Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein, my polar opposite leftist namesake, posted another puerile attack on the Swampland blog against opponents of Cordoba House. This time his target was Newt Gingrich, whose opposition to the planned $100 million 13 story mosque complex within earshot of Ground Zero I discussed yesterday.
Klein claims:
If Newt actually believe what he [...]
Last week, Alexander Levkovsky wrote about an exhibition at London’s Museum of Science celebrating “1001 inventions” from “the golden age of Islam.”
Levkovsky wrote:
Having some firsthand experience with frivolous handling of reality in the Islamic world (I have, after all, lived for eight years in Uzbekistan and five years in Israel), I immediately suspected that the [...]
Science fiction of today, or family planning of tomorrow?
Some of our greatest leaders have observed that we “cannot diminish the value of one category of human life ‘without’ diminishing the value of all human life,” a truth that is driven home in Danielle Friedman’s chilling new Daily Beast column, which explores the phenomenon of women [...]
In the West, Islamic spokesmen always insist that Islam supports the freedom of conscience, and the freedom to change one’s religion. These people must be reading that notorious Misunderstood Qur’an. Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Indonesia: “Missionary trio leave Aceh after anger at baptisms,” by Toni O’Loughlin in the…
Honesty and fairness require me to point out that, when a discussion had just been launched on his Journolist between members who wanted to coordinate media narratives to help Barack Obama win the presidential elections, Erza Klein attempted to squelch it.
That’s great of him. Major props to the Washington Post blogger.
With that disclaimer out of [...]
The Qur’an has been around for 1,400 years, and so has jihad violence, but now the Indonesian government has discovered the key: it’s all because of a faulty translation, doncha know! And now I am very happy to announce that I too have come into the possession of the Secret…
When we go about our daily routines, we are helped by rules or certainties that remain fixed even throughout our hard and chaotic lives. Our sense of order in the universe does not remove anguish, but provides a context in which to deal with it. For instance, we might get mugged, but we know the police will at least [...]
This Bloomberg News article says matter-of-factly that there has been “a rise this year in the number of hate crimes against Muslims,” and that’s why these extra police patrols are needed at New York City mosques during Ramadan. And certainly if there is any actual threat against these mosques, they…
Translated as “holy warrior” in this AP piece. “Al-Qaida No. 2 slams France’s push to ban veils,” by Maggie Michael for Associated Press, July 28 (thanks to Maxwell): CAIRO – Al-Qaida’s No. 2 has slammed France’s push to ban the Islamic full-face veil and urged Muslim women to be “holy…
I had the great pleasure of meeting Rene Stadtkewitz when I spoke for Pax Europa in Berlin last year. He is a measured, intelligent, well-spoken politician who is deeply aware of the nature of Sharia and the threat of the global jihad. But when he has tried to raise awareness…
