Thilo Sarrazin has vaulted into the headlines in Germany and the rest of Europe over the last few weeks. He was already controversial due to his publicly expressed views on Muslim immigration, but his recently-published book has brought down the
The Arab and non-Arab Muslim umma, or global community, vehemently denies pre-Islamic Jewish and ignores pre-Islamic Christian connections to all the territories that comprised historical Syro-Palestine–including Judea, Samaria, modern Israel within the 1949 armistice borders, and Gaza. This historical negationism
As noted in Andrew Bostom’s essay debunking the just-can’t-shake-it myth of Islamic “tolerance” in Muslim Spain, by the middle of the 8th century, the cathedral in Cordoba dedicated to Saint Vincent had been “converted” to a Muslim mosque. However, as
The politician he is speaking of is film maker Geert Wilders of Amsterdam. In January 2010, he was put on trial for “Insulting Muslims”. This is his opening speech to the court: A sermon by Feiz Muhammad in which he
Geert Wilders has just learned that an Australian imam named Feiz Muhammad has issued a fatwa calling for the Dutch politician’s beheading. Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated a couple of Dutch-language articles on the topic, and includes additional material
Maajid Nawaz’s oped in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal attempts to draw a distinction between Islam and Islamism. While there may indeed be such an argument if “Islam” means any given Muslim’s personal, subjective approach to the divine and “Islamism” means
Abeer Mohammed is a senior local editor based in Baghdad for Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Here’s an excerpt from a post at the IWPR site about the story behind his sensational report (posted below) on how teachers in
On Sunday, August 8, the New York Times ran a front-page article by Laurie Goodstein entitled “Across Nation, Mosque Projects Meet Opposition.” Three days prior to the publication of the story, Ms. Goodstein contacted ACT! for America president Brigitte Gabriel
Dennis Miller has some advice for Glenn Beck.
PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security.
See part 1 here and part 2 here. American character has not significantly changed since the 1830s and de Tocqueville’s travels. As we look to the future we sometimes inadvertently leave things and people behind to our later regret. The
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio: Frank unravels Obama’s speech announcing the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He begins with what Obama got right. In the end, it is the geo-strategic conditions created by the President which are most
After 9/11, Rauf co-founded the Cordoba Initiative with former Aspen, Colo., Mayor John S. Bennett, which explains why Cordoba’s tax filings list an Aspen address. During his four terms as mayor, Bennett was introduced to Alwaleed bin Talal (see Part
Too busy praising the non-virtue of “tolerance,” decrying American “racism,” and writing puff pieces like this one. In the meantime, the New York Daily News is eating their lunch: Years before his latest real-estate project ignited an uproar, Sharif El-Gamal
From a report by Paul Sperry at Worldnetdaily.com: The Saudi prince whose post-9/11 relief check was rejected by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has found a more willing recipient in the city for his millions: the head of the
We can build a beautiful city, yes we can… No, it’s not Godspell‘s ragtag flower children singing this in Manhattan today. They left New York shortly after tap-dancing on top of the still-under-construction World Trade Center. This is the song
We are a forward-looking people. We look to the future and advance beyond adversity, tragedy, and setbacks. We are not obsessed with the past. All of these are qualities that de Tocqueville observed in the people of America, north and
As reported by the New York Post’s Tom Topoussis on June 19, 2010, Imam Feisal Rauf repeatedly declined to acknowledge, unequivocally, that Hamas is a terrorist organization, despite its formal designation as such by the US State Department, in these
“We are Americans, each with an equal right to worship and pray where we choose,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week. “There is nowhere in the five boroughs of New York City that is off limits to
Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side. On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations” (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to
Whenever I am told I must be tolerant of other people’s religion, I always wonder, well, which tenet of their religion do you mean? A religion, after all, is a system of beliefs and to say that all beliefs are
In this, Chapter 29, Devlin uses advanced technology to track down and confront the Iranian terrorist who’s directing the Bombay-style assault on Manhattan. New York City Arash Kohanloo had spent a great deal of time in New York, especially for
Big Peace: “So with a group of Muslims cruelly and despicably determined to raise a triumphalist mosque near the site of the Islamist atrocities of 9/11 in New York, the question naturally occurs: Does Islam suck?”
This chapter from my new novel, Early Warning, was written well before the Times Square bomber made his abortive attempt to bring fiction to life. Remember: everything in it is not only possible but, on some level, probable. Times Square
I have often said, “Once you start down a slippery slope, prepare for a very hard landing.” It seems President Obama is finding that out the hard way as he sought to turn the local issue of the Ground Zero
