I recently spoke at length about Islamic gender and religious apartheid in the Arab and non-Arab Muslim world. This was, perhaps, the first time that anyone had ever focused on this subject at this distinguished Ivy League university. I described both the level of poverty and illiteracy in the Arab and Muslim world and the [...]
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Phyllis Chesler | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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And if Israel had targeted those ambulances, you can just imagine the international outcry. "US memos: Iran armed Hezbollah through ambulances," from AP, November 29 (thanks to JCB): BEIRUT – Iranian Red Crescent ambulances were used to smuggle weapons to Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group during its 2006 war with Israel,…
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Robert | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Back in the ‘90s, there was a concerted effort among movie producers to develop a new Superman film. Few of the people involved were devoted to the comic. A plethora of treatments floated around, each of which left much to be desired. One of the ideas that came and went was that Lex Luthor and [...]
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Walter Hudson | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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To Glenn Greenwald, the word of a 19-year-old Islamic terrorist is worth far more credence than the sworn testimony of the FBI field agents who caught him. Greenwald, in a Sunday Salon.com column, informs us that the FBI may have arrested a terrorist in Oregon, but he is a terrorist of their own creation. How [...]
The mainstream media line after any jihad attack or foiled plot is not about how Muslims are working to prove their loyalty to America and redoubling their efforts to root out the jihadists within their communities. It is not about how they’re instituting programs in mosques and Islamic schools to…
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Robert | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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In FrontPage this morning I discuss how the reaction of various parties to the Portland jihad bust follows a sadly familiar pattern: A nineteen-year old Somali Muslim named Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested Friday in Portland, Oregon, just as he was trying to blow up a van loaded with…
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Robert | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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The legal intimidation libel case against my colleague Pamela Geller continues. Ohio lawyer Omar Tarazi has filed a $10-million defamation lawsuit against Geller for elements of her reporting on the case of Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who kicked off a year-long custody battle when she fled from her home…
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Robert | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Here we are at the beginning of the Holiday “season.” All parents know that these breaks bring with them pleas from children for some extra time in front of what my priest refers to as “the magic lantern” and my husband calls “the devil box.” There is truth in each of these labels, but most Moms [...]
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Stacy Webber | November 29, 2010 | Posted in
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This article originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on May 13, 2008. While waiting to speak at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee last night, I was given a tour of the Student Union, the venue for my talk. The Union building also houses the offices of student clubs, funded by mandatory student fees. On the bulletin [...]
The Freedom Center’s new campus campaign will aid students in encouraging their professors to adopt books into their classes which express ideas that are often neglected in today’s academia. To download the student guide click here. Sign the petition to adopt a dissenting book here. To read David Horowitz’s speech about the campaign click here. At NRB we’ll [...]
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