Author Sam Harris defended the stance on radical Islam he took during a discussion on last Friday’s “Real Time” during an appearance on Thursday’s “The Last Word” on MSNBC. Harris addressed to the objections of New York Times columnist Nicholas
The most offensive thing in Bill Maher’s public debate with Ben Affleck wasn’t his characterization of radical Islam, which attempted to stick to facts, it was his assumption that liberals and only liberals should be able to offer facts in
On Wednesday’s “Late Show” on CBS, CNN “AC 360” anchor Anderson Cooper offered his opinion on how to deal with ISIS and ISIS-like beliefs stemming from Islam. Cooper argued that it would take not only a military fight, but an
Ziya Smallens, the Louisville field organizer who was caught in a video tape released by James O’Keefe on Monday saying “You can’t be a statewide politician and condemn coal…You are not going to win,” wrote the Muslim world “preaches peace before
As the war with ISIS heats up, so too does the debate over what it will take to win. Immediately following Obama’s announcement of air strikes against ISIS, the debate centered on whether air power was enough or whether the
(Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday that he was ordering a crackdown to prevent radical Islamist preachers entering the country, amidst rising tension with the Muslim community following a series of security-related raids. Abbott, who recently
One of the young men arrested on alleged terror offences yesterday was former UK student Tarik Hassane, 21, who left Britain to study in Sudan before returning with the hopes of joining the National Health Service (NHS). A cursory glance
Police and MI5 have foiled what would have been the first ISIS terror attack in the UK, it has emerged. Four men were arrested yesterday morning in connection with terror offences, but the full scale of their plot has only
The Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” host Sean Hannity argued that Bill Maher was “good for America” on Tuesday because of Maher’s willingness to speak out against radical Islam. “I don’t like Bill Maher as a person, but I think he’s
The radical Islamist faction of Boko Haram killed at least seven people in the city of Ngambu in the Borno state of northeast Nigeria. Local sources said that on Monday, they discovered the bodies of seven brutally decapitated people. The
The Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly defended comedian Bill Maher over his recent comments regarding radical Islam on Monday. O’Reilly laid out opinion polls that bolstered Maher’s opinion, reported “35 countries practice some kind of Sharia Law,
It’s bad enough that the Obama Justice Department is set to ban federal law enforcement officers from surveilling mosques without evidence of criminal activity. After a member of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma (ISGOC) beheaded a woman at his workplace,
The head of INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) has recommended that the jihadi terror group Islamic State should be renamed “CM” for Cowardly Murderers. Doing so, he suggested, would delegitimize them as Islamic, and would also help the global community
Police have raided an Islamic tuition centre in London as part of a counter-terrorism investigation. The centre’s manager, Mizanur Rahman, was previously jailed for six years in 2007 after calling for the death of British soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The
Activity by counter-terror police is at its highest level for nearly ten years due to fears that Islamic State sympathisers will launch attacks in the UK. The Times reports that police are increasing armed patrols and are searching homes and
An all-time high of nearly 62 million U.S. residents – or about one in five people – now speak a language other than English while at home, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found. The study,
On Friday night, Bill Maher hosted atheist author Sam Harris, actor Ben Affleck, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to discuss Maher’s rant last week in which he discussed the violence of radical Islam
Conservatives are applauding Bill Maher today, after he was falsely accused of racism by Hollywood’s Ben Affleck during a debate on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher’s sin, along with guest Sam Harris, was to point out–correctly–that radical Islam
As the first week of Royal Air Force strikes against ISIS comes to a close, a recently retired British general has cast doubts over British involvement, saying by bombing the Islamic State the Western world has “played into their hands”,
British schoolteacher David Bolam has been released after nearly five months of captivity in Libya, reportedly after payment of a ransom to his Islamist captors. The Foreign Office in London late Saturday confirmed he was free, saying they were “glad
HOUSTON, Texas — One tweet was all it took for Jennifer Williams, a Brookings Institute researcher that had studied religious extremism and converted to Islam, to go from an ordinary blonde with tattoo’s from Texas to a star on Twitter
The clash between Islam and the Western world is as old as Islam itself, but perhaps as misunderstood as any great historical conflict. In what is sure to shed light on this timely topic, worldwide Catholic satellite network EWTN will
This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post: Artist Giulia Marchi describes her project, “Call Her Fatimah — Musilin,” as being at the intersection of gender, religion and ethnicity. And she’s right, her niche photography series centers on the female muslim population
Author Sam Harris and HBO’s “Real Time” anchor Bill Maher debated actor Ben Affleck and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Maher’s earlier comments on radical Islam on Friday. Harris argued, “liberals have really failed on the topic of
A man who was arrested in Bangladesh for being a suspected volunteer for the self-proclaimed Islamic State was rock singer and guitarist with a recording contract. Asif Adnan was a singer with rock band Jahiliyyah, named after the period of
