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
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
Franco Frattini: Western moral clarity on Pastor Nadarkhani’s “apostasy” conviction. The fate of Iranian “apostate” pastor Youcef Nadarkani still hangs in the balance. Contra Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s rather tepid statement that the “US stands with the international community”
Almost 90 years ago, in his 1924 The Law of Apostasy in Islam, Samuel Zwemer made these observations, regarding the post World War I “Arab Spring” of that era: The story is told that Damocles, at the court of Dionysius
Moderate, “peace-loving” Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) opposes the banning of the misogynistic barbarity of clitorectomy/female genital mutilation Robert Small’s American Thinker essay on the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Indonesian Islam reads more like a “Just So Story” than a “True Story.”
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, Americans, thank goodness,
The US Centers for Disease Control provides a simple web-based, illustrated guide to disease-causing tick removal which offers this sage advice: If you find a tick attached to your skin, there’s no need to panic. There are several tick removal
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
Mitt Romney, June 3, 2009, at The Heritage Foundation on Jihad: “I spoke about three major threats America faces on a long term basis. Jihadism is one of them, and that is not Islam.” However: There is just one historically
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
Wife-battering imam of the Darul Quran Mosque in Munich, Sheikh Abu Adam, is the face of Germany’s Islamic “Justice .” Adam gave a lecture at the city’s Catholic University entitled “An Islam which distances itself from violence,” shortly before being
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 methods of research, he guided
As Lawrence Solomon has reported, with little fanfare–certainly none from pseudo-scientific, apocalyptic, anthropogenic warmists and their uncritical (if witless) media and political champions–Jasper Kirkby et al. have just published a seminal paper in Nature (“Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and
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 and non-military. We have failed
The scenes of looting in Qaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound (here; here), and general mayhem in “liberated” Tripoli brought to mind the 1937 insights of that great animated Orientalist–Popeye–via my dear friend Hillel Stavis. From Popeye the Sailor and Ali Baba’s
Mustafa Abduljalil spokesman for the new Libyan Zabibah-stan. Zabibah–prominent* Libyan “rebel” spokesperson Mustafa Abduljalil, born in 1952 in Al Baida, one of the first cities to rise against Gaddafi, studied law and Islamic jurisprudence in Benghazi before embarking on a
Australian Federal Police officer Narelle Jensz, right, with Wylie, while he was being operated on at the Kandahar base in Afghanistan. The Australian (hat tip Religion of Peace). has a moving report on the humane efforts of Australian Federal Police
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, with its United Nations, NGOs
Avian Cloaca: Bousquet’s Sharia Metaphor Foxman: Avian-Brained on Sharia Abraham Foxman’s latest uninformed rant, “Shout down the Sharia myth makers,” re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven and distressingly stupid organizational Jewish “leader.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Foxman
Bernard Lewis: What Went Wrong? This summer’s Claremont Review of Books contains a featured review essay by Robert R. Reillyi which discusses Bernard Lewis’s essay collection “Faith and Power,” ii and the nonagenarian historian’s reflections upon the so-called Arab Spring
Dr Hayward (left), the Muslim convert “RAF Ayatollah” at an Armed Forces Muslim Association event last year with a more authentic Ayatollah to the right. An apparently rare breed of British military officer with the appropriate patriotic moral clarity and
Today 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, morally cretinous press and blogosphere–Norwegian,
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 having been committed worldwide since 9/11,
Despite an overall apologetic tone borne of transparent obeisance to cultural relativism, two legal academics, Dr Ann Black and Dr Kerrie Sadiq from The University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law are “suggesting” in their research publication, “Good &
“I refuse to belong to a religion that will not not have me as a member” –brave Muslim “apostate,” Ibn Warraq (with apologies to Groucho Marx) Two Iranian Supreme Court justices have denied an appeal of Youcef Nadarkhani’s December 5,
