In its May 3, 2011 edition, University of New Mexico’s student newspaper, The Daily Lobo, published a political cartoon depicting a triumphal Barack Obama, as “Rafiki” from “The Lion King,” hoisting the decapitated head of the recently killed terrorist kingpin
by Adam Baldwin17 May 2011, 4:55 AM PST0
Ikram Irked by Unclean Infidels’ Charges–The Unindicted Taliban Imam’s Son Doth Protest According to the US District Court of Southern Florida indictment of imam Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan, Law enforcement agents recorded a series of phone calls in 2009
by Andrew G. Bostom16 May 2011, 7:40 AM PST0
CAIR’s Nezar Hanze does his real life Claude Rains impersonation. The American Hamas, i.e., the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR ) South Florida Chapter Executive Director, Nezar Hanze, claimed to be “very shocked…very shocked” (he characterized other members of
by Andrew G. Bostom15 May 2011, 8:26 AM PST0
In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Senator James Inhofe spoke about pictures of a dead Osama Bin Laden that he viewed at CIA headquarters. While describing some of the photos as “gruesome,” Inhofe insisted that Bin Laden is recognizable
by John Rosenthal13 May 2011, 1:39 PM PST0
My group, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, in collaboration with the Tennessee Freedom Coalition, today released a 15 minute video exposing radical Islamist preachers who were embraced by Nashville’s civic and religious leaders and the media. The video shows a
by Charles Jacobs13 May 2011, 1:32 PM PST0
No need to editorialize here. We’ll just let the man’s words, historical illiteracy and moral equivalency speak for itself. It took some work, but we were able to narrow down our list of The Stupid to 10. For context’s sake,
by Hollywoodland13 May 2011, 11:20 AM PST0
Osama Bin Laden’s putative sea burial ceremony aboard the USS Carl Vinson was performed “in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices” according to repeated assertions by chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. Indeed, there is more than ample reason to
by Andrew G. Bostom13 May 2011, 7:38 AM PST0
In the small newspapers and TV stations around the country, in what are known as “local interest” stories, the national scandal of Afghanistan is being documented, article by article, segment by segment. These are the stories of our returning heroes,
by Diana West13 May 2011, 3:46 AM PST0
Hudna is an Arabic term meaning a temporary “truce” or “armistice” as well as “calm” or “quiet”, coming from a verbal root meaning “calm”. It is sometimes translated as “cease-fire”. Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, the prophet
by Jeff Dunetz12 May 2011, 1:57 PM PST0
Professor Uriel Heyd (d. 1968), a serious and intellectually honest scholar of both Ottoman and Republican Turkey, described Turkey’s tenuous secularization and aggressive re-Islamization more than 40 years before today’s “learned analysts” have finally come to the same pathetically belated
by Andrew G. Bostom11 May 2011, 10:39 AM PST0
So Hamas and Fatah have reconciled just as the summer push gets underway to have the United Nations, when it convenes in September, recognize Palestine as the 193rd member of this august world body. How nice. The usual pontificators who
by Of Thee I Sing 177611 May 2011, 4:37 AM PST0
This title is probably the only fact we have heard about the death of Osama bin Laden (OBL). There has been so much misinformation out there it’s like an Oliver Stone movie. Does any of it matter? The only thing
by Jack L. Treese, CWO US Army, Retired10 May 2011, 3:35 PM PST0
On May 7th, two Muslim Imams, Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul, were taken off a Memphis flight. “It’s racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion,” one of the imams, Masudur Rahman
by Laura Rubenfeld10 May 2011, 10:04 AM PST0
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. – Hamlet (1.4.90), Marcellus to Horatio The statement above is obvious and redundant. Something is rotten in Denmark, but also in Canada, United Kingdom, Finland, Austria, and most importantly, in the United
by D.L. Adams10 May 2011, 7:08 AM PST0
Last year, a man named Mosab Hassan Yousef was on tour to promote his new book, ‘Son of Hamas’ and to tell the story about his amazing conversion from Islam to Christianity; he was even touted as someone instrumental in
by Ben Barrack10 May 2011, 7:02 AM PST0
The Commentator (UK) Sunday 08 May 2011 Breaking News: Islamists torch church in Cairo – 10 dead, hundreds injured The toll of dead and injured continues to rise as yet another anti-Christian “pogrom” raises fears over direction of post-Mubarak Egypt.
by Dan Friedman8 May 2011, 5:56 PM PST0
Our Swedish correspondent LN sends his translation of a program on Swedish State Radio, and includes this introductory note: The following text was read today (May 4) at 13:45 by its author, Margareta Flygt, a freelance cultural journalist with a
by Ned May7 May 2011, 2:11 PM PST0
Al-Banna: How he did it with the Fez on… LTC Joe Myers has a useful Op-Ed in the Washington Times underscoring the more insidious (cultural) jihadist threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, relative to Al Qaeda. In follow-up to Myer’s
by Andrew G. Bostom6 May 2011, 3:04 PM PST0
Even before Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. soldiers, his brand of anti-modern, anti-pleasure Islam was under attack by Bollywood, India’s pop culture juggernaut that boasts a global audience of 3 billion people. As Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha
by Reason TV5 May 2011, 1:10 PM PST0
Former Bin Laden Associate Recalls Meetings with UBL, Ayman al-Zawahiri: During the summer of 2000, Noman Benotman stood face-to-face with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, listening as the al-Qaeda kingpin described, in detail, his plans for an upcoming major operation
by Erick Stakelbeck4 May 2011, 3:34 PM PST0
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 sympathy with the transcendant
by Andrew G. Bostom4 May 2011, 3:13 PM PST0
Until September 2001, I was one of those lefties who believed that George W. Bush had come to power in an “electoral coup.” Though I grudgingly accepted the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, I considered
by Joel B. Pollak4 May 2011, 3:11 PM PST0
… Geert Wilders made his final statement in court yesterday where he is still on trial for telling the truth about Islam. This, as often noted, is a judicial outrage, a public nightmare, and an existential threat to liberty as
by Diana West4 May 2011, 4:00 AM PST0
Maybe a helicopter like this one brought bin Laden’s corpse to the USS Carl Vinson late last night where in the wee hours of Monday morning the bullet-pocked corpse of the terror-mastermind received full jihad honors. Or was that full
by Diana West3 May 2011, 2:40 PM PST0
News anchors in Pakistan didn’t know what words to use. There are two ways to say “Osama has been killed” in Urdu and Hindi, with one less respectful than the other, and anchors would zigzag back and forth between the
by John J. Xenakis3 May 2011, 10:15 AM PST0