Falk’s imaginary Ayatollah, circa February, 1979: Having created a new model of popular revolution based, for the most part, on non-violent tactics. Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane governance for a third-world country. If this
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 supremacists of two decades ago came up with an apt expression
Edward W. Lane in Turkish garb What forces might be fully unleashed beyond Egypt’s borders if the Mubarak government is replaced by one far less inclined toward restraining its denizens? A recent detailed study of Egyptian children’s textbooks, revealed their
Citing–wait for it–actual data, I explained this AM (Monday 1/31/11) on America’s Morning News radio Show with John McCaslin and Amy Holmes why the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s traditional Islam resonates with the Muslim mainstream in Egypt. A cogent rebuttal of
The “authoritatively” Jew-hating late Muslim Pope, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, with the witless Karen Hughes Female genital mutilation–sanctioned by Shafiite Islamic Law–remains rampant (97% of women thus mutilated) in Egypt In follow-up to my earlier posting about widespread Egyptian Muslim
A sobering reminder–based upon hard data–from an essay of mine published in April, 2007: In a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 1000 Egyptian Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007, 67% of
From Milton to Hedegaard: “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” The Kafka-esque trial proceedings against Danish journalist and historian Lars Hedegaard today included a final statement by the
A previous blog of mine 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
(Robert Conquest in 2006) Cross posted at Pajamas Media as “See No Sharia” Robert Conquest, the pre-eminent scholar of Soviet Communist totalitarianism, in his elucidation of Western vulnerability to totalitarian ideologies, wrote that democracy itself is, “far less a matter
When it comes to criticism of Islam, and its votaries, Europe’s doctrinaire Left has engendered a ruling political class whose legally sanctioned excesses now go beyond what Orwell wrote about the (mere) vilification of critics of the Soviet system. Regarding
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 Worldism Perhaps that is why our Man-Child President cares so little
“Children, what, according to the Koran, are the Jews’ main characteristics and qualities?” Fabricating (Koran 3:75; 5:64); listening to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and supporting deception (3:78); rebelling against the prophets and
Mufti Habibur Rahman of Darul-Ifta, the “Fatwa Department” of Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband 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
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” counterpart to the Hamas Islamic fundamentalist regime which controls Gaza. This absurd propaganda was
Analyst Reuel Gerecht’s confused, uninformed pieties versus Professor J.J. G. Jansen’s scholarly lucidity Analyst Reuel Mark Gerecht, in a recent New Republic essay, condemned those who “demonized” Sharia–Islamic Law–despite conceding that the application of what he refers to deferentially as
Cry me a river Hat tip Lori Lowenthal Marcus, at Z-Street. Contra the misrepresentations that a United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, legal opinion issued October 20, 2010, “…complicates arguments by some conservative and pro-Israel groups that the Council
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 Wilders has made during the proceedings against him have
Lewis Lionized and Wilders Demonized for Expressing Identical Views on the Totalitarian Nature of Islam Our uninformed chattering classes across the political spectrum need to know that their eminence grise on Islamic civilization, Professor Bernard Lewis, and outspoken Dutch Parliamentarian
Britain‘s Islamic Sharia Council Avatars of Islamic Misogyny (Maulana Abu Sayeed is seated second from right to left) As reported in the UK Independent (10/14/10), president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, has reiterated alarming
Murad I (d. 1389), Ottoman conqueror of Sofia in 1385 A.D. The first of two recent reports by the invaluable Ned May at Gates of Vienna highlights the resurgent jihadism in the former Ottoman Muslim colony of Bulgaria. Given the
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 so-called basis for
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
This past Sunday October 3rd, I participated in the first annual conference sponsored by the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, in Manhattan. I was privileged to lead a panel discussion with journalist Alyssa Lappen. The text of my lecture
Lars Vilks, Lars Hedegaard, and Rabbi Jon Hausman were interviewed monday by Helen Glover of WHJJ 920 AM, Providence, about the sorry state of free speech in the West as we capitulate to Islamic intimidation over the Medieval dictates of
The New York Post is reporting (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 New York Times
