Print Diana West Read Full Bio Karzai and Mullahs Flex Afghanistan's Sharia Muscle The latest headlines from Afghanistan report that Karzai is publicly supporting a "code of conduct" from the mullahs that renounces the equality of women before the law. Karzai and the mullah's latest pronouncements -- "Men are fundamental and women are secondary" -- are strictly Afghan-constitutional. 9 Mar 2012 'American Taliban' Attorney Now Number Three at DOJ Tony West, the attorney for John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" prisoner, has been elevated to the position of Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice. Diana West explains how this is one more step on the path of Islam-appeasing political correctness. 8 Mar 2012 Islamic [Insert Pretext Here] Rage The "Quran Burning Rage" which has claimed multiple U.S. soldiers' lives in Afghanistan is just the latest in a long line of grievances gone violent in the Muslim world. Unfortunately, because of submissive apologists like UN representative Jan Kubis, this behavior is doomed to repeat on the flimsiest of pretexts. 4 Mar 2012 Muslim Judge Dismisses Assault Case; Muslim Perpetrator Caught on Tape and Confessed to Crime Think you’ve heard it all? Think you’re shock-proof? Read the following report by on a recent trial in Pennsylvania in which an apparently Muslim judge (he states, “I’m a Muslim” while pronouncing his judgement) dismissed harassment charges against a Muslim defendant (despite witness and police corroboration) due to “insufficient evidence” while reading the riot act to the plaintiff for having “trashed the essence of [Muslims'] being” by dressing up as “Zombie Mohammed” for a Halloween parade. First Amendment? What First Amendment? This judge has a copy of the Koran on the bench. 24 Feb 2012 French Parfumier on Trial in Paris for 'Racism' For years now, we’ve watched an increasingly totalitarian Europe arise in the courtrooms of infamous speech trials in Holland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, France, England, and elsewhere as dictatorial government authorities use the courts to maintain their political power against political rivals and freethinkers who dare call out the dishonesty and deceptions of the State. With the speech trial today of a fabled and elderly parfumier in Paris (described below), however, we see a strain of totalitarianism that is qualitatively different but equally sinister. 10 Feb 2012 Sacrebleu: Does Liberty = Nazism? I’ve been following (here and here) the escalating controversy in France over recent remarks made by a conservative French minister, Claude Gueant, to the effect that civilizations that support liberty, fraternity, equality (sounds like France) are superior to civilizations that accept tyranny, the subjugation of women, ethnic and social hatreds (fits Islam to a T). 8 Feb 2012 Correction In a recent post about military censorship of news of two Marine casualties in a January 18, 2012, suicide bomber attack on Kajaki Sofla bazaar (“COIN Claims Another Two Casualties in Afghanistan”), I referred to a October 31, 2011 IED explosion in the region that critically wounded Lcpl. Brian Felber. On second reference, I mistakenly referred to Felber as dead. 8 Feb 2012 Correction In a recent post about military censorship of news of two Marine casualties in a January 18, 2012, suicide bomber attack on Kajaki Sofla bazaar (“COIN Claims Another Two Casualties in Afghanistan”), I referred to a October 31, 2011 IED explosion in the region that critically wounded Lcpl. Brian Felber. On second reference, I mistakenly referred to Felber as dead. 8 Feb 2012 Victory for 'Muslim Outreach'? Retired General Barred from Speaking at West Point 1 Feb 2012 Operation Enduring and Unexamined Dementia, Cont'd 27 Jan 2012 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
Karzai and Mullahs Flex Afghanistan's Sharia Muscle The latest headlines from Afghanistan report that Karzai is publicly supporting a "code of conduct" from the mullahs that renounces the equality of women before the law. Karzai and the mullah's latest pronouncements -- "Men are fundamental and women are secondary" -- are strictly Afghan-constitutional. 9 Mar 2012
'American Taliban' Attorney Now Number Three at DOJ Tony West, the attorney for John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" prisoner, has been elevated to the position of Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice. Diana West explains how this is one more step on the path of Islam-appeasing political correctness. 8 Mar 2012
Islamic [Insert Pretext Here] Rage The "Quran Burning Rage" which has claimed multiple U.S. soldiers' lives in Afghanistan is just the latest in a long line of grievances gone violent in the Muslim world. Unfortunately, because of submissive apologists like UN representative Jan Kubis, this behavior is doomed to repeat on the flimsiest of pretexts. 4 Mar 2012
Muslim Judge Dismisses Assault Case; Muslim Perpetrator Caught on Tape and Confessed to Crime Think you’ve heard it all? Think you’re shock-proof? Read the following report by on a recent trial in Pennsylvania in which an apparently Muslim judge (he states, “I’m a Muslim” while pronouncing his judgement) dismissed harassment charges against a Muslim defendant (despite witness and police corroboration) due to “insufficient evidence” while reading the riot act to the plaintiff for having “trashed the essence of [Muslims'] being” by dressing up as “Zombie Mohammed” for a Halloween parade. First Amendment? What First Amendment? This judge has a copy of the Koran on the bench. 24 Feb 2012
French Parfumier on Trial in Paris for 'Racism' For years now, we’ve watched an increasingly totalitarian Europe arise in the courtrooms of infamous speech trials in Holland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, France, England, and elsewhere as dictatorial government authorities use the courts to maintain their political power against political rivals and freethinkers who dare call out the dishonesty and deceptions of the State. With the speech trial today of a fabled and elderly parfumier in Paris (described below), however, we see a strain of totalitarianism that is qualitatively different but equally sinister. 10 Feb 2012
Sacrebleu: Does Liberty = Nazism? I’ve been following (here and here) the escalating controversy in France over recent remarks made by a conservative French minister, Claude Gueant, to the effect that civilizations that support liberty, fraternity, equality (sounds like France) are superior to civilizations that accept tyranny, the subjugation of women, ethnic and social hatreds (fits Islam to a T). 8 Feb 2012
Correction In a recent post about military censorship of news of two Marine casualties in a January 18, 2012, suicide bomber attack on Kajaki Sofla bazaar (“COIN Claims Another Two Casualties in Afghanistan”), I referred to a October 31, 2011 IED explosion in the region that critically wounded Lcpl. Brian Felber. On second reference, I mistakenly referred to Felber as dead. 8 Feb 2012
Correction In a recent post about military censorship of news of two Marine casualties in a January 18, 2012, suicide bomber attack on Kajaki Sofla bazaar (“COIN Claims Another Two Casualties in Afghanistan”), I referred to a October 31, 2011 IED explosion in the region that critically wounded Lcpl. Brian Felber. On second reference, I mistakenly referred to Felber as dead. 8 Feb 2012
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