“Malcolm Moss, national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, said: “We are seeing more and more Muslim gangs in our prisons. Often Muslims who go to prison are forced into gangs for their own protection. And that culture takes over a wing, takes over an area of the prison. We…
The restoration of this one synagogue connected to Maimonides, once court physician to the Fatimids, was not prompted by some sudden deep realization of the need, culturally and politically, to recognize, at least by allowing this one synagogue to be rebuilt, that for thousands of years Egypt had had Jews…
So whom do you want to believe? Do you want to believe those who claim, such as Charles Krauthammer, that there is “Islam” and then there is “Islamism” and there is vast and therefore comforting difference between the two – though that difference is never really adequately discussed in detail…
So whom do you want to believe? Do you want to believe those who claim, such as Charles Krauthammer, that there is “Islam” and then there is “Islamism” and there is vast and therefore comforting difference between the two – though that difference is never really adequately discussed in detail…
Watch out for those in the West who, terminally confused, go off on a Spiritual Search. They try this, they try that. Then the bus stops at Islam, and if they get off, and some do, it’s very hard for them to get back on that bus. For if you…
Isn’t it amusing how the press will cover a story, and so often, when it comes to anything having to do with “Islam, Responses To,” fail to grasp the most important thing. The papers have been full, the last weeks, of various stories. In Afghanistan, it has been about the…
Last week a 53-year-old software engineer, Joseph Stack, became enraged about his business failures, and tax problems he had had all during the 1980s and 1990s, and, in particular, with a provision in the Code called “Treatment of Certain Technical Personnel.” In his suicide-note-and-farewell, Stack ranted about “pompous political thugs”…
Last Thursday, the anniversary day of the Great Islamic Revolution in Iran, everything went off as the men who run the Islamic Republic of Iran wanted, without a hitch or a hiccup. The Internet sites had been shut down, the leaders arrested, the bloodcurdling threats made, the traffic carefully monitored,…
It seems likely that, in the next week, the Islamic Republic of Iran will meet whatever challenge is posed to it by those who wish to march and express their dissent and discontent. The Revolutionary Guards seem ready to repress the dissenters, whatever it takes, no matter how peaceful and…
A few days ago – on February 3 – this news item appeared: TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – A military strike on Iran could have the unintended consequence of stirring nationalist sentiment to the benefit of Tehran’s hard-line government, U.S. General David Petraeus told Reuters…. “It’s possible (a strike) could be…
