
Upon returning from a visit to Saudi Arabia late on Thursday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cited a striking example to illustrate his quest for consolidation of executive powers.
by Andrew G. Bostom4 Jan 2016, 2:00 AM PST0

A Reuters story about an ISIS “fatwa” (i.e., Islamic “religious” edict) regarding female sex slaves appeared online.
by Andrew G. Bostom30 Dec 2015, 6:12 AM PST0

Saturday, December 26, 2015, an audio statement (transcribed fully here) allegedly issued by Islamic State “Caliph”, al-Baghdadi, contained the following threat to the Jewish State of Israel, and Jews in general.
by Andrew G. Bostom28 Dec 2015, 12:04 PM PST0

I support Sen. Tom Cotton/ the GOP-47, and their March 9, 2015 “Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” as a means of clarifying, and then ending the self-destructive “negotiations” (elaborated here; here/here; and here) with a Shiite theocratic regime whose ugly and dangerous ideological pillars are: jihadism, Islamic Jew-hatred, and the active dehumanization of all non-Muslims via “najis”—“uncleanliness of the infidel”—doctrine.
by Andrew G. Bostom11 Mar 2015, 10:30 AM PST0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to address Congress Tuesday, March 3, 2015 regarding his concerns over the so-called “P5 (i.e., the U.S., Russia, China, France, and Britain) +1 (Germany)” nuclear negotiations with Iran.
by Andrew G. Bostom2 Mar 2015, 6:00 AM PST0

Briefly, Shiite doctrine on jihad evolved to be indistinguishable from its Sunni counterpart by the late 13th century, i.e., open-ended warfare against non-Muslims. Iran’s theocratic Shiite Safavid and Qajar dynasties, its primary rulers from 1501-1925 (i.e., barring a period of Sunni Afghan invasion, internecine turmoil, and the heterodox reign of Nadir Shah, covering ~ 70 years during the 18th century), fully implemented this warfare doctrine, including the notion that jihad was more laudable in the absence of the 12th imam.
by Andrew G. Bostom2 Mar 2015, 6:00 AM PST0

Shouting the jihadist battle cry declared by Islam’s prophet Muhammad himself, “Allahu-akbar” (“Allah is greater”), on Saturday, February 14, 2015, a Muslim gunman opened fire on participants at a Copenhagen, Denmark, conference on freedom of expression, killing 1 and wounding 3 others.
by Andrew G. Bostom16 Feb 2015, 8:47 PM PST0

The late comedian-violinist Henny Youngman’s emblematic one-liner was “Take my wife–please!” Now an Islamic Bookstore in Toronto, Canada was discovered selling a book titled A Gift for Muslim Couple, which promotes a brutal variant on Youngman’s comedic theme. Illustrating the
by Andrew G. Bostom27 Mar 2012, 12:45 PM PST0

Judge Mark Martin–now infamous for presiding over the “Zombie Muhammad” case–was incorrectly identified by me as a self-professed Muslim, based upon a faulty audio recording of the court proceedings (see blogs here and here by Andrew C. McCarthy for the
by Andrew G. Bostom3 Mar 2012, 1:00 PM PST0

Are the bitter fruits of Senator John McCain’s “diligent diplomacy” a humiliating prisoner “exchange”–innocent US NGO workers, for hardened jihadists, including the notorious “Blind Sheikh” Umar ‘Abd-al-Rahman, who orchestrated the murderous 1993 World Trade Center bombing? My colleague at Translating
by Andrew G. Bostom29 Feb 2012, 9:01 AM PST0

An utterly bone chilling example of self-destructive dhimmitude was described in The London Telegraph on February 26th by Investigations Editor Jason Lewis. The incident involved David S. Jones, a military veteran of the Household Cavalry, who served in Malaya with
by Andrew G. Bostom28 Feb 2012, 2:08 PM PST0

Reza Khalili reports the latest (ad nauseum) re-statement of the Iranian Shiite theocracy’s Jew-annihilationist jihadism (see my three-parat series, “Jihad and Genocidal Islamic Antisemitism in Shiite Iran” [here, here, and here], and much more extensive material included in “The Legacy
by Andrew G. Bostom10 Feb 2012, 5:29 AM PST0
Encounter Books has just released a remarkably compendious 4-minute video synopsis of Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad“, re-issued in a paperback edition, which features captivating–and humorous–animation. embedded by Embedded Video Please also see a very insightful review of “The Grand
by Andrew G. Bostom9 Feb 2012, 5:33 AM PST0
Encounter Books has just released a remarkably compendious 4-minute video synopsis of Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad“, re-issued in a paperbound edition, which features captivating–and humorous–animation. Please also see a very insightful review of “The Grand Jihad” by Karen Lugo
by Andrew G. Bostom6 Feb 2012, 4:11 AM PST0
Former President George W. Bush’s aide Michael Gerson posted a distressingly ignorant column on 12/13/11 which attacked both former speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and my colleague Andrew C. McCarthy, for their sober, if frank conceptions of the
by Andrew G. Bostom31 Dec 2011, 2:19 PM PST0
Krauthammer: Sam [Huntington] He Is Not Monday night (12/26/11) Charles Krauthammer was interviewed by Mark Steyn (guest hosting for Sean Hannity on Fox News) about the ongoing murderous jihad depredations against Christians in Islamdom. The interview began by highlighting the
by Andrew G. Bostom28 Dec 2011, 5:02 AM PST0
Early and volatile, the Republican Presidential nomination race–at least for now–appears to be settling into a contest between consistent front runner Mitt Romney and the latest surging “non-Romney alternative,” former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately, the CNN/Heritage Foundation/American Enterprise televised
by Andrew G. Bostom25 Nov 2011, 7:51 AM PST0
The Face of Islamic Women’s Rights in Post-Mubarak, Arab Spring “Liberated” Egypt 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,
by Andrew G. Bostom19 Nov 2011, 12:31 PM PST0
The courthouse in Benghazi is the iconic seat of the revolt which toppled Qaddafi. It’s 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 provisional
by Andrew G. Bostom2 Nov 2011, 8:25 AM PST0
Hamadi Jebali: Another North African Zabibah-stan Leader-in-Waiting? On the heels of their landslide election victory, Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Ennahda Party has just announced that Ennahda’s Secretary General and spokesperson, Hamadi Jebali (who, fittingly, sports a prominent Zabibah on his
by Andrew G. Bostom27 Oct 2011, 10:52 AM PST0
Because it was excerpted in Bat Ye’or’s pioneering The Dhimmi, I obtained Moshe Perlmann’s (1975) complete translation of a 1739 essay on the Churches of Cairo. Written by Sheikh Damanhuri (1689-1764), a highly esteemed leader of Al Azhar University, the
by Andrew G. Bostom15 Oct 2011, 3:08 PM PST0
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 against the Copts this past weekend
by Andrew G. Bostom12 Oct 2011, 9:16 AM PST0
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 expert Praveen
by Andrew G. Bostom8 Oct 2011, 1:06 PM PST0
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), reporting (October 2, 2011) about the 5th International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada in Tehran, described the conference as “including participation of parliamentary delegations including several speakers, leading political figures and scholars from 50 Islamic
by Andrew G. Bostom7 Oct 2011, 7:08 PM PST0
A three-year-old Afghan girl at her engagement to a cousin aged seven. Reported by the London Evening Standard, to its own self-described “shock,” a decade after British troops entered this chronically war-torn Muslim backwater, the publication: …has uncovered shocking evidence
by Andrew G. Bostom7 Oct 2011, 6:45 AM PST0