed About Survey Revealing 81% of US Mosques Promote Jihad

    I was interviewed this morning (6/6/11) on The Helen Glover Show, WHJJ, Providence, RI, about this story, "Mosques as Barracks in America" The interview (~ 9 minutes, 40 seconds) can be heard  by going to this link and clicking on "Play"...

  • June 5, 2011

    Mosques as Barracks in America

    Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan represents the triumphant Janus-faced approach to the fundamentalist global "Islamic revival." He and his pious forbears have now completed dismantling Turkey's secular experiment, and achieved the full-throated re-Isla...

  • June 1, 2011

    Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Dismantling Mubarak's State for a Sharia State

    Former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit warned on Tuesday 5/31/11that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is using mosques as the headquarters of its party branches, while gradually, but inexorably seeking to establish a Shari'a-based state. He added that the...

  • June 1, 2011

    Geert Wilders Closing Remarks at His Kafkaesque Trial

    [The verdict will be announced June 23rd]  Mister President, members of the Court,  I am here because of what I have said. I am here for having spoken. I have spoken, I speak and I shall continue to speak. Many have kept silent, but not Pim...

  • June 1, 2011

    Andrew Bostom Interview: 'Islamo-Nazism in Egypt'

    Interview (go to link here, and then click play for ~8 minute interview) with Helen Glover of WHJJ Providence, RI, about the symbiotic relationship between Islam and Nazism in Egypt, and its focus on Johannes "Omar Amin" von Leers. The interview is a...

  • May 31, 2011

    Sociologist Sued for Exposing Islamic Jew-Hatred

    According to Ahlul Bayt New Agency, The Vigilance Musulmane (Muslim Vigilance) advocacy group filed a complaint with the Centre for Equal Opportunities and the Fight Against Racism (CGKR) against VUB professor of sociology Mark Elchardus for statemen...

  • May 30, 2011

    The Nazis Find a Home in Post-Mubarak Egypt

    Wednesday May 25, 2011 a group of Egyptians, led by founding member Emad Abdel Sattar proclaimed the establishment  of "a contemporary frame of reference" Nazi Party.Sattar reportedly stated that the party, whose founding deputy is a f...

  • May 29, 2011

    First Amendment Trumps Sharia in Dearborn

    A rare and striking vindication of American free speech principles came this week, setting back those American Muslims who believe that in their own enclaves, sharia-based restrictions on religious freedom should exist.A seminal, if ominous report re...

  • May 27, 2011

    Libyan 'Freedom Fighters' Murderous Jihad Against Non-Arab Blacks

    An Eritrean priest in Rome, Don Mussje Zerai, who oversees the Habeshia cooperation and development agency, is reporting that murderous atrocities are being committed against non-Arab black Libyans in territories under the control of the US and NATO ...

  • May 26, 2011

    Massive Baghdad Shiite Rally Chants 'No, No America'

    While the fierce bravery and fighting skill of our troops, combined with a massive infusion of cash hand-outs ("baksheesh") to "tribal leaders," throttled Iraq's Sunni insurgency, it did nothing to alter the country's transformati...

  • May 25, 2011

    Pakistan's Military Elite: Trained in Anti-Americanism, and Believe 9/11 Was a 'Jewish Conspiracy'

    Then U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson, alarmed by her interaction with trainees  at Pakistan's National Defense University (NDU), where, after addressing them, she had  "received astonishingly naive and biased questions abou...

  • May 24, 2011

    Kennedy Library's Springtime for Sharia Award

    Wael Ghonim, Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa was presented Monday 5/23/11  with one of the 2011 "Profiles in Courage" awards  by the John F. Kennedy Library.  Ghonim was honored for his purport...

  • May 18, 2011

    Majority of our Pakistani Allies Grieve for Bin Laden, and Plurality See Him as a Martyr for Jihad

    The Pakistani affiliate of Gallup International. "Gallup Pakistan," and the Gilani Foundation polled a representative sample of 2,530 men and women in the rural and urban areas comprising a cross-section of various education, income, age an...

  • May 18, 2011

    U.S. to Partner with Taliban...Instead of Killing Them

    As reported by the London Telegraph, new U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman, "Mr. Appeasement," ...err, "Mr Reconciliation," is busy completing the diplomatic side of our miserably failed COIN strategy which will deliver Afghanistan...

  • May 16, 2011

    92 Year-Old Palestinian Arab Woman Who Witnessed the 1929 Hebron Anti-Jewish Pogrom Urges Another Larger One

    MEMRI has excerpted a pathognomonic interview of a 92-year-old Palestinian Arab woman who witnessed the murderous 1929 anti-Jewish ethnic cleansing pogrom in Hebron. She openly celebrates the slaughter of the Jews of Hebron as an appropriate paradigm...

  • May 15, 2011

    Miami Taliban Imam's Son Damning Wiretaps 'A Misinterpretation of Language'

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  • May 13, 2011

    A Warning to America: Geert Wilders in Nashville, Tennessee 5/12/11

    Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders gave a speech last evening in Nashville at the Cornerstone Church, reproduced, below. James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888), was an American theologian, philosopher, author, and abolitionist. He also became one of the f...

  • May 13, 2011

    Egyptian Democrats: "The victory of our revolution will not be complete without the liberation of Palestine"

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  • May 9, 2011

    Turkey: Thousands Mourn Bin Laden, Condemn America

    An ugly phenomenon is on display in today's Turkey, supposedly modern and securlar, but in fact re-Islamifying at a rapid pace.  As reported by YNET:Thousands participated in a funeral ceremony for assassinated Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in...

  • May 7, 2011

    From Kabul, Taliban Threatens To Avenge Bin Laden's Death

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  • May 7, 2011

    Did Naval Burial Ceremony for Bin Laden Curse Jews and Christians, and Confer Pardon and Paradise on the Muslim Mass Murderer?

    Anneke Green has a disturbing analysis in the Washington Times which indicates the very likely specifics of the burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson -- repeatedly noted by witless counter-terrorism czar John Brennan to be in strict "confor...

  • May 6, 2011

    Chicago Muslim Convert Sentenced for Murdering Five Family Members Who Had Not Converted to Islam

    James Larry was a prison convert to Islam. The gruesome story's key findings, as reported by The Chicago Tribune, are presented below."He was upset at his wife and their family -- he felt disrespected that they would not join his religion,"...

  • May 5, 2011

    The Muslim Brotherhood and Spring Time for Sharia in Araby

    It is important to recognize why the Muslim Brotherhood certainly does represent the apotheosis of the so-called "Arab Spring" or more aptly, "Spring Time for Sharia in Araby."We must recognize, as serious scholars of the pre-Edwa...

  • May 5, 2011

    Andrew Bostom Interviewed About Bin Laden's Burial and Death Photos

    Today on America's Morning News Radio Show with John McCaslin I discussed how the absurdly self-abasing burial, and the failure to release proof of death photos of Bin Laden, which the American public fully deserves, are conjoined by a unifying willf...

  • May 4, 2011

    Hedegaard Show Trial in Denmark

    I learned of the horrific "honor" murder of a 20-year-old Muslim young woman in Michigan by her pious Muslim stepfather, within a short time after receiving news of the profoundly disturbing turn of events in the Lars Hedegaard show trial (...

  • May 3, 2011

    The Muslim Brotherhood on 'Sheikh' Bin Laden's Killing: A Re-Affirmation of Shared Goals

    An English translation of the official Arabic pronouncement by the Muslim Brotherhood on Osama Bin Laden's assassination was posted at Pajamas Media by Sami al-Abasi. The statement is a striking re-affirmation of the Brotherhood's deep seated sympath...

  • May 2, 2011

    Bin Laden's Burial and Our Dhimmitude

    A "senior Defense (is that term "defense" even appropriate?) Department official" describes the Muslim religious rites administered for Osama bin Laden (isn't that grotesquely hypocritical if Bin Laden's acts were "anti-Islam...

  • May 1, 2011

    Dearborn, Michigan: America's First Sharia-Compliant Muslim Enclave?

    Yesterday, (4/29/11) a Muslim mob of 50, disturbingly reminiscent of their co-religionists across a vast swath of official Islamdom,  breached the security cordon at the City Hall in Dearborn, Michigan separating them from their speechifying nem...

  • April 29, 2011

    Lara Logan Speaks Out on Her Rape

    Breaking her silence, Lara Logan (aptly) categorizes her own 2/11/11 "sexual assault" by some 200 to 300 Egyptian democracy advocates as a merciless, extended rape.For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands...My clothes ...

  • April 19, 2011

    Brit Veteran Imprisoned for Koran Burning

    Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in British  Commonwealth countries commemorating their armed forces who have died on duty since World War I.  In Flanders Fields was the inspiration for making the red remembrance poppy emblematic ...

  • April 16, 2011

    Beyond Facial Veiling for US Muslims

    In light of the heated debate over the so-called "burqa ban" in France, I consulted the website of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) -- the mainstream Islamic organization that trains US imams, and offers advice to individual...

  • April 15, 2011

    More Korans Burned by Rampaging Afghan Allies Than by Terry Jones

    The Department of Islamic Hypocrisy, open 24-hours, 7 days a week, from The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo News: As the dust settles in Afghanistan after sustained protest over a Florida pastor's Quran burning, many residents in Kandahar are fac...

  • April 15, 2011

    More Islamic Hypocrisy: Jordan to 'Try' Danish Cartoonist for 'Blasphemy'

    More evidence of institutional Islam's 24/7 hypocrisy via The Daily Telegraph:A Jordanian court will try Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard over a controversial caricature of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Zakarya Sheikh, spokesman for a group of local...

  • April 13, 2011

    Our Muslim 'Allies'

    More evidence of Islam's respect for women, and the dhimmitude of the US military. Why are we "training" such persons at our military institutions? Diana West points out that overseas in Afghanistan, training the "security forces"...

  • April 9, 2011

    Ann Barnhardt Fights Totalitarian Islam and Its Useful Idiots

    Once again a mere flicker -- in this case burning a copy of the Koran in Florida -- has ignited the inferno of deeply seated infidel-hatred that pervades the contemporary Muslim world, precipitating violence, death, and general mayhem amongst our Afg...

  • April 4, 2011

    Koran-inspired Libyan rebels 'as likely to attack the CIA as Qaddafi'

    Former CIA operative Robert Baer had extensive hands-on experience in Libya during his career. Here is Baer's assessment of the Libyan "freedom fighters" from a recent CNN interview, which features his acknowledgments of the Koranic incitem...

  • April 3, 2011

    Leaving Afghanistan to Its 'Blasphemy' Murder Mobs (updated)

    Una Moore, self-described "international development professional based in Afghanistan," despite a predilection for immoral equivalence, captures the sheer futility of any Western endeavor in this hotbed of Islamic irredentism. The blasphem...

  • April 1, 2011

    What the 'Arab Spring' has Sprung

    More evidence of what is coming in Egypt. Details provided here:A lawyer who works with various Islamist groups has predicted that 3000 leading figures of the Jama'a al-Islamyia and Egyptian Islamic Jihad groups will return to Egypt in a few days, as...

  • March 31, 2011

    Bengladesh: Fourteen Year Old Girl Raped, Charged With Adultery, and Lashed to Death

    A tragic example of Sharia perversity from Bangladesh provides  gruesome context to the previous blog on the alleged rape victim in Libya, and her ominous predicament.Below are the salient, if repugnant details, reported by CNN.Her fellow villag...

  • March 30, 2011

    Libya: Bombing to Support Jew-Hating Jihadists?

    As the UK Independent reports, thwarted in their efforts  to reach the city of Sirte, Muammar Qaddafi's birthplace,  and a key strategic milestone on the path to Tripoli, most of the Libyan "freedom fighting rebels" retreated in d...

  • March 29, 2011

    Educating Bill O'Reilly on the 'Rape Factor' in Islam (updated)

    Last night for a few brief shining television moments (captured here), Wafa Sultan, courageous  author of the indispensible jeremiad "A God Who Hates," strove gamely to educate Bill O'Reilly -- often seemingly impenetrable by facts reg...

  • March 26, 2011

    Geert Wilders in Rome: Defending the West from Cultural Relativism and Jihad

    Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a seminal address yesterday evening (March 25, 2011) at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome, Italy.As is his wont, Wilders presentation moved far beyond the timorous platitudes about the m...

  • March 24, 2011

    The Lethal Dhimmitude of Our Armed Forces

    Diana West has posted a trenchant blog on the barely reported weekend murders of two American soldiers (and shootings of four others) by yet another Afghan security contractor, which brings the total to nine such murders in the past two months. She a...

  • March 23, 2011

    The Libya 'Campaign' and Western Malaise

    Yesterday (3/22/11) during two interviews I described the tragic legacy of Western moral and geostrategic perversity on display in Libya, vis a vis unrelenting Islamic jihadism, which dates back to the Armenian genocideThe first interview was on Amer...

  • March 18, 2011

    US should shun enforcing no fly zone in Libya

    President Obama has given an ultimatum to Col. Qaddafi: accept an immediate ceasefire, pull back from Libyan rebel strongholds and permit humanitarian assistance - or face the full onslaught of UN-endorsed air strikes.The aptly named (hat tip Diana W...

  • March 13, 2011

    Keith Ellison's Taqiyya

    Matthew Shaffer of NRO (as noted here by Ethel Fenig) exposed Keith Ellison's mendacious taqiyya (Koran-sanctioned Islamic dissimulation) theater during the Congressman's testimony at Thursday's Homeland Security Hearings on American Muslim radicaliz...

  • March 6, 2011

    Qadaffi's 'Offer' to Libya's Vanished Jews

    The most predictable outcome of Libya's violent internecine struggle-cum-latest-Arab- "democracy movement" was aptly characterized by Andrew McCarthy: "The Libyan people are no more our ally than Qaddafi." McCarthy expanded upon t...

  • March 4, 2011

    Romney and Gingrich on Jihad (and Sharia)

    During an interview with US News reporter Dan Gligoff published June 3, 2009, Mitt Romney offered the following bizarre observation about the living Islamic institution of jihad, ostensibly to "clarify" remarks made during an earlier speech...

  • February 22, 2011

    Qaradawi and The Treason of the Intellectuals

    Last Friday (2/18/11) marked the triumphal return to Cairo of Muslim Brotherhood "Spiritual Guide" Yusuf al-Qaradawi. After years of exile, his public re-emergence in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation's provisional military rulers. Qaradaw...

  • February 19, 2011

    Our Afghan Ally Preaches Islamic Jew (and Other Infidel) Hatred

    Our allies in Afghanistan once again prove that antisemitism can flourish even in the absence of any Jews. The  Washington Post reports in "Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S.," published 2/17/:Under the weathered blue dome...

  • February 18, 2011

    'Pray For Conquest of Jerusalem; I Want To Give Friday Prayer Sermon At Al-Aqsa'

    The man might well become Egypt's Khomeni, Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, gave his sermon in Cairo's Tahrir Square today,  and the outlook is not good. Courtesy of the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute:In a special mention of the...

  • February 17, 2011

    Lara Logan and Egyptian Muslim Jew-Hatred

    Last Friday (2/11/11), Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, was beaten and sexually assaulted in Cairo during a thirty minute assault by a frenzied throng of over 200 Egyptians. According to a report in today's New York Pos...

  • February 15, 2011

    Suhail Khan -- A 'Tearful' Champion of Jihad Martyrdom

    This past weekend at CPAC, David Horowitz associated Suhail Khan, now a "stalwart" of the American Conservative Union, with the broader movement of  resurgent Islamic totalitarianism:We are also faced both at home and abroad with an ex...

  • February 15, 2011

    Koranic Dissimulation is Normative Islam

    Yesterday (2/14/11) Sean Hannity asked about Koran sanctioned lying/ dissimulation (or "taqiyya") during a debate between Robert Spencer and Michael Ghouse.Spencer appropriately cited Koran 3:28, and alluded to one classical Koranic comment...

  • February 6, 2011

    The 'Trusting Khomeini' Syndrome, Redux?

    International Law Professor Richard Falk has become infamous for his calumnies against Israel, based upon deliberately (and transparently) deceitful "investigations."An eternal written testament to Falk's sheer, triumphal idiocy -- and a ha...

  • February 4, 2011

    Egypt, 'Hurriyya' Vs. Freedom, and 'Muslim Moderates'

    Ominous polling data from the contemporary Egyptian population reflect their deep, longstanding favorable inclination toward the Sharia, in all its totalitarian, brutally anti-freedom "glory." The electorally successful Algerian Sharia supr...

  • January 31, 2011

    Breaking news: Lars Hedegaard Acquitted! (Updated with victory statement)

    Just received the following e-mail from Lars Hedegaard:"I was acquitted. A major victory for free speech!"For background on Lars Hedegaard and hbis struggle for free speech about Islam in Denmark, see this and this.A victory for free speech...

  • January 29, 2011

    Pat Condell on the Lars Hedegaard Show Trial

    The nonpareil Pat Condell has provided us with this blunt, succinct lesson for all to learn about the Lars Hedegaard show trial. Below are some key extracts, but watch the entire brief video (below)In this trial as the other two show trials currently...

  • January 24, 2011

    Lars Hedegaard: Defending Free Speech from Western Enablers of Totalitarian Islam

    The Kafka-esque trial proceedings against Danish journalist and historian Lars Hedegaard today included a final statement by the defendant. Next Monday (January 31,2011) the (pre-ordained) verdict will be handed down. What follows are Mr. Hedegaard's...

  • January 11, 2011

    Beaky Buzzard Released -- Not A Zionist Spy After All?

    An update on this earlier blog:Bandar bin Saud, Saudi Arabia's "nature authority," has admitted that allegations of Zionist avian espionage were indeed false, adding that The Kingdom employs similar devices for tracking rare bird migratory ...

  • January 6, 2011

    Beaky Buzzard, Zionist/Mossad Agent?

    Tuesday (1/4/11) the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Weeam, claimed a vulture, "R65" tagged with the words, "Tel Aviv University," was detained as a Mossad spy. Donning a leg bracelet and transmitter, apparently placed by Israeli ornit...

  • January 5, 2011

    Clear-Eyed Coptic Bishop Rejects Islamic 'Tolerance'

    In a brave, refreshing display of "anti-dhimmitude," Msg. Barnaba el Soryany, Bishop of the Coptic Church in Rome, rejected any presence of representatives of Rome's Muslim community -- either religious or political -- at a demonstration to...

  • January 4, 2011

    Allen West Knows Sharia

    A previous AT blog featured Allen West's candid remarks about the living legacy of jihad during a forum in early 2010. Below are extracts from an interview West gave with Frank Gaffney, subsequently, after his election to Congress, this past November...

  • December 28, 2010

    Bill O'Reilly's Mindslaughter

    It is somewhat ironic that immensely popular Fox News host Bill O'Reilly epitomizes willful blindness to Sharia, or Islamic Law, encroachment in the US.  Mr. O'Reilly has been pilloried by the left for both his undeniably accurate statements tha...

  • December 15, 2010

    Victims of the Endless Jihad, United?

    Contemporary Islamic terrorism has forged an inchoate strategic alliance between the Israeli and Indian governments, while heightening the awareness of a common threat -- the institution of jihad -- among the civilian populations of these nations....

  • December 5, 2010

    Geert Wilders in Tel Aviv: 'Your country is the cradle of Western civilization'

    It is now painfully apparent that Barack Hussein Obama's dull-witted adherence to Franz Fanon, "Wretched of the Earth"-inspired Third Worldism could be described as, For Obama, Islam IS Third WorldismPerhaps that is why our Manchild Preside...

  • November 15, 2010

    'Moderate' Indian Sharia in Action

    Indian Islam is often touted as a paragon of liberal, enlightened Islamic modernism. Pace this trope, Indian journalist par excellence Arun Shourie observed in his brilliant 1995 analysis, The World of Fatwas or the Shariah in Action, the stultifying...

  • November 11, 2010

    Palestinian Authority Arrests Muslim 'Heretic' Under Threat of Life Imprisonment

    We are repeatedly told -- despite all evidence to the contrary -- including its draft Sharia-based Constitution -- that the Judea-Samaria Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas is a "moderate" even, "secular" counterp...

  • October 26, 2010

    The Dutch Grand Inquisitor Speaks

    Geert Corstens, President of the Netherlands Supreme Court, maintains in Orwellian fashion that Dutch Parliamentarian leader Geert Wilders is "undermining" Dutch jurisprudence. As reported here,Critical statements on jurisprudence such as W...

  • October 26, 2010

    Still Jihadists After All Their (Crocodile) Tears

    CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America have been mistakenly (or deceptively) celebrating a recent court ruling. Contra the misrepresentations that a United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, legal opinion issued October 20, 2010, ".....

  • October 22, 2010

    If Bill O'Reilly Had A Hammer

    Perhaps Bill O'Reilly was clumsily attempting to mollify the over wrought "walk-out" reaction staged by The View's Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, or the less melodramatic, but equally harsh cultural-relativist scolding he received from host...

  • October 21, 2010

    Another Victim of Europe's Jihad Against Islamo-Realism

    Europe's judicial war on speech deemed "offensive" to the tender sensibilities of Muslims, continues apace,  notwithstanding the interim decision by Dutch prosecutors to drop the scurrilous charges against Parliamentarian Geert Wilders...

  • October 19, 2010

    Switzerland's Wilders?

    Swiss People's Party leader Oskar Freysinger is best known for orchestrating the successful Swiss minaret ban. Ned May assiduously followed the recent Belgian travails of Mr. Freysinger, who was eventually able to deliver a truly remarkable speech in...

  • October 18, 2010

    Geert Wilders and the Rise of Islamic Correctness

    Islamic correctness, which criminalizes any criticism of Islam, is a rising force in the world, and not merely in Muslim-majority countries. Even in traditionally tolerant Holland, a combination of misguided liberal multiculturalism and a fear of vio...

  • October 15, 2010

    Sharia-Sanctioned Marital Rape in Britain -- And North America

    As reported in the UK Independent, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, has reiterated alarming comments made during a March, 2010 interview, sanctioning marital rape. Sheikh Sayeed was in fact responding to ...

  • October 15, 2010

    Encouraging Developments in the Geert Wilders Trial

    More encouraging, Western liberty (and sanity)-sparing developments from the dangerously absurd Geert Wilders trial. As Ned May reports, with timely English translation from the local Dutch coverage at Elsevier, barring an unusual reversal by the pre...

  • October 14, 2010

    Jihad in Bulgaria - Again

    Jihadists are threatening Bulgaria, a nation that might seem an odd target -- unless you know your history, for Bulgaria is a former Ottoman Muslim colony. Given the predictable self-loathing reaction of Bulgaria's leftist media, it is well past over...

  • October 13, 2010

    Wilders Acquitted of 'Group Insult' Charge

    Geert Wilders Kafka-esque Amsterdam trial took an initial positive turn as relayed by Ned May (in Dutch to English translation, from Elsevier) at The Gates of Vienna: "Prosecutor: acquittal for Wilders for group-insult" by Maartje Willems, ...

  • October 12, 2010

    Another Orwellian Wilders Trial in The Netherlands?

    Geert Wilders, on trial in Amsterdam for "inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims," has also been summoned by a court in The Hague because imam Fawaz Jneid is demanding €55,000 in "damages" from the Dutch MP. The s...

  • October 6, 2010

    USMC (Ret.) John Bernard on Understanding Our Failed Policy in Afghanistan

    John Bernard, a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) who blogs at Let Them Fight or Bring Them Home!, comes from a noble family of warriors committed to the USMC, and the defense of the American ideal. John was writing, generically, about ...

  • September 30, 2010

    Pakistan's Mainstream Jihadism and the Times Square Bomb Plot

    The New York Post is reporting today (9/30/10) that Faisal Abbasi, an employee at Pakistan's state-run Council of Islamic Ideology, which advises on Islamic affairs, has been detained for playing an allegedly significant role in assisting the failed ...

  • September 28, 2010

    The Islamintern Meets in Chicago Tonight

    At 7 PM Central Time this evening (9/28/10) in Chicago, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of Turkey will deliver a keynote speech opening a conference at the American Islamic College, entitled, "...

  • September 27, 2010

    Countering Islamic Indoctrination in Public Schools

    The fight against Islamic indoctrination in the schools won a victory in Texas last week. But the forces pushing to obfuscate the nature of Islam's jihad imperative hold the high ground in the education industry, forcing parents and realists to conti...

  • September 23, 2010

    Constitutional Law Trumps Sharia Law in Michigan

    Diametrically opposed governmental reactions to recent Koran burning episodes are on display in Britain and the United States. The British reaction demonstrates the extent to which our "mother country" has retrogressed toward a full self-im...

  • September 22, 2010

    The Islamintern Is Coming to (Chi-) Town

    President Obama's adopted home town will host an event next week that epitomizes Sharia encroachment: the global Islamintern is coming to Chi-town. Next Tuesday through Thursday September 28-30, 2010, the  Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC...

  • September 19, 2010

    Halal to the Queen? Britain's Stealth Halal-ization

    Creeping Sharia has already extended to the dietary practices of British dhimmis, who are involuntarily consuming meats ritually slaughtered and prayed over in good Islamic practice. Although this Daily Mail investigation of the stealth Islamiza...

  • September 15, 2010

    Burning the Constitution with the Koran

    My friend, writer Diana West has blogged about a breaking New York Daily News story which captures (or should, even for those who remain willfully blind to the burgeoning phenomenon) how local US state institutions are obsequiously imposing Sharia no...

  • September 13, 2010

    Imam Feisal Rauf and 'Islamic Revival'

    Ground Zero mosque purveyor Imam Feisal Rauf, in his book  Islam a Sacred Law, lionizes the Wahhabi movement of "Sheikh" al-Wahhab (d. 1792), and al-Wahhab's forbears, the 14th century jurists Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyy...

  • September 12, 2010

    Geert Wilders 9/11 Ground Zero Speech

    Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician under threat of death from radical Islamists, gave a speech yesterday at Ground Zero that all Americans should pay attention to. You can watch a video of it here. (see also: Islam Continues to Strengthen Geert Wild...

  • September 11, 2010

    9/11: Sharia Versus Freedom

    My friend Andy McCarthy reminds us on this solemn day that despite our most comforting delusions, the "moderate Islam" we Americans all desire has yet to evolve. The real Islam of today--not some chimerical non-existent creed -- cannot be i...

  • September 10, 2010

    Koran Burning and Islam's Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman

    Burning the Koran has not always been an outrage in Muslim eyes. Let us recount the extensive Koran burning exploits of Islam's Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman (d.656). The pious Muslim narrative is summarized in a canonical Hadith from Sahih Bukhari Vo...

  • September 8, 2010

    New Koranic Dissimulation (Taqiyya) From Imam Feisal Rauf

    Imam Feisal Rauf  makes the following comment that includes a quote from the Koran near the conclusion of his treacly 9/7/10 New York Times, Op-Ed: The Koran declares in its 36th chapter, regarded by the Prophet Muhammad as the heart of the Kora...

  • September 6, 2010

    Imam Feisal Rauf -- Sharia Uber Alles!

    There is nothing "nuanced" about Imam Feisal Rauf's belief in the primacy of Sharia (Islamic Law) in society -- any society. Rauf, in his 2004 "What's Right With Islam"-released in Malaysia as, "A Call to Prayer from the Worl...

  • September 5, 2010

    Dross in Yet Another Islamic 'Golden Age'

    The myth of a golden age of rational Islam plays a critical role in maintaining the somnolence of America's establishment in grasping the implacability of political jihad. Currently (see here, reviewed 9/2/10 at The National Review Online), the Mutaz...

  • September 4, 2010

    Jihad, Islamization, and the Arab-Israeli 'Peace Process'

    The current Washington negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians will be fruitless, for a very basic reason. The Arab and non-Arab Muslim umma, or global community, vehemently denies pre-Islamic Jewish, and ignores pre-Islamic Christian conn...

  • August 30, 2010

    'Islamophobia' and Islamo-reality

    Count me among those daring to rationalize -- and echo -- the sentiments of 70% of my fellow Americans, who oppose the Ground Zero mosque/Islamic center edifice for ecumenism. But simply expressing legitimate, widespread concerns about this project h...

  • June 3, 2010

    The Grand Jihad

    A review of Andrew McCarthy's The Grand Jihad-How Islam and the Left Sabotage America During an address on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan, the Obama administration's lead counterterrorism ad...

  • January 26, 2010

    The Pentagon's Willful Blindness

    The Pentagon's bowdlerized "analysis" of the jihad-inspired mass murder committed by a pious Muslim officer at Fort Hood is a disgrace. The willful blindness toward the essence of jihad will harm our troops.I recently attended a briefing (a...

  • December 26, 2009

    Is Shi'ism the Iranian Regime's Achilles' Heel?

    The death of Iran's Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri at age 87 on December 20, 2009 has been followed by decidedly hagiographic post-mortems. But perhaps the most curious of these assessments, by Michael Rubin, includes a contention that "t...

  • November 14, 2009

    'Islamism or Islam? Islamist or Islamic?'

    During the autumn of 1843, in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey, Sir Henry Layard, the British archeologist, writer, and diplomat, witnessed the punishment mandated by Sharia (i.e., Islamic) Law for apostasy from Islam. He described this abhorrent specta...

  • October 24, 2009

    Allah's Apostate Cassandra

    A review of Wafa Sultan's, "A God Who Hates," St. Martin's Press, 2009, 256 pp.On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, an ominous interim decision was reached in the case of 17 year- old Sri Lankan native, and Christian "apostate" from Isla...

  • September 21, 2009

    Apostasy and the Islamic Nations

    The 1990 Cairo Declaration, or so-called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam", was drafted and subsequently ratified by all the Muslim member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Now a 57 state collective...

  • August 24, 2009

    Killing Rifqa

    Rifqa Bary faces death for her apostasy from Islam, while the media ignores the solid religious and institutional grounding for the practice. Today. In America.Magdi Allam, is an intrepid Egyptian-born writer and vociferous critic of jihadism who was...

  • July 1, 2009

    The Squandered Emancipation of Iranian Women

    Women's liberation is not a one-way street. Iran's women once before were freed from theocratic repression. When Iran was returned in 1979 to its longstanding status as a Shi'ite theocracy, (i.e., from 1502 to 1925; interrupted by a period of Afghan ...

  • February 22, 2009

    Geert Wilders and the 'Koran Ban'

    Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders will be in the United States this week, arriving direct from Italy where he received the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award. During his acceptance speech, Wilders implored the audience in Rome to protect our most fun...

  • February 8, 2009

    Mr. Obama, Speak First at Touro

    Barack Obama's recent inauguration as our 44th President demonstrates the promise and progress of the unique, living American experiment in governance begun when George Washington delivered his inaugural address on April 30, 1789. Mr. Obama's inaugur...

  • January 9, 2009

    Europe's Rampant Muslim Jew-Hatred, and Absent Jewish 'Islamophobia'

    Despite the usual Islamically-correct gloss of denial in reportage, an ugly, uni-directional pattern of bigoted violence is once again clearly on display in Western Europe. Far removed from the current Gaza-southern Israel battlegrounds ("Hamas ...

  • January 2, 2009

    Confronting Hamas' Genocidal Jew-Hatred

    As my colleague Robert Spencer observed, Israeli President Shimon Peres appeared flummoxed by Hamas' intransigence in comments made to Haaretz, reported December 30, 2008. "This shooting has no point, no logic, and no chance," Peres told Ha...

  • December 14, 2008

    How a Real 'War Within Islam' Would Look

    Mordechai Nisan, writing a decade ago, observed that already by the mid-1990s the world's then over 50 Islamic nations had amassed considerable economic and military power -- both of which have further increased during the subsequent 10-years:The Mus...

  • November 30, 2008

    Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai

    Sixty hours of jihadist terror depradations throughout India's financial capital, Mumbai -- during which nearly  200 innocent victims were murdered, and 300 wounded -- apparently ceased this Saturday, November 29, when Indian commandos slew the ...

  • September 11, 2008

    Obama, 9/11, and Freedom of Conscience

    During an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News which aired Sunday September 7, 2008, Barack Obama bemoaned what he claimed were insidious Republican attempts to "promulgate," falsely, his "Muslim connections." Senator ...

  • August 23, 2008

    Jihad, Conflict, and Culture

     A review of Culture and Conflict in the Middle East, Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y. 224 pp., by Philip Carl SalzmanPrevailing academic pedagogy on Islam is epitomized, luridly, by Dr. Denise Spellman, the faux scholar whose recent unhinge...

  • July 20, 2008

    Shi'ite Iran's Genocidal Jew Hatred

    Summary Earlier this week Professors Moshe Sharon and Benny Morris both opined solemnly about an inevitable Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. These two respected Israeli academicians, despite holding very disparate political views, also co...

  • July 20, 2008

    Shi'ite Iran's Genocidal Jew Hatred (continued)

    Back to Page OneThe Khomeini "Revolution"-Back to the FutureThe so-called "Khomeini revolution", which deposed Mohammad Reza Shah, was in reality a mere return to oppressive Shi'ite theocratic rule, the predominant form of Persian...

  • June 28, 2008

    Jizya, Jihad, and the Murder of Archbishop Rahho

    The New York Times (June 26, 2008) has published a somber account of the recent murder of Iraqi Archbishop Rahho, and how the Iraqi Christian population has been subjected to the full recrudescence of dhimmitude, punctuated by the re-application of t...

  • June 22, 2008

    Renewing Hezb'allah's Jihad Genocide Against Jews Everywhere

    According to US and Canadian intelligence agencies the Shi'ite jihad terror organization Hezb'allah, supported by its patron Iran, is poised, once again, to launch a lethal attack against "Jewish targets" far removed from the battle...

  • June 3, 2008

    Textbook Islamic Antisemitism

    Palestinian cleric Wael Al-Zarad during a television program which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 28, 2008 intoned the following about the Jews of Israel: "By Allah, if each and every Arab spat on them, they would drown in Arab spit." Wael...

  • May 11, 2008

    Misunderstanding Islamic Antisemitism

    Last year, nearing completion of the final manuscript version of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, I took a brief hiatus and posed the following two questions, based upon my research, to a cadre of academics, independent scholars, theologians, jour...

  • February 24, 2008

    Universal Islamic 'Blasphemy' Law ?

    Almost two weeks ago, "three men with a Muslim background" were arrested by Danish police on anti-terrorism charges, suspected of having plotted to murder Kurt Westergaard, a cartoonist for Jyllands-Posten. Westergaard is one of the 12 cart...

  • February 5, 2008

    Rampant Islamic Jew-Hatred in Europe

    European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security, Franco Frattini, who is the European Union (EU) official responsible "for combating racism and Antisemitism in Europe," as reported by The Jerusalem Post 2/2/08, has revealed  t...

  • January 15, 2008

    Saving Major Coughlin

    It may not be too late to save the career of a Pentagon analyst of jihad threats whose frank and honest work has gotten him into trouble. Bill Gertz in his weekly Washington Times "Inside the Ring" column (1/11/08) reported that "...

  • January 10, 2008

    Eaton Agonistes, Redux?

    Bill Gertz, Washington Times national security columnist, reported that the Pentagon has fired Stephen Coughlin, its most knowledgeable specialist on Islamic Law, and jihad terrorism. As Gertz observed aptly, the Pentagon thus ended the career o...

  • December 16, 2007

    Another 'Just So' Story?

    Speaking at a December 10-11, 2007  Rome Conference entitled, "Fighting for Democracy in the Islamic World," renowned historian Bernard Lewis intoned,"The authoritarianism present in the Middle East region is not part of the Arab ...

  • November 21, 2007

    Cleveland's Imamate of Jew Hate

    Fawaz Damra, the former Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, was touted as a promoter of  interfaith dialogue even after evidence of his participation in fundraising events for the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), was produce...

  • October 19, 2007

    The First and Last Enemy: Jew-Hatred in Islam

    Fawaz Damra, the former Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland was convicted in 2004 for lying to immigration officials about his links to the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and subsequently deported. Yet Damra was touted as a prom...

  • October 11, 2007

    Kabaa Rage and Old Scores

    One year ago, on October 10, 2006 an Islamic website alerted Muslims to yet another of the seemingly endless litany of "insults to Islam." The message claimed a cube-shaped building under construction in New York City, on Fifth Avenue betwe...

  • September 1, 2007

    Turkish Antisemitism and Jewish Dhimmitude

    On August 28, 2007, the same day that Abdullah Gul became Turkey's President -- replacing his secular predecessor, and further consolidating the ruling Islamic AK (Adalet ve Kalk脹nma) Party's (AKP) hold on power -- MEMRI published excerpts from ...

  • August 26, 2007

    Congress Must Recognize the Armenian Genocide

    SummaryA combination of official diplomatic correspondence, and private memoirs -- most notably the diaries of Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 1913 to 1916, an extended report by American consul Leslie Davis in Harput, Turke...

  • August 15, 2007

    Sword Swallowing to Oblivion

    A review of Robert Spencer's Religion of Peace?-Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't, Regnery, 2007, 246 pp.This past December, 2006, a British radiologist, and the executive director of the Sword Swallowers Association International published a fasci...

  • July 19, 2007

    Recognition for the Silent Jewish Refugees

    SummaryThe bicameral  Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) will hold a landmark hearing on Thursday July 19th  regarding the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced to flee their communities in the Arab Muslim nations as a result of the Ar...

  • July 7, 2007

    Jihad Terror as 'Healing'

    Canadian-born physician Sir William Osler, MD (1849-1919) revolutionized the teaching and training curricula of North American medical schools. Within 7-months of his death on December 29, 1919, Osler delivered a lecture entitled, "The Old Human...

  • June 13, 2007

    Eurabia: 'Conspiracy' or Policy?

    America must reckon with the reality of a long term project to create a Euro-Arab alliance based on far-reaching cultural integration measures. Yet some dismiss the warnings of those who speak of the dangers for America as the ravings of conspir...

  • May 28, 2007

    Ignorance, Cognitive Dissonance, and al-Sadr

    Re-emerging publicly on Friday May 25, 2007  for the first time since he went underground 4-months ago, Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr journeyed in a long motorcade from Najaf to the adjacent city of Kufa where he delivered a fiery sermon before...

  • April 27, 2007

    The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate

    Writing in 1916, C. Snouck Hurgronje, the great Dutch Orientalist, underscored how the jihad doctrine of world conquest, and the re-creation of a supranational Islamic Caliphate remained a potent force among the Muslim masses:...it would be a gross m...

  • April 20, 2007

    An Apology for Koranic Antisemitism?

    Two months after the mass murdering  acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/01, Dr. Walid Fataihi, director of "outreach" for the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), who still serves on the ISB Board of Directors, boasted that this carnage engen...

  • September 25, 2006

    Before Death Conversion?

    The official 'day of rage' demonstrations over Pope Benedict the XVI's Regensburg address are behind us, and a deluge of Muslim—Christian dialogue engagements (starting here; etc.; etc.)  loom ahead. But a taboo subject remains unrais...

  • September 22, 2006

    An Ancient Muslim Rage is on Display Again

    There is no reason for surprise at the vehemence and violence of Islamic rage at the Pope's recent remarks. Islam recognizes no freedom of speech, nor even any freedom of conscience. Infidels should know better. The lessons of history are clear. As a...

  • September 17, 2006

    The Pope, Jihad, and 'Dialogue'

    The most important address commemorating 9/11/01 was delivered on 9/12/06, a day after the fifth anniversary of this cataclysmic act of jihad terrorism. It was not delivered by President Bush, and was not even pronounced in the United States. On Sept...

  • September 13, 2006

    Wholly Shi'ite Alliance?

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al—Maliki—who spent years in Iran during his exile from the Saddam Hussein regime—made his first official visit to Iran Tuesday, September 12, 2006  —five years and a day after the cataclysmic j...

  • September 11, 2006

    Ralph Peters Unhinged

    Columnist, novelist, and retired United States Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters has earned a reputation as an often insightful and provocative analyst of military affairs and geopolitics. But of late, he has taken to villifying those who examine the theolo...

  • September 7, 2006

    The Islamization of European Anti-Semitism

    On Thursday, September 7, 2006, as first reported by the Times of London   this past Saturday (9/2/06), an All—Party Parliamentary Enquiry into Antisemitism is expected to issue its finding that anti—Jewish violence has become e...

  • August 29, 2006

    This is Your Gazan Conversion

    The forced conversion of two television journalists to Islam is nothing new — except for the use of videotape and the celebrity value in play. The jihad of today is actually very old, and embedded in the very foundations of Islam. Fox...

  • August 18, 2006

    Making the World Safe for Shari'a?

    Grand Ayatollah Sistani is said to be the most important friend the Coalition has in Iraq. But he is a troubling friend. Almost universally regarded as the most important figure in Iraq's domestic politics, his 2003 fatwa urging Iraqis to not resist ...

  • August 15, 2006

    Corruption of the Faith?

    Far too many people in the public eye mischaracterize the acts of terrorists and other villains as inconsistent with "mainstream" Islam, as a "corruption of the faith." While this belief is comforting, especially to those who know...

  • July 17, 2006

    Apocalyptic Muslim Jew-hatred

    There are short—term reasons behind the attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas. But underlying all the geo—strategy is a solid foundation of fanatical Jew—hatred, dating back to the founding of Islam. There is literally nothing Is...

  • June 4, 2006

    Dhimmitude and The Doyen

    Recently, multiple deserving tributes to Bernard Lewis' career as a scholar, and public intellectual, have been written in celebration of this remarkable nonagenarian (see here for example  )—the latest by Reuel Gerecht  appearing in ...

  • May 23, 2006

    The Yellow Badge of Denial

    Controversy still swirls over allegations that Iran's government plans to require non—Muslims to wear identifying clothing. The Canadian National Post has retracted its May 19, 2006 report about a putative Iranian Law requiring non—Muslim...

  • May 20, 2006

    Badging Infidels in Iran

    The Iranian Majlis or Parliament has reportedly passed  (now disputed) a law requiring that, 'Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be for...

  • April 13, 2006

    When is Jihad Not Jihad?

    There is an old, dry pun on the query 'When is a door not a door?'—the answer being, 'When it is ajar.' But dry humor is clearly preferable to deluded and dangerous censorship of the lexicon which leads to this question, and requisite answer, '...

  • April 11, 2006

    Goebbels and the Jihadist Youth

    The Big Lie as propaganda device has a long and dishonorable history, gulling onto complacency those who prefer to avoid unpleasant worries. The Nazi propagandist Goebbels was its most notable practitioner, but for sheer numbers and historical roots,...

  • April 2, 2006

    NYU's Cartoonish Quarantine

    The late Richard Grenier's book The Marrakesh One—Two was a trenchant fictional account of a doomed effort to film the life of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Grenier (pp.3—4) characterized the filmmakers' basic predicament with bi...

  • March 26, 2006

    Under the Scimitar of Damocles

    Abdul Rahman faced death at the hands of our Afghan allies for the "crime" of converting to Christianity. This fate is no fluke, not a brutal Afghan variant on the practice of "tolerant" Islam. Death for apostacy is part and parcel of Islamic scriptu...

  • March 21, 2006

    Death for 'Apostates' and 'Sodomists'

    This past week has provided two glaring examples of the pitfalls of allowing that  'no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam', as per the new constitutions of the vox populi elected governments in Afgh...

  • March 1, 2006

    In No 'Hurr(i)y(ya)' for Freedom

    During several notable speeches since 2003, including both  inaugural and State of the Union addresses, President Bush has repeatedly stressed the paramount importance of promoting freedom in the Middle East. Speaking in an almost messianic idio...

  • February 11, 2006

    Qaradawi's Jackass Jihad

    The [Muslim] nation [of Muhammad] must rage in anger. It is told that Imam Al—Shafi' [d. 820, founder of the Shafi'ite school of Islamic jurisprudence] said: 'Whoever was angered and did not rage is a jackass.' We are not a nation of jackasses...

  • December 30, 2005

    'Democrats' For Jihad and Jizya

    Democracy does not always bring liberty and justice. According to available polling data, Hamas is poised to win a plurality of the votes in the forthcoming January 2006 Parliamentary elections for Gaza and the Palestinian Arab—controlled areas...

  • November 24, 2005

    Eurabia's Morass Elicits Mythical 'Solutions'

    After nearly three successive weeks of rioting in France by predominantly Muslim youths, the violence has ebbed, albeit to an uneasy level in considerable excess of the early October 'baseline' before the riots (for example, in terms of vehicles burn...

  • November 20, 2005

    The Legacy of Jihad in Historial Palestine (Part II)

    [The second of two parts. Part I of this article can be read here] Violent jihad warfare on infidels is the norm, not the exception, in Islamic history. Once successful, jihad leads to the imposition of humiliating, degrading, violent, and expensive ...

  • November 19, 2005

    The Legacy of Jihad in Historical Palestine (Part I)

    [Part II of this article appears tomorrow] Violent jihad warfare on infidels is the norm, not the exception, in Islamic history. Once successful, jihad leads to the imposition of humiliating, degrading, violent, and expensive oppression under dhimmit...

  • November 15, 2005

    'Eurabia' Defined

    The flames consuming thousands of automobiles, and the occasional bus, nursery, warehouse, and school across France are the result of tragic — in the original sense of the word — set of decisions made by the leaders of Europe, motivated b...

  • October 8, 2005

    Turkey: From Failed Reforms to a Modern Jihad Genocide

    Turkey's ardent desire to enter the European Union may be fulfilled in the near future. As Europe grapples with the prospect of admitting an Islamic nation with a fast—growing population into the borderless would—be superstate, the claim ...

  • October 7, 2005

    Ottoman Dhimmitude

    Turkey is once again storming the gates of Europe. Not the gates of Vienna, as in 1683, but the political portal at the entrance to the European Union, a borderless economic and political entity which wants to become a superstate counterbalance ...

  • October 4, 2005

    Turkey: Back to the Future?

    [Part 1 appears today; Parts 2 and 3 will appear later this week] Once again, Turks are storming the heart of Europe. This time, it is not by the sword, but rather in seeking to join the European Union (EU). Once inside the gates, they will gain acce...

  • October 1, 2005

    Killing from Qur'anic Piety: Tamerlane's Living Legacy

    Osama bin Laden was far from the first jihadist to kill infidels as an expression of religious piety. This years marks the 600th anniversary of the death of Tamerlane (Timur Lang; 'Timur the Lame', d. 1405), or Amir Timur  ('Timur' signifies 'Ir...

  • August 20, 2005

    Islam Without Camouflage

    A review of Robert Spencer's, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades,  Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2005, 270 pp. Through the first six decades of the 20th century, a cadre of erudite Christian theologians and schola...

  • July 8, 2005

    Jihad terrorism in London

    Within hours of the four reported explosions in London yesterday—three in the subway, and one on a crowded double—decker bus—the so—called 'Secret Organization of al—Qaida in Europe' claimed responsibility for ...

  • July 2, 2005

    The Legacy of Jihad in India

    The phenomenon of modern Islamic terrorism has forged an inchoate strategic alliance between the Israeli and Indian governments, while heightening the awareness of a common threat—the institution of jihad—among the civilian populations of...

  • June 8, 2005

    Iraq's Jihad: Past as Prologue

    We are now in the middle of a full—blown Jihad, that is to say we have against us the fiercest prejudices of a people in a primeval state of civilization. Gertrude Bell, Baghdad, Iraq, September 5, 1920 The carnage in Iraq continues—...

  • May 27, 2005

    Hirsi Ali: the empowered apostate

    Leaving Islam can be hazardous. Apostasy is a capital crime in a number of Islamic countries. But even in elite conservative circles in the United States, there is a tendency to dismiss or at least ignore some important former Muslims who have a lot ...

  • May 18, 2005

    The Qur'an flushing stress test

    Exercise testing, or 'stress testing' has been employed routinely since the mid—1960s for both the diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease, or 'hardening of the arteries'. For two decades, as both an allied health professional, and a...

  • May 15, 2005

    Sufi Jihad?

    The Sufi branch of Islam has enjoyed spectacularly good press in the West. Hailed as peaceful mystics who believe jihad is a spiritual quest, nothing violent or unpleasant, Sufism has attracted favorable attention and converts from all sorts of Weste...

  • May 5, 2005

    Jihad begot the Crusades (2)

    [Part 1 of this article can be found here] Jihad conquests and early Muslim rule in Syro—Palestine Moshe Gil, in his seminal analysis A History of Palestine, 634—1099,а emphasizes the singular centrality that Palestine occupied in the min...

  • May 4, 2005

    Jihad begot the Crusades (1)

    [Part 2, including end notes, can be read here] The New York Times' Alan Riding recently opined that  '...[The C]rusades were waged, [by] European monarchs, lords, knights and their armies of devout followers to fight — and sett...

  • April 22, 2005

    The Jihad Genocide of the Armenians

    I attended a banquet in New York City April 2, 2005, celebrating Professor Vahakn Dadrian's  distinguished career, most notably, his singular contributions to the study of the Armenian genocide. Dadrian's scholarship is characterized by a unique...

  • April 12, 2005

    The living legacy of jihad slavery

    A public protest in Washington,  DC, April 5, 2005 highlighted the current (ongoing, for centuries) plight of black Mauritanians enslaved by Arab masters. The final two decades of the 20th century, moreover, witnessed a frank jihad genocide, inc...

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