Last Tuesday, while I was speaking at NYU, Leftist students created a diversion and threw pies at me and the other speaker, Elan Journo (they missed me, but got Journo on the shoulder). In brief: 1. This is assault. 2. This shows the utter intellectual bankruptcy of the Left….
The bill is full of tolerance, however: it allows non-Muslims to worship in private homes. This is one of those stories where it becomes bitterly ironic — those who report on this will be called “Islamophobic,” but no one will particularly mind that the Maldives is systematically stamping out the…
Chambers was right, however, in the sense that Communists and Fascists betrayed the actual institutions they lived under in the name of an abstraction, whereas the others had not. Benedict Arnold and other loyalists to the Crown acted to preserve the system they lived under. So did the American founders who fought to defend what [...]
Another update on this story. “Sears Tower bomb plot leader Narseal Batiste jailed,” from BBC News, November 20: The leader of a group which plotted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago has been sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison. Narseal Batiste, 35, also planned to bomb FBI offices,…
Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update. “EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides in Pakistan,” by Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter, and Barbara Slavin for the Washington Times, November 20 (thanks to Alan): Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan…
How on earth did Democracy Now end up grouped in search results with these folks? Hmmm (tapping my chin with index finger), I do wonder…
After this post, I decided to write to Umar Lee (with whom I’ve had some interaction in the past) and ask for an interview. Here is our exchange, in which he endorses the death penalty for apostasy in principle, just not at the moment in America. At very least, his…
Ace videographer Dave Miles kindly sent along these superb videos from the Rifqa Rally for human rights and religious freedom, Columbus, Ohio, November 16….
The identity of the masked gunman is not yet known, but the number of threats against Fr. Sysoyev that already existed because of his work among Muslims is itself noteworthy. And Russian prosecutors are also proceeding with the theory that “religious motives” are behind the murder. “Russian Priest Gunned Down…
Still another “misunderstander” of Islam. Funny how that keep happening. “Sixth area Somali man is indicted in probe,” by James Walsh, Richard Meryhew and Allie Shah for the Star Tribune, November 20: A 24-year-old local Somali man has been indicted in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on charges of conspiring…
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